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Platt

 EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

     This Employment Agreement (the "Agreement"), is entered into as of
December 1, 1999 (the "Commencement Date"), by MarketWatch.com, Inc.
(the "Company") and Joan Platt (the "Executive").

     1.      Term of Employment:  The term of employment of Executive by the
Company hereunder shall commence on the Commencement Date and shall
continue thereafter on the same terms and conditions for a period of
three years unless earlier terminated pursuant to Sections 6 or 7
(such term being hereinafter referred to as the "Employment
Period").  The Employment Period shall be extended automatically
without further action by either party as of the third anniversary
of the Commencement Date for a period of one year, unless prior to
such date the Company or the Executive shall notify the other in
writing of its or her intention not to renew the Agreement, in which
case the Agreement shall terminate at the end of the original term.
 If the Employment Period is extended, it shall thereafter be
referred to as the Employment Period.

     2.      Title; Duties:  The Executive shall serve as Chief Financial Officer
of the Company reporting to the Chief Executive Officer of the
Company.  Executive shall perform those duties and responsibilities
inherent in such position including such duties and responsibilities
as the Chief Executive Officer shall assign.  The Executive agrees
to devote her full time and best efforts, attention and energies to
the business and interests of the Company.  Executive shall serve
the Company faithfully and to the best of her ability in such
capacities, devoting her full business time, attention, knowledge,
energy and skills to such employment; provided, however, the Company
acknowledges that Executive may serve on the board of directors of
other companies with the prior approval of the Company's Board of
Directors (the "Board").  Executive shall travel as reasonably
required in connection with the performance of her duties hereunder.

     3.      Compensation:  The Company shall pay and Executive shall accept as
full consideration for  her services hereunder, compensation
consisting of the following:

     3.1     Base Salary.  $250,000 per year base salary during the first
year of the term of this Agreement; $260,000 per year base
salary during the second year of the term of this Agreement;
$275,000 per year base salary during the third year of the
term of this Agreement; and at least $275,000 per year base
salary (subject to increase by the Board) during successive
years of the term of this Agreement if the Employment Period
is extended past the original three-year term pursuant to
Section 1 hereof.  "Base Salary" shall mean the base salary
provided for in this Section 3.1.  Base Salary is payable in
installments in accordance with the Company's normal payroll
practices, less such deductions or withholdings as are
required by law.

     3.2     Bonus.  Annual target bonus at the rate and in accordance with
the specifications on Exhibit A attached hereto.

     3.3     Equity Option.  Executive received a grant of an option to
purchase 150,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company (the
"Option").

     4.      Benefits:  Subject to all applicable eligibility requirements, and
legal limitations, Executive will be able to participate in any and
all 401(k), vacation, medical, dental, life and long-term disability
insurance and/or other benefit plans which from time to time may be
established for other employees of the Company.

     5.      Reimbursement of Expenses:  The Company will reimburse Executive for
all reasonable travel, entertainment and other expenses incurred or
paid by the Executive in connection with, or related to, the
performance of her duties, responsibilities or services under this
Agreement subject to review by the Board or its compensation
committee, if applicable.

     6.      Benefit Upon Termination of Employment Period.

     6.1     Disability.  In the event of the permanent disability (as
hereinafter defined) of Executive during the Employment
Period, the Company shall have the right, upon written notice
to Executive, to terminate Executive's employment hereunder,
effective upon the 30th calendar day following the giving of
such notice (or such later day as shall be specified in such
notice).  Upon the effectiveness of such termination, (i) the
Company shall have no further obligations hereunder, except to
pay and provide, subject to applicable withholding, (A) all
amounts of Base Salary accrued, but unpaid, at the effective
date of termination, (B) Executive's target bonus, and (C) all
reasonable unreimbursed business-related expenses,
(ii) Executive's Option shall immediately vest and become
exercisable to the extent of one additional year of vesting
and shall remain exercisable for the periods specified in the
Option and (iii) Executive shall have no further obligations
hereunder other than those provided for in Sections 9 and 10
hereof.  All amounts payable to Executive pursuant to this
Section 6.1 shall be payable within 30 days following the
effectiveness of the termination of Executive's employment.
For purposes of this Agreement, "permanent disability" shall
be defined as any physical or mental disability or incapacity
which renders Executive incapable in any material respect of
performing the services required of him in accordance with her
obligations under Section 2 for a period of 180 consecutive
days, or for 180 days in any 360 day period.

     6.2     Death.  In the event of the death of Executive during the
Employment Period, this Agreement shall automatically
terminate and the Company shall have no further obligations
hereunder, except to pay and provide to Executive's
beneficiary or other legal representative, subject to
applicable withholding, (i) all amounts of Base Salary and
bonus accrued but unpaid, at the date of death, and (ii) all
reasonable unreimbursed business-related expenses.  All
amounts payable to Executive pursuant to this Section 6.2
shall be payable within 30 days following the date of death.

     6.3     Termination Without Cause.  In the event of the termination of
Executive's employment by the Company without Cause (as
defined below) or upon the Executive's voluntary termination
of her employment for Good Reason (as defined below), (i) all
amounts of Base Salary and bonus accrued but unpaid on the
date of termination shall be paid by the Company within 30
days following the date of termination, (ii) an amount equal
to Executive's Base Salary on the date of termination for a
period of twelve months shall be paid by the Company in twelve
equal installments, and (iii) the Option shall immediately
vest and become exercisable in full and shall remain
exercisable for the periods specified in the Option.

     6.4     Circumstances Under Which Termination Benefits Would Not Be
Paid.  The Company shall only be obligated to pay the amounts
of Base Salary and bonus accrued but unpaid on the date of
termination, and shall not be obligated to pay Executive the
termination benefits or continue the option vesting described
in subparagraphs 6.1 through 6.3 above if the Employment
Period is terminated for Cause or if Executive voluntarily
terminates her employment other than for Good Reason (as
defined below).  For purposes of this Agreement, "Cause"
shall be limited to:

     (A)     Willful failure by Executive to substantially perform
her duties hereunder, other than a failure resulting
from her complete or partial incapacity due to physical
or mental illness or impairment;

     (B)     A material and willful violation of a federal or state
law or regulation applicable to the business of the
company or that adversely affects the image of the
Company;

     (C)     Commission of a willful act by Executive which
constitutes gross misconduct and is injurious to the
Company; or

     (D)     A willful breach of a material provision of this
Agreement.

     6.5     Constructive Termination.  Notwithstanding anything in
Section 3 or in this Section 6 to the contrary, for purposes
of this Agreement the Employment Period will be deemed to have
been terminated and Executive will be deemed to have Good
Reason for voluntary termination of the Employment Period
("Good Reason"), if there should occur:

     (A)     A material adverse change in Executive's position
causing it to be of materially less stature or
responsibility without Executive's written consent;
provided, that, such a materially adverse change shall
not be deemed to occur if Executive is the chief
financial officer or a higher ranking officer of the
Company (or of a division of any acquiring company
immediately following a Change in Control (as defined
below));

     (B)     A material reduction, without Executive's written
consent, in her level of base compensation (including
base salary and fringe benefits) by more than ten
percent (10%); or

     (C)     A relocation of Executive's principal place of
employment outside the San Francisco Bay Area without
Executive's consent.

     7.      Change in Control Benefits:  Should there occur a Change in Control
(as defined below), then the following provisions shall become
applicable:

     (A)     During the period (if any) following a Change in Control that
Executive shall continue to remain employed, then the terms
and provisions of this Agreement shall continue in full force
and effect, and the Option shall continue to vest and become
and remain exercisable in accordance with the terms of the
Option; or

     (B)     In the event of (i) a termination of the Executive's
employment by the Company or its successor other than for
Cause within six (6) months after a Change in Control or
(ii) Executive voluntarily terminates her employment for Good
Reason within six (6) months after a Change in Control:

     (i)     The Company shall pay to Executive an amount equal to
(A) all amounts of bonus accrued to the date of
termination, (B) 100% of Executive's Base Salary for a
period of one year and (C) Executive's target bonus for
a period of one year, in one lump sum amount on or
before the fifth business day following the effective
date of Executive's termination; and

     (ii)    The unvested portion of Option held by Executive on the
date of such Change in Control shall immediately vest
and become exercisable in full and the Option shall
remain exercisable for the periods specified in the
Option.

     For purposes of this Section 7, the term "Change in Control" shall
mean:

     (x)     The sale, lease, conveyance, liquidation or other
disposition of all or substantially all of the Company's
assets as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to
any person, entity or group of persons acting in concert
other than in the ordinary course of business; or

     (y)     Any transaction or series of related transactions (as a
result of a tender offer, merger, consolidation or
otherwise) that results in any Person (as defined in
Section 13(h)(8)(E) under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934) becoming the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule
13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934),
directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the
aggregate voting power of all classes of common equity
securities of the Company, except if such Person is
(A) a subsidiary of the Company, (B) an employee stock
ownership plan for employees of the Company, or (C) a
company formed to hold the Company's common equity
securities and whose shareholders constituted, at the
time such company became such holding company,
substantially all the equity owners or shareholders of
the Company.

     In the event that the severance and other benefits provided to
Executive pursuant to Section 6 of this Agreement (i) constitute
"parachute payments" within the meaning of Section 280G of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code") and
(ii) but for this Section 7, such severance and benefits would be
subject to the excise tax imposed by Section 4999 of the Code, then
Executive's severance benefits under this Section 7 shall be payable
either:

     (a)     in full, or

     (b)     as to such lesser amount which would result in no
portion of such severance and other benefits being
subject to excise tax under Section 4999 of the Code,
whichever of the foregoing amounts, taking into account
the applicable federal, state and local income taxes and
the excise tax imposed by Section 4999, results in the
receipt by Executive on an after-tax basis, of the
greatest amount of severance benefits under this
Agreement.

