A constant theme that comes up in and often dominates the leading edge of the biopharma sector is the building of better mousetraps. This is certainly the case for New Jersey-based biopharma developer ContraVir Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: CTRV), whose phase 2a clinical antiviral candidate CMX157 (http://dtn.fm/sQXh9) is knocking loudly on the door of Gilead Sciences’ (NASDAQ: GILD) Viread® (TDF, or tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) in chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV).

Coming out of the box strong after notably successful phase 1 safety and efficacy trials, ContraVir was quite proud to recently announce (http://dtn.fm/8NxXL) that the ongoing head-to-head phase 2a (multiple ascending dose) clinical study of its highly potent prodrug of tenofovir (TFV), CMX157, is showing serious potential versus Viread. With data points like a 99 percent reduction in viral load (http://dtn.fm/vtJ59) among patients orally dosed with 25 mg of CMX157, compared to a 300 mg TDF dose, the company is obviously excited about CMX157’s ability to deliver significant viral load reduction safely, at a much lower dose. Delimiting systemic/liver toxicity issues has long been the industry brass ring, and it now looks like that goal is considerably within CTRV’s striking distance.

ContraVir sees CMX157 as the backbone of a rapidly emerging combination therapy approach to HBV, where the liver-targeting capabilities of its prodrug candidate help to reduce impact to other tissue systems. There are a list of significant potential advantages for CMX157 over something like Viread at the point of sale, and ContraVir is bucking hard to not only cure HBV, but slice off an ever larger piece of the global HBV therapeutics market, a market that is on track to do a modest 2.4% CAGR through 2024, when it will reach upwards of $3 billion (http://dtn.fm/Y6Qux). The enhanced bioavailability of CMX157’s novel structure compared to existing indications (which also helps deal with liver damage by reducing the indication’s overall circulatory footprint), is now starting to really come to light through the latest clinical results.

Early on, when the company began touting CMX157’s ability to exploit natural lipid uptake mechanisms, and how this candidate showed in vitro HBV aggression 97 times greater than TFV during its phase 1 days, investors should’ve been paying closer attention. The data from this latest clinical work is consistent with extant data stretching back to preclinical work on CMX157, and with around 786,000 people dying worldwide each year (http://dtn.fm/0dQoF) (mostly due to HBV-related liver disease like cirrhosis and liver cancer) from HBV, ContraVir’s work has become a hot topic. CMX157 has previously been found to be well tolerated at dosages up to 100 mg, so the fact that this stuff is basically doing Viread numbers at 25 mg already spells big things for the ongoing dose escalation work being conducted by CTRV.

CMX157 is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg that is ContraVir’s growing pipeline of candidates, a pipeline which includes an impressive next-gen cyclophilin inhibitor with enhanced potency and selectivity, known as CRV431 (http://dtn.fm/5pmBl). With IND-enabling study work in the offing and a target sometime next year for CRV431 clinical trials, CTRV is really shaping up to be one of the leading alternative HBV therapy developers. CRV431’s ability to attack the life cycle of HBV at numerous points along the arc is a key advantage, and that combination therapy strategy the company keeps pushing really starts to make sense when you take a closer look at the potential advantages of CRV431.

These advantages include a sharp reduction in HBV DNA (in vivo), without toxicity, meaning that liver fibrosis can be hugely downgraded as a complication. Pair that up with a demonstrated ability to actually block entry for HBV into liver cells, and it is little wonder that ContraVir is looking to the horizon for a combination approach with CMX157 as the situation commander, and ancillary indications like best-in-class potency CRV431 on street-sweeper detail. Talk about laying down cover fire: CRV431 is anticipated to be effective against all HBV genotypes, offers broad-spectrum blockage of a large portion of specific HBV protein interaction with host cell cyclophilins, and provides a clearly complementary method of action for CMX157.

