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

ROME & NEW YORK (BusinessWire EON) June 25, 2007 -- 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.

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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.