Announcing the launch of Factiva.com

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June 11, 2001

Today, I am pleased to announce Factiva.com, the capstone of our content=
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integration products and the powerful new service that will replace Dow=20
Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing.

You're going to see some amazing new features in Factiva.com. Many of thes=
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have been driven by the results of a global research program that included=
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input from 300 global customers and prospects, who also provided feedback =
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every stage of our interface design process.

What's the result? A new, innovative product that addresses your need for=
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both global and local information. By building upon the DJI and RBB content=
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sets we've created a unique global collection of nearly 8,000 sources from=
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118 countries in 22 languages. Through Factiva Intelligent Indexing, we've=
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addressed the need to provide more granular coding. We've also improved=20
power searching, and concentrated on the personalization and ease of use=
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that end users demand =0F- all to make retrieval more accurate and relevan=
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The research also identified that up to 40% of your time is spent assembli=
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and disseminating information, so we've designed tools to make these steps=
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faster. In an enterprise product you needed to be able to manage group=20
access to information, so we've added powerful administration tools.=20

Because Factiva.com redefines how business people gather the critical fact=
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they need to make good business decisions we believe you'll want to upgrad=
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to it quickly. We will continue to support DJI and RBB, but eventually we=
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will phase out these products as we devote all of our resources to the=20
Factiva product set. We will tell you at least one year in advance of this,=
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probably in mid-2002, anticipating a final shut down in mid-2003.=20

I encourage you to visit our Web site and look at Factiva.com at=20
www.factiva.com/factiva and find out why we're so excited about its impact=
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on improving your awareness of the external global business environment an=
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increasing the productivity of your users. Please share your comments with=
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me directly at Clare.Hart@factiva.com.

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President and Chief Executive Officer=20

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