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HighBeam Research CEO to Speak at Future of Business Media Conference
Patrick Spain to Discuss “Disruptors’” Effect on Investors, Information Providers

Press Contact: Jani Farlow Spede

Phone Number: (864) 650-7111

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CHICAGO – October 22, 2007 – HighBeam™ Research, Inc. (highbeam.com) announced today that its CEO Patrick Spain will speak at the first Future of Business Media Conference to be held at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, October 30.

The conference is produced by ContentNext Media, a company founded by journalist Rafat Ali, and will include a session titled “The Disruptors” on which Spain will be a panelist. The panel will explore how freely information now flows to more people in more ways and whether this new accessibility threatens traditional business models.

As co-founder and former chair and CEO of Hoover’s, Spain was among the first to recognize the value of online information services. Sharing his insights as a pioneer and current entrepreneur of sites with disruptive effects, Spain will discuss HighBeam’s recently unveiled news site newser (newser.com), a joint effort with Vanity Fair media columnist Michael Wolff. Joining Spain on the panel will be David Jackson, CEO of SeekingAlpha; Scott Moore, SVP of news and information at Yahoo!; and Kathy Yates, CEO of AllBusiness.com. The session begins at 4:35 p.m. EDT.

Spain said, “Rafat Ali is the leading chronicler of evolving and emerging business models in the online content space. I am honored to join the distinguished group of speakers at this conference – an important event for anyone on the business side of the media.”

The conference will include media executives and dealmakers from companies such as the Associated Press, Business Week, CNBC, CNN, Dow Jones, Forbes, Reuters, the Quadrangle Group and Yahoo! who will explore the outlook for their organizations and the industry as a whole. More information about the Future of Business Media Conference is available at www.fobmconference.com. Press credentials are by invitation only.

About HighBeam™ Research, Inc.
HighBeam™ Research, Inc., headquarted in Chicago, operates three online services designed to meet the needs of information hungry individuals: the award-winning subscription-based HighBeam Library (www.highbeam.com) that enables individuals to access 50 million proprietary newspaper magazine and journal articles from 3,500 sources; HighBeam Encyclopedia (www.encyclopedia.com), a leading provider of free reference content from Columbia University, Britannica, Oxford University Press and others; and newser ( www.newser.com), an innovative news service that combines human and machine intelligence to present news from across the Internet in a visually attractive and easily accessible format.