DUUO Duo World Inc (CE)

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS.

An investment in our Common Stock involves a high degree of risk. Prospective investors should carefully consider the following risk factors and the other information in this Annual Report and in our other filings with the SEC before investing in our Common Stock. Our business and results of operations could be seriously harmed by any of the following risks. You should carefully consider the risks described below, the other information in this Annual Report and the documents incorporated by reference herein when evaluating our Company and our business. If any of the following risks actually occurs, our business could be harmed. In such case, the trading price of our Common Stock could decline and investors could lose all or a part of the money paid for our Common Stock.

INVESTING IN OUR COMMON STOCK INVOLVES A HIGH DEGREE OF RISK. IF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING RISKS ACTUALLY MATERIALIZES, OUR BUSINESS, FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS WOULD SUFFER AND OUR SHAREHOLDERS COULD LOSE ALL OR PART OF THEIR INVESTMENT IN OUR SHARES.

Risks Related to Our Business

We do not have an independent audit or compensation committee. The absence of an independent audit and compensation committee could lead to conflicts of interest of our officers and directors, which could work as a detriment to our shareholders.

There is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern .

Our auditors have issued a going concern opinion. This means that there is substantial doubt that we can continue as an ongoing business for the next twelve months. Our financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the uncertainty about our ability to continue in business. As such, we may have to cease operations and you could lose your investment in our common stock.

We face intense competition in all aspects of our business. The nature of the IT industry creates a competitive landscape that is constantly evolving as firms emerge, expand or are acquired, as technology evolves and as delivery models change. Many of our competitors are expanding the services they offer in an attempt to gain additional business. In addition, new competitors, alliances among competitors or competitors’ mergers could result in significant market share gain. Some of our competitors may have or develop a lower cost structure, adopt more aggressive pricing policies or provide services that gain greater market acceptance than the services that we offer or develop. Large and well-capitalized competitors may be able to better respond to the need for technological changes faster, price their services more aggressively, compete for skilled professionals, finance acquisitions, fund internal growth and compete for market share. We could lose customers if our competitors introduce new competitive products, add new functionality, acquire competitive products, reduce prices, better execute on their sales and marketing strategies or form strategic alliances with other companies.

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the JOBS Act. Under the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies can delay adopting new or revised financial accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies. However, we have irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this extended transition period and, therefore, we will be subject to the same new or revised accounting standards as other public companies that are not emerging growth companies.

For as long as we continue to be an emerging growth company, we may also take advantage of other exemptions from certain reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies, including not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, exemption from any rules that may be adopted by the PCAOB requiring mandatory audit firm rotations or a supplement to the auditor’s report on financial statements, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved, and reduced financial reporting requirements. Investors may find our common stock less attractive if we rely on these exemptions, which could result in a less active market for our common stock, increased price fluctuations and a decrease in the trading price of our common stock.

We may need to change our pricing models to compete successfully.

The intense competition we face in the sales of our products and services and general economic and business conditions can put pressure on us to change our prices. If our competitors offer deep discounts on certain products or services or develop products that the marketplace considers more valuable, we may need to lower prices or offer other favorable terms in order to compete successfully. Any such changes may reduce margins and could adversely affect operating results. Our clients routinely negotiate for better pricing, and in order to respond to increased competition and pricing pressure, we may be required to lower our pricing structure, which would have an adverse effect on our revenues and profit margin.

Our success is dependent upon our ability to effectively and profitably market and sell our services. If we fail to establish sufficient marketing and sales forces, our ability to enter new or existing markets will be impaired. Our inability to effectively enter these markets would materially and adversely affect our ability to generate significant revenues.

We may not receive significant revenues from our current research and development efforts for several years, if at all.

Developing cloud and software offerings is expensive and the investment in the development of these offerings often involves a long return on investment cycle. An important element of our corporate strategy is to continue to make significant investments in research and development and related product and service opportunities both through internal investments and the acquisition of intellectual property from companies that we have acquired. Accelerated product and service introductions and short software life cycles require high levels of expenditures for research and development that could adversely affect our operating results if not offset by revenue increases. We believe that we must continue to dedicate a significant amount of resources to our research and development efforts to maintain our competitive position. However, we may not receive significant revenues from these investments for several years, if at all.

