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RELEGENCE TO DISTRIBUTE REAL-TIME DOW JONES NEWS BASED ON INDIVIDUAL RELEVANCE CRITERIA

Dow Jones' Leading Financial News to Be Distributed Through KnowledgeHub, Relegence's Intelligence Automation Platform



NEW YORK - (September 17, 2002) - The Relegence Corporation, a leading provider of real-time news analysis systems to the financial markets, announced today a global distribution agreement with Dow Jones Newswires, a premier provider of financial news worldwide.

The agreement grants Relegence the right to distribute a full range of Dow Jones' news packages, which include the market-leading Dow Jones News Service, the first Dow Jones product available via Relegence's platform. Relegence customers will now be able to make better investment decisions by analyzing Dow Jones News Service in real-time and by receiving highly targeted news stories according to their specifications. Users will subscribe directly from Dow Jones Newswires.

Securities sales professionals, traders, institutional investors and money managers use Relegence's intelligence automation platform, KnowledgeHub, to monitor the world of news and information and to deliver only the information most relevant to their interests in real-time. Using the Relegence DashBar, users are able to view similar stories together, eliminating the need to read duplicate stories from different sources, and to automatically summarize any story into a concise, four-bullet-point format, saving valuable decision-making time.

"Relegence is excited to add Dow Jones Newswires, one of the world's leading financial news organizations, to our extensive list of news sources," said Jim Kwiatkowski, Senior Vice President of Relegence. "Using our proprietary filtering and analysis capabilities, Relegence services deliver relevant news and information to any user the moment it is published. Applying our unique capabilities to Dow Jones news has been a consistent request among financial professionals."

"We are pleased to offer financial professionals access to fast, trustworthy Dow Jones news via the Relegence product suite," said Jim Donoghue, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Dow Jones Newswires. "Relegence users will find Dow Jones News Service an essential tool for trading and investment actions."

Dow Jones News Service, used by more North American market professionals than any other source, provides quick, in-depth coverage on everything that affects the stock markets. Subscribers receive company and industry news, economic and political events, and updates on all major financial markets, as well as exclusive columns, interviews with market leaders and analysis of trends.

About Relegence
Financial markets professionals rely on Relegence (www.relegence.com) to monitor thousands of sources of news and information - both inside and outside their organization - and to deliver only what is relevant immediately upon publication. Relegence acquires information from 20,000 sources, including global newswires, regulatory feeds, television broadcasts, news and corporate web sites, bulletin boards, discussion groups and internal sources. Innovative features such as Heat Factors, Relevancy scoring/filtering, automatic Summarization and Clustering of related stories enable financial professionals to cut through information overload and instantly acquire actionable intelligence. The Relegence Dashboard and Relegence DashBar are accessible over the internet via a standard browser or through Relegence provided applications.

About Dow Jones
Dow Jones Newswires (www.djnewswires.com) provides real-time news for financial professionals in the equities, fixed-income, foreign exchange, and energy markets. The division also offers news for financial firms' Web sites and Dow Jones Newsletters' sector-specific content. In addition to Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ; dj.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's and the Far Eastern Economic Review, Dow Jones Indexes and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, with Hearst of SmartMoney and with NBC of the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.