LOS GATOS, CA. - October 23, 2002 - BestCalls.com, the Internet's leading directory of investor conference calls, today announced that the company has been chosen to provide the conference call events calendar for Shareholder.com's groundbreaking OpenCompany.info initiative. OpenCompany (www.opencompany.info) is a new disclosure network that enables public companies to facilitate direct communications with their shareholders by providing conference call, corporate profiles and earnings estimates directly to the investment community without membership fees or constraints.

BestCalls.com will seed the OpenCompany.info events calendar with over 20,000 conference call listings per year. These event listings will be distributed on the Web sites of OpenCompany Disclosure Network members, including the National Investor Relations Institute (http://www.niri.org), the National Association of Investors Corporation (http://www.better-investing.org), Investor Relations Magazine (http:/www.ironthenet.com) and Institutional Investor Magazine (http://www.iimagazine.com). The OpenCompany network includes more than 500,000 individual and institutional investors, securities lawyers, CEOs, corporate secretaries and other members of the shareholder communications community.

"BestCalls.com's conference call schedules serves as an important foundation element for OpenCompany." said Ron Gruner, President of Shareholder.com and architect of OpenCompany. "OpenCompany lowers barriers between public companies and individual investors, and places companies back in control of their financial expectations and shareholder outreach. BestCalls.com is helping us continue the spirit of Regulation FD and re-establish investor trust and confidence."

"OpenCompany is an important initiative because it helps public companies regain control over their investor communications," said Mark Coker, founder and president of BestCalls.com. "We're pleased to assist this effort because it will benefit investors by delivering improved disclosure and greater transparency."

About Shareholder.com

Shareholder.com has over 10 years of experience facilitating communications between public companies, their shareholders and the investment community. Shareholder.com provides a comprehensive array of online investor relations services ranging from website hosting and webcasts to integrated e-mail and fax broadcasts. Over 750 companies around the world, including Coca-Cola Enterprises, Delta Air Lines, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, Hudson's Bay Co., Legal & General, Merrill Lynch, Prudential Financial, Tiffany & Co. and Yahoo!, rely on Shareholder.com for vital communications with over 60 million shareholders. The company, based in Maynard, Mass., has offices in Amsterdam, London and San Francisco, is privately held and is celebrating its ninth year of profitability. For more information, please visit www.shareholder.com.

About BestCalls.com

Founded in 1998, as a privately held company, BestCalls.com (http://www.bestcalls.com) operates the Internet's leading directory of investor events. The award-winning site, which Barrons named the best source for conference calls and Forbes named "Best of the Web" four times, helps investors conveniently track event schedules for thousands of publicly traded companies and helps investor relations professionals promote and disclose their investor events. BestCalls.com's CallTracker service allows investors to receive automated and personalized email alerts of conference calls. To get more details or to subscribe to CallTracker, please send subscription requests to support@bestcalls.com or give us a call at 978.723.2232