Interactive Data provides international real-time content to Mubasher

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About Interactive Data Corporation
Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of financial market data, analytics and related services to financial institutions, active traders and individual investors.

The Company's businesses supply real-time market data, time-sensitive pricing, evaluations and reference data for millions of securities traded around the world, including hard-to-value instruments. Many of the world's best-known financial service and software companies subscribe to the Company's services in support of their trading, analysis, portfolio management and valuation activities.

Through its businesses, Interactive Data Pricing and Reference Data, Interactive Data Real-Time Services, Interactive Data Fixed Income Analytics, and eSignal, the Company has approximately 2,300 employees in offices located throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The Company is headquartered in Bedford, Mass. Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), an international media company, whose businesses include the Financial Times Group, Pearson Education, and the Penguin Group, is Interactive Data Corporation's majority stockholder. Interactive Data Corporation is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2008.

Interactive Data Real-Time Services is a leading provider of real-time global market data to financial institutions, redistributors and online financial portals worldwide. Offerings from Interactive Data Real-Time Services include PlusFeed, a consolidated, low latency digital datafeed. Also managed as part of this business is Interactive Data Managed Solutions, a leading provider and operator of customised financial market information systems.

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Interactive DataSM and the Interactive Data logo are service marks of Interactive Data Corporation. PlusFeed is a service mark of Interactive Data Real-Time Services.

About Mubasher
A subsidiary of National Technology Group (NTG), Mubasher is the first bilingual (Arabic & English) real time stock market information service and online trading engine in the Middle East. The first of its kind in the region, Mubasher is a world-class product that offers features and functions found only in products that serve international markets. Mubasher empowers investors with information and tools required to track market trends and make profitable decisions from the comfort of their homes or offices. Mubasher has been designed, developed and perfected for the both regional and international markets.

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