Work.com (www.work.com) is a new company formed through a partnership between Excite@Home, Dow Jones & Company and Work.com chairman and CEO, Don Hutchison. Our mission is to empower people to be more effective in all aspects of their business life. Through Work.com, business people can stay current with customized news, identify strategic partners and service vendors, and find solutions to their critical business challenges.

In June of 1999, Dow Jones launched dowjones.com as a vertical portal for small business users. In September of that same year, @Work, Excite@Home's commercial division launched Work.com as the Business Channel on excite.com. In February 2000, the two companies announced a joint venture partnership to spin-off Work.com as a separate company.

Work.com will build on the unmatched editorial excellence of Dow Jones and the proven reach of Excite to deliver an unparalleled, customized experience for business people offering a broad range of business information and applications and industry-specific news and services to help make their business lives more successful.

As the e-business revolution begins to reshape companies and industries, the real driver will be the individual businessperson utilizing the Internet to make their business more successful. For these people, Work.com will deliver a broad-range of easy-to-use, personalized applications and services to help them:

• Make better-informed business decisions
• More effectively communicate and collaborate with their business associates
• Better organize and execute their daily business tasks
• Reach new customers and generate sales
• Automate their financial and operational activities

Based in Redwood City, with offices in New York, Work.com is funded by Excite@Home, Dow Jones & Company and Work.com chairman and CEO, Don Hutchison.