Buzzle Mall, an application made by PT. Buzzle Indonesia, placed third in Ericsson Application Award (EAA) 2012 for company category. In the competition held by Ericsson in cooperation with Sony, PT. Buzzle Indonesia is eligible for prizes worth 5.000 Euro.
Ericsson Application Awards is a competition for students and small firms (less than 100 employees) to create an Adroid application using a t least one Ericsson Labs API. This year, the competition chose the theme “Apps for the Networked Society” with the aim of promoting innovation from a variety of environments, places, situations and so on and to connect people, objects and places to empower individuals and communities.
In this global competition, Buzzle Mall is the only participant from Southeast Asia and Oceania region to qualify for the semifinal. Although eventually eliminated by the application from Kenya and Nabda Care from Egypt that made it to the final of this competition for company category, Buzzle Mall should be proud because this is the first time participant from Southeast Asia and Oceania won an award in the four times of this competition’s organized.
Buzzle Mall, as written by Kompas Tekno, is a shopping guide application. With this application, shopping center visitors can find the latest information such as event information, promotion or a list of stores in the mall through a mobile device. Buzzle Mall also has a navigation feature that will lead the user or mall visitor to the desired store.
Currently, Buzzle Mall has included 25 shopping malls in Jakarta and 3 malls in Bandung. Data of discount promo and event in this application is updated once a month.
Buzzle Mall is one of the participants of East Ventures Alpha, a 100 days incubation program organized by the incubation company, East Ventures. This application is also a winner of Nokia Lumia Developer Day some time ago in Bandung. In addition to Android, Buzzle Mall application is also available for BlackBerry platform. Later on, this application will also be available for iOS and Windows Phone platforms.
