infoUSA Signs Multi-Year Licensing Agreement with Leading Travel Services Provider AAA
OMAHA, Neb.--Feb. 16, 2001--infoUSA, the leading provider of proprietary business and consumer databases and sales and marketing solutions, announced today that they have signed a long-term licensing agreement with AAA, in order to give AAA's 43 million members access to advanced mobile in-vehicle travel services, including emergency roadside assistance and real-time travel information. With the addition of millions of business listings from infoUSA, mobile users can be routed to the most accessible and convenient POI's (points of interest) across hundreds of different categories. infoUSA is the leading information provider to the growing in-car navigation market, having signed licensing agreements over the last two years with General Motors, Toyota, Saab, Volvo and Honda luxury and standard vehicles.
Bill Kerrey, President of infoUSA's Database Licensing Group, said, "In-car navigation and mobile information services, known as telemetics, represents an exciting new market and a huge potential opportunity for infoUSA. There is an enormous demand for mobile information services for both personal and business use. Considering how much time Americans spend in their cars and rely on them for family and business, the need for in-car information is overwhelming. The accuracy and comprehensiveness of infoUSA's proprietary data really puts us in the driver's seat in capitalizing on the growth of this emerging market."
infoUSA's unique process of compiling its databases include constantly verifying current information on 14 million U.S. and Canadian companies, resulting in the most accurate business data in the industry. Kerrey continued, "We focus on accuracy. We interview about 70,000 businesses a day, updating our databases daily. This feature of our database is of vital importance to the emergency services and navigation markets, as well as for businesses and consumers."
About infoUSA
infoUSA (www.infoUSA.com), founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer information products, database marketing services, data processing services and sales and marketing solutions. Content is the essential ingredient in every marketing program, and infoUSA has the most comprehensive data in the industry, and is the only company to own a proprietary database of 250 million consumers and 14 million businesses under one roof. The infoUSA database powers the directory services of the top Internet traffic-generating sites, including Yahoo! and Microsoft . Nearly 3 million customers use infoUSA's products and services to find new customers, grow their sales, and for other direct marketing, telemarketing, customer analysis and credit reference purposes. infoUSA headquarters are located at 5711 S. 86th Circle, Omaha, NE 68127 and can be contacted at (402) 593-4500.
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