BusinessWeek and Capital IQ Partner to Launch the Global 'Company Insight Center'

BusinessWeek and Capital IQ Partner to Launch the Global 'Company Insight Center'

May 10, 2007

Unparalleled free global offering of professional-grade
business and financial information on the Internet

    NEW YORK and LONDON, May 10 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
BusinessWeek and Capital IQ, a division of Standard &
Poor's, have joined forces to launch the Company Insight
Center (CIC), one of the most comprehensive free business
and financial information resources on the Internet.  The
CIC combines BusinessWeek's influential and award-winning
editorial content with Capital IQ's global research to
provide deep perspectives on companies, industries, and
personalities to a worldwide audience.  BusinessWeek and
Capital IQ are both market-leading brands of The
McGraw-Hill Companies, a leading global information
services provider.

    The CIC will nearly triple the size of BusinessWeek's
Web site and is free-of-charge.  The exciting new offering
will bring Wall Street to Main Street by providing
professional-grade business and financial information to a
mass audience in a user-friendly manner. The CIC will
enable individual investors, researchers, students,
managers and other business professionals to access Capital
IQ's global coverage of companies, markets, and people. The
CIC can be found at: http://investing.businessweek.com

    Highlights of the Company Insight Center:

    -- Deep Global Private and Public Company Coverage:
Includes detailed 
       information on more than 42,000 active public
companies and 322,000 
       significant private companies as well as over a
million executives and 
       board directors who run these companies. Moreover,
the CIC provides 
       data on thousands of M&A/financing transactions
as well as 
       perspectives on all industry sectors.  
    -- Extensive Coverage of International Stocks:  The CIC
offers market 
       data from more than 50 of the world's largest stock
exchanges. Users 
       can easily track how companies trade on multiple
exchanges around the 
       world, and can access that information around the
clock. 
    -- Beyond the Numbers: CIC presents information and
news in the context 
       of peers, competitors, and industry. Each page
highlights what is most 
       relevant and meaningful, providing an
easy-to-understand framework for 
       even the layperson to research and assess companies.

    -- Degrees of Separation: See how executives are
connected and how they 
       intersect across the public, private, and nonprofit
sectors. 
    -- Transparency of Corporate Boards: View detailed
information on every 
       member of a company's board of directors as well as
who sits on each 
       committee and what role they perform.  The
information will allow 
       users to spot any irregularities or conflicts of
interests.
    -- BW Beat the Street: Compare the wisdom of crowds
versus Wall Street 
       analysts' ability to forecast company performance.
CIC allows users to 
       vote and tell the market whether a company will
meet, miss, or beat 
       Wall Street's consensus earnings estimates.   

    "CIC provides the greatest size, depth, and scope
among free online destinations," said Roger Neal,
general manager of BusinessWeek.com.  "With up to 33
pages of information per company and a wealth of other
information on competitors, industries and performance, the
CIC will provide insights and perspectives that will allow
users to understand the 'story' of each company or
individual.  We are confident that the CIC will quickly
become an invaluable resource for business professionals
all over the world."

    "The CIC is truly the premier free information
resource, comprised of Capital IQ's robust private and
public capital market data and technology.  The CIC allows
everyone-from investors to students to reporters-to view
critical financial information that was previously only
available for Wall Street professionals," said Jay
Zachter, senior vice president of Capital IQ.

    BusinessWeek is a leading global business media
organization, providing unparalleled insight and analysis
to a worldwide audience of business leaders.  Founded in
1929 and published by the McGraw-Hill Companies,
BusinessWeek magazine is the market leader, with more than
4.7 million readers each week in 140 countries.  Local
language editions include Chinese, Russian, and Bahasa
Indonesian.  Launched in 1994, BusinessWeek.com is the
preeminent provider of daily, essential business news,
information, and services to business decision-makers. 
Reaching 85% of U.S. households, BusinessWeek Weekend
delivers important business, consumer and financial news to
television viewers every week.

    Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's,
provides high-impact information and workflow solutions to
over 1,800 leading financial institutions, advisory firms,
and corporations. Its solutions are based on the Capital IQ
Platform, a unique combination of global private and public
capital market data and technology that enables end-users
to draw deep market insights, generate better ideas,
leverage relationships, and simplify workflow. Clients can
deploy the Capital IQ Platform either as a standalone
solution or seamlessly integrate its components into
existing business applications and portals via systems
integration and data feeds. For more information, please
visit Capital IQ's web site at http://www.capitaliq.com . 


    For more information, please contact: 

    Patti Straus
    BusinessWeek 
    Tel:   [phone]
    Email: [e-mail]

    Kate Zimmerman 
    Capital IQ, 
    Tel:   [phone]
    Email: [e-mail]