We employ approximately 70 employees worldwide. At times, we have experienced difficulties in hiring personnel with the desired levels of training and experience. In the technology industry, there is substantial and continuous competition for highly skilled business, product development, technical and other personnel. Since wages in India and Sri Lanka continue to increase at a faster rate than the United States, we may also experience increased compensation costs that are not offset by either improved productivity or higher sales. We have been outsourcing certain non-core activities to third party suppliers. Additionally, quality service depends on our ability to retain employees and control personnel turnover. Any increase in the employee turnover rate could increase recruiting and training costs and could decrease operating effectiveness and productivity. We may not be able to continue to hire, train and retain a significant number of qualified personnel to adequately staff new client projects or expand existing ones.

Our business strategy and success is dependent on the skills and knowledge of our management team and consultants. As of the date of this Annual Report, Muhunthan Canagasooryam is our President and Chief Executive Officer, Suzannah Jennifer Samuel Perera is our Chief Financial Officer and Riad Ameen is our Legal Director. The loss of services of Muhunthan Canagasooryam, Suzannah Jennifer Samuel Perera, Riad Ameen or any member of our management team, including Anjana Chandrathilaka, Ajeewan Arumugam, Rangika Perera and Sudarshini Rajaratnam, could weaken significantly our management expertise and our ability to efficiently run our business. We do not maintain key man life insurance policies on any of our officers.

None of our officers or directors is a resident of the United States. Therefore, it may be difficult for our United States shareholders to (i) enforce any right or claim based on United States federal securities laws or state securities laws against the Company and/or any of our officers or directors, (ii) effect service of process on any of our officers or directors in the United States or in foreign countries in which we maintain assets and/or in which any of our officers or directors reside or may be found, (iii) enforce any judgment rendered by a court in the United States against the Company or any of our officers or directors; or (iv) bring an original action in foreign courts such as India, Singapore and Sri Lanka, where our assets, officers and directors are located, to enforce liabilities based on the United States or state securities laws against the Company or any of our officers or directors. As a result, it may be difficult or impossible for an investor to bring an action against our officers or directors in the event that an investor believes that such investor’s rights have been infringed upon under the securities laws of the United States or under any state securities laws, or otherwise. Even if an investor is successful in bringing an action of this kind, the courts of other countries may rule that the investor is unable to enforce a judgment against the assets of the Company located outside the territorial limits of the United States or the assets of the officers or directors located outside the territorial limits of the United States. As a result, our shareholders may have more difficulty in protecting their interests and investments in the Company through actions against our management, directors or officers, compared to shareholders of a corporation doing business in, and a corporation and its officers and directors maintaining assets in, and residing in the United States.

Although we are a Nevada corporation, subject to suit in the United States and other courts in the United States, most of our assets are located in India, Singapore and Sri Lanka and our officers and directors and their assets are located outside the United States. Judgments obtained in the United States or in other foreign courts, including those with respect to United States federal or state securities laws claims, may not be enforceable in India, Singapore, Sri Lanka or any other country in which we or our officers or directors maintain assets. Therefore, it may be difficult or impossible to enforce any U.S. or other foreign judgment obtained against us or our officers or directors or any of our operating subsidiaries in India, Singapore, Sri Lanka or any other country in which we maintain assets.

Our revenues depend on the success of our clients. If our clients or their specific programs are not successful, then the amount of business that they outsource may be diminished. There can be no assurance that the level of revenues generated by such clients will meet expectations. A reduction in the amount of business we receive from our clients could result in stranded capacity and costs. In addition, we may face pricing pressure from our clients, which could negatively affect our operating results.

Growth of our revenues depends, in large part, on the trend toward outsourcing. Outsourcing involves companies contracting with a third party, such as Duo World, to provide customer management services, customer lifecycle management solutions and subscription management and billing solutions rather than performing such services in-house. There can be no assurance that this trend will continue, as organizations may elect to perform such services in-house. A significant change in this trend could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Our five (5) largest clients collectively represented 80% of our revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2018 and our four (4) largest clients represented 84% of our revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017. While we typically have multiple work orders and/or contracts with our largest customers, which would not all terminate at the same time, the loss of one or more of the larger work orders or contracts with one of our largest customers could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition, if the lost revenues were not replaced with profitable revenues from that client or other clients.

