CyberDefender and Offerpal Media Partner to Deliver Anti-Malware and ID Theft Protection Solutions to Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and Other Social Network Users
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Security software developer CyberDefender Corporation (www.cyberdefender.com)
(OTCBB:CYDE) and Offerpal Media have partnered to offer security
solutions for consumers of leading Social Networking platforms such as
Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Bebo and others.
This partnership means that computer users will enjoy full security
solutions from CyberDefender at no cost to them. In addition,
CyberDefender Corporation also benefits as the Offerpal Media managed
offer network is designed to increase revenues and expand offerings.
Current Offerpal Media clients have already seen incremental revenues
averaging in the range of 8% to 25%.
By teaming with Offerpal Media, CyberDefender will not only be able to
offer solutions to the user for free but will also focus on introducing
solutions that also work to protect users in social networks such as
MySpace, Facebook and others. Expanding the user-base is the focus and
Offerpal Media is a Web 2.0 company that uses its reach in Social
Networks to generate new trials and convert trial-ware users into paying
customers.
Using social applications like widgets and offers of alternate payment
options, Offerpal Media enables customers to get product from
partners simply by trying or buying something else from a wide range of
options, including online services, games, movies, music and application
downloads. Offerpal has over 500 premier advertisers, including Netflix,
FlyCell, GameFly, Stamps.com, The Gap, Old Navy, Blockbuster, eBay,
DirectTV, Discover and Sony.
“Offerpal Media currently provides the
alternative payment facility for over 100 Social applications and
merchant sites with a combined reach of over 20 million consumers.
Partnering with CyberDefender allows us to provide leading security
solutions to social network users for free, while creating incremental
revenue for CyberDefender by powering the alternative payment facility
on their site,” said Anu Shukla, Founder &
CEO, Offerpal Media Inc.
Gary Guseinov, CEO of CyberDefender Corporation, said, “We
are thrilled to be working with Offerpal. Using Social Network marketing
for our new solutions opens CyberDefender to 20 million potential new
users! Social Networks like MySpace and Facebook are also very sticky
for users as they come back again and again. This tremendous repeat
traffic gives us the ability to keep the user secure, make CyberDefender
a recognized quality brand name, and tap into an enormous potential
revenue stream that is only available in these types of networking
platforms.”
About Offerpal Media Inc. (www.offerpalmedia.com)
Offerpal Media Inc. was founded with the vision of providing a new
technology platform for the rapidly emerging social media marketplace.
Utilizing the founders’ many years of
experience with personalization, CPA advertising, and robust
optimization technologies, Offerpal has delivered the first "Managed
Offer Network" for social application publishers and online merchants.
The company’s turn-key, full-service platform
enables Facebook, Bebo and MySpace publishers to monetize their social
applications, online merchants to generate new leads and increase
conversions, and advertisers to reach their target consumers. Offerpal
Media is headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley in Fremont,
California.
About CyberDefender Corporation (www.CyberDefender.com)
CyberDefender Corporation believes that its Internet security technology
offers the earliest possible detection and most aggressive defense
against Internet security attacks. CyberDefender believes that it is the
only Internet security software company to combat spyware, viruses,
phishing and dangerous spam by using a secure client-to-client
distributed network, enabling protection that the Company believes is
unparalleled in speed and flexibility. Products employing the early
detection technology include CyberDefender’s
safeSEARCH™ Toolbar, MyIdentityDefender™
toolbar, CyberDefenderFREE™ 2.0, CyberDefender
Early Detection Center™ 2.0 and CyberDefender
Early Detection Center FamilyPak Edition. All these products are fully
compatible with Microsoft’s Vista Operating
system and available at http://www.cyberdefender.com.
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