In short, the company has both the vision and the technology to deliver on a promise to HBV patients that first became apparent with the emergence of what is now basically a lifetime cure for hepatitis C. The HBV field has been driving hard toward this goal, inspired by what has been done in hepatitis C, and it now appears that New Jersey’s own CTRV could be the one to run this ball into the end zone. Moreover, it was very encouraging to investors to see how the New Jersey Economic Development Authority’s highly competitive Technology Business Tax Certificate Transfer Program (which allows New Jersey-based companies to sell R&D tax credits or net operating losses for up to 80 percent of value), provided $1.8 million in non-dilutive funding (http://dtn.fm/ZiI0h) for CTRV, which has been instrumental for this homegrown biopharma success story to put the pedal to the metal on its HBV pipeline.

Hepatitis B is most prevalent in the regions of sub-Saharan Africa and East Asia, where as much as 10 percent of the population in certain areas is chronically infected. Globally, the number of infected ranges upwards of the CDC/WHO official figure of 240 million, and with as many as 2.2 million chronic hepatitis B cases in the U.S. alone, CTRV’s technology could mean that the company is sitting on a potential goldmine, a goldmine that could provide a beacon of hope for millions.

The broader therapeutics market for liver diseases was around $7.5 billion in 2014, and a recent report published by Grand View Research sees the antiviral segment as the most promising, with 8.9 percent growth anticipated through 2022 (http://dtn.fm/sLM3O). The overall liver disease therapy market is on track to surpass $12 billion during that same interval, with the Asia Pacific region expected to do a CAGR similar to the antiviral segment, running around 8.8 percent. There is a huge external market for CTRV, and the possibilities of pipeline commercialization are indeed tantalizing.

Many investors are already talking about how instrumental the addition of biotech veteran Thomas H. Adams, Ph.D., to the CTRV Board back in September has been with regard to all of this, by the way. After all, this is the guy who founded antisense biotech innovator Genta, as well as Gen-Probe, which was acquired by the same Chugai Pharmaceutical (http://dtn.fm/50p7O) that later ended up in a strategic alliance with biopharma juggernaut Roche (OTC: RHHBY). Even without addressing the company’s pivotal phase 3 trial of its FV-100 indication, engineered to reduce incident rates and severity of shingles (herpes zoster), as well as the severe post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) pain associated with shingles – CTRV is the kind of near-commercialization contender that many biopharma investors dream of.

The market for FV-100 shows a lot of upside potential, in particular, due to a rapidly accumulating adult population across developed countries. In the U.S., the number of persons 65 years and older is projected to go from just 14.5 percent of the overall population two years ago, to 21.7 percent or more of total population by 2040 (http://dtn.fm/S874v). FV-100 has demonstrated safety and efficacy with clinically meaningful reduction in PHN rates versus GlaxoSmithKline’s (NYSE: GSK) Valtrex® (valacyclovir).

With as much as 10 percent fewer of 350 patients treated with FV-100 requiring some form of narcotics for pain control, this fast-acting, low-dose, once-daily, oral antiviral could really become one of CTRV’s money makers. PHN is the most common/clinically relevant complication with shingles, and FV-100’s pivotal phase 3 trial could spell much needed relief, especially for elderly patients who already have trouble sleeping, or who suffer from other quality of life-diminishing problems associated with shingles.

There is a lot to like about ContraVir, take a closer look by visiting www.Contravir.com

Before the opening bell, NetworkNewsWire (“NNW”), a multifaceted financial news and publishing company that delivers a new generation of communication solutions for business, announced the online availability of an interview with Bill Korn, chief financial officer of Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC; MTBCP). During the interview, Korn joined NNW’s Stuart Smith to discuss MTBC’s operations, recent achievements and the company’s ongoing execution of an acquisition-based growth strategy in order to maintain a competitive edge in the sizable healthcare IT market.

“MTBC has two cores strengths that distinguish us from most of the 1,500 other healthcare IT companies,” Korn explained in the interview. “We have an integrated cloud-based technology platform, which we developed in-house, and we have wholly owned offshore subsidiaries with 1,600 employees in four countries, with labor costs that average about 10% of the labor costs in the U.S. This allows us to provide services which are labor intensive even though we use our technology, and we can deliver these services much less expensively than our customers or competitors can provide them.”