     Unless the Company and Executive otherwise agree in writing, any
determination required under this Section 7 shall be made in writing
by independent public accountants agreed to by the Company and
Executive (the "Accountants"), whose determination shall be
conclusive and binding upon Executive and the Company for all
purposes.  For purposes of making the calculations required by this
Section 7, the Accountants may make reasonable assumptions and
approximations concerning applicable taxes and may rely on
reasonable, good faith interpretations concerning the application of
Sections 280G and 4999 of the Code.  The Company and Executive shall
furnish to the Accountants such information and documents as the
Accountants may reasonably request in order to make a determination
under this Section 7.  The Company shall bear all costs the
Accountants may reasonably incur in connection with any calculations
contemplated by this Section 7.

     8.      Dispute Resolution:  The Company and Executive agree that any
dispute regarding the interpretation or enforcement of this
Agreement shall be decided by confidential, final and binding
arbitration conducted by Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services
("JAMS") under the then-existing JAMS rules, rather than by
litigation in court, trial by jury, administrative proceeding, or in
any other forum.

     9.      Cooperation with the Company After Termination of the Employment
Period:  Following termination of the Employment Period by
Executive, Executive shall fully cooperate with the Company in all
matters relating to the winding up of her pending work on behalf of
the Company and the orderly transfer of any such pending work to
other employees of the Company as may be designated by the Company.

     10.     Confidentiality; Return of Property; NonSolicitation:

     (A)     The Executive acknowledges that during the Employment Period
he will receive confidential information from the Company and
subsidiaries of the Company (each a "Relevant Entity").
Accordingly, the Executive agrees that during the Employment
Period (as it may be extended from time to time) and
thereafter for a period of two years, the Executive and her
affiliates shall not, except in the performance of her
obligations to the Company hereunder or as may otherwise be
approved in advance by the Company, directly or indirectly,
disclose or use (except for the direct benefit of the Company)
any confidential information that he may learn or has learned
by reason of her association with any Relevant Entity.  Upon
termination of this Agreement, the Executive shall promptly
return to the Company any and all properties, records or
papers of any Relevant Entity, that may have been in her
possession at the time of termination, whether prepared by the
Executive or others, including, but not limited to,
confidential information and keys.  For purposes of this
Agreement, "confidential information" includes all data,
analyses, reports, interpretations, forecasts, documents and
information concerning a Relevant Entity and its affairs,
including, without limitation with respect to clients,
products, policies, procedures, methodologies, trade secrets
and other intellectual property, systems, personnel,
confidential reports, technical information, financial
information, business transactions, business plans, prospects
or opportunities, (i) that the Company reasonably believes are
confidential or (ii) the disclosure of which could be
injurious to a Relevant Entity or beneficial to competitors of
a Relevant Entity, but shall exclude any information that
(x) the Executive is required to disclose under any applicable
laws, regulations or directives of any government agency,
tribunal or authority having jurisdiction in the matter or
under subpoena or other process of law, (y) is or becomes
publicly available prior to the Executive's disclosure or use
of the information in a manner violative of the second
sentence of this Section 10(a), or (z) is rightfully received
by Executive without restriction or disclosure from a third
party legally entitled to possess and to disclose such
information without restriction (other than information that
he may learn or has learned by reason of her association with
any Relevant Entity).  For purposes of this Agreement,
"affiliate" means any entity that, directly or indirectly,
is controlled by, or under common control with, the Executive.
 For purposes of this definition, the terms "controlled" and
"under common control with" means the possession, direct or
indirect, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management and policies of such person, whether through the
ownership of voting stock, by contract or otherwise.

     (B)     For a period of one (1) year following the termination of
Executive's employment with the Company for any reason, he
will not, without the Company' express written consent, either
on her own behalf or on behalf of another, solicit employees
of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company for the
purpose of hiring them.  General employment advertising shall
not be deemed to be a solicitation.

     11.     General:

     11.1    Indemnification.  In the event Executive is made, or
threatened to be made, a party to any legal action or
proceeding, whether civil or criminal, by reason of the fact
that Executive is or was a director or officer of the Company
or serves or served any other corporation fifty percent (50%)
or more owned or controlled by the Company in any capacity at
the Company' request, Executive shall be indemnified by the
Company, and the Company shall pay Executive's related
expenses when and as incurred, all to the fullest extent
permitted by law.

     11.2    Waiver.  Neither party shall, by mere lapse of time, without
giving notice or taking other action hereunder, be deemed to
have waived any breach by the other party of any of the
provisions of this Agreement.  Further, the waiver by either
party of a particular breach of this Agreement by the other
shall neither be construed as, nor constitute a, continuing
waiver of such breach or of other breaches by the same or any
other provision of this Agreement.

     11.3    Severability.  If for any reason a court of competent
jurisdiction or arbitrator finds any provision of this
Agreement to be unenforceable, the provision shall be deemed
amended as necessary to conform to applicable laws or
regulations, or if it cannot be so amended without materially
altering the intention of the parties, the remainder of the
Agreement shall continue in full force and effect as if the
offending provision were not contained herein.

     11.4    Notices.  All notices and other communications required or
permitted to be given under this Agreement shall be in writing
and shall be considered effective upon personal service or
upon transmission of a facsimile or the deposit with Federal
Express or in Express Mail and addressed to the Chairman of
the Board of the Company at its principal corporate address,
and to Executive at her most recent address shown on the
Company's corporate records, or at any other address which he
may specify in any appropriate notice to the Company.

     11.5    Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original and
all of which taken together constitutes one and the same
instrument and in making proof hereof it shall not be
necessary to produce or account for more than one such
counterpart.

     11.6    Entire Agreement.  The parties hereto acknowledge that each
has read this Agreement, understands it, and agrees to be
bound by its terms.  The parties further agree that this
Agreement shall constitute the complete and exclusive
statement of the agreement between the parties and supersedes
all proposals (oral or written), understandings,
representations, conditions, covenants, and all other
communications between the parties relating to the subject
matter hereof.

     11.7    Governing Law.  This Agreement shall be governed by the law of
the State of California.

     11.8    Assignment and Successors.  The rights and obligations of the
Company under this Agreement shall inure to the benefit and
shall be binding upon the successors and assigns of the
Company.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of
the date first above written.

		
	 	
                                                MARKETWATCH.COM, INC.

			
	 	By: 	
                                                /s/ LARRY S. KRAMER

		
	 	
      

    
	 	
                                                      Larry S. Kramer

	 	
                                               Chief Executive Officer
  

		
	 	
                                                EXECUTIVE

			
	 	By: 	
                                               /s/ JOAN PLATT

		
	 	
      

    
	 	
Joan Platt

 Exhibit A

 TARGET BONUS AND SPECIFICATIONS
Annual Target Bonus Rate:  fifty percent (50%) of the then-applicable base
salary actually paid in a given year.  For example, if the base salary
actually paid in the second year of the term of this Agreement is
$250,000, the maximum target bonus would be $125,000 ($250,000 multiplied
by 50%) for that year.

Specifications:  two components.

     Discretionary Component:  Board may decide when, and if to grant
this component.  This component shall be 25% of the then-applicable
base salary actually paid in a given year.

     Achievement of Financial Objectives Component:  Target Bonus, in the
amount payable shown below, is payable upon the Company's
achievement of the financial objectives set forth below:

            % of Base Salary
            Actually Paid for
            Such Year Payable
           Upon Achievement of
               Financial
               Objectives                                 Financial Objectives
           -------------------               -------------------------------------------
   1st Year       25%                         To be determined annually by the  Board
   2nd Year       25%                         To be determined annually by the  Board
   3rd Year       25%                         To be determined annually by the  BoardExhibit 10.17

JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT made on
6 January 2000.

Between:

(1)FINANCIAL TIMES GROUP LIMITED incorporated
under the laws of England and Wales, whose registered office is at Number One,
Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HL (Financial Times);

(2)MARKETWATCH.COM, INC. incorporated under the
laws of the State of Delaware, whose principal place of business is at 825
Battery Street, San Francisco, California 94111 (MarketWatch).

Whereas:

(A)Financial Times and MarketWatch have agreed to form a
new jointly-owned company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales as a
private limited company (the JVC) to establish the leading
Internet provider in the Territory (as defined below)of comprehensive, real time
business news, financial programming and analytical tools, initially in the
English language, but thereafter also in other languages, in a co-branded joint
venture company owned by Financial Times and MarketWatch under the brand name
Financial Times MarketWatch.com.

(B)Financial Times and MarketWatch are entering into this
Agreement to establish the JVC and to set out the terms governing their
relationship as shareholders in the JVC.

(C)Financial Times and MarketWatch have agreed that the
licensing to the JVC of the use of the "FINANCIAL TIMES" trade mark
pursuant to the Financial Times Trade Mark Licence and the procuring by
Financial Times of fifteen million pounds sterling (L15.0 million) worth, at
Effective Rate Card, of advertising over five (5) years across Financial Times'
wholly-owned business publications in the Territory, on the one hand, and the
licensing to the JVC of the use of the "MarketWatch" trade mark
pursuant to the MarketWatch Trade Mark Licence and of the use of certain of its
technology pursuant to the MarketWatch Technology Licence, on the other hand,
are of equivalent value.

