Press Release

Contact:
David Beasley
650-347-2220 x.132
dbeasley@briefing.com

Conducent Partners with Quote.com and Briefing.com to Offer Free Financial Software

Harrisburg, February 25, 1999: Conducent Inc. (http://www.conducent.com) today announced several new partners that will offer free financial software applications to their Web site visitors. Quote.com, Briefing.com, Invest-O-Rama, Buck Investor and InvestorsGuru will add new sections to their sites giving users free access to some of the best downloadable financial software available. The software utilizes Conducent's proprietary technology for integrating dynamic advertising. Conducent Inc. is the first company to provide a turnkey solution for delivering Internet functionality--including advertising--inside PC software applications. Conducent has similar agreements with Reality Online, a Reuters company, and Go2Net, which owns the Silicon Investor and StockSite Web sites.

David Beasley, VP of Sales and Marketing at Briefing.com adds, "we're focused on providing useful, top-quality software applications, books and other products in our coming e-commerce area. Conducent's products not only fit these requirements, they are in addition free to Briefing's users".

"We're excited to be working with these new partners," said Jesse Engle, Conducent's Director of Content Development. "Our business model allows any Web site to benefit from making free ad-supported software available to its audience."

The software applications to be distributed include: Medved QuoteTracker from 2GK, Inc.; StockTick from NAConsulting; Personal Stock Monitor from DTLink Software; Home Buyer's Calculator Suite and Stock Profit Spread Calculator from Wheatworks Software; Debt Relief from Insight Software Solutions; NetScoopFinance from Neurostock; Loan Calculator Plus from Pine Grove Software; and Vulcan FinanceCalc from VulcanSoft.

About Conducent
Conducent is the first company to provide software developers with the ability to incorporate dynamic advertising within their applications. Conducent's proprietary technology delivers dynamic advertising in a variety of industry standard formats to the desktop for display within Windows 95 and 98 and Windows NT software. Conducent distributes its AdSDK to developers, free of charge, from its Web Site at http://www.conducent.com. For more information about Conducent, visit http://www.conducent.com or call 717.540.1978.

About Quote.com
Quote.com, Inc., founded in 1993, delivers customized solutions for companies that provide stock quotes; detailed market data on equities; options; commodity futures; mutual funds, bonds; real-time business news, market analysis, fundamental financial (balance sheet) data, and company profiles. Quote.com provides state-of-the-art integration for gathering, tracking and analyzing investment information for serious investors.

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.