NewsEdge Corporation Announces Executives and Product Lineup To Extend Market Leadership.

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 1998--

Seven named to post-merger leadership positions; four new product

lines span market needs for news, current awareness

NewsEdge Corporation (Nasdaq: NEWZ), the newly formed leader in global news and current awareness solutions for business, today introduced its management leadership and a comprehensive suite of products designed to set the standard for business news.

The move follows yesterday's consummation of the merger between Desktop Data, Inc. and Individual, Inc., the top two independent providers of real-time and personalized news s, VP of development; Ed Siegfried, vice presidenerger period, this indust ry-experienced team focused on key strategic initiatives, one of which was the desigber of this new organization--over 4 00 engineeride solutions for business people who need the rmation sources from over 120 of the world's leading publishers daily to more than 950,000 paid, registered, or authorized users. Current Awareness is one of the hottest segments of the Intranet/Internet information services industry, grourrent awareness and spans the entire range of products and services demanded by the business marketplace, including offerings for the single user or the enterprise, the financial institution or the corporation, the news-centric user or the knowledge worker.

New Product Suite Addressing The Spectrum Of Business People

The NewsEdge suite of products is composed of four major offerings, NewsEdge Live, NewsEdge Insight, NewsEdge NewsPage and NewsEdge NewsTools. The vers up-to-the second, real-time news via enterprise LAN/WANs and Intranets to users who actively monitor news during the day, responding to or transacting upon individual news stories as they happen. Traders, financial analysts, media reare editorially oriented and deliver focussed and timely industry and company news from a broad set of high quality sources compiled into a value-added presentation for the knowledge worker delivered via the Internet or Intranet. Marketinzation, comprehensive coverage, tar geted relevancy, an d business content links. With 650,000 subscribers, the service has established itself as the premier business-to-bu"place, not push" relevant news inside mission criti cal applications as an integral and context-sensitive addition to other internal and external information. The product line includes the revolutionary, award-winning (1997 Internet Product of the Year, Information World Review), components-based NewsObjects(TM) that enable fully customizable plug-and-play integration of news profiling and searching into third-party applications.

Leading the Industry in Technology, Editorial Enhancement and Service

To support the current and future product line initiatives, NewsEdge Corporation development and news operations teams, under the direction of John Moss and Michael Welles, have begun work on an underlying information management and delivery architecture designed to consolidate the back-end processing of information feeds and to provide next-generation editorial refinement, administrative control and user functionality. For customer direction to this initiative, NewsEdge Product Design Councils will be formed and announced in the Spring. Additionally, under the direction of Cliff Pollan, the sales, marketing, and customer services groups will launch and expand prograbusiness. The company's mission is to make newsng offerings.

Formed in February, 1998, by the merger of Desktop Data, Individual, and ADP/ISS, NewsEdgits users find the most important, relevant stopassWare Development, CSK Software, DataChannel, Digital Knowledge Assets LLC, Lotus, Microsoft, Midas-Kapitive developments, the success of relationships with third parties, and other risk factors described from time to time in the Company's SEC reports.

CONTACT: NewsEdge Corporation

Bill Peyton, 781/313-5261

[e-mail]

OR

Mullen Public Relations 

Erika Schutz, 978/468-1155

[e-mail]