In response to any suspicions surrounding deliberate share price manipulation, yesterday:

To illegally depress the share price for little benefit makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. A lower price is only magnified in how it affects a buyer with limited dollars.

ie. I have $10,000 to buy shares. Price $1.49 = 6,711shares. $1.40 = 7,142.

The magnifying effect would be later on when shares hit $70, $100, $350. If one is being offered options at a FIXED number of shares, when those shares hit $70, $100, $350 a price of $1.40 or $1.49 means almost nothing.

6,357,082 options sold at $100 / share = $635,708,200.

Cost @ $1.40 = $8,899,914.80 Profit $626,808,285.20

Cost @ $1.49 = $9,472,052.18 Profit $626,236,147.82

Less than 1/10 of a percent difference here. Why would any self respecting executives have bothered?