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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

UKs first neighbourhood focused social networking app launches nationwide today for iPhone and Android, designed to instantly connect neighbours on the issues that really matter to their community. From local news and events to sharing services and favours, the free Huud app promises to build stronger and happier neighbourhoods up and down the country.

So what is the secret of building a strong community in your neighbourhood? According to Huuds co-founder, Hrissto Ditchev, We think it is the favours people do for each other. Favours like lending a tool or lending a hand, offering a shoulder to cry on or just a drink- simple ways to be there for each other when in need. Huud provides a free platform for neighbours to connect on all of this and more, putting your neighbourhood in the palm of your hand.

The free app for Android and iPhone helps users to collaborate, network and socialise with their local community on the go by posting or browsing topics about their neighbourhood and creating interest-specific groups. You can share local news instantly, offer and receive services on a local marketplace, ask your neighbours for help, arrange events and ask for recommendations in one swipe of your hand.

Download Huud for free on iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/huud/id571283198?ls=1&mt=8

or Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.HUUD

See Huuds intro video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJe0zRLedQk

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About Huud: Remember the time when everyone knew everyone in the neighbourhood? While technology nowadays eliminates the need to connect with people in person, we bring in technology to serve what it most often forgets to serve: the personal connection between people. We built Huud to assist you in rebuilding a strong community spirit in your neighbourhood and to help you connect with those around you for a better, safer and happier life. We hope you enjoy it. http://www.huudapp.com

About Apppli: As Best App Development Company and Best App Marketing Agency Finalists 2012, Apppli is a leading mobile focused strategic consultancy, marketing and development firm based in London. We design, develop and promote market leading software solutions across all platforms and devices, specialising in mobile apps and web development. http://www.apppli.com

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Huud Connects Neighbours Nationwide with New Social Network App

DENVER, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --NewsGator today unveiled a new mobile version of Social Sites, that lets mobile workers connect and collaborate anywhere and anytime from their smartphone, making social networking on mobile devices a reality.

The new Social Sites Mobile Web runs on web-enabled smartphones, giving the Social Sites platform a near ubiquitous footprint on mobile devices. The new web client accompanies NewsGator's powerful native mobile clients on iPhone and Android, ensuring that employees never miss a beat from their social activity streams boosting productivity, collaboration, and innovation when they are away from their desks.

Social Sites Mobile Web provides intelligent information streams of content and activities leveraging Lookout the Social Sites personalized dashboard. It solves one of the biggest problems facing organizations that are embracing "Bring Your Own Device" (BYOD) initiatives how to extend the power and real-time access to critical social information to employees wherever they are working.

"Social is sweeping the business world, and our clients have told us they would like to access Social Sites from everywhere," said Walker Fenton, vice president of mobile at NewsGator. "Social Sites Mobile Web fills out our mobile product suite giving virtually every smartphone on the planet access to Social Sites. It is the ultimate business productivity client for which BYOD initiatives were designed."

The new web client is easily configurable, allowing employees to set up their mobile view in a way that makes the most sense for them. Through Lookout, they simply select the types of content they need including the activity streams from people, communities, topics, subjects, notifications, etc. and Social Sites Mobile Web intelligently filters out the "noise" from the useful information. It is also localized in more than a dozen languages, supports multiple authentication options, and includes other user-friendly features.

Extending the power of the Social Sites Lookout dashboard to mobile devices means users can spend more time reading, searching, and contributing information quickly and easily. They can read and respond to information that is more relevant to them. And they can view events in their activity stream that are important and meaningful.

ING Bank is developing social on mobile devices. ING employees can work from a company office, their home office, or even a customer location, so mobile access to "Buzz" (ING's internal name for Social Sites) is becoming increasingly important. The challenge is making employee access to Buzz on mobile devices secure.