It is agreed as follows:

Interpretation

Definitions

1.1In this Agreement:

Accounting Principles means the accounting
principles and policies to be adopted by the Board of the JVC, pursuant to
clause 13.1;

Additional Capital Contributions has the
meaning ascribed to it in clause 8.2 and the expression Additional Capital
Contributions shall be construed accordingly;

Board means the JVC's board of directors;

Budget means for the JVC for a particular
Financial Year (i) the budgeted profit and loss account and cash flow statement
(including capital expenditure) phased by month, (ii) the balance sheet phased
at least quarterly, (iii) in relation to the first two Financial Years, the
Funding Schedule, and (iv) Milestones for the first two financial years;
together with detailed schedules supporting the statements, including (but not
limited to) media marketing spends the whole of the above in a format approved
from time to time by the Board;

Business means the business intended to be
carried on by the JVC, as described in clause 2.1;

Business Day means a day (other than a
Saturday) on which banks generally are open in London and New York for a full
range of business;

Business Plan means the Budget for the JVC
relating to a Financial Year and draft Budgets for the succeeding Financial
Year, in a format to be decided from time to time by the Board, to be updated
annually (and including, in relation to the first two Financial Years, the
requisite Funding Schedule);

Capital Contribution means the capital
contributions as defined in clause 8.1;

Chairman means the chairman from time to time
of the Board;

Chief Executive means the chief executive from
time to time of the JVC;

company includes any body corporate, wherever
incorporated;

Completion means completion of the
establishment of the JVC in accordance with clause 7;

Conditions means the conditions specified in
clause 4.1;

Control means the ability of one person to
direct the activities of another or the beneficial ownership by one person of
more than fifty per cent. (50%) of the voting rights generally exercisable at
general or equivalent meetings of the other and Controlled shall be construed
accordingly;

Core Services means, in respect of Financial
Times, the services provided pursuant to the FT Trade Mark Licence and the media
advertising to be procured pursuant to clause 7.3 and, in respect of
MarketWatch, the services provided pursuant to the MarketWatch Trade Mark
Licence and the MarketWatch Technology Licence;

Directors means the JVC's directors or, where
applicable, an alternate director of the JVC;

Effective Rate Card means with respect to any
advertising buy by the JVC the lower of the published rate card or the amount
actually charged by the Financial Times to unaffiliated third parties with
respect to the placement of advertising substantially similar to such
advertising purchased by the JVC;

Equity Proportions means the respective
proportions in which the Shareholders hold the issued share capital of the JVC
from time to time;

Fair Price means the open market value of the
relevant Shares between a willing seller and a willing third party buyer for a
wholly cash consideration at the date of the Transfer Notice without any premium
or discount by reference to the percentage of the Shares being sold or
transferred;

Financial Times Directors means the JVC's
directors appointed by Financial Times from time to time;

Financial Times Group means Financial Times and
its Subsidiaries from time to time;

Financial Times Group Member means any member
of the Financial Times Group;

Financial Year means a financial period of the
JVC commencing on 1 January, other than in the case of its initial financial
period which shall commence on the date hereof, and ending on
31 December;

Ft.com means the web site owned and operated by
the Financial Times Group and located on the Internet under the domain name
"ft.com";

FT Trade Mark Licence means the trade mark
licence between Financial Times and the JVC pursuant to a novation of a like
agreement between Financial Times Limited and Financial Times, substantially in
the form of the copy which is attached hereto marked Exhibit "A";

Ftyourmoney means the web site owned and
operated by the Financial Times Group and located on the Internet under the
domain name "ftyourmoney.com";

Funding Schedule means a schedule, to be
attached to and form part of the Business Plan for each of the first two
Financial Years, setting out details of the funds required by the JVC in such
year and stipulating, on a quarterly basis, the amounts in which, and periods
during which, such funds may be drawn down by the JVC from the Shareholders;

Group means, in relation to the JVC or a party,
that company and its Subsidiaries for the time being;

Holding Company shall be construed in
accordance with Section 736 and 736A of the Companies Act 1985;

Internet means the global network of
interconnecting computer systems including without limitation the worldwide
web;

IP Transaction Documents means the FT Trade
Mark Licence, the MarketWatch Trade Mark Licence and the MarketWatch Technology
Licence;

JVC has the meaning ascribed to it in Recital
(A);

JVC Group means the JVC and its Subsidiaries
from time to time;

JVC Group Member means any member of the JVC
Group;

MarketWatch.com means the web site owned and
operated by MarketWatch and located on the Internet under the domain name
"marketwatch.com";

MarketWatch Directors means the JVC's directors
appointed by MarketWatch from time to time;

MarketWatch Group means MarketWatch and its
Subsidiaries from time to time;

MarketWatch Group Member means any member of
the MarketWatch Group;

MarketWatch Trade Mark Licence means the trade
mark licence a copy of which is attached hereto marked
Exhibit "B";

MarketWatch Technology Licence means the
licence, in respect of MarketWatch's web site infrastructure, content authoring
tools and techniques, network operations technologies, web site architecture and
databases (the MarketWatch Technology) a copy of which is attached
hereto marked Exhibit "C";

Memorandum and Articles means the JVC's
Memorandum and Articles of Association in the agreed form to be adopted pursuant
to clause 3.1(b), as amended from time to time;

Milestone Termination Event has the meaning
ascribed to it in clause 8.2;

Milestones means the milestones, i.e. twice
yearly criteria, by reference to numbers of page views and to revenues for
assessing the progress of the Business, to be agreed between the Shareholders
and included in the Budget for each of the first two Financial Years (and the
word Milestone shall be construed accordingly);

Outside Director has the meaning given to it in
clause 10.3;

parties means Financial Times and MarketWatch
(and party shall be construed accordingly);

Regulatory Action means:
(a)any order of a court of competent jurisdiction; or

(b)any order, decision or conclusive view made, given or
expressed by a competent supranational, governmental or regulatory authority or
agency; or

(c)an enactment of a legislative body which:
(i)materially prohibits or restricts Completion of
the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or requires it to be delayed
beyond the latest date referred to in clause 7.1; or

(ii)after Completion would materially prohibit or
restrict the carrying on of the Business of the JVC;

Regulatory Approvals means the clearances and
consents referred to in clauses 4.1(b), (c) and (d) and any approvals
required by any competent supranational, governmental or regulatory agencies or
authorities;

Reserved Matters means those matters defined in
clause 10.2;

Shareholders means the Financial Times Group
Member(s) and the MarketWatch Group Member(s) who hold Shares for the time being
(and Shareholder shall be construed accordingly) and any person to whom they
transfer their Shares in accordance with this Agreement;

Shares means shares in the JVC's capital;

Subsidiary means, in relation to an undertaking
(the holding undertaking), any other undertaking in which the
holding undertaking (or persons acting on its or their behalf) for the time
being directly or indirectly holds or controls either:
(a)a majority of the voting rights exercisable at general
meetings of the members of that undertaking on all, or substantially all,
matters; or

(b)the right to appoint or remove directors having a
majority of the voting rights exercisable at meetings of the board of directors
of that undertaking on all, or substantially all, matters,

and any undertaking which is a Subsidiary of another
undertaking is also a Subsidiary of any further undertaking of which that other
is a Subsidiary; (provided that, for the purposes of this Agreement,
neither the JVC nor any Subsidiary of the JVC is to be regarded as a Subsidiary
of Financial Times or MarketWatch or any other Financial Times Group Member or
MarketWatch Group Member);

Territory means Europe;

undertaking means a body corporate or
partnership or an unincorporated association carrying on trade or a business
with or without a view to profit.  In relation to an undertaking which is not a
company, expressions in this Agreement appropriate to companies are to be
construed as references to the corresponding persons, officers, documents or
organs (as the case may be) appropriate to undertakings of that description.

Currency

1.2Any reference in this Agreement to an
amount in "L" or pounds sterling includes the equivalent amount at the
relevant time in any other currency or combination of currencies.

Construction and
Interpretation

1.3The headings in this Agreement do not affect its
interpretation and are not to be taken into account in the construction or
interpretation of any provision to which they refer.

1.4Where the context allows, words denoting the singular
include the plural meaning and vice versa, words importing one gender include
both other genders and may be used interchangeably, and words denoting natural
persons include corporations and vice versa.

1.5Unless the contrary intention appears, references to
numbered clauses and schedules are references to the relevant clauses in, or
schedules to, this Agreement and to a numbered paragraph in a schedule are
references to the relevant paragraph in that Schedule.

Agreed
form

1.6A reference to a document in this Agreement in the
agreed form is to a document agreed by the parties and initialled
by them or on their behalf for identification purposes.

Status

1.7References in this Agreement to a statute or
statutory instrument include a statute or statutory instrument amending,
consolidating or replacing them, and references to a statute include statutory
instruments and regulations made pursuant to it.

Purpose of the
JVC

Business

2.1The business of the JVC shall be to seek to
establish the leading Internet provider in the Territory of comprehensive real
time business news, financial programming and analytical tools, initially in the
English language but thereafter also in other languages, in all cases under the
brand name Financial Times MarketWatch.com.

Commercial
principles

2.2Each of the parties shall so conduct itself and,
so far as lies reasonably within its rights and powers of control which it is
entitled to exercise (whether directly or indirectly) over the affairs of any
other person, cause such other person or persons to conduct themselves, in good
faith, so that: (i) the Business of the JVC shall be conducted in the best
interests of the JVC in accordance with the general principles of the then
current Business Plan and on sound commercial profit-making principles, so as to
generate the maximum achievable profits available for distribution with any
profits available for distribution in accordance with applicable law which are
surplus to the funding requirements shown, in the draft Budget for the following
Financial Year attached to the relevant Business Plan, being distributed to the
Shareholders, (ii) all third parties directly or indirectly under its
control refrain from acting in a manner which hinders or prevents the JVC and
its Subsidiaries from carrying on the Business in a proper and reasonable
manner, and (iii) no action is taken which is intended and does directly
and materially disadvantage the JVC (and, for the avoidance of doubt, it is
agreed that editorial comment does not count as action which can constitute such
material disadvantage).

Hyperlinks

2.3Financial Times and MarketWatch agree that there
will be hypertext links between the JVC's web sites and those from time to time
of Financial Times Group (including Ft.com and Ftyourmoney.com) and MarketWatch
(including MarketWatch.com).  The hypertext links shall be of the following
types:
(a)hypertext links appearing on the home page of the
JVC's web sites providing links of equal prominence to the home pages operated
by Financial Times Group and MarketWatch Group, in each case making use of the
trademark of the web site to which the hypertext link gives access in a manner
consistent with the conditions for use specified in the FT Trade Mark Licence or
MarketWatch Trade Mark Licence (as the case may be); and

(b)hypertext links appearing on pages of the JVC's web
site (other than the home page) linking content on those pages to content on
relevant pages (other than home pages) of the web sites of Financial Times Group
and MarketWatch Group.  The extent and style of these hypertext links shall be
subject to the prior approval (which shall not be unreasonably withheld) of
Financial Times and MarketWatch respectively.

2.4
(a)Subject to (b) below, Financial Times and MarketWatch
agree that the home pages of each of the web sites of Financial Times Group and
MarketWatch Group shall have hypertext links of reasonable prominence, and
including trade marks owned by the other party, linking those pages to the home
pages of the other's web site.

