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TACOMA, WA (MARKET WIRE) (PINKSHEETS: LUXI) Luxshmi Investments, Inc. today unveiled its innovative mobile-advertising marketplace at www.adbid.mobi. This pioneering platform targets banner advertising on mobile devices, allowing clients to direct their advertising to specific demographic groups of users. For example, the 36 percent of 18- to 34-year-old males who, according to mobile-media authority M:Metrics, access mobile media monthly, and who are highly receptive to this type of advertising.

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