Factiva Accelerates Searches and Downloads for BI News

Digital Island Inc, a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network, announces that Reuters Business Briefing from Factiva is using its content delivery service to provide subscribers with excellent performance when accessing business-critical news and information.

Using Digital Island's content delivery and GlobePort network services, Reuters Business Briefing, a premier business intelligence service from Factiva, enables subscribers to quickly search a deep archive of global business-critical news and information in 20 different languages. By locating content closer to end users, such as at their ISPs, Digital Island's eBusiness Delivery Network ensures faster and more reliable database searches and downloads of vital business information in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

"The Internet is fueling an insatiable demand for current and archival business intelligence," said Ruann F. Ernst, chairman and CEO of Digital Island. "Factiva appreciates that fast, reliable access plays a critical role in business decision-making, and Digital Island's content delivery service provides this guaranteed access worldwide."

"Getting quality, relevant information to our customers -- quickly -- is at the heart of what we do," said Clare Hart, president and CEO of Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters company. "Digital Island's global e-Business Delivery Network has significantly improved the online experience for Reuters Business Briefing subscribers as they search across a deep archive of key sources from around the world."

Factiva, a company owned jointly by Dow Jones & Company and The Reuters Group, offers Reuters Business Briefing, Dow Jones Interactive and a range of information integration solutions to corporations worldwide. Reuters Business Briefing and Dow Jones Interactive provide business professionals with critical global news and related in-depth business information. The business intelligence services offer current and historical information from essential publications covering key industries and general business news and issues, as well as articles from 4,000 Reuters and Dow Jones journalists around the world. Companies can obtain the most recent information on their competitors, and monitor developments and potential opportunities in the business marketplace. www.factiva.com.

Digital Island is a leading Global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience. Strategically located Data Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 25 countries. In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets. This network is expected to grow to more than 6,000 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net.

Contact Digital Island Alf Abuhajleh, 415-738-4555 alf@digitalisland.net.