(b)The right of each of MarketWatch and Financial Times
to include a hypertext link on web sites operated by its Group to web sites
operated by the other's Group or to include the other party's trade marks on its
Group's web sites, and the manner of use of those trade marks, shall be subject
to that other party's express prior approval, which shall not be unreasonably
withheld.

2.5Upon a change of Control of a party, the other party
may elect to terminate, by 90 days prior notice, the rights and obligations
in: (a) clause 2.3 to the extent only that they permit the use of
hypertext links to any page of that other party's own websites or use of its
trade marks; and (b) clause 2.4.
2.6(a)Each party acknowledges
that it shall have no rights to use or register trade marks of the other party
in any manner, including as part of a domain name, except as expressly permitted
by the terms of this Agreement or the IP Transaction Documents.

(b)MarketWatch agrees that it shall, as soon as
practicable, transfer any domain names it has registered including or making use
of the names "ft" or "financial times", including without
limitation "ftmarketwatch.com", to the JVC and pending the transfer
shall not use or permit use of such names in any manner except as expressly
permitted by the MarketWatch Trade Mark Licence.

Source attribution

2.7Whenever content of a web site of either party is
viewed as part of the JVC's Business, it shall only be viewed on the source web
site itself with that web site's branding only.

Incorporation of the
JVC

3.1As soon as reasonably practicable after the
date of this Agreement, but before the JVC commences trading, the parties shall
use all reasonable endeavours to take or cause to be taken all requisite steps
to cause the JVC to be incorporated in England and Wales as a private company
limited by shares with the following characteristics:
(a)its name shall be `Financial Times MarketWatch.com
(Europe) Limited' (or such other name as the parties may agree);

(b)the Memorandum and Articles shall be in the agreed
form;

(c)it shall have an authorised share capital of
L1,000,000 divided into 1,000,000 Shares of L1 each of which:
(i)500,000 Shares shall be allotted and issued
credited as fully-paid at par to, and registered in the name of and beneficially
owned by, such of Financial Times (or Financial Times Group Members) as
Financial Times shall have decided; and

(ii)500,000 Shares shall be allotted and issued
credited as fully-paid at par to, and registered in the name of and beneficially
owned by, such of MarketWatch (or MarketWatch Group Members) as MarketWatch
shall have decided.

(d)its initial directors shall be the persons listed in
clause 9.3;

(e)the initial Chairman shall be Larry Kramer, the
initial Editor in Chief shall be Thom Calandra and the initial Chief Executive
Officer shall be Zach Leonard;

(f)its initial Secretary shall be Sarah Robinson;

(g)its registered office shall be at Number One,
Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HL.

No activity
prior to
Completion

3.2The parties shall ensure that the JVC shall
not carry on any business and shall have no assets or liabilities of any nature
whatsoever before Completion, except as contemplated by this clause 3.2 and
by clauses 5.2 and 5.3.  When any Party proposes to enter into any
commitment prior to Completion for the benefit of, and for the account of the
JVC, where the commitment would exceed L20,000 individually or would cause all
such commitments by that Party to exceed L50,000 in aggregate, the Party
concerned shall not enter into such commitment without the authority of the
Chief Executive Officer.  Neither Party has any authority to enter into
commitments on behalf and for the account of the JVC following Completion
without the written agreement of both Parties.  In the event of failure to
achieve Completion, both parties shall ensure that the JVC does not undertake
any further commitments other than for the purpose of its liquidation.

Conditions

Conditions

4.1Completion is conditional on each of the following
conditions being fulfilled (or waived) by such party or parties for whose
benefit it exists:
(a)the JVC being formed in accordance with the terms of
clause 3.1;

(b)to the extent any clearances under any relevant
national or supranational merger control rules, or other anti-trust or similar
legislation are required or are reasonably considered desirable by either party,
such clearances having been received on terms reasonably satisfactory to the
parties or the relevant time limits or waiting periods (including any
extensions) having expired or been terminated (as the case may be) without any
decision having been made to investigate the transaction further;

(c)all other government, governmental body or regulatory
authority (including any stock exchange) consents (including the expiry of any
period following a notification such that consent is deemed to be given or no
consent is required) which are required for the actions contemplated by this
Agreement being obtained in terms satisfactory to each of Financial Times and
MarketWatch;

(d)no material Regulatory Action (or action, proceeding
or proposal which if successfully pursued by the person initiating the same
would result in a Regulatory Action) being taken which has not been revoked,
annulled, withdrawn, discontinued, abandoned, repealed, discharged or otherwise
ceased to have effect;

(e)the parties having agreed upon the Business Plan
(including Budget and Funding Schedule) for each of the first two Financial
Years in accordance with clause 5.2 and upon the total of Additional Capital
Contributions that each of them may be required to make pursuant to
clause 8.2 below;

(f)the parties having agreed upon schemes for employee
incentivisation through options over Shares or through the ownership of Shares
of up to fifteen per cent. (15%) of the equity of the JVC (on a fully diluted
basis); and

(g)agreement by the parties of the terms upon which the
JVC shall use the Financial Times MarketWatch' trade mark and upon which that
trade mark will be owned and used following termination of this
Agreement.

Endeavours
to fulfil
Conditions

4.2Each party shall use all reasonable endeavours to
ensure (so far as it lies within its respective powers to do so) that each of
the Conditions (to the extent that they are not waived) are fulfilled as soon as
possible but in any event before June 30, 2000.

Non-fulfilment of
Conditions

4.3If any Condition set out in clause 4.1 is not
fulfilled (or waived) on or before June 30, 2000, the provisions with
respect to termination of this Agreement in Clause 6 shall apply.

Conduct before Completion

5.1Each of Financial Times and MarketWatch will
ensure that, until
Completion:
(a)its business is conducted in such a way as not to
prejudice its ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement; and

(b)it takes all reasonable measures to protect and
maintain the assets to be contributed by it to the Business.

Agreement on Funding Schedule and
Business Plans

5.2As soon as practicable following execution of this
Agreement the parties shall instruct the Chief Executive to draw up a draft
Business Plan for each of the first two Financial Years of the JVC including
drafts of the relative Budgets and Funding Schedule.  The parties shall use all
reasonable endeavours to consider such draft Business Plans and to amend them
and agree final Business Plans (including, for the avoidance of doubt, relative
Budgets and Funding Schedule) for the first two Financial Years by no later than
June 30, 2000 (the Cut-Off Date).  

5.3The parties will procure that, during the period
ending on the earlier of Completion and the Cut-Off Date, the JVC shall conduct
the Business permitted by clause 5.2 in the ordinary and usual course and
so as to ensure that total commitments (including liabilities) undertaken by the
JVC up until then (whatever dates such commitments fall to be discharged) do not
exceed L1,000,000.

Termination

6.1In the event that the Conditions have not been
satisfied (or waived) by the Cut-Off Date, then this Agreement (other than
clause 14 (Confidentiality) and clause 24 (Announcements)), shall automatically
terminate and neither party shall be entitled to make any claim against the
other (except for accrued rights arising from an earlier breach of any of the
terms of this Agreement).

6.2Following such termination pursuant to
clause 6.1, either of the parties (the Remaining Party) shall
be entitled to carry on the Business and both parties shall take the requisite
steps to put the JVC into liquidation by no later than July 31, 2000.  

Completion

7.1Completion shall take place within ten days after
the Conditions are fulfilled, or waived).  The following events shall take place
on Completion:
(a)the parties shall ensure that, to the extent not
carried out by that date, the JVC is established with the characteristics set
out in clause 3;

(b)each of Financial Times and MarketWatch shall
subscribe in cash at par for such new Shares as the Business Plan (including
Budget and Funding Schedule) agreed upon under Clause 4.1(e) requires at
Completion;

(c)the parties shall ensure that the JVC allots and
issues the requisite Shares, credited as fully paid to Financial Times and
MarketWatch and that the names of Financial Times and MarketWatch are entered in
the JVC's register of members as the respective holders of the Shares subscribed
by them and that share certificates are issued to Financial Times and
MarketWatch for those Shares;

(d)Financial Times or, as appropriate, MarketWatch shall
execute or procure the execution of, and the parties shall ensure that the JVC
executes and delivers, the following ancillary agreements on the same terms and
conditions and otherwise substantially in the form attached hereto:
(i)the Financial Times Trade Mark Licence;

(ii)the MarketWatch Trade Mark Licence; 

(iii)the MarketWatch Technology Licence.

Further Services

7.2For so long as the JVC is owned at least 20 per
cent. by each of Financial Times and MarketWatch, Financial Times and
MarketWatch respectively shall procure that from and following Completion all
services provided by any member of the Financial Times Group or MarketWatch
Group as the case may be, shall be provided at fair market value to the JVC.

7.3Financial Times shall procure that the JVC may,
following Completion and for so long as the Financial Times is a Shareholder, or
until five years from the date of this Agreement if earlier, place media
advertising in business publications wholly controlled by any member of the
Financial Times Group in volumes and at times consistent with the Business Plan
from time to time up to a total of L15 million worth, calculated at
Effective Rate Card prices from time to time.

Rescission

7.4If either party fails or is unable to comply with
any of its obligations under clause 7.1, the other party shall have the right to
elect not to perform any of its obligations under that clause and to rescind
this Agreement without liability on its part.  Neither party may rescind this
Agreement for any other reason whatsoever, whether before or after
Completion.

Change of
name

7.5If Completion does not take place by 30 June 2000
(or such later date as the parties agree), the parties shall ensure that the JVC
changes its name as soon as practicable to a name which does not include the
name `Financial Times', the letters FT or the name `MarketWatch' or any similar
or confusing name or names.

Capital and further
finance

Issues of
new
shares

8.1The parties agree to take, and procure the taking
of, all requisite steps to increase the JVC's authorised share capital from time
to time and to allot and issue at par, credited as fully paid, Shares in
consideration of the further capital contributions made by any party pursuant to
clause 8.2 but (unless the parties agree otherwise) the parties shall
procure that the JVC shall not issue any shares (other than pursuant to share
option schemes approved by the Board) unless:
(a)one-half of the additional shares are issued to
Financial Times and/or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of Financial Times; and

(b)one-half of the additional shares are issued to
MarketWatch and/or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of MarketWatch

except to the extent that different proportions, as between
Financial Times and MarketWatch, would arise by reason only of default by any
party in performing an obligation to subscribe Shares or of an issue of Shares
where any party fails to exercise any right to subscribe.