"Buzz mobile is the number one request Buzz users make, and with the range of devices in use it was important to partner with an enterprise social specialist like NewsGator. Their approach to solving the mobile challenge for Social Sites makes it easy for us to realize our plans for mobile in a secure way," commented Louise McGregor, manager, Web Expert Centre at ING Bank.

Social Sites Mobile Web was developed based on input from NewsGator's 4+ million customers and 6+ years of social business innovation. It is available now.

About NewsGator NewsGator is helping over four million paid users in industries across the globe propel the future of productivity. NewsGator Social Sites delivers robust social technology to the enterprise with proven scalability and security to flagship clients like Accenture, Adidas, Deloitte, Ericsson, General Mills, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Kraft Foods, Merck & Co., Unisys Corporation, and the US Army. NewsGator delivers advanced social computing capabilities to Microsoft productivity and collaboration platforms, including SharePoint, Windows 8, SQL, Azure, Windows Phone 7, Lync, Office 365 and Dynamics. NewsGator was honored as Microsoft's 2011 U.S. Partner of the Year and, more recently, a Globally Managed Partner. Follow us on Twitter @newsgator and at http://www.newsgator.com.

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NewsGator's New Social Sites Mobile Web Makes Social Mobile and BYOD a Reality

BEIJING, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SINA Corporation ("Sina") (Nasdaq: SINA), a leading online media company serving China and the global Chinese communities, and AutoNavi Holdings Limited ("AutoNavi") (Nasdaq: AMAP), a leading provider of digital map content and navigation and location-based solutions in China, today jointly announced a strategic partnership to integrate and enhance each other's social, location and mobile ("SoLoMo") offerings.

As a result of this partnership, AMAP, AutoNavi's mobile map application, users will be able to sign on using Weibo Connect and access content directly from SINA Weibo. SINA Weibo users will also have access to the content and functionality of AMAP. The companies expect such content and product integration will enhance the social networking and navigational aspects of each other's mobile offerings.

"Over 70% of SINA Weibo users access the social media platform at least partially via mobile devices," said Gaofei Wang, Vice President and General Manager of SINA Mobile. "LBS (location based services) and mapping services will play a key role in Weibo's mobile strategy, and we are excited to be partnering with AutoNavi to leverage their expertise in these areas."

"In teaming up with Sina, we are proud to provide our mapping and location-based services to over 400 million Sina Weibo users, while at the same time integrating Sina Weibo's social content and SNS features into AMAP," said Mr. Congwu Cheng, chief executive officer of AutoNavi. "We believe our collaboration with Sina Weibo will benefit both of our users and we look forward to future cooperation between our two companies as we continue to bring new features and functionalities to our users."

About SINA

We are an online media company serving China and the global Chinese communities. Our digital media network of SINA.com (portal), SINA.cn (mobile portal) and Weibo.com (social media) enable Internet users to access professional media and user generated content in multi-media formats from the web and mobile devices and share their interests to friends and acquaintances.

SINA.com offers distinct and targeted professional content on each of its region specific websites and a range of complementary offerings. SINA.cn provides information and entertainment content from SINA portal customized for WAP users. Based on an open-platform architecture to host organically developed and third-party applications, Weibo.com is a form of social media, featuring microblogging services and social networking services that allow users to connect and share information anywhere, anytime and with anyone on our platform.

Through these businesses and properties and other business lines, we offer an array of services including mobile value added services ("MVAS"), online video, music streaming, online games, photo sharing, blog, email, classified listings, fee-based services, e-commerce and enterprise services. We generate the majority of our revenues from online brand advertising, MVAS and fee-based services.]

About AutoNavi

AutoNavi Holdings Limited (AMAP) is a leading provider of digital map content and navigation and location-based solutions in China. At the core of its business is a comprehensive nationwide digital map database that covers approximately 3.6 million kilometers of roadway and over 20 million points of interest across China. Through its digital map database and proprietary technology platform, AutoNavi provides comprehensive, integrated navigation and location-based solutions optimized for the Chinese market and users, including automotive navigation solutions, mobile location-based solutions and Internet location-based solutions, and public sector and enterprise applications. For more information on AutoNavi, please visit http://www.autonavi.com.

