BusinessCreditUSA.com Partners with PIPE9 Corporation to Offer Business Credit Reports to B2B Customers On-Line.

Business Editors

FOSTER CITY, Calif. and NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 2000

businessCreditUSA.com (parent company infoUSA, NASDAQ: IUSA), the first Internet credit portal, has formed a partnership to enhance PIPE9's predictive CRM offerings with its business credit report service.

The partnership makes business credit reports available to a large group of business customers by leveraging the high quality content of infoUSA's proprietary business database, businessCreditUSA.com's proprietary technology, and PIPE9's broad reach into the growing B2B e-commerce space.

Arvind Jain, COO and CFO of businessCreditUSA.com said, "Our partnership with PIPE9 is an example of how the combination of new technology and rich content can provide cost-effective solutions for businesses on the Internet."

Rakesh Gupta, President - E-commerce Initiatives, infoUSA, said, "As the emphasis in e-commerce has shifted from B2C to B2B, businessCreditUSA.com is well positioned. Our proprietary credit information will play an increasingly significant role in facilitating Internet transactions, particularly those involving small businesses."

Tom Gordon, Chief Information Officer, PIPE9 said, "The high quality of infoUSA's content is in demand by e-businesses and Net markets looking for a greater number of business-to-business transactions on the Web. We are excited about partnering with infoUSA and businessCreditUSA.com to meet that need and the accompanying growing requirement for CRM solutions that acquire and retain customers faster and better."

About businessCreditUSA.com

businessCreditUSA.com, http://www.businesscreditusa.com, is the first "credit portal" to offer free business credit reports on the Internet to a potential 12 million businesses and 150 million consumers in the U.S. In addition to the free reports, users will be able to subscribe to an online "watchdog" service for only $6 per business, per year. The portal will also aggregate business credit applications, which can be instantly updated by the applicants and downloaded by approved vendors. businessCreditUSA.com is located at 378 Vintage Park Drive, Foster City, California, 94404, and can be contacted at [phone].

About infoUSA

infoUSA, http://www.infousa.com, founded in 1972, is the leading provider of business and consumer information products and database marketing services and Internet marketing solutions. Content is king, and infoUSA is the king of content. infoUSA has the most comprehensive data in the industry, and is the only company to own a proprietary database of 225 million consumers and over 12 million businesses under one roof. All data is exclusively compiled, updated and maintained at its location in Omaha, Nebraska. The infoUSA databases power the directory services of the top traffic-generating Internet sites including Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), InfoSpace (Nasdaq: INSP) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). The company has partnership agreements with several Internet companies, including Mapquest.com (Nasdaq: MQST), DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK), Network Solutions (Nasdaq: NSOL), USWeb/CKS (Nasdaq: USWB), Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) and MyWay.com (a Majority owned operating company of CMGI, Inc.). Nearly three million customers use the products and services for direct marketing, telemarketing, marketing planning, lead generation, sales planning, customer analysis and credit reference.

About Pipe9

PIPE9 Corporation adds value to e-businesses and Net markets with predictive knowledge solutions and products, including unique transaction-oriented content, data structuring and synthesis, and segmentation and predictive modeling, which rapidly increase customer acquisition and retention at significantly lower cost. Among its many strategic partners are McGraw Hill, Business Week, The Better Business Bureau, Looksmart.com, RealtyIQ, and TRADE, Inc. Founded in 1998 by President and CEO Alan Murray, PIPE9 has offices in New York, Tampa, FL and Lexington, KY.

Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, recent changes in senior management, the successful integration of recent and future acquisitions, fluctuations in operating results, failure to successfully carry out our Internet strategy or to grow our Internet revenue, effects of leverage, changes in technology and increased competition. More information about potential factors that could affect the company's business and financial results is included in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.