Pitney Bowes Launches Startup Accelerator In India To Hunt For Its Next Big E-Commerce, Mobile Ideas — techcrunch.com

Pitney Bowes, the 94-year-old producer of stamp postage meters attempting to become an e-commerce platform, is the latest to tap into India’s engineering talent for incubating startup ideas. The accelerator program will be conducted jointly with India’s technology industry association, Nasscom, as part of its year-old startup incubator called “10,000 Start-ups”. For its part, Pitney Bowes has been pushing aggressively over past few months to build its digital commerce business. It partnered with Twitter in December last year for location-mapping services, and with IBM last month for cloud services.

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