To hear the full interview, visit http://nnw.fm/mtbc-interview-oct-2016

Thus far in 2016, MTBC has successfully achieved a number of milestones. The company has recorded three quarters of positive EBITDA since its IPO in 2014; raised $7.5 million of non-convertible stock on the NASDAQ; and, earlier this month, closed on the acquisition of MediGain, LLC and its Millennium Practice Management, LLC affiliate, marking MTBC’s largest acquisition to-date. The MediGain acquisition was not only completed at “a significant discount as compared to the industry norm,” according to Korn, it is also expected to play a major role in MTBC’s efforts to promote financial growth in the coming months, with the company’s CFO predicting that the acquisition “should be accretive to… shareholders in 2017.”

“We believe that our newly acquired business will contribute to our positive adjusted EBITDA by the first quarter of 2017,” Korn concluded. “By growing our overall revenue greatly through this acquisition, MTBC expects to generate significant operating leverage.”

For more information, visit www.MTBC.com

According to PSFK’s founder and editor-in-chief, Piers Fawkes (http://dtn.fm/Z7pRQ), “Travelers today are looking for an intuitive, rapid and personalized experience. They understand the trail of contextual data that surrounds them and they expect the smartest travel brands to leverage those data to serve them appropriately.” This is made more obvious by the fact that smaller companies are struggling to fully capitalize on the increasingly connected world we live in.

With Americans spending approximately $814 billion on domestic travel in 2015, according to the U.S. Travel Association (http://dtn.fm/52hVA), it is no wonder they are also investing a lot of time in planning these trips. But with advancements in technology, consumers are looking for a more unique and personalized but also more rapid travel planning experience.

CEO of the online fare aggregator Kayak, Steve Hafner, believes technologies are now changing how travelers book their holidays, saying that customers’ booking experiences will be less point-and-click websites, and more spoken word and chat bots. In an interview with CNBC’s On The Money (http://dtn.fm/uyN4x), he stated, “What we’re seeing is there’s a whole generation of people who are more familiar with text messaging and voice via Siri who are looking for a different interaction with an online travel agency.” Consumers have a need for more rapid, personalized, and mobile booking experiences, requiring companies to build more intelligent systems that offer a modern and on-the-go way for people to book their trips.

An example is Monaker Group’s (OTCQB: MKGI) NextTrip.com, a real-time booking engine that offers customers the opportunity to book various types of accommodation as well as flights, car rentals, tours, and more. NextTrip.com provides an all-in-one travel planner for every aspect of a person’s trip. The NextTrip planner enables travelers and holidaymakers to choose from some eight million trip ideas, and it gives users the opportunity to import bookings to one place on their mobile devices; discover a variety of nearby hotels, bars, and restaurants; save and attach important links to their devices; and collect travel money to split travel costs among friends and family. The free travel planner is an all-inclusive platform that is mobile friendly and allows consumers to book and save information about their trips, no matter where they are in the world.

For more information, visit www.MonakerGroup.com

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Short Message Service (SMS) or text messaging has come a long way since Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert first proposed the concept in 1984. Now, according to the Pew Research Center (PRC), texting is the most widely and frequently employed application on a smartphone, with 97 percent of Americans using it at least once a day. Some 23 billion messages per day, or almost 16 million messages per minute, crisscross the globe, about 26 percent, or 6 billion, of which are in the U.S. Singlepoint, Inc. (OTC: SING) is gearing up to capitalize on that ubiquity with its Pay-by-Text™ technology.

