Business.com Ranked Eighth in Deloittes Technology Fast 50 Program for Los Angeles

Business.com the leading business search engine, directory and pay-per-click advertising network, today announced that it has been named to Deloitte's prestigious Technology Fast 50 Program for Los Angeles.

The Fast 50 is a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications and life sciences companies in the area by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, one of the nation's leading professional services organizations. Rankings are based on the percentage revenue growth over five years from 2002 to 2006.

"Our rapid growth is a reflection on the fact that Business.com has become a 'must buy' for B2B advertisers based on our ability to connect thousands of advertisers with millions of business buyers every month," said Jake Winebaum, Business.com's founder and CEO, and now president of R.H. Donnelley Interactive. "By delivering a great user experience for business decision makers and strong ROI to our advertisers we have been able to generate consistent profitable growth."

To qualify for the Technology Fast 50, companies must have had operating revenues of at least $50,000 in 2002 and $5,000,000 in 2006, be headquartered in North America, and be a company that owns proprietary technology or proprietary intellectual property that contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating revenues or devotes a significant proportion of revenues to the research and development of technology.

"To rank on Deloitte's Technology Fast 50, companies must have phenomenal revenue growth over five years. Business.com has proven to be one of the fast-growth success stories in the Los Angeles area, and we applaud their dedication to making their vision a reality," said Tony Buzzelli, vice chairman and regional managing partner for the Pacific Southwest Region at Deloitte & Touche USA LLP.

For more information on Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 or Technology Fast 500 programs, visit http://www.fast500.com

About Business.com

Business.com (http://www.business.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of R.H. Donnelley Corporation (NYSE: RHD), is the leading business search engine and directory and pay-per-click advertising (http://www.business.com/info/advertisewithus.asp) network, serving more than 40 million business users and thousands of advertisers every month. Business.com helps business decision makers quickly find what they need to manage and grow their businesses, and enables business-to-business marketing professionals to reach these users wherever they are across the business Internet through premier partners, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Hoovers, Financial Times and Internet.com. The company recently launched Work.com (http://www.work.com), a B2B community publishing platform featuring more than 1,900 business how-to guides contributed by business experts (http://members.work.com/lb/TopExperts.do). Business.com was named to the 2006 Inc. 500 and BtoB magazine's Media Power 50 and Los Angeles Business Journal's list of Best Places to Work in Los Angeles.

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Business.com Ranked Eighth in Deloittes Technology Fast 50 Program for Los Angeles

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