CNBC.com, FOXMarketwire.com, Netscape Netcenter, and UpsideToday.com Are Among Major Business Sites Signed to Be Powerize.com Affiliates.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Reston, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2000

Powerize.com Announces Affiliate Program

And Stellar List of Initial Affiliate Web Sites

Powerize.com, Inc. (www.powerize.com) today announced the launch of its affiliate program and a list of initial affiliate Web sites that includes many of the most popular business destinations on the Internet.

As Powerize.com affiliates, these sites will expose their millions of users to quality business and professional information at Powerize.com - premium research reports and profiles, specialized databases, and deep news archives. With content from more than 10,000 trusted information sources worldwide, Powerize.com is the Internet's ultimate source for business and investment research.

Powerize.com's initial list of affiliates includes the following sites:

- CNBC.com (www.CNBC.com), part of the NBC subsidiary of General Electric
Company (NYSE: GE), provides the best of CNBC on the Internet. The personal
finance portal is designed to help investors profit from today's
lightning-paced financial activity with company information, stock quotes, data
and analyses. Leveraging CNBC's renowned coverage of financial markets with
anchor programs like "Squawk Box" and "Power Lunch," CNBC.com gives users an
insider's view with breaking e-alerts, video clips and summaries from CNBC
on-air personalities. Investors receive free real-time stock quotes,
up-to-the-minute market data with interpretation, and e-alerts on their
personal portfolio holdings. Users can also track multiple portfolios,
personalize a streaming stock ticker, and create customized financial charts.

- eMind.com (www.eMind.com - formerly Yipinet) is a leading
business-to-business e-learning provider for vertical markets, delivering
Internet-based learning and compliance testing to professionals and corporate
employees. Previously known as Yipinet, eMind.com partners with corporate
customers to provide them with a completely hosted, e-learning solution.
eMind.com currently offers courses in accounting, insurance, securities,
banking, information technology and personal development, with health care,
legal services and real estate to come in the first half of 2000.

- FOXMarketwire.com (www.foxmarketwire.com) is the most comprehensive financial
information resource online for consumers, providing up-to-the minute financial
news and financial services. In-depth information and features include free
real-time stock quotes, portfolio tracking, insider trading, Mutual Mondays,
highlights from TheStreet.com and Cavuto reports, Interactive Calendar and a
new Personal Finance section designed to help users understand and manage their
finances.

- IBM Intellectual Property Network (IPN) (www.patents.ibm.com) is a Web site
that provides free access to more than 8 million patent documents from all over
the world. The IPN site, powered by IBM's (NYSE: IBM) industry-leading DB2
Universal Database, is currently one of the most popular sites for Intellectual
property on the Internet today.

- MyCity.com (www.MyCity.com), America's largest local community portal, is a
national network of online city guides serving more than 50,000 U.S. hometowns
with everything people need to enhance their daily lives and their community.

- Netscape Netcenter (www.netscape.com) is a leading Internet service that
helps professionals better manage their business and personal lives online.
With more than 25 million registrants worldwide, Netcenter offers daily news
and business programming by integrating powerful tools and content into one
convenient, personalized interface for use at both home and work.

- UpsideToday (www.upsidetoday.com) is a business information site covering the
people, companies and capital shaping the digital era. The site's
up-to-the-minute news and provocative reports focus on the industries that
converge around technology and the Internet, including entertainment, media and
telecommunications. UpsideToday is owned and operated by UPSIDE Media, which
publishes UPSIDE magazine and Upside Books and produces Upside Events.

"CNBC.com has quickly become the source for essential investment and business information, so it was natural that we partner with Powerize.com, which is one of the richest sources of content for the investment community," said Bob Meyers, COO of CNBC.com. "We take pride in offering indispensable intelligence to investors, packaged with the most up-to-date market data, news and analysis. With this agreement, CNBC.com users can gain a competitive investing advantage by accessing quality information on Powerize.com."

Expanding the Market for "Information Commerce"

According to Powerize.com Chairman and CEO Ed Addison, "One of Powerize.com's core strengths is our ability to accept heterogeneous content feeds from more than 40 different aggregators and publishers, full-text index that content, and make it available on various account models - free, pay-per-view, and subscription - to individuals and enterprises. This means that we're able to provide our affiliates with an instant information-commerce infrastructure."

"Because we actually host content from more than 10,000 sources worldwide," he continued, "Powerize.com can build and host customized versions of the Powerize.com site for our affiliates that drive both ad-supported pageviews and content transactions. This is vastly preferable to services that provide only links to content on other sites, which can't be monetized through advertising and transactions.

"For Powerize.com's many content partners, this means that millions more potential users and purchasers will be driven to their content at Powerize.com through a wide range of affiliate Web sites that don't themselves have the ability to index, host, and bill for their premium content. This will greatly expand the market for their content," Addison concluded.

Sheri Robey-Lapan, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Strategy with COMTEX News Network, one of Powerize.com's content providers, concurred. "By providing multiple gateways to COMTEX News Network's information on Powerize.com and its affiliate sites, Powerize.com will be able to successfully draw additional business end-users to COMTEX content, while ensuring that publishers' copyrights are honored."

Web sites interested in learning about how to become a Powerize.com affiliate should contact Scott Dukes, VP-Business Development, at 703-438-3500, ext. 8109, email [e-mail].

About Powerize.com

Founded in January 1997, Powerize.com is headquartered in Linthicum, Maryland. Powerize.com features free, pay-per-view, and subscription content from more than 10,000 publications and other titles, from leading content partners including Bell & Howell Information & Learning, BNA Inc., COMTEX News Network, EBSCO Information, Gale Group, Market Guide, Phillips Publishing, Primark, and Zacks Investment Research, among others.

Powerize.com offers its more than 200,000 members free, unlimited access to content from more than 2,400 of its sources, including brand-name newspapers, magazines, trade journals, and newswires. Through a patent-pending business model, Powerize.com is able to offer members free access to premium content that has never before been available to them for free in one place on the Internet.