"High volume and price spike would lead me to believe that a partnership may be announced soon."

Can you please define soon?

Not trying to be facetious.... oh, wait a minute, yes I am!

Hey, good luck with that "partnership soon" stuff.

Recently, management seemed befuddled that they weren't seeing much traction/interest from potential partners - that after saying a couple times in the past that they were dwidling down interested parties to a few = they lie, and then they lie some more...