We process, transmit and store personally identifiable information, both in our role as a service provider and as an employer. This information may include social security numbers or other foreign tax identification numbers, financial and health information, as well as personal information. As a result, we are subject to certain contractual terms, as well as federal, state and foreign laws and regulations designed to protect personally identifiable information. While we take measures to protect the security and privacy of this information and to prevent unauthorized access, it is possible that our security controls over personal data and other practices we follow may not prevent the improper access to or disclosure of personally identifiable information. If any person, including any of our employees, negligently disregards or intentionally breaches our established controls with respect to such data or otherwise mismanages or misappropriates that data, we could be subject to monetary damages, fines and/or criminal prosecution.

We could suffer significant damage to our brand and reputation if a cyber-attack or other security incident were to allow unauthorized access to or modification of our customers’ or employees’ data, other external data, or our own data or our IT systems or if the services we provide to our customers were disrupted, or if our products or services are perceived as having security vulnerabilities. Customers could lose confidence in the security and reliability of our products and services, including our cloud offerings, and perceive them to not be secure. This could lead to fewer customers using our products and services and result in reduced revenue and earnings. The costs we would incur to address and fix these security incidents would increase our expenses. These types of security incidents could also lead to lawsuits, regulatory investigations and claims and increased legal liability, including, in some cases contractual costs related to customer notification and fraud monitoring.

In the event that we experience a temporary or permanent interruption at one or more of our data centers or contact centers or to cloud storage where we also store data and codes, through natural disaster, casualty, operating malfunction, cyber-attack, sabotage or other causes, we may be unable to provide the data services we are contractually obligated to deliver. This could result in us being required to pay contractual damages to some clients or to allow some clients to terminate or renegotiate their contracts. Notwithstanding disaster recovery and business continuity plans and precautions instituted to protect our clients and us from events that could interrupt delivery of services (including property and business interruption insurance that we may maintain or procure in the future), there is no guarantee that such interruptions would not result in a prolonged interruption in our ability to provide support services to our clients or that such precautions would adequately compensate us for any losses we may incur as a result of such interruptions.

Technology is a critical foundation in our service delivery. We utilize and deploy internally developed and third party software solutions across various hardware environments. We operate an extensive internal voice and data network that links our global sites together in a multi-hub model that enables the rerouting of traffic. Also, we rely on multiple public communication channels for connectivity to our clients. Our clients are highly dependent upon the high availability and uncompromised security of our systems. These systems are subject to risk of an extended interruption or outage due to many factors, such as system failures, acts of nature and intentional unauthorized attacks from third parties. Accordingly, maintenance of, and investment in, these foundational components are critical to our success. If the reliability of our technology or network operations falls below required service levels, or a systemic fault affects the organization broadly, we may be obligated to pay performance penalties to our clients, and our business from existing and potential clients may be jeopardized and cause our revenue and cash flow to decrease.

Due to the international nature of our operations, we are subject to the complex and varying tax laws and rules of several foreign jurisdictions. We may not be able to predict the amount of future tax liabilities to which we may become subject due to some of these complexities if our positions are challenged by local tax authorities. Any increase in the amount of taxation incurred as a result of challenges to our tax filing positions or due to legislative or regulatory changes could result in a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. We are subject to tax audits, including issues related to transfer pricing, in the United States and other jurisdictions. We have material tax-related contingent liabilities that are difficult to predict or quantify. While we believe that our current tax provisions are reasonable and appropriate, we cannot be assured that these items will be settled for the amounts accrued or that additional exposures will not be identified in the future or that additional tax reserves will not be provided for any such exposure.

The use of technology in our industry has and will continue to rapidly increase. Our future success depends, in part, upon our ability to develop and implement technology solutions that anticipate and keep pace with continuing changes in technology, industry standards and client preferences. We may not be successful in anticipating or responding to these developments on a timely and cost-effective basis, and our ideas may not be accepted in the marketplace. Additionally, the effort to gain technological expertise and develop new technologies in our business requires us to incur significant expenses. If we cannot offer new technologies as quickly as our competitors or if our competitors develop more cost-effective technologies, it could have a material adverse effect on our ability to obtain and complete customer engagements. Also, if customer preferences for technology disproportionately outpace other interaction preferences, it could have a material adverse impact on our revenue profile and growth plans.