This Australian University of Technology Sydney website (http://dtn.fm/LihH1) outlines some of the virtues of text messaging. Even the simplest of phones can handle the technology, because it was designed to work with early telephony systems. It was the first communications technology to offer guaranteed delivery. If a recipient is switched off, out of range or if there is a network outage, the SMS message will be stored in the network and delivered when the recipient announces its presence, or when the outage is rectified. SMS can be sent or received during voice or data calls since it makes use of a separate channel, which is normally used for transfer of control messaging to transfer its packets. Furthermore, the low-bandwidth required to transmit short alphanumeric strings allows messaging worldwide with very low latency.

OneReach (http://dtn.fm/6ra2L) sets out the many other advantages of SMS. It is widely accepted, with 96 percent of smartphone owners using text. And some 98 percent of text messages are opened by the recipient as opposed to the 20 percent open rate of email. Text messaging has a 45 percent response rate, while email only has a 6 percent response rate. 55 percent of heavy text message users (50+ texts per day) say they would prefer to receive a text rather than a phone call. (In 2011, the PRC found that 31 percent of Americans preferred text messages to phone calls.) And it takes the average person 90 minutes to respond to email, but only 90 seconds to respond to a text message. Text, it seems, is the new lingua franca of our communications technological age.

The Pay-by-Text™ technology by Singlepoint appears to have garnered the best features of both worlds. It makes payment transactions immeasurably easier, and it allows communications in the pithy ‘sound bite’ size appreciated by busy people.

Singlepoint’s Pay-by-Text solution enables merchants to offer a ‘swipe-less’ mobile payment option to their customers. The Pay-by-Text transaction takes place on the customer’s mobile phone, which means he or she can pay at any time and from anywhere. To set up payment, the customer just needs to text the vendor’s keyword to a five-digit number and, once set up, can essentially pay with one click on all future purchases. In addition, the app becomes a marketing tool. Once the customer has set up a Pay-by-Text account, the vendor can issue an invitation to receive text messages.

Singlepoint is in the initial stages of rolling out Pay-by-Text. For this service, the company will receive a monthly fee ranging from $10 to $100, depending on the merchant, and one percent of each transaction. Pay-by-Text was designed with temporary point-of-sale opportunities such as trade shows and farmers’ markets in mind. In the near-term, the company will focus most of its efforts on the donations market, in which the spontaneity of text messaging aptly matches the impulsive spirit with which many donations are made.

Singlepoint recently finalized the integration of Pay-by-Text with a backend payment platform from RedFynn Technologies. RedFynn provides payment-processing, point of sale, and payment solutions. Singlepoint now has the ability to provide all forms of credit card processing including Apple Pay, point-of-sale terminals, and cashless ATM. The 150,000 merchants using RedFynn’s payments technology are now automatically set up to offer Pay-by-Text, needing no additional setup.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Singlepoint.com

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Much has changed in the real estate industry over the past decade, with companies modifying everything from their offices and operations to the tools they use and their overall culture. Real estate companies have also changed the way they brand themselves in order to better target younger consumers looking for a more personalized buying or renting experience.

Traditionally, real estate companies have focused their branding on promoting awards and titles, such as being number one or becoming a top producer. Now, with generation X and Y part of the real estate market, things have changed. These younger markets don’t care much for titles and awards. While such new consumers are still passionate about becoming homeowners, they are looking for a wider range of services, coupled with online/mobile access to information.

Gone are the days when real estate agents could quickly and mechanically push clients through the sales funnel. Today, customers can easily switch companies, with no warning, and they expect the full package. They want someone who is going to support them, be knowledgeable, and, above all, is trustworthy from the moment they start searching for a home to the moment they finalize their transaction.

Moreover, customers are not the only ones whose needs have shifted. The requirements of real estate agents and brokers have also changed. Rather than needing an office, agents are more interested in quick availability of important resources. Advances in technology mean that they need instant access to a range of information to keep their clients satisfied, whether they are in an office or in the field.

