Multex.com Added to DBC's InSite

The Institutional Market Information Division of Data Broadcasting Corporation announced that Multex.com Inc, a leading Internet financial emarketplace connecting buyers and sellers of financial services, has been added to DBC's InSite product.

InSite users now have access to real-time and embargoed premium research from one of the fastest growing and most comprehensive online databases of financial research.

Registered InSite users can also seamlessly access brokerage and other third party research, in addition to important financial information from Multex.com.

InSite users are able to take advantage of various financial services through MultexNET, the leading online research tool targeted to institutional investors. MultexNET is a subscription-based, real-time, online service that provides financial information from more than 700 firms to more than 10,000 buy side firms and more than 30,000 subscribers. Over 20,000 new reports are added each week by more than 700 of the world's leading brokerage firms, investment banks and independent research providers. Commingled real-time equity research and morning notes are instantly available to qualified institutional investors and corporations.

"Multex.com is a leading Internet Website connecting buyers and sellers of financial services. With its leadership in providing services to the institutional and retail brokerage marketplace, as well as its considerable databases of quality investment information from more than 700 firms like J.P. Morgan, Merrill Lynch and Salomon Smith Barney, Multex.com is an ideal partner for InSite. This latest enhancement further develops the InSite product, bringing it to a higher level for the active professional investors who require and demand access to every piece of information available. We will continue to improve InSite, both through additional content and greater functionality, and are committed to maintaining the product as the most flexible and easy-to-use institutional and retail broker market data system," said Jeffrey Davis, president of the InSite Group.

InSite uses Active-Push technology over the Internet to continuously update market information on the user's workstation. DBC acquires its financial information directly from the exchanges and delivers it to customers via the high-speed Internet. Newly installed Compaq Alpha Servers support this reliable and speedy infrastructure. DBC has installed several redundant and geographically separate high-speed server farms in order to ensure the industry-leading reliability that customers count on and to handle the enormous increases in exchange data expected over the next two years.

About Data Broadcasting

Data Broadcasting Corporation is a leading global provider of financial and business information to institutional and individual investors. The company supplies time-sensitive pricing, dividend, corporate action and descriptive information for more than 3.5 million securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value unlisted fixed income instruments. At the core of the business are its extensive database expertise and technology resources.

DBC delivers real-time, end-of-day and historically archived data to customers through a variety of products featuring Internet, dedicated line, satellite and dial-up delivery protocols. Through a broad range of partnerships and alliances, the company provides links to most of the world's best-known financial service and software companies for trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation.

DBC, with approximately 1,700 employees, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, and has more than 20 offices in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, including the world's key financial centers of New York, London and Tokyo.

The company is approximately 60 percent-owned by Pearson plc, an international media company with four main businesses: Pearson Education is one of the world's premier educational publishers; the Penguin Group is the world's most renowned English-language publisher; Pearson Television is one of the world's leading independent international television producers; and the Financial Times Group is the premier source of global news, comment and analysis.

About Multex.com Inc

Multex.com Inc www.multex.com is the Internet's leading financial e-marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of financial services. Multex.com is a global company that provides information and commerce enabling technology and infrastructure, application services, Web hosting and online community services to the major financial marketplace participants: brokerage firms, investment banks, corporations, and individual and institutional investors. The company focuses on three core business areas: Business-to-Business (B2B), which provides real-time, Web-based financial applications and information to institutional investors and other financial institutions; Application Service Provider (ASP), which develops, hosts and operates Websites and portals for financial institutions, enabling them to connect to their clients; and Business-to-Consumer (B2C), which provides financial applications and information to individual investors through a network of branded and affiliate Websites.

Multex.com serves this fast-growing and diverse marketplace through a number of industry leading brands, including: MultexNET, a subscription/transaction based, real-time, online service providing financial information from more than 700 firms such as Merrill Lynch, Salomon Smith Barney and Robertson Stephens to more than 10,000 buyside firms and more than 30,000 subscribers; MultexEXPRESS,SM a Web-development and hosting business with more than 80 sites serving more than 1.5 million users; BuzzPower, industry leading e-community software; and Multex Investor,SM Sage Online and Market Guide, Multex.com's individual investor sites, which serve more than 1.5 million registered users. Multex.com has more than 500 information and distribution partners including: Reuters, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, AOL, Yahoo!, Quicken.com, CBS MarketWatch and CNNfn.com.