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New Infographic Raises Awareness About Data Breaches, Hacking, and What You Can Do to Protect Yourself












North Huntingdon, PA (PRWEB) March 06, 2014

A new infographic from Century Negotiations, Inc (CNI) reveals startling information about the world of hacking and data breaches. Backed by solid research, including 9 years of studies done by ID Theft Center, the infographic entitled “EXPOSED: Hacking and Data Breaches – The Business of Stealing Information” strives to educate CNI’s clientele and blog readers about this increasingly common form of data thievery. The graphic is available to view on their blog for free, and reveals ways the consumer can protect his/herself from becoming a victim.

As technology increases at an exponential rate, the vulnerability of the consumer continues to demand more attention. It’s not just the PC that’s connected to the internet anymore. For most people, it’s their cell phone, which holds a trove of personal data (including photos, videos, and text messages). Then there’s the rapidly expanding audience of people utilizing wearable technology, such as watches and smart glasses. Even further, home appliances and automobiles are starting to integrate internet technology. It’s inevitable that connected technology will eventually envelope just about every activity people engage in on a daily basis. Although convenient, these advances necessitate new habits to protect personal information.

Along with the consumer responsibility comes the need for businesses and corporations to adopt vigilant privacy policies and technological protection to keep data thieves out. The most recent large scale attack was towards Target stores in December, amidst the busiest shopping season of the year, where a reported 40 million financial records were stolen. Another 70 million records were further compromised containing items like a name and email address. Though unsettling, this is not the first time an event like this has happened. It begs the question then: What are companies doing to crack down on the gaps in technology which allows these hackers to be successful?

While companies fight to keep up with sleuth hackers, there’s also a new level of consumer responsibility that people must take on as citizens of the internet community in order to protect their own privacy. In the blog post and infographic, CNI shares several preventative measures to take that will make it much harder for a hacker to steal one’s information. Bottom line – it’s up to the consumer to make their data well protected and not become the low-hanging fruit that hackers so eagerly seek out.

As a debt settlement company, CNI wants to make sure their clients and blog readers are well equipped not just for the financial roads of life, but also developing best practices that will permeate into their lives as a whole. This includes better online security to protect items like a social security number (SSN) and credit card information, ensuring that hackers will not be able to access this information and then fraudulently charge up the credit or bank accounts.

CNI was founded by Dave Leuthold in 2003 and is now recognized as a leader in the debt settlement industry. He was also involved with the founding of The Association of Settlement Companies and is on the board of the American Fair Credit Council. CNI has settled more than $ 600,000,000 of debt for their clients.

For more information and to view the infographic, please follow this link: http://www.centuryni.com/blog/infographic-7-ways-prevent-hackers-stealing-information/














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Zane Benefits Publishes New Information on Small Businesses Giving Raises For Health Insurance










Park City, Utah (PRWEB) January 09, 2014

Today, Zane Benefits, the #1 Online Health Benefits Solution, published new information on small businesses giving raises for health insurance.

According to Zane Benefits’ website, many small businesses who do not offer health benefits consider giving employees a raise or salary bonus to help them pay for their individual health insurance. That’s because small businesses wants to offer health benefits to take care of employees and to help with recruiting and retention, but they cannot afford group health insurance, they cannot meet minimum participation requirements of a group health insurance plan, and/or they do not know about small businesses health insurance alternatives such as Section 105 defined contribution allowances.

According to Zane Benefits’ website, providing raises or salary bonuses to employees may seem cheaper and simpler than reimbursing health insurance premiums through Section 105 defined contribution allowances. But, there is one major consideration favoring Section 105 defined contribution allowances for small businesses: tax savings.

By offering Section 105 defined contribution allowances instead of giving raises to employees for health insurance, both the small business and employees save money.

Click here to read the full article.

About Zane Benefits

Zane Benefits, the #1 Online Health Benefits Solution, was founded in 2006 to revolutionize the way employers provide employee health benefits in America. We empower employees to take control over their own healthcare, while helping employers recruit and retain the best talent. Our online solutions allow small and medium-sized businesses to successfully transition to a health benefits program that creates happier employees, reduces costs and frees up more time to serve their customers. For more information about ZaneHealth, visit http://www.zanebenefits.com.























