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To: Sheri Kohn who wrote (43025)	5/20/1999 9:09:00 AM
From: Angela B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90042

NewsEdge Works with Microsoft to Bring the Latest Business News to the Desktop Bill Gates Demonstrates News-Enabled Microsoft Exchange Server at Microsoft CEO Summit BURLINGTON, Mass., May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Online news leader NewsEdge Corporation (Nasdaq: NEWZ - news) today announced that it has been working with Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) on a project to news-enable Microsoft Exchange Server, delivering the latest news directly into the applications knowledge workers use most in their every-day business lives. The integration of real-time news into Exchange Server was demonstrated by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates Wednesday morning at Microsoft's CEO Summit in Redmond, Wash. Using NewsEdge NewsTools(TM) -- NewsEdge's object-oriented toolkit -- NewsEdge and Microsoft have collaborated to news-enable Exchange Server and its desktop client, Microsoft Outlook. News from NewsEdge is delivered into folders based on user-specified topics and key words and can then be viewed through Microsoft Outlook, bringing the value of the latest news straight to knowledge workers who need it most. ''It's an ideal example of how the latest news can be integrated into the very applications where business people spend most of their time,'' said NewsEdge Corporation President and COO Cliff Pollan. ''Giving people the most current business news, tailored carefully to their needs and convenient to their working patterns, can make them more efficient, more informed and more competitive. The latest news becomes a crucial part of an organization's knowledge asset base.'' ''News-enabling Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange Server in this way is a great example of our vision of the knowledge worker without limits. Managing information should not be a specialized function in the corporate library. It should be easily accessible to every knowledge worker so that they can make smarter, quicker business decisions,'' said Stan Julien, group manager of knowledge management solutions for Application Developers Customer Unit at Microsoft. ''NewsEdge's real-time news for Exchange Server will ultimately make a great many people more productive and competitive in business.'' About NewsEdge Corporation NewsEdge Corporation is a leader in global news and current awareness solutions for business. The Company's mission is to make news valuable for business. NewsEdge provides customers with a powerful combination of customized, authoritative content; cutting-edge technology; editorial, value-added capabilities; and unparalleled client support and consulting services. NewsEdge's Enterprise unit serves approximately 625,000 users at over 1,325 organizations -- including 81 of Business Week's 100 largest global companies (based on market capitalization). Through its Internet business unit, NewsPage.com, the Company also provides business news and information services to more than 925,000 registered independent users over the Internet. For both enterprises and single workers, NewsEdge helps business people find the most important, relevant stories from an overwhelming volume of daily news and enables them to act on the most current information possible. NewsEdge is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with sales offices and distributors throughout North America, South America, Europe, Japan and the Middle East. For more information about NewsEdge Corporation, visit the company's Web site at newsedge.com . Certain of the above statements on the Company's future revenue and financial performance, are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially as a result of a variety of factors, including, risks associated with acquisitions, the timely development and acceptance of new products, competitive developments, the success of relationships with third parties, and other risk factors described from time to time in the Company's SEC reports. SOURCE: NewsEdge Corporation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More