Happy new year everyone!

We are excited to begin the new year with a few announcements. As our alpha users who have been with us from the beginning, we wanted to let you know first.

Please note that this has not been announced to everyone as yet and will be done by the end of the week.

• TaazzaGO rebrands as LocalBeat - 
  • We believe the new name better represents our offering
  • We are also changing our tagline to "Your local hub"
  • Most of all easier to spell :)
• LocalBeat arrives on iPhone - http://bit.ly/localbeat4iOS - We are thrilled to be launching this for the iPhone with new branding.
• LocalBeat for Android - How could we rebrand without taking care of our early supporters.

As always an early preview of our release before we publish it to the market.

Huge sets of improvements on the Android front. Here is the quick change log:

• Reground redesign and rebranding. Colorful, clean and concise.
• Huge performance improves - GZip support, faster downloading of content
• More content - More news sources, More deals, more to annouce shortly
• New functionality
  • Refresh Weather
  • Toggle between mobile and web pages
  • Better mobile rendering with ReadItLater
  • Better sharing - Simulataneously share with multiple sources
  • Ability to look around our office if you can't find content around you
• Loads of crashes & bugs fixed - over 100 of them.
• We have put in the foundation to iterate a lot faster - Next release will be out shortly

Screenshots: http://db.tt/O3r0M58m

Build: http://bit.ly/localbeat16  

Look forward to hearing your feedback.

Best,

Team Taazza