8.2Each of Financial Times and MarketWatch shall make
such further capital contributions (its Additional Capital
Contributions) (but so that the total for Additional Capital
Contributions agreed pursuant to clause 4.1(e) shall not be exceeded) to
the JVC in the first two Financial Years as are requested by the JVC in
accordance with this clause 8.2 and as approved by the JVC's Board.  The
JVC may request Additional Capital Contributions to be paid in by not less than
five Business Days' notice in writing to each party at such times and for such
amounts as are provided in the Funding Schedule.  If such payments are not made
within five Business Days after receipt of the payment request, interest at the
rate of 3 per cent. above the Base Rate of Barclays Bank PLC from time to time
shall be added to the payment due.  Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of
this clause 8.2, the JVC may not request and no Party shall have any
obligation to make any Additional Capital Contribution if any Milestone,
specified in the Budget for achievement before the due date for payment of the
Additional Capital Contribution, shall not have been met in which case there
shall be a Milestone Termination Event.  

Funding
support by the
parties

8.3Save for payments under clause 3.1(c), the Capital
Contributions and the Additional Capital Contributions and subject to
clause 8.4, the parties intend that the JVC should be self-financing.
Neither party is obliged to contribute further funds or participate in any
guarantee or similar undertaking for the JVC's benefit.  

Further
finance

8.4The parties are not obliged to provide any finance
over and above that required pursuant to clauses 3.1(c), 7.1(b), and 8.2
unless they both agree on the amount and method of providing the finance.  If
the Board considers at any time that the Business requires further finance over
and above that to which the parties are committed under this Agreement in order
to be able to achieve the Business Plan then current, the Board shall first
approach the JVC's Shareholders for the subscription of further Shares in the
JVC in their Equity Proportions on the basis that if, a Shareholder does not (at
any point before full subscription of the further Shares as envisaged in this
clause 8.4) wish to subscribe the portion then available to it, those other
Shareholders who have committed to take up all the further Shares made available
to them as envisaged in this clause 8.4 (including Shares made available
because other Shareholders are not taking up their entitlements) will be
entitled to subscribe, in proportion to their Equity Proportions, the further
Shares not so subscribed (but so that if any Shareholder would otherwise
thereby, alone or with Affiliates, hold more than 50 per cent. of the Shares in
the JVC, such Shareholder's rights to subscribe Shares under this
clause 8.4 shall be limited so that it can subscribe Shares only to the
extent that it will not thereby, alone or with Affiliates, hold more than 50 per
cent. of the Shares in the JVC).  Thereafter, the Shareholders shall each use
reasonable commercial endeavours to procure that the requirements of the JVC and
its Subsidiaries for working capital to finance the Business are met, as far as
practicable, by borrowings from banks and other similar sources on the most
favourable terms reasonably obtainable as to interest, repayment and security,
but without allowing a prospective lender a right to participate in the Equity
Capital of the JVC or any of its Subsidiaries as a condition of a loan.

Guarantees

8.5Neither party (nor any member of its respective
Group) shall be obliged to participate for the benefit of the JVC in any
guarantee, bond or financing arrangement with any bank or financial institution,
whether as a guarantor or in any other capacity whatsoever. If and to the extent
that the parties agree to participate (or agree to procure that members of their
respective Groups participate) in any such guarantee, bond or financing
arrangement then, unless the parties agree otherwise, any liability or
obligation to be assumed by them in relation to any such guarantee, bond or
financing arrangement shall be borne in their Equity Proportions. Any such
liability or obligation shall be several and not joint or joint and several,
unless they agree otherwise.  If a party (or a member of its Group) incurs any
such joint or joint and several liability, that party shall be entitled to a
contribution from the other party to ensure that the aggregate liability of the
parties or members of their respective Groups (as the case may be) is borne by
the Financial Times Group and the MarketWatch Group in their Equity
Proportions.

Directors and
management

Supervision
by the
Board

9.1The Board shall be responsible for the overall
direction, supervision and management of the JVC. The Board shall not, however,
take any decision in relation to any of the Reserved Matters except by unanimous
agreement of those at the relevant Board meeting at which a quorum is
present.

Board of
Directors, Chief
Executive and Editor in Chief

9.2The appointment (subject to the next following
sentence of this clause 9.2) and removal of any Chief Executive or Editor in
Chief shall be by agreement between the Parties by notice in writing to the JVC
signed by or on behalf of each Party.  The appointments of the initial Chief
Executive and Editor in Chief are as stated in Clause 3.1(e).

9.3Until such time as the parties unanimously agree
otherwise, the Board shall be comprised of three (3) Financial Times Directors
and three (3) MarketWatch Directors.  The initial Board appointments at
Completion shall be:

	
Financial Times Directors
	
MarketWatch Directors

	
Josh Bottomley
	
Lawrence Kramer

	
Peter Martin
	
Phillip Hotchkiss

	
Olivier Fleurot
	
William Bishop

The Chairman shall be appointed alternately by
MarketWatch and Financial Times for periods of two Financial Years.  The
Chairman shall have no second or casting vote.  The first Chairman shall be
Larry Kramer.

Appointment
and removal of Directors

9.4A party may appoint or remove a Director nominated
by it by notice to the JVC signed by it or on its behalf.

9.5The appointment or removal of any Director , Chief
Executive or Editor in Chief shall take effect when the notice is delivered to
the JVC, unless the notice indicates otherwise.  

Quorum

9.6The quorum for transacting business at any Board
meeting (other than an adjourned meeting) shall be at least one Financial Times
Director and at least one MarketWatch Director present when the relevant
business is transacted.  If that quorum is not present within thirty minutes
from the time when the meeting should have begun or if during the meeting there
is no longer a quorum, the meeting shall be adjourned for seven (7) Business
Days and at that adjourned meeting any two Directors (or their alternates)
present shall be a quorum.  A Director shall be regarded as present for the
purposes of a quorum if represented by an alternate Director in accordance with
clause 9.9.

Notice and
Agenda

9.7At least fourteen days written notice shall be
given to each Board member of any Board meeting, unless at least one Financial
Times Director (or his alternate) and at least one MarketWatch Director (or his
alternate) approve a shorter notice period.  Any notice shall include an agenda
identifying in reasonable detail the matters to be discussed at the meeting
together with copies of any relevant papers to be discussed at the meeting.  If
any matter is not identified in reasonable detail, the Board shall not decide on
it, unless all Board members agree in writing.

Frequency
of Meetings

9.8The Parties shall procure that the Board meets at
least quarterly.

Board
voting

9.9The Board shall decide on matters by simple
majority vote. Each Director shall have one vote. Any Director who is absent
from a meeting may nominate any other Director to act as his alternate and to
vote in his place at the meeting. If the parties are not represented at any
Board meeting by an equal number of Directors (whether present in person or by
alternate), then one of the Directors, nominated by the party which is
represented by the fewer Directors, who is present may exercise such additional
vote or votes at that meeting as results in the Directors so present
representing each party having in aggregate an equal number of votes.

Reserved
matters

Use of
powers

10.1The parties shall use their respective powers to
ensure, so far as they are legally able, that no action or decision relating to
any of the matters specified in clause 10.2 (Reserved Matters) is
taken by the JVC, any Subsidiary of the JVC or any of the officers or managers
within the JVC Group unless each of the Financial Times Directors and the
MarketWatch Directors gives his or her prior approval (whether or not through
his or her alternate) to proceed.  Any item provided for in an approved Budget
shall not require further consent as a Reserved Matter under clause 10.2 below
unless (a) the related expenditure would exceed 110 per cent of the amount
approved in the Budget; (b) aggregate expenditures would have exceeded 105 per
cent. of the sums provided for in respect of the relevant items in the approved
Budget; or, being an item mentioned in clause 10.2(l) or 10.2(q), the item would
exceed at all the amount approved for it in the Budget.

Reserved
Matters

10.2The Reserved Matters are:

(a)Memorandum and Articles
adopting or altering the Memorandum and Articles or
other constitutional documents of the JVC;

(b)changes in share capital
changing the authorised or issued share capital of
the JVC;

(c)issuance of Shares

the issue of shares or instruments convertible into
shares by any Subsidiary of the JVC, otherwise than to the JVC or its designated
nominees;

(d)securities convertible into Shares
issuing debentures, securities convertible into
Shares, Share warrants or options in respect of Shares;

(e)change in nature of Business
materially changing the nature or scope of the
Business (as described in clause 2.1) of the JVC including any decision to
change or extend the Business beyond the Territory;

(f)Business Plan, Budgets and Funding Schedule
adopting or materially changing the Business Plan,
Budget or Funding Schedule;

(g)dividends

declaring any dividend or a pay out of the general
reserves or the redemption of any equity securities in the capital of the
JVC;

(h)changing the branding

any proposal to alter the branding of the
Business;

(i)Board of Directors
increasing or decreasing the size of the Board or the
appointing of any committee of Directors or local board or delegation of the
powers of the Directors to a committee or local board, in any such case
otherwise than as expressly provided for in this Agreement;

(j)dissolution, liquidation, winding up

doing or permitting to be done anything as a result
of which the JVC may be wound up (whether voluntarily or compulsorily), except
as otherwise provided for in this Agreement;

(k)encumbrances
creating a fixed or floating charge , lien (other
than a lien arising by operation of law) or other encumbrance over all or part
of its undertaking or assets except to secure its indebtedness to its bankers
for sums borrowed in the normal course of the Business or as otherwise approved
pursuant to this Clause 10.2;

(l)borrowings
borrowing or raising money (including entering into
any finance lease, but excluding normal trade credit) to any extent not provided
for as a cost item in an approved Budget;

(m)advances
making a loan or advancing or giving credit (other
than normal trade credit) in excess of L5,000 to any person, other than the JVC
or a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the JVC and excluding deposits with bankers
repayable upon the giving of not more than seven (7) days notice;