Non-traditional offices are popping up, with agencies shifting toward smaller or, sometimes, no offices. In addition, they are now focusing solely on the consumer and using more “free” or inexpensive tools such as social media marketing applications, blogs, and search engine optimization (SEO) to reach the right audience.

eXp World Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: EXPI), the Agent-Owned Cloud Brokerage™ that offers its services across the U.S. and Canada, has been powering higher in the industry for the better part of two years thanks to its ability to adapt to the changing perspectives of both consumers and the industry as a whole.

Through the company’s website, sellers list properties, while prospective buyers easily search real-time property listings, and both buyers and sellers have quick access to a network of professional, consumer-centric agents. EXPI has made significant operational changes compared to its competitors, shifting toward a more sustainable industry with virtual and on-the-go training techniques, virtual meeting platforms, and other tools that help agents and brokers collaborate and connect with consumers without depending upon brick and mortar facilities. Based on the changes the industry has experienced over the past decade, EXPI has tailored its services to perfectly suit buyers and sellers of the 21st century.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.eXpWorldHoldings.com

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Earlier this week, SeeThruEquity, a leading independent equity research and corporate access firm, issued an update on Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. (NASDAQ: MTBC; MTBCP). In the report, SeeThruEquity took a closer look at MTBC’s recently completed acquisition of medical billing firm MediGain, LLC, as well as its affiliate, New Jersey-based Millennium Practice Management, LLC. The transaction was characterized as MTBC’s largest acquisition to date, as well as its fourth deal so far this year and its tenth since 2014. With a total purchase price of $7 million, SeeThruEquity expects MTBC to deploy some of its cash on hand, which was reported at $6.7 million at the end of the second quarter of this year, while also seeking to raise additional capital in order to finalize the MediGain transaction in the coming months.

To view the full SeeThruEquity report, visit http://dtn.fm/kd93J

With news of the MediGain acquisition, SeeThruEquity updated its estimates for MTBC’s financial performance as 2016 winds to a close. In a news release announcing the acquisition, MTBC indicated that it expects MediGain to add significant revenues and spur the company’s financial growth in 2017 while also contributing to its positive adjusted EBITDA. As a result, SeeThruEquity updated its 2017 revenue forecast for MTBC to $35 million and adjusted its EBITDA estimate to $2.5 million. The research firm also revised its 2016 estimates to account for a later-than-expected close to the MediGain acquisition. SeeThruEquity’s 2016 revenue and adjusted EBITDA estimates are now $24.5 million and $0.5 million, respectively, leaning on the assumption of seasonal strength in the second half of the year.

“We are very pleased to have acquired MediGain’s assets at a compelling valuation that represents a significant discount as compared to the industry norm of at least one times annualized revenues for a company of MediGain’s size,” Bill Korn, chief financial officer of MTBC, stated in a recent news release. “Moreover, we believe that our newly acquired business will contribute to our positive Adjusted EBITDA by the end Q1 2017.”

Despite adjusting its revenue and EBITDA figures, SeeThruEquity left its target PPS unchanged in its latest report. According to the update, the research firm continues to view MTBC “as an attractive company in the healthcare technology industry that offers exposure to a massive market opportunity at a compelling valuation.” As a result, SeeThruEquity has placed a price target of $3.85 for MTBC. This figure represents potential upside of about 375 percent when compared to Wednesday morning’s price of $0.81 per share.

For more information, visit www.MTBC.com

iGambit (OTCQB: IGMB) is creating a portfolio of partner companies by acquiring, developing, and investing in small to medium-sized technology companies. A diversified holding company based in Smithtown, New York, iGambit’s goal is to push SMEs with a focus on licensing and/or services toward smart growth and to spin these tech ventures into public companies.

While iGambit has been in operation (developing software, servicing customers and licensing technology) since the mid-1990s, the company’s management team only turned its focus toward turning iGambit into a holding company in the late 2000s. Since then, iGambit’s founders and management have had practical experience developing start-ups into multi-million dollar businesses. The team has built these companies over three-year timelines and with internal capital, thereby steering clear of interference from venture capitalists or other investors.

