Zomato.com Launches Restaurants Search Apps for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch - Zomato.com (formerly known as Foodiebay.com), India's largest online Food & Nightlife Guide, which had already launched its Android and Blackberry applications, has launched a mobile application for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The search application allows users to search for nearby restaurants based on user location. Available free on the iTunes Store (or http://www.zomato.com/ios), the application handles all the functions of the site, and allows the user to view the menus, contact information, photographs, location and discounts for restaurants on the phone itself. Applications have been over 1000 downloads in the first 3 hours after launch and has created much buzz on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. Zomato.com which receives 600,000 visitors each month on its website, has become the only Indian player of local research to have an application on all major smartphone platforms - Android, Blackberry, and IOS.
The site is about 3 years and is present in nine cities across India - Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Jaipur. Zomato recently raised an investment of 4.7Cr Info Edge (Naukri.com Group) to finance its development and marketing.
Deepinder Goyal, Co-founder and CEO of Zomato said: "We are the first player restaurant and local search portal in the country to develop an application for all three smartphone platforms. With IOS release, you can effectively increase reach almost the entire basis of the India smartphoneuser. Users can enjoy all the features of our website on the implementation iOS Zomato. "