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SINA and AutoNavi Launch Location-based Social Networking Service Platform

Research shows connected' commuters benefit from shorter journey times and less stress.

It's official, social networking has the power to improve the daily commute to and from work. According to the results of the Connected Commuting Task Force study, carried out by the New Cities Foundation, using social media to connect commuters improves the commute by allowing users to share or receive real-time information on traffic issues from an extended commuter community. This also offers commuters greater control over their commute and the opportunity to provide a valuable service to others.

Out on the roads, the research found that drivers who were connected to the service were happier and more relaxed as the constant feedback from others taking the same route enabled them to make real-time adjustments to their journeys and avoid hold-ups and traffic jams. All of which reduced stress levels.

Meanwhile for transit companies, the information gathered through the social networks provides key insights as to routes that require major attention and investment.

The survey was conducted in San Jose, California, in partnership with Ericsson, the City of San Jose's Department of Transportation, the University of California Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and two commuter applications, Waze and Roadify. Researchers analyzed over 15,000 user commentaries plus further input from focus group interviews and compared the results with the experiences of unconnected commuters (ie, those without access to the apps) over the same period in order to arrive at their conclusions.

"We hope that cities, research labs and companies will use the findings as a starting point for further innovations in this important field," said Naureen Kabir, Director of the Foundation's Urban Lab of the results.

"In the Networked society, where everything that benefits from a connection will have one, these types of information sharing will help cities reduce commute times and commuters' energy consumption which benefits the environment, the cities and the citizens over the long term," said Patrik Cerwall, Head of Strategic Marketing and Intelligence, Business Unit Networks, Ericsson.

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Social networking could be key to improving transit routes

THE influence of social media and networking has been so tremendous in recent years that workplaces are increasingly adopting such tools in the business environment, says a study by technology research firm IDC.

According to the IDC Enterprise Social Survey, 52% of organisations in Asia-Pacific already have an enterprise social network in place while 23% plan to adopt one over the next 18 months.

The study, which was commissioned by Microsoft, polled 352 respondents from across the region. Unsurprisingly, the key drivers behind this new wave are a young workforce, early adoption of gadgets and social media, as well as cultural trends such as relationship-focused business dealings.

Todd Cione, chief marketing and operations officer, Microsoft Asia, believes that enterprise social is already happening and has transformed the way businesses work. "Enterprise social is more than just social networks, it changes the way people work and makes them more productive. It is not just technology, collaborating within a company, having new features or blogging. It is about getting work done in a more agile manner together," he says.

Hersing Corp, which runs the ERA property agency franchise in Singapore, is investing in technology that will make it cheaper and easier for its employees to communicate and work with one another.

The company recently inked a deal with Microsoft Singapore to add 5,000 Office 365 subscriptions to its existing user base of some 200. This is one of the largest Office 365 account wins for Microsoft Singapore.

Compared with the typical Microsoft Office suite of programs such as Word, Excel and Outlook that is installed in the users' computers, Office 365 is a package of subscription and cloud-based services that lets users log in wherever they are as long as they have compatible devices.

"It allows them to be productive, in a very familiar way. There is no need to re-learn the best of breed of tools: the Microsoft Office," says John Fernandes, Microsoft Singapore's director of marketing and operations. To date, there are some 135,000 Office 365 users in Singapore.

Jack Chua, Hersing's CEO, says the cost savings of up to US$300,000 (S$366,562) is just one of the many reasons for deploying Office 365. He especially likes its conferencing features such as Lync Online, which can improve communication within the company and among its property agents with its video conferencing capabilities.

He also likes the way Office 365 can easily group agents, who tend to work in teams some specialise in industrial properties, others residential; they are also divided into regions and areas so that they can receive the relevant messages. With Office 365, different teams can also be mobilised rapidly to handle different projects, he adds.

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