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About NexTag, Inc.

NexTag is the leading comparison shopping site for products, financial services, travel, automobiles, real estate, education and more. At the core of NexTag are proprietary technologies and algorithms that enable shoppers to quickly compare prices and find the best deals on millions of products and services. For thousands of merchants, service providers and individuals, NexTag is an extremely efficient sales channel with its highly qualified traffic and performance-based pricing. More than 17 million people per month use NexTag to research, compare, and save on products and services online*.

NexTag has been named among the nation's fastest growing companies by Inc. 500, Deloitte Technology Fast 500/Fast 50, Red Herring Top 100, San Francisco Business Times Fast 100, and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal Fast 50. The company operates comparison shopping sites in the US (www.nextag.com), the UK (www.nextag.co.uk), France (www.nextag.fr), and Germany (www.nextag.de). NexTag is headquartered in San Mateo, California with offices in London and Gurgaon, India.
NexTag History and Milestones

June 2008: TIME Magazine Names NexTag one of the "50 Best Websites 2008".

January 2008: NexTag records sixth straight year of record profitability.

August 2007: NexTag delivers its one millionth request for information to its education partners.

June 2007: Providence Equity Partners acquires a two-thirds stake in NexTag for $830 million. Al Dobron, Managing Director at Providence and Craig Stern, Vice President at Providence, join NexTag's board of directors.

February 2007: NexTag launches NexTag France (www.nextag.fr) and NexTag Germany (www.nextag.de).

January 2007: NexTag records fifth straight year of record profitability.

June 2006: NexTag surpasses $250 billion in consumer loan requests.

January 2006: NexTag records fourth straight year of record profitability.

October 2005: NexTag is recognized as an award-winning company: the company is ranked 12th fastest growing in the nation on Deloitte's Technology Fast 500 with 19,642% revenue growth over 5 years; #2 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50: Silicon Valley and 13th in the nation by Inc. 500, based on a 4-yr revenue growth of 3,247%.

* NexTag launches the NexTag ToolBar - the first comparison shopping toolbar for both products and travel.
* NexTag introduces RSS feeds for comparison shopping search results.

July 2005: NexTag named to the AlwaysOn 100 Top Private Companies list for 2005.

May 2005: NexTag named to the Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies for the second straight year.

January 2005: NexTag records third straight year of record profitability.

November 2004: NexTag UK launches travel comparison shopping.
October 2004: NexTag ranked second fastest growing private company in the Bay Area by the San Francisco BusinessTimes Fast 100 with percentage growth of 1,180%.

* NexTag launches ServicesShoppingSM for mortgages, travel, cars and online education programs.

September 2004: NexTag continues to increase user base reaching 11 million unique visitors.

* NexTag's growth rate up 138% over previous year.
* NexTag doubles share of category Web visits in the last year.

June 2004: NexTag goes international with launch of NexTag UK (www.nextag.co.uk).

May 2004: NexTag named to the Red Herring Top 100 Private Companies.

January 2004: NexTag records second straight year of profitability.

December 2003: NexTag finishes an impressive year of growth with 8 million unique visitors, representing a 117% growth year over year.

October 2003: NexTag is recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies.

* NexTag adds nearly 1 million new users in October, surpassing 5 million unique users.
* Ranked seventh fastest growing company in North America in the Deloitte 2003 Technology Fast 500 Rising Stars and first in the San Francisco Business Times 2003 Fast 100: The Bay Area's Fastest Growing Private Companies.

September 2003: NexTag becomes the fastest growing comparison shopping site, increasing the number of unique users by 89% since September 2002.

April 2003: NexTag maintains industry-leading performance and is named a Forbes "Best of the Web" site.

January 2003: NexTag records fifth straight quarter of profitability.

December 2002: NexTag becomes one of most popular product search engines.

* 3.5 million unique monthly users, increasing more than 900% since first measured by Nielsen//Netratings in 2001.
* 2002 marks second consecutive year of annual revenue growth in excess of 450%.
* "NexTag's emergence as a leading comparison shopping service has been a rapid one, increasing its traffic nearly 10 times since the middle of 2001.." --Lisa Strand, Nielsen//NetRatings chief commerce analyst.

October 2002: NexTag continues its rapid growth.

* 2.8 million unique monthly users (per Nielsen//Netratings).
* Users can now compare prices for several new product categories.

June 2002: NexTag's comparison shopping service becomes one of the largest sources of qualified leads for technology products on the Internet.

* NexTag's unique users have grown to 2 million, increasing more than 500% in one year.
* Advertisers at NexTag include many of the top computing and consumer electronics brands.

June 2001: NexTag increases its focus on www.nextag.com with the goal to create the most popular comparison shopping service on the Internet. Nielsen//Netratings reports NexTag traffic at 308,000 unique users per month.

December 2000: NexTag closes its third round of financing and Jim Broderick, general partner at Morgenthaler, joins NexTag's board of directors.

November 2000: The company discontinues its dynamic pricing-based transaction model and focuses on a leads-based comparison shopping service.

April 2000: Forbes magazine names NexTag a "Best of the Web" site. The company enhances its service to allow individuals and small businesses to sell through its site. It also launches a self-service model for the creation of cobrands, enabling any website owner to add a customizable comparison shopping service in less than ten minutes.

February 2000: PC Magazine names NexTag a "Top 100 Web Site".

November 1999: NexTag receives second round of financing from Morgenthaler Ventures.

August 1999: NexTag launches its price comparison and online negotiation service for technology products from major retailers on the Internet. It offers TruePrice comparison (price + tax + shipping) for the first time on the Internet. The service includes both a leads-based model as well as a dynamic pricing-based transaction model.

May 1999: NexTag closes its first round of financing with Morgenthaler Ventures. Gary Little, general partner at Morgenthaler, joins NexTag's board of directors.