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TRAC news: NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 1999--Track Data Corporation (Nasdaq NMS:TRAC - news) announced today that it signed an agreement with Fortune Brands, Inc. to provide myTrack's Internet-based NewsWatch news search and filtering system to individual user desktops at Fortune. NewsWatch is an Internet-based service that offers complete end-to-end real-time, full-text, news filtering, and information retrieval systems. It provides access to the premier newswires, databases, and market information. Innovative, yet easy easy-to-use, searching capabilities allow for the filtering of information using any criteria, from simple terms to the most intricate inquiries. Through the utilization of alerts, banners, queries and topics, our customers focus on the information that affects their decision-making. The user can position exclusive alert windows and screens on the monitor while viewing other applications simultaneously. For more information, e-mail newswatch@tdc.com. Barry Hertz, Chairman of Track Data, said, ''We are pleased to provide our services to a large company like Fortune Brands. Our news filters and search engine provides companies with need to know information in a highly customized format for the individual desktop.'' Fortune Brands, Inc. is a consumer products company with annual sales exceeding $5 billion. Its operating companies have premier brands and leading market positions in home and office products, golf equipment and spirits and wine. Home brands include Moen faucets, Master locks and Aristokraft and Schrock cabinets sold by units of MasterBrand Industries. Office brands include Day-Timer, Swingline and Wilson Jones sold by units of ACCO World Corporation. Acushnet Company's golf brands include Titleist, Cobra and FootJoy. Major spirits and wine brands sold by units of Jim Beam Brands Worldwide, Inc. include Jim Beam and Knob Creek bourbons, DeKuyper cordials, Whyte & Mackay Scotch and Geyser Peak and Canyon Road wines. Currently headquartered in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, the company is relocating its corporate headquarters to Lincolnshire, Illinois by year-end. Track Data provides real-time financial market data, news, fundamental research, charting and analytical services to institutional and individual investors through dedicated telecommunication lines and the Internet. The Company also offers online trading through its myTrack Internet-based personal investment service. myTrack is an Internet-based software application that is not restricted by the limitations of an HTML website-based static system offered by virtually all of its well-known competitors such as E*Trade (Nasdaq:EGRP - news), Schwab (NYSE:SCH - news) and Ameritrade (Nasdaq:AMTD - news). myTrack delivers a continuous dynamic stream of live market data and investors' online trading activity. The system is always connected and is an order of magnitude faster than competing website-based systems. Download myTrack software or open a trading account at mytrack.com or call 800/myTrack. For information about myTrack's SDK, go to mytrack.com . Additional information may be obtained by contacting Laurel Louison, Investor Relations, at 718/522-7373 or by e-mail: laurel_louison@tdc.com. Contact: Track Data Corporation, New York Laurel Louison, Investor Relations, 718/522-7373 laurel_louison@tdc.com.