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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Dow Jones Announces Distribution Agreement with InfoNgen

Dow Jones Announces Distribution Agreement with InfoNgen

Dow Jones Content to Enrich InfoNgen Service for Financial Professionals

NEW YORK, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ) today announced a global agreement with InfoNgen to distribute Dow Jones news via InfoNgen's powerful platform that automatically monitors and adds tags to content from more than 15,000 sources. Under the terms of the agreement, InfoNgen customers will be able to search and access Dow Jones real-time market-moving news and information via their Web, desktop and data feed solutions.

"We are pleased to add Dow Jones to our catalog of content," said John Mahoney, CTO and co-founder, InfoNgen. "Dow Jones's news, combined with our sophisticated real-time content discovery capabilities, will help clients stay abreast of information critical to their business."

InfoNgen's proprietary Discovery Engine organizes and filters financial content to match users' needs and extracts valuable information from tens of thousands of online sources. InfoNgen automatically adds financial-specific tags and topics to all inbound content, including mainstream news sites, local and foreign language media, blogs and regulatory sites. By customizing the filters, users receive real-time alerts with finely focused information that's relevant to them.

"Financial professionals look to Dow Jones's coverage of economic, financial and political news to find insight on the markets," said Tom Waite, vice president of partners and alliances of the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. "With more than 12,000 items published daily, Dow Jones looks forward to working with InfoNgen to ensure that users get the specific breaking news and analysis that affects their markets and investments."

Dow Jones Newswires journalists produce award-winning content that includes market-moving corporate, economic, market, financial and political news. Reporting from nearly 90 bureaus across the globe, Dow Jones publishes up to 12,000 items each day, in 11 languages, covering all asset classes. Dow Jones's products are used by more than 435,000 financial professionals in 66 countries, helping its customers build relationships, create market opportunities and enhance trust in their services. With this agreement, InfoNgen joins more than 150 distributors of Dow Jones news worldwide.

   To learn more about Dow Jones Newswires, visit www.djnewswires.com.    About Dow Jones & Company  

Dow Jones & Company (NYSE: DJ; dowjones.com) is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones is co-owner with Hearst of SmartMoney. Dow Jones provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.

About InfoNgen

InfoNgen (www.infongen.com) is owned by Instant Information, Inc., which was founded in 2004 by Isaak Karaev and John Mahoney to provide information management and collaboration solutions to the financial industry. The privately-owned company is funded by Standard & Poor's, Reuters, and several private equity firms including Union Square Ventures.

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Source: Dow Jones & Company

CONTACT: Deborah McCandless of Walek & Associates, +1-212-590-0523,
dmccandless@walek.com, for Dow Jones

Web site: http://www.dowjones.com/
http://www.infongen.com/
http://www.djnewswires.com/


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