Represents the cash paid under a business development agreement.

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The term of service to be provided to the entity.

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Business development involves the development of products and services, their delivery, design and their implementation. Business development includes a number of techniques designed to grow an economic enterprise. Such techniques include, but are not limited to, assessments of marketing opportunities and target markets, intelligence gathering on customers and competitors, generating leads for possible sales, follow-up sales activity, formal proposal writing and business model design. Business development involves evaluating a business and then realizing its full potential, using such tools as marketing, sales, information management and customer service.

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Fair value of share-based compensation granted to nonemployees as payment for services rendered or acknowledged claims.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Percentage of vesting of share-based compensation awards.

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Gross number of share options (or share units) granted during the period.

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Weighted average per share amount at which grantees can acquire shares of common stock by exercise of options.

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- Definition

The number of shares or units of entity securities issued in the transaction in which equity securities were issued to pay for goods or nonemployee services.

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SUBSEQUENT EVENTS (Details) (USD $)	12 Months Ended	1 Months Ended
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS (Details) (USD $)	Dec. 31, 2014	Apr. 30, 2014	Jan. 31, 2015
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Granted (in shares)	861,287
Grant price (in dollars per share)	$ 13.90
Employee stock options
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Granted (in shares)		7,500
Vesting period		3 years
Subsequent Event \| Employee stock options
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Granted (in shares)			251,000
Employees			5
Grant price (in dollars per share)			$ 11.35
Vesting percentage upon issuance			50.00%
Vesting period			24 months
RRD International, LLC \| Subsequent Event
Subsequent Event [Line Items]
Term of services			6 months
Total product development expense			$ 600,000
Cash portion			450,000
Consulting expense			$ 150,000
Share Based Payments to Vendors (in units)			12,346