An opportunity to survive and thrive is iGambit’s key offering to companies like ArcMail, the holding it is currently focused on, and other talented tech ventures operating profitably or near cash-neutral status in today’s tough economic climate.

iGambit acquired ArcMail Technology (ArcMail) via a stock purchase agreement in November of 2015. Now a wholly-owned subsidiary of iGambit, ArcMail is a top provider of simple, secure and cost-effective email archiving and management solutions. Considering the rapid growth of email usage, the company was founded to help private- and public-sector organizations implement effective email archiving programs, boost email server performance and satisfy regulatory requirements. Through hardware and software sales, support and maintenance, the company addresses a need for email archiving solutions that are within the means of small businesses yet tough enough to meet the demands of enterprise companies and government entities.

iGambit occupies the role of facilitator comprehensively. The company helps to create and fund solid business plans and long-term exit strategies for the principals of its partner companies and all of its stakeholders. iGambit’s team provides the guidance that fosters natural relationships, technology solutions and marketing synergies for its portfolio companies, thus enabling these companies to generate high-margin recurring earnings. Finally, along with financial, technical and management expertise, iGambit offers its partner entities the board experience they need to increase their volume and profitability and emerge as industry leaders.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.iGambit.com

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Earlier today, OurPet’s Company (OTCQX: OPCO) announced that Scott Mendes, the company’s chief financial officer, will be presenting alongside executives from 60 other companies at this year’s MicroCap Conference, which is set to take place October 24-25 at the Hotel Monaco in Philadelphia. Mendes is scheduled to make his presentation on October 25 at 5:00 p.m. Planned topics of discussion include OurPet’s Company’s innovative, trend-setting pet products and accessories, including the cutting-edge OurPets® Intelligent Pet Care™ (http://dtn.fm/sOK6q) product line, which leverages Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies to foster a stronger connection between pets and their owners.

For more information on the MicroCap Conference, visit http://dtn.fm/kjJH5

Mendes’s upcoming presentation comes on the heels of a similar presentation by Kathleen Homyock, OPCO’s vice president of sales and business development, at last month’s National Pet Industry Trade Show hosted by the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) Canada. In her presentation, titled ‘Technology Translated to Pet Fitness, Food and Fun’, Homyock offered an in-depth look at how intelligent technology accessories can help pet owners more effectively monitor the health and wellbeing of their pets. These benefits are at the core of the company’s Intelligent Pet Care™ product line, including the SmartScoop – Intelligent Litter Box (http://dtn.fm/7eSSn), the SmartLink Feeder – Intelligent Pet Bowl (http://dtn.fm/8rEpu) and the SmartLink Waterer – Intelligent Water Fountain (http://dtn.fm/6NllS).

“It is always interesting to speak with industry professionals about how smart technology is changing pet products,” Homyock stated in a recent news release. “I was excited to have the opportunity to speak at the show in September and I am even more excited to work for a company that values this technology and continuously works to bring intelligent health and fitness monitoring products into the marketplace.”

OurPet’s Company’s commitment to innovation doesn’t end with its Intelligent Pet Care™ product line. According to data from the American Pet Products Association, there are currently about 175 million companion dogs and cats in the United States alone, with roughly 650 million worldwide. The growth of the pet population in recent years has led to pet waste becoming a significant environmental concern, with companion dogs producing roughly 10 million tons of waste annually in the U.S. OurPet’s Company is currently focused on creating environmentally-friendly solutions to the growing problem. Through a new partnership with Paulee Cleantec, Ltd., OurPet’s Company aims to develop and commercialize innovative solutions to the environmental issues stemming from improperly managed pet waste.

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.ourpets.com

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Consumer behavior is the study of why users buy or do not buy a product or service. This data also includes the why, what, when, where, and how. Consumer behavior attempts to understand the buyer’s decision-making process. It studies individual consumer habits while taking into account things like demographics, age group, religion, and more in order to understand what people want from their shopping experience.