(n)guarantees
giving a guarantee or indemnity to secure the
liabilities or obligations of any person (other than the JVC or a wholly-owned
Subsidiary of the JVC);

(o)sale or other disposition of assets
selling, leasing, creating an interest in or
otherwise disposing of a material part of its undertaking or assets, or
contracting to do so, otherwise than in the normal course of the
Business;

(p)merger, reorganisation, recapitalization, etc.
any merger, consolidation, acquisition, divestiture,
joint venture, partnership or other business combination with, by or of the
Company into or with any other person ;

(q) capital expenditures
entering into of any contract or arrangement not
provided for in an approved Budget involving expenditure on capital account or
the realisation of capital assets if the amount or the aggregate amount of the
expenditure or realisation by the JVC and all of its Subsidiaries would exceed
L5,000 in any year or in relation to any one project; and for the purpose of
this sub-clause the aggregate amount payable under any agreement for hire, hire
purchase or purchase on credit sale or conditional sale terms is deemed to be a
capital expenditure incurred in the year in which the agreement is entered
into;

(r)material agreements
entering into a contract or arrangement which is not
in the normal course of the Business and on arms-length terms;

(s)transactions with Financial Times or MarketWatch Groups
any transaction (but excluding the entering into by
the JVC of the IP Transaction Documents) by the JVC with any Financial Times
Group Member or MarketWatch Group Member which is either:
(i)outside the ordinary course of business; or

(ii)within the ordinary course of business but has a
value of more than L10,000 or is not on commercial arm's length terms;

(t)Employee incentives
creating or altering any scheme for the
incentivisation of the JVC's Employees and/or management;

(u)agreements for real property
taking or agreeing to take an interest in, or license
over, any real property;

(v)investments
acquiring shares, or securities of a person other
than a wholly-owned Subsidiary of the JVC or enters into a partnership or profit
sharing arrangement with any person;

(w)subsidiaries
the formation of, acquisition of or sale to another
party of any subsidiary of the JVC;

(x)initial public offering
any proposal to Shareholders for filing any
registration statement, selecting any underwriter, or taking any other action to
implement an initial public offering of any of the shares of the capital stock
of the JVC;

(y)commencing litigation
initiating (by commencement of proceedings) or the
settling of any litigation, arbitration or mediation (save for debt collection
in the ordinary course of business) or any claim with the exception of measures
requiring immediate relief or arising out of or relating to the breach by any
Shareholder of its obligations under this Agreement;

(z)Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief
appointing either of the JVC's Chief Executive or Editor-in-Chief
except as other provided herein;

(aa)legal counsel
appointing or removing the JVC's outside legal
counsel; or

(bb) auditors
appointing or removing the JVC's auditors.

Deadlock

10.3If a deadlock arises because the Board fails to
agree on any of the Reserved Matters or any other management matter requiring
its decision, the matter shall be referred for resolution to a Director who is
not also employed as an executive of a party or any Affiliate of such party (an
Outside Director) of each of Financial Times and MarketWatch with
a view to it being resolved as early as possible in the best interests of the
JVC.  Each party shall endeavour, and shall instruct their Outside Directors to
endeavour, to resolve any disagreement in the best interests of the JVC.

Shareholder
deadlock

10.4If a dispute relating to the JVC's affairs cannot
be resolved within thirty days after referring the dispute to the parties'
respective Outside Directors pursuant to clause 10.3 (a shareholder
deadlock), and the Shareholder Deadlock is with respect to a Reserved
Matter or otherwise materially adversely affects the JVC's ability to carry on
the Business, then either party may give written notice (a Warning
Notice) that it intends to implement the deadlock procedure provided in
this clause 10.  If the dispute cannot be resolved within thirty (30) days
of the Warning Notice, either party may within a further thirty days notify the
other in writing (a Deadlock Notice) of such fact.  A Deadlock
Notice is irrevocable.

Deadlock
Notice

10.5Within a period of thirty days after receiving a
Deadlock Notice, both parties shall be required to concur in taking all steps
required promptly to place the JVC into liquidation.

Default (including
Insolvency)

Event of
Default

11.1It is an Event of Default in relation to either
party (a Defaulting Party):
(a)if a Defaulting Party (or any member of its Group)
does not pay any amount payable by it under any of clauses 7.1(b), and 8.2
of this Agreement in the manner in which it is expressed to be payable in this
Agreement within ten (10) Business Days of the due date;

(b)if a Defaulting Party (or any member of its Group)
commits a breach of any of its other obligations under this Agreement (not being
a breach referred to in clause 11.1(a)) or under any of the IP Transaction
Documents which, alone or taken together with any other such breach or breaches,
is material in the context of the Business of the JVC and the other party (the
Non-Defaulting Party) serves written notice upon the Defaulting
Party specifying the breach in reasonable detail and requiring the Defaulting
Party immediately to stop or procure the stopping of the breach and if the
breach is remediable, to make, or cause to be made, good the results of the
breach within thirty (30) days, and (i) the Defaulting Party fails to so stop,
or (ii) if either the breach is not remediable, or, if remediable, is not
remedied within such thirty (30) days;

(c)if that party convenes a meeting of its creditors or
makes or proposes any arrangement or composition with, or any assignment for the
benefit of, its creditors; or

(d)a court of competent jurisdiction makes an order or a
resolution is passed, for the dissolution or administration of that party
(otherwise than in the course of a reorganisation or restructuring previously
approved in writing by the other party, such approval not to be unreasonably
withheld or delayed); or

(e)any person other than a member of the other party's
Group takes any step (and it is not withdrawn or discharged within ninety (90)
days) to appoint a liquidator, manager, receiver, administrator, administrative
receiver or other similar officer in respect of any assets which include either
(i) the Shares held by that party or any Subsidiary of it or (ii) shares in that
party or any holding company of it.

Put Option
Notices and Call Option Notices

11.2If an Event of Default occurs, the Non-Defaulting Party may
elect to:
(a)require the Defaulting Party to buy (the Put
Option) all of the Non-Defaulting Party's Shares on the terms set out in
clause 11.3.  The Put Option may be exercised by notice (the Put Option
Notice) from the Non-Defaulting Party given at any time within thirty
(30) days of the Event of Default (and following any cure period, if
applicable);

(b)require the Defaulting Party to sell to the Non-Defaulting Party
(the Call Option) all of the Defaulting Party's
Shares on the terms set out in clause 11.4.  The Call Option may be
exercised by notice (the Call Option Notice) from the Non-
Defaulting Party given at any time within thirty (30) days of the Event of
Default; or

(c)require by notice to the Defaulting Party that the JVC
be put into liquidation immediately.

11.3If a Put Option Notice is served, it must
state:
(a)the price at which the Non-Defaulting Party's Shares
are to be bought; and

(b)the terms (if any) on which the Non-Defaulting Party
in its absolute discretion is willing to continue to provide any or all of its
Core Services.  For the avoidance of doubt the provisions of this clause 11.3
shall not constitute an obligation on the Non-Defaulting Party to continue to
provide its Core Services.

11.4If a Call Option Notice is served:
(a)it must state the price at which the Defaulting
Party's Shares are to be sold; and

(b)the Defaulting Party must continue to provide its Core
Services on the same terms as such services have been provided in the twelve
month period prior to the date of the Call Option Notice for (subject to the
terms of the IP Transaction Documents) a period not exceeding two years from the
date of the Call Option Notice.

Reference
to Expert

11.5If the Defaulting Party notifies the Non-Defaulting Party in
writing within ten days of the relevant notice being
received by the Defaulting Party that is does not accept the price payable for
the Shares stated in either the Put Option Notice or the Call Option Notice (as
the case may be) (the Option Price) and requires that a third
party evaluates the price (the Evaluation Notice), an
internationally recognised investment advisor (the Expert) shall
be appointed to determine the price at which the Shares shall be transferred,
which shall be the Fair Price of the Shares at the date of the Put Option Notice
or the Call Option Notice (as the case may be) (the Sale Price).
The Expert shall be such internationally recognised investment advisor as the
Defaulting Party and the Non-Defaulting Party may agree or, if they fail to
agree within fifteen (15) days of the Evaluation Notice (the Failure
Date), the Expert shall be an investment advisor independent of both the
Defaulting Party and the Non-Defaulting Party and which shall not have been
engaged or otherwise performed services for the JVC or any of its Shareholders
during any of the five years prior to the Default Date, as the President for the
time being of the International Chamber of Commerce appoints at the request of
the Defaulting Party.  If the Defaulting Party fails to make such a request
within fifteen (15) days from the Failure Date, it shall be deemed to have
withdrawn the Evaluation Notice and accepted the Option Price.

The Expert shall act as an expert and not as an arbitrator
and its decision, which shall be incorporated in a Certificate (the
Certificate), shall be final and binding on the parties. The
Expert's fees and expenses shall be born in such proportion as the Expert shall
determine and such determination as to such fees and expenses shall be final and
binding as the parties.

Core Services

11.6In the case of a Put Option Notice only, the
Defaulting Party shall confirm to the Non-Defaulting party whether it requires
the Non-Defaulting Party to continue to provide its Core Services as offered in
the Put Option Notice.  The Non-Defaulting Party shall be under no obligation to
include in the Put Option Notice an offer to further provide such Core Services.
The Non-Defaulting Party shall be obliged to provide such Core Services only on
the terms and under the conditions which are set out in the Put Option Notice.

Completion

11.7Subject only to any Regulatory Approvals or any
requisite approval of shareholders, including of a Holding Company, in general
meeting (Approvals):
(a)in the case of a Call Option Notice, the Defaulting
Party shall be bound to sell and the Non-Defaulting Party shall be bound to buy
the Defaulting Party's Shares; and

(b)in the case of a Put Option Notice, the Non-Defaulting
Party shall be bound to sell and the Defaulting Party shall be bound to buy the
Non-Defaulting Party's Shares

in each case at the:
(a)Option Price, if the Defaulting Party fails to notify
the Non-Defaulting Party within the ten day period referred to in clause
11.5;

(b)Sale Price, if the Defaulting Party notifies the
exercise of its rights under clause 11.5.

