More Powerful IPO Express Service Introduced by EDGAR Online; Expanded Tools for Financial Professionals and Investors

Business Wire, Feb 8, 2000

     Business &Technology Editors

     NORWALK, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 2000--EDGAR Online, Inc.
(NASDAQ: EDGR) today introduced a new version of the company's IPO
Express service (http://www.ipo-express.com), a resource for breaking
IPO news, IPO calendars and in-depth searching of the company's vast
database of 3,400  IPO companies and 1,500  underwriters. The new IPO
Express gives investors and other IPO stakeholders easier and faster
access to more information about past, present and future IPOs. IPO
Express offers a one-stop service with dynamic live updates.
     Some useful features of IPO Express include:

     -    IPO Headlines - breaking news on the IPO market with updates
          throughout the day.

     -    IPO SuperSearch - in addition to the normal IPO Express
          search facility, &uot;Supersearch&uot; facilitates thorough
          searching of past, current and upcoming IPOs by additional
          criteria including executive officers, auditors, legal
          counsel, and principal shareholders.

     -    Lockup and Quiet Period Expiration Dates - comprehensive
          lockup and quiet period dates to follow post-IPO
          performance.

     -    Company Profiles - detailed data on each IPO company
          including offering details, management bios, shareholder
          listings and underwriter detail.

     -    Underwriter Database - data by underwriter on IPOs in
          registration, public, withdrawn and postponed.

     -    International IPOs -incorporates data on IPOs in countries
          from Argentina to Venezuela.

     -    IPO Performance - indexes the change in stock price of IPOs
          over time periods from 30 days to 1 year.

     &uot;IPO Express allows us to deliver an unparalleled IPO resource
with its depth and breadth of IPO information,&uot; said Susan Strausberg,
CEO of EDGAR Online. &uot;Investors can use the search capabilities of IPO
Express to get complete information on every detail of an IPO from
management team to legal counsel. With our expanded, easier to use
service, IPO Express becomes a must-have resource for every
stakeholder in the IPO marketplace.&uot;
     For a free trial of the IPO Express email alert service, go to
http://www.ipo-express.com and enter your email address.

     About EDGAR Online, Inc.

     EDGAR Online, Inc. (http://www.edgar-online.com and
http://www.freeedgar.com and http://www.ipo-express.com) is a
Web-based provider of business, financial and competitive information
derived from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission data. Additional
services include value-added functions like IPO Express, a service
that provides easy-to-use, detailed information on IPO filings,
pricings and performance, EDGAR OnlinePeople
(http://www.edgar-online.com/people), a service that allows users to
conduct research on corporate executive and directors, and EDGAR
Online Personal , which provides real-time Web and email based
alerting, and other personalized advanced searches of SEC data.
     Based in Norwalk, Connecticut, with offices in Kirkland,
Washington and New York City, EDGAR Online, Inc. has strategic
relationships with portal, business and financial information Web
sites and other data providers including Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY),
Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS), Infoseek's GO
Network (Nasdaq: SEEK), Standard &Poor's (NYSE: MHP), CNET's SNAP
(Nasdaq: CNET), Alta Vista, a CMGI Company (Nasdaq: CMGI), PointCast,
Infospace (Nasdaq: INSP), CBS MarketWatch (Nasdaq: MKTW),
SmartMoney.com (NYSE: DJ), CMPnet's TechInvestor, Hoover's (Nasdaq:
HOOV), Quote.com, Business Wire, Track Data (Nasdaq: TRAC), MSNBC
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and NBC/General Electric (NYSE: GE) Big
Charts. For more information, please visit the Company's Web site at
http://www.edgar-online.com/news.

     Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:

     &uot;Forward-looking statements&uot; as defined in the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995 may be included in this news release.
These statements relate to future events or our future financial
performance. These statements are only predictions and may differ
materially from actual future events or results. EDGAR Online, Inc.
disclaims any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking
statements whether as a result of new information, future developments
or otherwise. Please refer to the documents filed by EDGAR Online,
Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which identify
important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from
those contained in forward-looking statements, including, but not
limited to risks associated with changes in general economic and
business conditions (including in the online business and financial
information industry), actions of our competitors, the extent to which
we are able to develop new services and markets for our services, the
time and expense involved in such development activities, the level of
demand and market acceptance of our services and changes in our
business strategies.

     --30--et/ny*

     CONTACT:  Sarah Clark/ Elisa Magendantz
               Middleberg   Associates
               212.888.6610/978.371.8933
               sarah@middleberg.com
               elisa@middleberg.com
               -or-
               Jay Sears
               Senior Vice President,
               Business &Strategy Development
               203.852.5666
               sears@edgar-online.com

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