Dow Jones Newswires Announces Retail Distribution Agreement With Inlumen; Agreement Enables Inlumen to Provide Additional Dow Jones Services to Customers.

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--December 18, 2001

Dow Jones Newswires announced today that it has signed a global retail distribution and integration agreement with Inlumen, Inc. (www.inlumen.com).

The agreement covers all of Dow Jones Newswires' real-time news products, and also permits Inlumen to market Dow Jones' services.

The new agreement extends the Inlumen (formerly NewsAlert) and Dow Jones Newswires relationship, which began with a software developer agreement more than a decade ago. Now, Inlumen will not only be able to build custom solutions with Dow Jones news, but will be able to distribute more Dow Jones services directly to more customers. The agreement also allows Inlumen to market Dow Jones Newswires' products as part of Inlumen's customized solutions for a client's Web site or an integrated market data package.

"Dow Jones Newswires has had a great relationship with Inlumen for many years," said Jim Donoghue, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Dow Jones Newswires. "And we're excited that this agreement provides our customers with another way to access the news and information critical to their businesses."

"We are delighted to expand our relationship with Dow Jones Newswires," said Laurent Ohana, C.E.O., Inlumen, Inc. "We can now offer to the market rapidly deployable, cost-effective web-based solutions to receive Dow Jones Newswires content, with full customization, personalization and alerting functionality. We think its a win-win-win for customers, Dow Jones and Inlumen."

Customers utilizing Inlumen's services will be able to sign up for any of Dow Jones Newswires' real-time news and information services. The foremost source of news for over 400,000 investment professionals around the world, Dow Jones Newswires provides quick, accurate and in-depth coverage on everything that affects financial markets, with extensive coverage of company and industry news. Dow Jones Newswires' products are rounded out with exclusive columns, interviews with market leaders, and trend analysis.

About Dow Jones Newswires

Dow Jones Newswires provides real-time news for financial professionals in the equities, fixed-income, foreign exchange, and energy markets. The division also offers news for financial firms' Web sites. In addition to Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ; dj.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and SmartMoney magazines and other periodicals, Dow Jones Indexes, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Excite@Home of Work.com, and with NBC of the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.

About Inlumen

Inlumen, Inc. (http://www.inlumen.com) is the leading global provider of customized private-label technology, market data and content to web-enabled financial institutions and financial media companies. Through a powerful compilation of sophisticated end-user personalization, alert and real-time publishing & distribution technologies combined with the ability to easily integrate thousands of content and data sources, advanced filtering technology and live streaming news with customer owned & originated content - Inlumen's flexible hosted and data-stream (API) solutions allow our customers to seamlessly and cost effectively integrate our state-of-the-art technology and content into their services. Inlumen was formed in 1991 as News Alert, Inc. to provide real-time news and market data systems on Wall Street. Today, the company has a global client base with offices in New York, London, Singapore and Jerusalem. Inlumen can be reached at 1-888-669-6397 or http://www.inlumen.com.