In such event, completion of the sale and purchase of the
Shares shall take place within sixty (60) days of the day on which the parties
become so bound (the Reference Date) or, if any Approvals have not
been obtained by the end of that period, within ten (10) days of the date on
which the last Approval to be obtained is obtained.  If any Approval has not
been obtained within one-hundred and eighty (180) days after the Reference Date,
the Put Option Notice or Call Option Notice (as the case may be) shall lapse and
have no further effect.  

Transfer
terms

11.8The transfer of the Shares shall be on the
following terms:
(a)the Shares shall be sold free from all liens, charges
and encumbrances and third party rights, together with all rights of any nature
attaching to them including all rights to any dividends or other distributions
declared, paid or made after the date of the Call Option Notice or Put Option
Notice (as the case may be);

(b)with effect from the completion date with respect to a
Call Option Notice, the Non-Defaulting Party shall assume any obligations of the
Defaulting Party and, with respect to a Put Option Notice, the Defaulting Party
shall assume the obligations of the Non-Defaulting Party and any member of their
respective Groups under, and shall ensure the release of, any guarantees,
indemnities, letters of comfort and/or counter-indemnities to third parties in
relation to the business of the JVC.  This is without prejudice, in the case of
a Call Option Notice, to the Non-Defaulting Party's right and, in the case of a
Put Option Notice, the Defaulting Party's right to receive a contribution from
the other party for its share of any claims attributable to any liabilities
arising in respect of the period before the completion date;

(c)in the case of a Call Option Notice, the Defaulting
Party shall deliver to the Non-Defaulting Party duly executed transfer(s) in
favour of the Non-Defaulting Party or as it may direct and, in the case of a Put
Option Notice, the Non-Defaulting Party shall deliver to the Defaulting Party
duly executed transfer(s) in favour of the Defaulting Party or as it may direct,
together with, if appropriate, share certificate(s) for the Shares and a
certified copy of any authority under which such transfer(s) is/are
executed;

(d)against delivery of the transfer(s), the Option Price
or the Sale Price (as the case may be) shall be paid by telegraphic transfer to
the relevant party's bank account;

(e)the parties shall ensure (insofar as they are able)
that the relevant transfer or transfers (subject to their being duly stamped,
stamp duty to be paid by the party acquiring the Shares pursuant to the Put
Option Notice or the Call Option Notice as the case may be) are registered in
the name of the relevant party or as it may direct;

(f)the parties shall do all such other things and execute
all other documents (including any deed) to give effect to the sale and purchase
of the Shares pursuant to this clause 11.

Power of attorney

11.9Each of Financial Times and MarketWatch hereby
irrevocably, and by way of security for the performance of its obligations under
this clause 11, appoints the other its attorney in its name and as its act to
execute, sign, deliver and do all such deeds, documents, acts or things which
the attorney reasonably judges to be necessary for the performance of the
obligations of its appointor under this clause 11.

Liquidation upon Milestone
Termination Event

11.10Upon the occurrence of a Milestone Termination
Event, either party may by notice to the other and to the JVC require (subject
to the Board's determination otherwise as provided below in this clause 11.10)
that the JVC be put into liquidation.  The Board may, upon receipt of such
notice by the JVC, within ten (10) days thereafter decide and notify the parties
that the JVC shall not be put into liquidation.

Transfer of
shares

General

12.1The provisions of this clause 12 apply in
relation to any transfer, or proposed transfer, of Shares in the JVC or any
interest in those Shares.

Restriction
on
transfer

12.2Except as permitted by this clause 12 or with the
prior written consent of the other party, no party (or any Shareholder in its
Group) shall:
(a)transfer any Shares;

(b)grant, declare, create or dispose of any right or
interest in any Shares; or

(c)create or permit to exist any pledge, lien, fixed or
floating charge or other encumbrance over any Shares.

Permitted
Transfers

12.3Except for transfers for which consent is given
under clause 12.2 or for intra-Group transfers permitted under clause 12.11, no
party or any Shareholder in its respective Group may transfer Shares unless it
(the Seller) and/or members of its Group transfer all (and not
some only) of the Shares collectively held by them (the Seller's
Shares).

Initial
period

12.4Except for intra-Group transfers permitted under
clause 12.11, no Shareholder shall transfer any Shares during a period of five
(5) years from the date of this Agreement without the prior written consent of
the other party.

Transfer
Notice

12.5After the end of the initial period referred to
in clause 12.4 and before the Seller (and/or any Shareholder in its Group) makes
any transfer of the Seller's Shares, the Seller shall first give the other party
(the Continuing Party) notice (a Transfer Notice) of
any proposed transfer together with details of any proposed third party
purchaser (a Third Party Purchaser), the purchase price and all
other material terms which the Seller and the Third Party Purchaser have agreed.
A Transfer Notice is irrevocable except as provided in this clause 12.

Right of
Continuing Party to
purchase

12.6On receipt of the Transfer Notice, the Continuing
Party shall have the right to buy all (but not some only) of the Seller's Shares
at the price specified in the Transfer Notice (or at such other price as the
Seller and the Continuing Party agree) by giving notice to the Seller within
sixty days of receiving the Transfer Notice (the Acceptance
Period).  The parties' obligations to complete the purchase are subject
to the provisions of clause 12.7.

Obligation
to
complete

12.7The Continuing Party shall be bound (subject only
to any necessary approvals of its or its Holding Company's shareholders in
general meeting and any Regulatory Approvals) to buy the Seller's Shares on
giving the Seller notice that it is exercising its rights under
clause 12.6.  In such event, completion of the sale and purchase of the
Seller's Shares shall take place within thirty (30) days of the giving of the
notice or, if later, the obtaining of all Regulatory Approvals and any
shareholder approval.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, such notice and the
Continuing Party's right to buy the Seller's Shares shall cease to have effect
if:
(a)any necessary approval of the Continuing Party's
shareholders in general meeting is not been obtained within the thirty (30) day
period; or

(b)any necessary Regulatory Approval is not obtained
within one-hundred and eighty (180) days of the giving of the notice; or

(c)earlier than the end of the one-hundred and eighty
(180) day period referred to in clause 12.7(b), any relevant authority
conclusively refuses to grant any such Regulatory Approval.

Seller's
right to sell to Third Party
Purchaser

12.8If the Continuing Party does not exercise its
right to buy under clause 12.6 or any notice given under that clause ceases
to have effect pursuant to clause 12.7, the Seller may (subject to clause 12.9
below) transfer the Seller's Shares on a bona fide arm's length sale to a Third
Party Purchaser at a price not less than the purchase price specified in the
Transfer Notice provided that:
(a)the Third Party Purchaser acquiring the Seller's
Shares would not, in the Continuing Party's reasonable opinion, be materially
detrimental to the JVC's interests;

(b)the Third Party Purchaser (or any shareholder of it)
is not directly or indirectly a substantial competitor of the Continuing Party
or the JVC; and

(c)the transfer is completed within one-hundred and
eighty (180) days after the latest of: 
(i)the date of the Transfer Notice; or 

(ii)if any notice given by the Continuing Party has
ceased to have effect pursuant to clause 12.7, the date on which that notice
ceased to have effect.

The parties shall give (or ensure that any Shareholders in
their respective Groups shall give) any approvals required by the Articles in
relation to any transfer of Shares permitted by the terms of this clause 12.

Sale
terms

12.9The sale of any Seller's Shares to the Continuing
Party or a Third Party Purchaser shall be on the following terms:
(a)the Seller's Shares will be sold free from all liens,
charges and encumbrances and third party rights and together with all rights of
any nature attaching to them including all rights to any dividends or other
distributions declared, paid or made after the date of the Transfer Notice;

(b)the Continuing Party/Third Party Purchaser shall
assume, with effect from the completion date, any obligations of the Seller and
any member of its Group under (and shall procure the release of) any guarantees,
indemnities, letters of comfort and/or counter-indemnities to third parties in
relation to the business of the JVC.  Where the buyer is the Continuing Party,
any such assumption shall be without prejudice to the Continuing Party's right
to receive a contribution from the Seller for its share of any claims
attributable to any liabilities arising in respect of the period before the
completion date;

(c)if the buyer is a Third Party Purchaser, it shall take
an assignment of, or make available equivalent finance in place of, any loans,
loan capital, borrowings and indebtedness in the nature of borrowing (but
excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any debts incurred in the ordinary course
of trade which are at the relevant time outstanding on inter-company accounts)
owing at that time from the JVC to the Seller or any member of its Group;

(d)the Seller shall deliver to the Continuing Party/Third
Party Purchaser duly executed transfer(s) in favour of the Continuing
Party/Third Party Purchaser, or as it may direct, together with the appropriate
share certificate(s) in respect of the Seller's Shares and a certified copy of
any authority under which such transfer(s) is/are executed;

(e)against delivery of the transfer(s), the Continuing
Party/Third Party Purchaser shall pay the total consideration for the relevant
Seller's Shares to the Seller by wire transfer of immediately available funds on
the completion date.

(f)the parties shall ensure (insofar as they are able)
that the relevant transfer or transfers (subject to their being duly stamped,
stamp duty to be paid by the Continuing Party/Third Party Purchaser) are
registered in the name of the Continuing Party/Third Party Purchaser or as it
may direct;

(g)the Seller shall do all such other things and execute
all other documents (including any deed) as the Continuing Party/Third Party
Purchaser may reasonably request to give effect to the sale and purchase of the
Seller's Shares;

(h)if the buyer is a Third Party Purchaser, it shall
enter into an agreement with the Continuing Party to be bound (in terms
reasonably satisfactory to the Continuing Party) by provisions corresponding to
the Seller's obligations under this Agreement including (but without limitation)
those under this clause 12.  If requested by the Third Party Purchaser, the
Seller shall ensure that all the Directors appointed by it resign and the
resignation(s) take effect without any liability on the JVC for compensation for
loss of office or otherwise.

Agency Authority for
Transfers

12.10The parties agree that the Board may authorise
any person to execute and deliver the necessary transfers of Shares pursuant to
clause 12.9 and the JVC may receive the purchase price on trust for the
Seller and cause the Continuing Party or the Third Party Purchaser (or such
other person as the Seller may direct pursuant to clause 12.9(d)) to be
registered as the holder of the Shares.  The receipt by the JVC for the purchase
money shall be a good discharge to the Continuing Party or the Third Party
Purchaser.  The parties shall procure that the JVC shall as soon as practicable
pay to the Seller the purchase money so received by it. 

