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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2001

PartMiner(R) Inc., a provider of content, technology and procurement services to the global electronic components industry, today announced an agreement with Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global communications, commerce and media company.

Under the agreement, PartMiner's Design Center content and market making services from its Free Trade Zone are now available to users of Yahoo! Electronics Marketplace, part of Yahoo!(R) Industry Marketplaces (http://industrymarketplaces.yahoo.com) - a one-stop business-to-business destination for information and services including researching products, finding the latest industry news and making purchasing decisions.

Yahoo! Electronics Marketplace (http://industrymarketplaces.yahoo.com/electronics) now features PartMiner's entire Design Center catalog of more than 12 million electronic components, which includes part specifications, data sheets, application notes and side-by-side comparisons. Users can conduct parametric searches and searches for similar parts to aid them in the design of electronics products which use semiconductors, passives, connectors and electromechanical devices from over 1,800 manufacturers. Electronics industry professionals who visit the Design Center catalog on the Yahoo! Electronics Marketplace can also seamlessly access PartMiner's market making services, allowing them to research and request quotes for board-level electronic components in one comprehensive online destination.

"Millions of business purchase decision makers visit Yahoo!, and we believe by providing our valuable content to an internet leader such as Yahoo!, PartMiner will be able to gain a greater audience for our information and services, which are vital to the supply chain from design to manufacturing," said Dan Nissanoff, chief executive officer, PartMiner.

"We are pleased to be working with PartMiner to add to our current offerings and enhance users' experiences on our Electronics Marketplace," said Shannon Ledger, vice president and general manager, production, Yahoo!. "This agreement supports Yahoo! Industry Marketplaces' goal of working with industry leaders to provide key information and services that are essential to businesses and professionals."

Yahoo! Industry Marketplaces (http://industrymarketplaces.yahoo.com) is a one-stop business-to-business destination in the areas of IT hardware, IT software and electronics, providing information and services that help businesses and professionals research products, communicate with suppliers, find the latest industry news and information and make purchasing decisions. The initial launch of Yahoo! Industry Marketplaces included three inaugural marketplaces: Yahoo! IT Hardware Marketplace, Yahoo! IT Software Marketplace and Yahoo! Electronics Marketplace. Each specialized marketplace is designed to serve purchasing decision makers, business owners and operators, engineers, software designers, system designers, system architects, electronics engineers and electronic components buyers.

About PartMiner

PartMiner, Inc. provides marketplace technology and procurement services to the global electronic components industry. The company's online marketplace, the Electronic Commerce Free Trade Zone(TM), located at www.freetradezone.com, allows individual buyers and sellers to communicate and interact more effectively. Currently, over one hundred thousand users have registered to research and source electronic components online with PartMiner's existing procurement software. The company's investors include Agile Software, Boston Ventures, Cahners Business Information, Celestica Inc., Dell Computer Corporation, Generation Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs, IHS Group, Impact Venture Partners, Integral Capital Partners, Onex Ventures, Seacoast Capital and Vulcan Securities Limited. PartMiner is headquartered in New York City at 432 Park Avenue South, 12 Floor, with offices in Asia, Europe, North America and the Middle East. Additional information about PartMiner and the company's collaborative sourcing and design (CSD) management solutions, PartMiner CSD, and excess service, the Excess Trade Zone, are available at www.partminer.com.

PartMiner is a registered trademark of PartMiner, Inc. Electronic Commerce Free Trade Zone, and Free Trade Zone are trademarks of PartMiner, Inc. There is a patent pending on the Electronic Commerce Free Trade Zone business model. Except for any historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in news releases are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements.

Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.