Design defects or software errors may delay software introductions or reduce the satisfaction level of clients and may have a materially adverse effect on our business and results of operations. Our software is highly complex and may, from time to time, contain design defects or software errors that may be difficult to detect and/or correct. Because both our clients and we use our software to perform critical business functions, design defects, software errors or other potential problems within or outside of our control may arise from the use of our software. It may also result in financial or other damages to our clients, for which we may be held responsible. Although our license and other agreements with our clients may often contain provisions designed to limit our exposure to potential claims and liabilities arising from client problems, these provisions may not effectively protect us against such claims in all cases and in all jurisdictions. Claims and liabilities arising from client problems could result in monetary damages to us and could cause damage to our reputation, adversely affecting our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our ability to profit from the global trend toward outsourcing depends largely on how effectively we manage our contact center capacity. In order to create the additional capacity necessary to accommodate new or expanded outsourcing projects, we may need to open new contact centers. The opening or expansion of a contact center may result, at least in the short-term, in idle capacity until we fully implement the new or expanded program. We may also experience short-term and/or long-term fluctuations in client demand for services performed in one or more of our contact centers. Short-term downward fluctuations may result in less than optimal site utilization for a period of time. Longer-term downward fluctuations may result in site closures. As a result, we may not achieve or maintain targeted site utilization levels, or site utilization levels may decrease over certain periods and our revenues and profitability may suffer as a result

We serve clients in industries that have experienced a significant level of consolidation. We cannot assure investors that additional consolidations will not incur in which our clients acquire additional businesses or are acquired themselves. Such consolidations may result in the termination of an existing client contract, which could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Effective internal controls are necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and effectively prevent fraud. If we cannot provide reliable financial reports or prevent fraud, our brand and operating results could be harmed. We will strive to adopt and implement effective internal controls and maintain the effectiveness of our internal controls in the future; however, we cannot guarantee that our internal controls will be effective. As a result, current and potential shareholders could lose confidence in our financial reporting, which could harm our business and the trading price of our common stock.

Our trade secrets, copyrights and our other intellectual property rights are important assets for us. There are events that are outside of our control that pose a threat to our intellectual property rights. Also, the efforts we have taken to protect our propriety rights may not be sufficient or effective. Any significant impairment of our intellectual property rights could harm our business or our ability to compete. Also, protecting our intellectual property rights could be expensive and time consuming.

We have no committed source of financing. We will likely have to issue additional shares of our common stock to fund our operations and to implement our plan of operation. Wherever possible, our board of directors will attempt to use non-cash consideration to satisfy obligations. Our board of directors has authority, without action or vote of the shareholders, to issue all or part of the 334,261,680 authorized, but unissued, shares of our common stock. Future issuances of shares of our common stock will result in dilution of the ownership interests of existing shareholders, may further dilute common stock book value and that dilution may be material.

The marketability and profitability of our services is influenced by a range of factors that are beyond our control and that we have no comparative advantage in forecasting. These include general economic and business conditions; overall demand for enterprise cloud or software products and services; governmental budgetary constraints or shifts in government spending priorities; and general political developments.

Any general weakening of, and related declining corporate confidence in, the global economy or the curtailment of government or corporate spending could cause current or potential customers to reduce or eliminate their IT budgets and spending, which could cause customers to delay, decrease or cancel purchases of our products and services or cause customers not to pay or to delay paying us for previously purchased products and services.

In addition, political unrest and the related potential impact on global stability, terrorist attacks and the potential for other hostilities in various parts of the world, potential public health crises and natural disasters continue to contribute to a climate of economic and political uncertainty that could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition, including our revenue growth and profitability.

Our international sales and operations subject us to additional risks that could adversely affect our operating results.

