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Inc. introduces China-Complete multi-byte address quality services for direct mailers targeting China to its suite of global direct marketing services.

Data Services, Inc. a leading supplier of US, Canadian and international direct and email marketing services, announced today that it will be adding the ability to standardize, correct and validate Chinese postal data in simplified mandarin character sets to its suite of international address hygiene services. will be officially launched as part of Data Services’ exhibition at the inaugural Direct Marketing Expo held as part of the Technology for Marketing & Advertising (TFM&A) Conference February 28 – 29, 2012 at Earls Court II in London, UK.

but adding the capability to perform similar data hygiene services for mandarin characters sets will allow us to meet the needs of those direct marketers for whom mailing to businesses and consumers in the local-language is a must.

Massachusetts will receive $16 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to move the state’s online health insurance marketplace for individuals and small businesses toward compliance under the Affordable Care Act, the federal agency announced today.

All states are required to create an insurance marketplace, or an exchange, by 2014 or the federal government will create one for them. Massachusetts, which launched its exchange in 2006, has a leg up. But the Massachusetts Health Connector, which runs the program here, has work to do adjust the state exchange to meet federal requirements, said Executive Director Glen Shor.

We need to simultaneously continue to run these programs well and keep our population highly insured, and at the same time we need to plan for 2014,” Shor said. hese resources allow us to do both well.