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Briefing.com Expands Content Agreement with Yahoo!
Real-time Market Analysis Now Available on Yahoo! Finance

Chicago, IL. - December 13, 2000 - Briefing.com (www.briefing.com) today announced an expanded agreement with Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company, to provide additional content on Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com), including four new pages of market analysis.

Under the agreement, Briefing.com is providing real-time Market updates throughout the trading day to the Market Summary section that appears on the main page of Yahoo! Finance. Briefing.com is also providing a version of In Play^® on the newly launched Market Overview page that users can view by clicking on the Market Overview link on the main page of Yahoo! Finance. In Play contains articles that focus on stocks that are experiencing, or are likely to experience, sharp moves or heavy trading volume throughout the day. Also on the Market Overview page, Yahoo! Finance users can now access Briefing.com's popular Story Stocks^®, analysis behind stocks in the news, and Short Stories, brief summaries of key news items affecting individual stocks.

The new content compliments the Briefing.com "intra day" analysis previously offered on Yahoo! Finance. Such analysis includes: Upgrades and Downgrades of company stocks, which are updated three times per day by recommendations from major Wall Street brokerage firms; the Splits Calendar, succinct lists of upcoming U.S. stock splits; and the Economic Calendar, forecasts for each upcoming release.

"Expanding our relationship with Yahoo! to provide real-time market commentary on Yahoo! Finance is a natural step in our relationship," said David Beasley, vice president of sales and marketing, Briefing.com. "Now Yahoo! Finance users can benefit from our most active market analysis and can make more informed investment decisions."

"We're pleased to expand our relationship with Briefing.com," said Tim Sheehan, director of production, Yahoo! Finance. "The new content from Briefing.com helps enable our users to monitor U.S stock market conditions at any time, from any where."

About Briefing.com
Briefing.com is an employee-owned company headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area. Rated a “top site” eight consecutive years by Barron’s and three consecutive years by Forbes.com, Briefing.com is the leading provider of quality, live market analysis via the Internet.

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