Pitney Bowes and Twitter Sign a Multi-year Licensing Agreement for Location Intelligence Solutions

Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, Conn., has entered into a multi-year licensing agreement with Twitter, the leading global real-time information network, to provide location intelligence solutions for their mobile platform.

Pitney Bowes' location intelligence solutions deliver geocoding and reverse geocoding for mobile platforms, and mapping solutions for the insurance, financial services, retail and public sectors. Precise geocoding is built on addresses that have been carefully verified and validated prior to assigning latitude and longitude coordinates. Developed on a consistent API, the Pitney Bowes geocoding solution is particularly well suited for mobile platforms. Twitter will use Pitney Bowes Location Intelligence technology to support location sharing in Tweets.