We derive a substantial portion of our revenues from, and have significant operations, outside of the United States. Compliance with international and U.S. laws and regulations that apply to our international operations increases our cost of doing business in foreign jurisdictions. These laws and regulations include U.S. laws and local laws which include data privacy requirements, labor relations laws, tax laws, anti-competition regulations, anti-corruption laws, prohibitions on payments to governmental officials, import and trade restrictions and export requirements. Violations of these laws and regulations could result in fines, criminal sanctions against us, our officers or our employees, and prohibitions on the conduct of our business. Any such violations could result in prohibitions on our ability to offer our products and services in one or more countries, could delay or prevent potential acquisitions and could also materially damage our reputation, our brand, our international expansion efforts, our ability to attract and retain employees, and our business and our operating results. Compliance with these laws requires a significant amount of management attention and effort, which may divert management’s attention from running our business operations and could harm our ability to grow our business, or may increase our expenses as we engage specialized or other additional resources to assist us with our compliance efforts. Our success depends, in part, on our ability to anticipate these risks and manage these difficulties. We monitor our operations and investigate allegations of improprieties relating to transactions and the way in which such transactions are recorded. Where circumstances warrant, we provide information and report our findings to government authorities, but no assurance can be given that action will not be taken by such authorities.

We are also subject to a variety of other risks and challenges in managing an organization operating in various countries, including those related to:

The variety of risks and challenges listed above could also disrupt or otherwise negatively impact the supply chain operations for our hardware business and the sales of our products and services in affected countries or regions.

Our operations are primarily international, and we earn our revenues and incur our expenses in multiple currencies. Doing business in different foreign currencies exposes us to foreign currency risks, including risks related to revenues and receivables, compensation of personnel, purchases and capital expenditures. The majority of our revenues are in U.S. dollars and Sri Lankan rupees. However, some of our expenses are denominated in Singapore dollars, Indian rupees and other local currencies. To the extent that we increase our business and revenues which are denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars and Sri Lankan rupees, we will also increase our receivables denominated in those other currencies and, therefore, also increase our exposure to fluctuations in their exchange rates against the U.S. dollar (our reporting currency) or the Sri Lankan rupee. Similarly, any capital expenditures, such as for computer equipment, which are payable in the local currencies of the countries in which we operate, but are imported to such countries, and any deposits we hold in local currencies, can be materially affected by depreciation of the local currencies against the U.S. dollar or Sri Lankan rupee, and the effect of such depreciation on the local economy. Certain foreign currency exposures, to some extent, are naturally offset on a consolidated basis. However, if our international operations continue to grow, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates could materially impact our results of operations and financial condition.

The Asian region has from time to time experienced instances of civil unrest and hostilities among neighboring countries. Civil or political unrest and military hostilities in Sri Lanka and other acts of violence or war, including those involving India, Sri Lanka, the United States, or other countries, may adversely affect U.S. and worldwide financial markets. Prospective clients may wish to visit our facilities, including our development centers in Sri Lanka, prior to reaching a decision on vendor selection. Terrorist threats, attacks and international conflicts could make travel more difficult and cause potential clients to delay, postpone or cancel decisions to use our services.

In addition, such attacks may have an adverse impact on our ability to operate effectively and interrupt lines of communication and restrict our offshore resources from traveling onsite to client locations, effectively curtailing our ability to deliver our services to our clients. These obstacles may increase our expenses and negatively affect our operating results. In addition, military activity, terrorist attacks, political tensions between India and Pakistan and, historically, conflicts within Sri Lanka, despite the current cessation of hostilities, could create a greater perception that the acquisition of services from companies with significant Indian or Sri Lankan operations involves a higher degree of risk that could adversely affect client confidence in India or Sri Lanka as a software development center, each of which would have a material adverse effect on our business.

Risks Related to an Investment in Our Securities

Our President and Chief Executive Officer, Muhunthan Canagasooryam, currently owns 35,000,000 shares of our common stock and 5,000,000 shares of our Series “A” Preferred Stock, which allows him to cast controlling votes on any and all matters submitted to our shareholders for a vote. As a result of his ownership position, Mr. Canagasooryam will be able to elect all of our directors and control the vote on any matter brought before a meeting of our shareholders. Such control by Mr. Canagasooryam could be disadvantageous to our minority shareholders, who would have little say in the election of our directors and in any acquisition or merger transaction in which we may become involved .

Keeping abreast of, and in compliance with, changing laws, regulations and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, new SEC regulations and, in the event we are ever approved for listing on either an automated quotation system or a registered exchange, any system or stock exchange rules, will require an increased amount of management attention and external resources. We intend to continue to invest all reasonably necessary resources to comply with evolving standards, which may result in increased general and administrative expenses estimated to be between $60,000 and $75,000 per year and a diversion of management time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance and disclosure activities. This could have an adverse impact on our operations.

