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Thomson Financial Investor Relations and NetCurrents Announce Strategic Alliance

Companies to Jointly Develop, Market Internet Intelligence Products for IR Market

NEW YORK, June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Financial Investor Relations (TFIR), the world's leading provider of investor relations solutions and strategic advisory services, and NetCurrents Services Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NetCurrents Inc. (Nasdaq®: NTCS), the premier Internet intelligence agency, today announced an exclusive alliance to co-develop and market new Internet monitoring services for the investor relations market. Under the alliance, the companies will create customized information services that enable TFIR's clients to monitor and analyze what is being written about them, in real-time, on the Internet.

The service called AgencyFacts will be delivered exclusively via IR Universe, TFIR's web service, allowing subscribers to monitor and analyze specific real-time Internet perceptions about their corporation. This information will include: most talked about topics, online sentiment, most active posters, real-time percentage breakdown of volume on the most active message boards and will display the 10 most recent messages within minutes of posting.

``The Internet is often the medium of choice for expressing investor sentiment,'' said Howard Sherman, President of Thomson Financial Investor Relations. ``This alliance enables TFIR to continue our focus of providing timely solutions such as stock surveillance, First Call and now Agency Facts. We are uniquely positioned as the only IR firm with the ability to effectively analyze factors that impact shareholder valuation from both the institutional and retail perspectives. Shareholder value is no longer determined solely by the institutional market. By joining with NetCurrents, we can offer clients the Internet intelligence tools necessary to ensure they're aware of information that could impact shareholder value the minute it gets communicated or posted on thousands of Internet sites.''

Agency Facts is currently being offered as an integral part of TFIR's IR Universe platform. Both companies' national sales forces will share office space in several key cities and market the services to TFIR's 3,500 corporate clients. In addition to the co-branded service, TFIR will also sell NetCurrents' additional services including InvestorFacts, CyberFacts and CyberPerceptions.

``Through our alliance with Thomson, we're increasing our reach into the investor relations market,'' said Victor Holtorf, Chief Executive Officer of NetCurrents Services Corp. ``With integrated sales and marketing efforts, we anticipate a significant impact in our national market coverage.''

Headquartered on Wall Street in New York City, Thomson Financial Investor Relations (TFIR) is the leading provider of customized solutions and strategic investor relations advisory services to more than 3,500 companies in 45 countries. TFIR delivers a full suite of data, workplace tools and consulting services, including global shareholder IDs and institutional profiles, plus targeting, strategic consulting, cross-border communication, market surveillance and market intelligence services, to companies in all industries. IR Universe, a powerful web-based application, combines the functionality of Anamate, TFIR's proprietary database and contact management system, with First Call, the industry's gold standard for broker research, notes and earnings estimates. In addition to New York, the firm maintains offices in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Sao Paolo. TFIR's strategic partners include The Barnes Organization (Toronto), Nikko IR (Tokyo) and Technicom (Brazil), operating as Thomson Financial Investor Relations Brazil. For more information on TFIR, visit http://www.thomsonir.com.

Thomson Financial is a US$1.44 billion provider of e-information services and integrated work solutions to the worldwide financial community. Through the widest range of products and services in the industry, Thomson Financial helps clients in more than 70 countries make better decisions, be more productive and achieve superior results. Thomson Financial is part of The Thomson Corporation, a leading e-information and solutions business with annual revenues of more than US$5.8 billion. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto and London stock exchanges. For more information on Thomson Financial, visit http://www.thomsonfinancial.com.

NetCurrents Services Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of NetCurrents, Inc., The Premier Internet Intelligence Agency, analyzes communications from a universe of targeted Internet locations in real-time. The Company provides clients critical information and counsel to protect their corporate image, measure consumers' perceptions, and counter misinformation on the Internet. For more information on NetCurrents services visit http://www.netcurrents.com.

This news release contains forward-looking statement within the meaning of Section 37A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ from those indicated in the forward-looking statements, including the both Company's ability to continue to successfully market AgencyFacts, continuation of the strategic alliance with Thomson Financial Investor Relations, general economic conditions and other risks that are discussed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-KSB). The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise the forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.


SOURCE Thomson Financial Investor Relations and NetCurrents Services


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