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HopStop Live! Launches to Help Transit Riders Worldwide Receive, Contribute and Share Real-Time Transit Information


New York, New York (PRWEB) April 08, 2013

HopStop, the number one ranked transit app in iTunes and Google Play with over three million downloads, today launched HopStop Live! TM – the only free, real-time social transit app backed by the power of millions of highly-engaged mobile users across seven countries, 700 transit agencies, 20,000 lines and 750,000 stops. HopStop Live! is the first social navigation platform that allows public transportation riders to contribute, receive and share real-time transit information about the stations, lines and transit systems that matter most to them. The new service will launch exclusively on the iPhone platform with other platforms, including iPad and Google Play, to follow in subsequent releases. The real-time transit service includes every market, across every transit agency, for every line/route that HopStop currently supports.

HopStop Live! is the only all-in-one transit app, providing unparalleled door-to-door walking and transit directions, schedules and officially licensed transit maps and, for the first time, real-time crowd-sourced information from fellow transit riders. The service benefits from an immediate install-base of 2 million monthly active users, not available anywhere else at this scale. The service also fills a large void left by the lack of real-time information currently available from most transit agencies – especially in periods of disruption caused by unforeseen incidents. Real-time, crowd-sourced information will be available both within HopStop’s familiar step-by-step direction search experience and also through a new standalone service with the iPhone app called “Live!”. Through the standalone service “Live!”, users can follow their specific lines and stations of regular use.

“The real-time public transportation space has attracted so much attention over the past twelve months with a countless number of new transit apps all professing to have the answer to real-time,” says Joe Meyer, CEO, HopStop. “The problem with the vast majority of these is that as impressive and headline-grabbing as their goals or claims may be –they all lack the critical ingredient for any crowd-sourced service to be useful –a big enough crowd of endemic users. Over the past nine years, HopStop has grown to be the biggest independent player in the transit routing market, and today’s launch of HopStop Live! will leverage our large user base and strong commitment to product excellence to define the future of real-time public transportation information.”

HopStop Live! also aims to help transit riders create micro-communities around their particular train line, bus route, stations or stops; and share real-time information and tips to make everyone’s trip better, easier and safer. HopStop Live! analyzes real-time user reports on lines, stations and routes across its entire global footprint to give transit riders a real-time snapshot of whether their ride is delayed, by how long, and an indication of the likely reason.

Joe Meyer, CEO, HopStop added, “Our reliable and highly accurate door-to-door transit directions revolutionized the transit industry a few years ago, and now HopStop Live! will do the same by becoming a must-have tool for any commuter. The new service will also help riders create micro-social communities around the specific stations, lines and stops that they care most about, thereby making everyone’s trip better, easier and safer.”







15 Non-Profits to Receive CyberAlert PR Grants of Free Media Monitoring Service

15 Non-Profits to Receive CyberAlert PR Grants of Free Media Monitoring Service
CyberAlert, Inc. today named 15 non-profit organizations as recipients of its annual PR Grants Program. The 15 non-profits will receive one free year of CyberAlert 5.0 online news monitoring service, which monitors 55,000+ online news sources in 250+ …
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Demographic damage: how can we avoid losing the next generation?
Business often points the finger at government over the need to tackle the mismatch between qualifications and jobs but could it be doing more to confront the matter itself? Certainly German companies like BMW are bringing the benefit of …
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To Press and Beyond Authors Receive Recognition at Dan Poynters Inaugural Global eBook Awards


Santa Barbara, CA (PRWEB) September 08, 2011

State of Mind by Sven Michael Davison clinched two awards: best book trailer and best e-book cover. Altamont Augie a debut novel by Richard Barager, was a finalist in the best book trailer category.

To Press & Beyond founder Gail Kearns attended the award ceremony in Santa Barbara to pay tribute to her clients successes. Kearns and her A team of experts guided Davison and Barager through much of the challenging publishing landscape, saving them time and keeping them on track every step of the way.

Calling themselves Book Sherpas, To Press & Beyond provides valuable assistance to independent authors and publishers as well as self-publishers. From identifying and helping to develop author and book platforms to editing a manuscript and giving advice on cover and interior book design and eventual distribution, they consistently find the best solutions and will tailor a traditional and social media marketing plan that includes the obvious and the hidden gems, bringing a clients title to the right opinion makers and ideal buyers.

To Press & Beyond has worked with clients nationally and around the worldfrom China to Switzerland to London and from small towns in Northern California to Chicago and the Big Appleincluding memoirists, a poet from Israel, a sports mom, psychologists, childrens book authors, journalists, fiction writers and motivational speakers.

With a million books published each year, how does an author get noticed? Its about strategic planning. They have to work hard to get there and avoid numerous pitfalls along the way. To Press & Beyond works hard to get them noticed with a strong publicity campaign that also utilizes social media to stay ahead of the curve, says Kearns.

Books of all genres, shepherded by To Press & Beyond, have received other awards, such as the prestigious Independent Publishers Award, The Benjamin Franklin Award, Forewords Book of the Year Award, and USA “Best Books” Awards Sponsored by USA Book News.

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