Historically speaking, the market prices for securities of small publicly traded companies have been highly volatile. Publicized events and announcements may have a significant impact on the market price of our common stock.

In addition, the stock market from time to time experiences extreme price and volume fluctuations that particularly affect the market prices for small publicly traded companies and which are often unrelated to the operating performance of the affected companies.

We will use any earnings generated from our operations to finance our business and will not pay any cash dividends to our shareholders in the foreseeable future.

Pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, we will be required, beginning with our second Annual Report on Form 10-K (that will be due on or about June 29, 2018), to include in our annual report our assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of the end of such fiscal years.

We do not have a sufficient number of employees to segregate responsibilities and may be unable to afford increasing our staff or engaging outside consultants or professionals to overcome our lack of employees. We have not yet begun our assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting and expect to incur additional expenses and diversion of management’s time as a result of performing the system and process evaluation, testing and remediation required in order to comply with the management certification and auditor attestation requirements. Further, implementing any appropriate changes to our internal controls may distract our officers and employees, entail substantial costs to modify our existing processes and take a significant amount of time to complete. Also, during the course of our testing, we may identify other deficiencies that we may not be able to remediate in time to meet the deadline imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for compliance with the requirements of Section 404.

In addition, if we fail to achieve and maintain the adequacy of our internal controls, as such standards are modified, supplemented or amended from time to time, we may not be able to insure that we can conclude on an ongoing basis that we have effective internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Moreover, effective internal controls, particularly those related to revenue recognition, are necessary for us to produce reliable financial reports and are important to help prevent financial fraud. If we cannot provide reliable financial reports or prevent fraud, our business and operating results could be harmed, investors could lose confidence in our reported financial information and the trading price of our common stock, if a market ever develops, could drop significantly.

Our articles of incorporation and applicable Nevada laws provide for the indemnification of our directors, officers, employees and agents under certain circumstances, against attorney’s fees and other expenses incurred by them in any litigation to which they become a party arising from their association with or activities on our behalf. We will also bear the expenses of such litigation for any of our directors, officers, employees or agents, upon such person’s written promise to repay us, therefore, even if it is ultimately determined that any such person shall not have been entitled to indemnification. This indemnification policy could result in substantial expenditures by us that we may be unable to recoup.

We have been advised that, in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, indemnification for liabilities arising under federal securities laws is against public policy and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification for liabilities arising under federal securities laws, other than the payment by us of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding, is asserted by a director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, we will (unless in the opinion of our counsel, the matter has been settled by controlling precedent) submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction, the question of whether indemnification by us is against public policy as expressed by the Securities and Exchange Commission and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue. The legal process relating to this matter, if it were to occur, is likely to be very costly and may result is us receiving negative publicity, either of which factors is likely to materially reduce the market price for our shares, if such a market ever develops.

This Annual Report contains certain forward-looking statements regarding management’s plans and objectives for future operations including plans and objectives relating to our planned marketing efforts and future economic performance. The forward-looking statements and associated risks set forth in this Annual Report include or relate to, among other things, (a) our projected sales and profitability, (b) our growth strategies, (c) anticipated trends in our industry, (d) our ability to obtain and retain sufficient capital for future operations and (e) our anticipated needs for working capital. These statements may be found under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Description of Business,” in this Annual Report, as well as in this Annual Report, generally. Actual events or results may differ materially from those discussed in forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including, without limitation, the risks outlined under “Risk Factors” and matters described in this Annual Report, generally. In light of these risks and uncertainties, there can be no assurance that the forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report will, in fact, occur.

For all of the foregoing reasons and other reasons set forth herein, an investment in our securities in any market that may develop in the future will involve a high degree of risk.

CAUTIONARY STATEMENTS REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Annual Report contains forward-looking statements. These statements relate to future events or future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Duo World’s or our industry’s actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.

In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions. Actual events or results may differ materially. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. We are under no duty to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this Annual Report to confirm our prior statements to actual results.

Further, this Annual Report contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. Such statements include, without limitation, all statements as to expectation or belief and statements as to our future results of operations, the progress of any product development, the need for, and timing of, additional capital and capital expenditures, partnering prospects, the protection of and the need for additional intellectual property rights, effects of regulations, the need for additional facilities and potential market opportunities.