Virtual Piggy Technology Named Top 10 Best Technology
Virtual Piggy Technology Named Top 10 Best Technology
Dr. Toy selects safe youth payments technology for Top 100 Children's Products
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- September 10, 2013 Virtual Piggy, Inc. (OTCBB:VPIG), an innovator in safe youth payments, today announced that its youth-friendly payment system won the Dr. Toy's Top 10 Best Technology Award for 2013. The company received this within the Top 100 Children's Products for 2013 alongside other companies that included LEGO, LeapFrog, and VTech.
Dr. Toy is the leading source for information on children's products on the web. The Dr. Toy's Guide has over 100,000 online visitors daily and its Top 100 Best Children's Products has been featured in Family Circle and Parenting Magazine.
Virtual Piggy promotes financial management while empowering youth under 18 to make purchasing, saving and other money management decisions for themselves, within the boundaries setup by parents. The technology serves as a family wallet that is available online or via mobile, and is 100% free to use.
"Dr. Toy utilizes a complicated set of objective and subjective criteria to evaluate toys and other products," said Dr. Stevanne Auerbach of Dr. Toy. "The Top 100 toys and products are selected to meet Dr. Toy's high standards for design, durability, price, quality, safety, and value."
For information about Virtual Piggy visit www.VirtualPiggy.com
About Virtual Piggy, Inc.
Virtual Piggy, Inc. is the first e-commerce solution that enables kids to manage and spend money within parental controls. It enables parents to teach financial management through the use of a secure family wallet that is available online or via mobile and is 100% free to use. The technology company delivers online security platforms designed for the Under 18 age group in the global online market, and also enables online businesses the ability to function in a manner consistent with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA") and similar international children's privacy laws. The company is based in Hermosa Beach, CA and on the Web at: www.virtualpiggy.com
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Virtual Piggy
US:
Public Relations
Sarah Hall Productions
Jenna Guarneri, 212-529-1598
Jenna@SHPNY.com
or
Investor Relations
Investor Awareness
Tony Schor, 847-945-2222 ext. 221
tony@investorawareness.com
or
UK:
Suzanne Noble, +44 7957 371840
snoble@virtualpiggy.com
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