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Contact Information:
Cassandra Bayna
312-670-4463 x 248
cbayna@briefing.com

Media Metrix Report ranks Briefing.com No. 4 in September Business/Finance category

Burlingame, CA - December 6, 2000 - Briefing.com (www.briefing.com), the leading Internet provider of "live" market analysis, had the fourth highest percentage of male visitors between the ages of 35-49 by composition in the September Business/Finance category of the Media Metrix Web Report produced by Media Metrix, the pioneer and leader in Internet and Digital Media measurement worldwide. Briefing.com ranked higher in the percentage of this powerful demographic on the site than hundreds of other leading financial firms and thousands of other firms overall in the report as a whole.

"Briefing.com appeals to active investors who are serious about making money in the stock market," says Dick Green, President of Briefing.com. "This is consistently reflected in the high-end demographics of our readers."

Briefing.com was also reported as having the eighth highest percentage of visitors with household incomes over $150,000 in the August Business/Finance category of the Media Metrix Web Report.

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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.

About Media Metrix
Media Metrix, a Jupiter Media Metrix Company, is the leader and pioneer in Internet and Digital Media measurement and the industry's source for the most comprehensive, reliable, and timely audience, e-commerce and technology measurement services. The Company provides the most comprehensive coverage of all Digital Media including more than 25,000 Web sites and online properties. Media Metrix utilizes its patented operating-system metering methodology to track Internet and Digital Media audience usage behavior in real-time - click-by-click, page-by-page, minute-by-minute. Today, Media Metrix has a representative sample of more than 100,000 people under measurement and covers more than 85 percent of Internet usage worldwide.