MSNBC.com and RedHerring.com Form Content Distribution Agreement.Business Editors & High Tech Writers REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2001 MSNBC.com, (www.msnbc.com) the number one Internet news site and RedHerring.com (www.redherring.com) the leading provider of technology business information and analysis, have entered into a content distribution agreement. The agreement allows MSNBC.com to increase the scope of its technology coverage by incorporating daily RedHerring.com content into the technology business area of MSNBC MSNBC Microsoft/National Broadcasting Company .com's business section. RedHerring.com will be the premier provider of news and analysis for the technology news category. RedHerring.com joins The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Motley Fool, Inside.com, Inc.com and ZDNet as specialty news suppliers for the MSNBC.com Business section. "MSNBC.com continues to evolve by adding new content to the technology business section," said Merrill Brown, editor in chief of MSNBC.com. "RedHerring.com's insightful analysis will keep our users `in the know' and give them an insider position while making MSNBC.com the most personalized news site on the Internet." Each day MSNBC.com will post original RedHerring.com news, data and analysis targeted to leaders of technology-driven companies. MSNBC.com will also provide links to RedHerring.com, where visitors can take advantage of the full range of personalized features and services found on the site. "We are delighted to be the premier provider of business technology news on MSNBC.com's business channel," said Jeff Cain, RedHerring.com's vice president of business development. "Not only do we reach a new spectrum of business technology professionals through the number one Internet news site, our daily insights keep them informed on business, technology and innovations that are changing the way they do business." RedHerring.com's award-winning Web site generates more than 10 million page views per month and serves 14 e-mail newsletters to 1.6 million subscribers. ABOUT REDHERRING.COM To business leaders and investors, RedHerring.com provides daily news, data, and analysis on people, ideas, and investments that are shaping today's economy. With unmatched depth and insight, RedHerring.com content and features enable them to quickly conduct research, to follow the money and anticipate trends, to identify and understand relationships and to make smarter strategic business and personal investing decisions. ABOUT RED HERRING Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: COMMUNICATIONS Red Herring is an integrated media company that provides strategic technology business information to the leaders of technology driven businesses. Founded in 1993 to create and publish a national magazine, the company has evolved into the leading source of insider perspective on technology and business. Today, Red Herring Communications produces, distributes and broadcasts its unique blend of news, commentary and analysis online, in print and through events. These media venues provide coverage of technology business news and events that is opinionated o·pin·ion·at·ed adj. Holding stubbornly and often unreasonably to one's own opinions. [Probably from obsolete opinionate : opinion + -ate1. , predictive and actable. Red Herring Communications is privately held and is based in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . ABOUT MSNBC.COM MSNBC.com is the number one news site based on audience data tracked by the Internet measurement service Media Metrix(TM). As the leader in breaking news and original journalism on the Internet, MSNBC.com additionally delivers the best of NBC News NBC News (along with NBC News + HD) is the news division of American television network NBC, a part of NBC Universal, which is majority-owned by General Electric. Its current president is Steve Capus. 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