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VendAsta Raises $ 8.25 Million in Funding from Vanedge Capital and BDC Venture Capital











Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (PRWEB) March 18, 2013

VendAsta Technologies, the industry leading provider of white label digital brand management solutions, is raising $ 8.25 million in funding from Vanedge Capital and BDC Venture Capital. The new round of funding will help VendAsta accelerate platform development to meet partner demand for new features and tools, and provide additional support.

“For any business, digital fragmentation creates acute challenges in managing local brand reputation. The various channels that businesses must monitor and engage are seemingly endless. VendAsta’s platform closes the loop for businesses, supplying them with tools to succeed in the digital world,” says Jed Williams, Senior Analyst at BIA/Kelsey.

VendAsta launched its Reputation Management platform in 2011, and within two years the company has grown to become one of the largest Reputation Management providers in the world. Together, its channel partners include eight of the top ten newspaper companies in the United States, as well as large pure play digital agencies, Internet Yellow Pages, and other independent digital and SEO agencies that provide Reputation Management to over 100,000 local small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

“VendAsta Technologies has done an excellent job partnering with top tier media companies across North America,” said V. Paul Lee, Managing Partner at Vanedge Capital. “Customer calls revealed VendAsta is agile, responsive, and delivers what they have promised. We have been told multiple times that VendAsta is a top vendor.” Robert Simon, Senior Managing Partner at BDC Venture Capital added that “the SMB market has been, to a large degree, untapped. We see VendAsta growing to be a very significant company.”

“We have built a white label reputation platform that allows businesses to monitor, manage and build their brand,” said Brendan King, CEO of VendAsta. “With these tools, our partners — whether large newspapers and yellow page companies, or small traditional and digital agencies — can be up and running in days and on the street selling products, backed by a full suite of prescriptive sales and marketing materials. This funding will allow us to accelerate the development of new products and maintain our culture of continual improvement.”

VendAsta’s platform currently includes Reputation Monitoring, Brand Analytics, Social Marketing, Presence Builder, and Concierge tools to help local businesses build their online brands. As an example, an agency that manages digital marketing for a local restaurant can keep track of the reviews the restaurant gets on relevant websites, generate tasks to respond to these reviews on the client’s behalf, ensure all the listings about the restaurant are accurate, and identify new leads by monitoring relevant chatter on social media — all from one common white label Business Centre. For its larger partners, VendAsta offers a suite of API-based services that can integrate this data directly into their platforms.

Interested parties can request demos of VendAsta’s solutions by going to http://www.VendAsta.com.

About VendAsta

VendAsta Technologies is a leader in digital marketing and brand management solutions for small to mid-sized local businesses. VendAsta provides white label solutions to media companies that work directly with local businesses, including online directional media companies, newspapers, broadcasters, SEO services, certified marketing representatives, web hosting providers, and interactive agencies. VendAsta’s reputation and presence management platform includes Reputation Monitoring, Brand Analytics, Presence Builder, Social Marketing lead generation tools and Concierge CRM platforms to help manage and sell digital products. Today, over 10,000 digital sales representatives across 250 media organizations provide VendAsta powered solutions to local businesses. For more information, visit http://www.vendasta.com.

About Vanedge Capital

Vanedge Capital is a Vancouver BC based venture capital fund focused on investments in interactive entertainment, digital media and infrastructure software businesses. The fund managers have extensive experience and relationships in this sector, and have built and led world class companies in video games, cloud storage and enterprise software, among others. For more information, visit http://www.vanedgecapital.com, or contact info(at)vanedgecapital(dot)com.

About BDC Venture Capital

BDC Venture Capital is the largest Canadian venture capital firm with more than $ 1 billion in current and planned investments with direct investment funds focused on innovative IT, health and energy/clean technology companies. The BDC IT Venture Fund is a $ 150 million fund with partners in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and San Francisco. Investments are typically early stage companies in the enterprise, Internet or mobile sectors. The IT Fund has invested in many successful companies including Radian6 (acquired by Salesforce), Opalis (acquired by Microsoft), Bycast (acquired by NetApp) and Q1 Labs (acquired by IBM). More at http://www.bdc.ca/vc or on Twitter @BDC_VC.

Press Contacts

VendAsta Technologies

Jeff Tomlin, Vice President, Marketing

(306) 220-2721 | jtomlin(at)vendasta(dot)com

Vanedge Capital

Amy Rae, Principal

(604) 351-7110 | http://www.vanedgecapital.com

BDC Venture Capital

Rober Simon, Managing Partner

(415) 509-3001 | http://www.BDC.ca























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