There are, of course, a wide range of factors that can influence customer behavior. Some of these include: the environment, social variables, cultural variables, pricing, promotions, product quality, and customer service. Also, as mentioned above, demographic factors affect customer behavior. These include age, gender, marital status, income, education, and occupation.

With consumer behavior data being at the forefront of e-commerce today, the goal is to know what consumers want before they even ask for it. Algorithms and big data are now enabling retailers to capitalize on their consumers by offering them what they want based on their shopping history and all the other variables.

With marketers now having access to all sorts of useful data, it is no wonder they are able to target prospective clients and consumers and link them to specific merchants and products. Companies such as Moxian, Inc. (OTCQB: MOXC) who are in the business of providing social media marketing and promotion platforms to retailers allow merchants to run highly targeted and successful advertising campaigns.

MOXC enables consumers and merchants to better interact thanks to consumer behavior data compiled in the Moxian database. With this information, merchants are able to identify consumer patterns, identify individual customers, uncover opportunities to deliver integrated and targeted marketing campaigns, and optimize marketing efforts for the future. Moxian works on the basis that consumers and businesses should be able to connect and interact more easily with one another to achieve the concept of “online lifestyle, offline fun.”

For more information, visit the company’s website at www.Moxian.com

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Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is on the rise, having multiple applications in various industries ranging from healthcare and storage to transport, animal and human identification, as well as for RFID-empowered credit cards. The technology allows for a much simpler card payment process by enabling the user to simply brush his or her card against a special RFID reader to process a payment, but it has also given rise to serious privacy concerns and fears that personal information is easier to steal by anyone with the right type of RFID reading equipment. As a consequence, tighter security requirements were enforced for manufacturers of RFID tag technology, while special equipment emerged, designed to shield against RFID skimming and hackers.

A leading provider of personal security production and data protection technology, Florida-based Stealth Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: STTH), comes to the aid of all owners of RFID-enabled cards with proprietary technology specifically created to protect the consumer’s data from any theft attempts or other compromising events. The company’s flagship product, the Stealth Card, can actively protect users’ RFID cards in their wallets by creating an electromagnetic force field that blocks any scan attempts and deflects the scans back to their source. Inspired by military technology employed to shield stealth aircraft from radar, the Stealth Card uses a proprietary PowerGrid Technology that blocks any inbound or outbound frequencies and effectively makes a card’s RFID chip invisible to theft threats.

At only 0.007” thick, the Stealth Card easily fits in the wallet and can protect up to 12 RFID cards simultaneously, as confirmed during tests run by The Center for Applied Research and Technology, an independent testing laboratory. The product does not require batteries or charging and works perfectly with cellphones, magnetic strips or Bluetooth technology without interference.

Encouraged by the success of the Stealth Card and facing a growing demand for RFID skimming blocking solutions on a market that’s expected to surpass $21 billion by 2020, Stealth Technologies has developed two other products designed to help protect users’ personal information: 911 Help Now and Stealth Mobile.

Rolled out in July of this year, the 911 Help Now device offers direct voice communication with emergency services with the simple push of a button. A compact, waterproof design powered by standard AAA batteries, the device works as a 24-hour emergency system that can be carried around anywhere, offering the user peace of mind in any and all environments.

Stealth Mobile has yet to be launched after having successfully passed the final testing phase of development at the end of September, according to company CEO Brian McFadden. The product is designed to protect the Near Field Communication (NFC) chip and any personal and financial information stored on the user’s cell phone. It can be easily attached to the back of the phone and will protect the user’s data by blocking any theft attempts via the NFC system.

In another effort to combat identity theft, the company recently launched a dedicated website, www.StealthIdentityTheft.com, which offers visitors access to ‘Data Secure,’ a unique personal identity theft protection and recovery service designed and used by law enforcement. The service uses a two-step prevention method: the Redaction/Privacy process that removes personal data from the Internet, and the Recovery Protection process that involves recovery specialists working to restore a stolen identity.

For more information about Stealth Technologies, Inc. and its innovative personal data protection services, visit www.TechnologiesByStealth.com