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To: StockMarketMaven who wrote (2823)12/20/1999 11:55:00 AM
From: Rick Hudson   of 3198
 
YES!!!!!
From the last press release:
100 shares TSQD = 17.59 shares DRIV +
in the liquidating trust 100 shares of TSQD = 1.18 shares of DRIV
so the total is up to a possible 18.77 shares of DRIV for each 100
shares of TSQD

Thank you Joel - it has been a long wait for me over 18 months for
this this to happen.
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Monday December 20, 10:43 am Eastern Time

Company Press Release

SOURCE: Tech Squared Inc.

Tech Squared Completes Reorganization With Digital River

Company Begins Shareholder Distribution of Digital River Stock
Holdings,
Removes Tech Squared Shares From OTC Bulletin Board

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech Squared Inc.
(OTC Bulletin Board: TSQD - news) announced today that it
has completed the sale of substantially all of its operating assets to
Virtual Technology Corporation, d/b/a Netdirect
Corporation International(TM) (OTC Bulletin Board: VTCO -
news; Netdirect), for a cash purchase price of approximately
$3,300,000. The sale includes Tech Squared's DTP Direct, Net
Direct and distribution operations, along with various trade
and Internet domain names.

Tech Squared also completed its tax-free reorganization with
Digital River, Inc. (Nasdaq: DRIV - news) pursuant to a
previously-announced acquisition agreement. In the reorganization,
Digital River received 3,000,000 shares of its own
common stock which had been held by Tech Squared plus
$1,200,000 in cash from Tech Squared and, in exchange, issued
2,650,000 shares of Digital River common stock to Tech Squared.

Closing of the reorganization included the establishment a
liquidating trust to satisfy known or contingent liabilities of Tech
Squared and the deposit, by Tech Squared, into the liquidating trust
of assets adequate to satisfy known and contingent
liabilities. As part of the reorganization, Tech Squared deposited
all of its remaining cash, notes and other assets into the
liquidating trust together with 167,681 of the shares of Digital
River common stock issued to it today.

The remaining 2,482,319 newly-issued shares of Digital River
common stock are being distributed to Tech Squared
shareholders on a pro-rata basis. Tech Squared shareholders will
receive 17.59 shares of Digital River common stock for
each 100 shares of Tech Squared common stock held in this initial
distribution. The number of Digital River shares will be
rounded to the nearest whole number. No payments will be made
for fractional shares. Tech Squared shareholders should
expect to receive a letter of transmittal in the next several days
setting forth the procedures for exchanging their share
certificates and related to certificates which have been lost or
damaged.

Tech Squared shareholders will also receive one interest in the
liquidating trust for each share of Tech Squared common
stock held. Each 100 trust units will initially represent beneficial
ownership of 1.18 Digital River shares in the trust. The
trust agreement states that any Digital River shares or other assets
remaining after all liabilities, including contingent
liabilities, are satisfied shall be distributed to Tech Squared
shareholders pro rata. Principal contingent liabilities include
pending lawsuits by a former executive officer and by a
shareholder who challenged the reorganization with Digital River.
The lawsuits are described in the Proxy Statement-Prospectus
mailed to all Tech Squared shareholders in connection with
the meeting of shareholders to approve the liquidation of Tech
Squared.

Interests in the liquidating trust are not transferable except by will
or by operation of law and except that interests in the
liquidating trust may be transferred from broker-dealers and other
holders of record to the beneficial holders of such
interests. Holders of interests in the liquidating trust will be sent
annual reports showing any taxable income attributable to
such holders.

Tech Squared's common stock has been removed from the OTC
Bulletin Board effective as of the close of business Dec. 17,
1999. Tech Squared will be formally dissolved and will cease to
exist in the very near future.

Chuck Reese, president and chief executive officer of Tech
Squared, said, ''We are pleased that our shareholders now have a
more effective means to realize the benefit of their investment by
becoming direct owners of Digital River common stock. If
the pending lawsuits are resolved in favor of Tech Squared, which
we are confident will happen, our shareholders will
receive an additional distribution from the liquidating trust.''

Netdirect is a Minneapolis-based e-commerce company
specializing in the sale of high-performance computer hardware,
software and peripheral products.

Prior to the sale to Netdirect, Minneapolis-based Tech Squared
was a national marketer and distributor of mid- to high-end
microcomputer hardware, software and peripherals primarily to
businesses in the desktop publishing, graphic arts and
pre-press industries, as well as an emerging customer base of
Internet and intranet site developers.

Except for historical financial information, the information
contained in this release is forward-looking and subject to certain
risks as described in Tech Squared's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including the proxy
statement-prospectus filed jointly with Digital River, Tech
Squared's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended Dec.
31, 1998, as amended on November 2, 1999, and Tech Squared's
quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended
March 31, 1999, June 30, 1999 and September 30, 1999. Actual
results may differ significantly based on such risks.
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