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2300 Bethelview Road

Suite 110-452

Cumming, GA 30040

770-815-6515

About:

NearbyNewz is a geo-awareness mobile application. By decoupling social media’s friend/follow paradigm, users safely and securely share actionable and useful information with others in their immediate vicinity – and as the user moves, the user’s feed automatically updates. News categories encompass most topics and include general news, sports, weather, traffic, entertainment, business, hot deals, and more. NearbyNewz empowers people to see what’s going on around them, report it, and read what others post so that they can plan their day around what they want to see and do — or what they don’t want to see or do.

Founded in 2014:

“On June 6, of 2014, in our small Georgia town, an armed suspect overran the courthouse in an unprecedented shooting spree. Although I’d been on social media that morning, I had no idea what was going because my feed was cluttered with random, unimportant things, like vacation pictures and memes from ‘friends’. I knew what was happening in the Grand Canyon but not my own community. This is when I saw that things needed to change.” — Randy Davis, NearbyNewz co-founder

NearbyNewz was founded in 2015 by Randy Davis and Todd Moran, who were brought together as a part of a Cumming, Georgia-based incubator where they assessed ideas and technology trends for mobile applications. The result of the think tank is several mobile applications, the first of which is NearbyNewz.

Product:

Problem – NearbyNewz is a geo-awareness app that solves many problems within social media today:

  • Only see what friends and followers post
  • Information exchanged is not local
  • Not secure
  • Not credible
  • Information exchanged is not important or essential to you

Solution –

  • Using geo-location technology, NearbyNewz connects people in the same area.
  • Through set preferences, NearbyNewz delivers only the news users want to see.
  • A news give/take: People read the news happening nearby. People post the news they see.
  • When people move, the news follows them. Traveling to NY today? Upon arrival and see what’s happening. (“Traffic in the tunnel, so take the bridge from the airport.” “There’s a lunch deal at Barney Greengrass. Try the smoked fish — its legendary.” “A chance to see the Pope today…He’s speaking at the World Trade Center at 3:00pm.” “$10 cover at the The Village Underground tonight, but don’t be discouraged because the band is awesome — here’s the video to prove it.” “Walking by Gap, I received a notice for NearbyNewz users — BOGO on all denim today only! Use code NNGAP.”)
  • NearbyNewz allows anyone to become a reporter.
  • News agencies can utilize NearbyNewz to get up-to-the-second information by hearing and seeing photos and video from reporters on the street.
  • Users rank each others posts, increasing the credibility of the information shared.
  • Users are never tracked, so posting is secure.

Executive Team

Randy Davis is the co-founder and CEO for NearbyNewz. His background is in sales and marketing with 25 years at the Fortune 100 company level.

Todd Moran is a successful entrepreneur, co-founder of two other successful IT companies, and has been developing products and solutions for the remote monitoring industry for small businesses for more than 20 years.