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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 2000 -- TeleServices Internet Group Inc. (OTCBB:TSIG), known as TSIG.com, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Affinity Group, an affinity marketing company that specializes in database mining and sales, for 5 million shares. In 1999, The Affinity Group had revenues of $22 million, with pre-tax profits of $4 million (unaudited), and for 2000, Affinity has targeted revenues of $30 million with profits of $6 million.

see more on www.TSIG.com

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PALO ALTO, Calif., June 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Inxight(R) Software, Inc., the pioneer of open portal building block software, today announced Table Lens(TM) for Web, a simple, intuitive user interface that revolutionizes exploratory data analysis and expands access regardless of a user's platform. Table Lens for Web allows users to visually interact with an entire data set, combining the power of data mining analysis with the ease of use of a spreadsheet.

see www.inxight.com

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LINCOLN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 13, 2000

Unica Corporation(TM), provider of analytical CRM and multi-channel marketing automation for "clicks and mortar" companies, announced Affinium(TM), a complete product suite designed for companies seeking to implement effective one-to-one marketing and to leverage customer interactions across multiple data sources and touchpoints. Affinium is the industry's first fully-integrated marketing automation suite.

The suite brings together Affinium Model(TM), Unica's award-winning data mining and predictive modeling software; Affinium Campaign(TM), for automated, cross-channel campaign management; Affinium Interact(TM), for creating personalized, permission-based email communications; and a new module - Affinium Report(TM), an open business intelligence reporting framework and Web portal designed explicitly for marketing professionals. Some of these features had been marketed previously as standalone products.

see http://www.unicacorp.com/

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WASHINGTON, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Visual Analytics, Inc. (VAI), a privately held Maryland firm and a leading provider of visual data mining, information technology, and system development and integration services, announced that awards of several high- technology contracts. VAI has received contract extensions from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) to provide analytical support systems for law enforcement agencies. VAI will deploy their flagship product, VisuaLinks (a cutting edge link-analysis and visualization system), to complex crime databases to expose the networks of hidden patterns and trends.

Visual Analytics also serves defense and commercial industries and has recently won new contracts with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to develop and support a suite of counter-drug analytical systems. This was complimented with an award from the DoD's prestigious think tank, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), for anti-terrorism threat analysis and pattern detection systems. VAI is also working with the Department of Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Center (FinCEN) to develop data mining strategies to detect fraud and help expose money laundering organizations.

see http://www.visualanalytics.com/

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Incorporated in June 2000, X-Mine Inc. aims to become the leading provider of a gene expression warehouse for disease progression. The intent is to use sophisticated applications for Knowledge Discovery in gene expression and proteomic databases for the development of genomic and proteomic-derived products, applications, and dynamic databases for predictive and individualized medicine.

See www.x-mine.com ---