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Business Wire Bolsters Italian Presence by Entering into a Reciprocal Relationship with ANSA, Italy's Leading News Service



    Business Wire further strengthened its expansive European news
    distribution network today by announcing a reciprocal relationship
    with ANSA, Italy's largest and most prestigious news service.

    Under the agreement, Business Wire's full-text news releases will
    be transmitted to ANSA subscribers, which includes media, government,
    corporate and others. ANSA has some 1,400 subscribers worldwide.

    Business Wire's content also will be posted on a dedicated section
    of www.ansa.it, Italy's third largest real-time information portal.
    ANSA's website generated more than a half-billion page views in 2006,
    attracting millions of demographically desirable unique visitors each
    month.

    ANSA is among the largest news agencies worldwide, with nearly
    1,000 employees working in more than 100 bureaus worldwide in 74
    countries. The agency's multimedia file includes some 2,000 daily news
    items transmitted in Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.

    ANSA also will serve as Business Wire's commercial representative
    in Italy. ANSA's sales team will proactively market Business Wire's
    global media and investor relations networks to Italian corporates,
    and other potential clients. Italy is the fourth largest economy in
    the European Union.

    "We are proud to be aligned with ANSA, which is widely regarded as
    the authoritative voice of Italy," said Cathy Baron Tamraz, Business
    Wire's president and chief executive officer. "ANSA buttresses our
    already powerful and robust European news distribution platform,
    clearly the class of the industry."

    ANSA joins more than a dozen other major European news agencies
    that have opened their networks to Business Wire. In addition to
    Europe's leading national news services, Business Wire is the only
    commercial newswire that distributes via the respected European
    regional networks of Agence France-Presse and Associated Press.

    About Business Wire

    Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is utilized by
    thousands of member companies and organizations to transmit their
    full-text news releases, regulatory filings, photos and other
    multimedia content to journalists, news media, trade publications,
    institutional and individual investors, financial
    information services, regulatory authorities, Internet portals,
    information web sites, business-to-business decision-makers and
    consumers worldwide. With a news distribution network spanning 150
    countries and 45 languages, Business Wire's multi-channel delivery
    network has access to some 60 international and national news agency
    networks throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and
    Africa.

    The Business Wire news network is powered by its patented
    NX high-speed data platform and supports XML, XHTML and XBRL code to
    deliver the most sophisticated news file to enhance news release
    interactivity, customization and search engine optimization. Business
    Wire has 30 bureaus in cities including New York, San Francisco, Los
    Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Paris, Frankfurt, London, Brussels,
    Tokyo and Sydney with reciprocal offices throughout the world.
    Business Wire was founded in 1961 by Chairman Lorry I. Lokey, veteran
    journalist and public relations executive. Cathy Baron Tamraz is
    president and CEO.