Intra-Group
transfers

12.11A Shareholder may at any time transfer any of
the Shares held by it to a company which:
(a)(where the transferor is one of the parties itself) is
a wholly-owned Subsidiary of that party; or

(b)(where the transferor is a Subsidiary) is either the
party of which the transferor is a Subsidiary or is a wholly-owned Subsidiary of
the relevant party.

Shareholder
ceasing to be a
Subsidiary

12.12Each of Financial Times and MarketWatch
undertakes to ensure that any Subsidiary shall transfer all of the Shares which
it then holds to the party of which it is a Subsidiary (or to a wholly-owned
Subsidiary of that party) before any Shareholder in its Group ceases being a
wholly-owned Subsidiary of it at any time.

Bring-
along

12.13The Seller shall use all reasonable endeavours
(but without involving any financial obligation on its part) to ensure that the
Transfer Notice which it gives under clause 12.5 is accompanied by an offer to
the Continuing Party from the Third Party Purchaser to buy all the Shares held
by the Continuing Party on the same terms (including price per Share) as are set
out in the Transfer Notice.  The offer shall be expressed to be irrevocable,
governed by English law and open for acceptance by the Continuing Party during
the Acceptance Period.  If the Transfer Notice is not accompanied by such an
offer:
(a)the Acceptance Period for the purposes of clause 12.6
shall, notwithstanding the terms of clause 12.6, be extended to a period of one
hundred and eighty days from the date of receipt of the Transfer Notice;

(b)the Seller shall use all reasonable endeavours during
the extended Acceptance Period (but without involving any financial obligation
on its part) to ensure that:
(i)the Third Party Purchaser makes an offer to the
Continuing Party in the terms of this clause 12.13; and

(ii)the Continuing Party may participate fully at its
own expense in all negotiations and discussions between the Seller and the Third
Party Purchaser or their respective agents; and

(c)subject to any confidentiality obligations owed to
third parties, the Seller shall give the Continuing Party full access to all
documents and information in the Seller's possession or under its custody and
control which:
(i)directly or indirectly relates to the intended
transfer of the Seller's Shares to the Third Party Purchaser; and

(ii)the Continuing Party may require in connection
with negotiations and discussions with the Third Party Purchaser.

Financial
matters,

Information
and
reporting

Accounting
Principles

13.1The JVC shall adopt accounting principles to be
approved by the Board in relation to its financial statements necessary or
desirable to enable each of the parties hereto and their respective Affiliates
to comply with the financial reporting requirements for public companies in each
of the United Kingdom and the United States.

Auditors

13.2The JVC's auditors shall be
PricewaterhouseCoopers or such other firm of chartered accountants of recognised
international standing as the parties may agree from time to time.

Financial
Year

13.3The JVC's Financial Year shall be
31 December, unless the parties agree otherwise.

Dividend
policy

13.4The parties shall, unless they agree otherwise in
relation to any Financial Year, take all steps to ensure that in respect of each
Financial Year the JVC distributes promptly by way of dividend all profits,
available for distribution in accordance with applicable law, that are surplus
to the funding requirements shown in the draft Budget for the following
Financial Year attached to the relevant Business Plan.  The JVC's Memorandum and
Articles shall provide for the ability to pay interim dividends whenever legally
permitted.

Inspection
and
information

13.5Upon reasonable notice to the management of the
JVC each party may examine the separate books, records and accounts to be kept
by the JVC during its regular business hours.  Each party shall be entitled to
receive all information, including monthly management accounts and operating
statistics and other trading and financial information as and, in such form as a
party reasonably requires to keep it properly informed about the business and
affairs of the JVC, to enable such party to comply with all applicable laws,
rules and regulations applicable to such party in its jurisdiction of
organisation or as required by any stock exchanges on which its shares are
listed and traded and generally to protect its interests as a shareholder.

Accounts,
Business Plan and
Budgets

13.6Without prejudice to the generality of clause
13.5 the parties shall procure that:
(a)the JVC shall supply the parties with: (i) copies
of unaudited accounts for the JVC (complying with all relevant legal
requirements) not more than thirty (30) days following the end of the first
three (3) quarterly periods of each Financial Year, and (ii) a copy of the
audited annual accounts for the JVC not later than sixty (60) days following the
end of each Financial Year;

(b)the draft Business Plan for any Financial Year,
including the draft Budget and any requisite draft Funding Schedule, shall be
submitted to the Board for approval at the latest three months before the end of
the previous Financial Year and that the Board shall use its best efforts to
agree the Business Plan for any Financial Year at the latest three months after
the beginning of the Financial Year to which it relates; 

(c)if the Board has not approved the terms of the draft
Budget at the beginning of the respective Financial Year, then the Business of
the JVC shall continue for three months after the beginning of the Financial
Year in question on the Budget for the previous Financial Year plus 3%;

(d)the Board shall as soon as reasonably practical, but
in any event not more than fifteen Business Days after the end of each calendar
month, prepare management accounts (which, for the avoidance of doubt, compare
the JVC's performance against the Budget and Business plan) for the JVC; and

(e)the Board shall report at least monthly in writing on
the implementation of the Business Plan and on all transactions outside the
ordinary course of business and shall cause copies of the relevant Board Minutes
to be settled and distributed promptly to the parties.

Confidentiality

Confidentiality
obligation

14.1Each party shall use (and shall ensure that each
of its Subsidiaries shall use) all reasonable endeavours to keep confidential
(and to ensure that its officers, employees, agents and professional and other
advisers keep confidential) any information:
(a)which it may have or acquire before or after the date
of this Agreement in relation to the JVC's customers, business, assets or
affairs; this  includes, without limitation, any information provided pursuant
to clause 11;

(b)which it may have or acquire before or after the date
of this Agreement in relation to the customers, business, assets or affairs of
any Financial Times Group Member (if the party is MarketWatch) or of any
MarketWatch Group Member (if the party is Financial Times) resulting
from:
(i)negotiating this Agreement;

(ii)being a shareholder in the JVC;

(iii)having appointees on the Board; or

(iv)exercising its rights or performing its
obligations under this Agreement; or

(c)which relates to the contents of this Agreement (or
any agreement or arrangement entered into pursuant to this Agreement including,
without limitation, the IP Transaction Documents).

Neither party shall use for its own business purposes or
disclose to any third party any such information (collectively,
Confidential Information) without the consent of the other party
except to the extent that disclosure of such Confidential Information is
necessary for the purposes of performing their obligations under this Agreement.
In performing its obligations under this clause 14, each party shall apply the
confidentiality standards and procedures it applies generally in relation to its
own confidential information.

Exceptions
from confidentiality
obligation

14.2The obligation of confidentiality under clause
14.1 does not apply to:
(a)the disclosure (subject to clause 14.3) on a 'need to
know' basis to a company which is another Financial Times Group Member or
MarketWatch Group Member (as the case may be) where the disclosure is reasonably
necessary for the purpose of this Agreement;

(b)information which is independently developed by the
relevant party or acquired from a third party to the extent that it is acquired
with the right to disclose the same;

(c)the disclosure of information to the extent required
to be disclosed by law, any stock exchange regulation or any binding judgement,
order or requirement of any court or other competent authority provided, that
the disclosing party shall first give the other party such prior notice of such
requirement as is reasonably practicable and to the extent that it is reasonably
practicable, shall act to obtain or permit the other party to act to obtain
confidential treatment for all such Confidential Information required to be
disclosed;

(d)the disclosure of information to any tax authority to
the extent reasonably required for the purposes of the tax affairs of the party
concerned or any member of its Group;

(e)the disclosure (subject to clause 14.3) in confidence
to a party's professional advisers of information reasonably required to be
disclosed for a purpose reasonably incidental to this Agreement;

(f)information which becomes within the public domain
(otherwise than as a result of a breach of this clause 14); or

(g)any announcement made in accordance with the terms of
clause 24.

Employees,
agents and
advisers

14.3Each party shall inform (and shall ensure that
any Subsidiary shall inform) any officer, employee or agent or any professional
or other adviser advising it in relation to the matters referred to in this
Agreement, or to whom it provides Confidential Information, that such
information is confidential and shall instruct them:
(a)to keep it confidential; and

(b)not to disclose it to any third party (other than
those persons to whom it has already been disclosed in accordance with the terms
of this Agreement).

The disclosing party is responsible for any breach of this
clause 14 by the person to whom the Confidential Information is disclosed.

Return of
Confidential
Information

14.4If this Agreement terminates, each party
undertakes to the other that it shall (and shall use all reasonable endeavours
to procure that its Subsidiaries and its officers, employees, agents,
professional and other advisers and those of its Subsidiaries shall)
promptly:
(a)return to the other party or the JVC all original
documents containing Confidential Information belonging to, or relating to, such
other party or the JVC which it has or they have; and

(b)destroy any copies of such documents and any other
document or other written record reproducing, containing or made from or with
reference to the Confidential Information and shall, upon request, provide a
certificate of an authorised officer attesting to such destruction.

(save, in each case, for any submission to or filings with
governmental, tax or regulatory authorities).

14.5Each Party shall ensure that all computer files
comprising reports, summaries or other material or information relating to or
derived from any documents or copy documents mentioned in clause 14.4 (a) or
14.4 (b) in the possession of such Party shall (in so far as they can, with
reasonable effort, be identified and deleted) be deleted from any computer, word
processor or other device containing the same.

14.6Notwithstanding clauses 14.4 and 14.5, the written
documents referred to in clause 14.4 which are created and/or owned by such
Party or any of its professional advisers and relating to the Business
(including any working papers, attendance notes, mark-ups of drafts and similar
materials so owned and/or created) and (b) a diskette copy of the computer files
referred to above in clause 14.5 (which can, with reasonable effort, be
identified and deleted) may be securely stored by such Party but shall be used,
or disclosed thereafter to any third party, only for the purpose of actual or
potential litigation arising out of or in connection with this Agreement.

Survival
after
termination

14.7The provisions of this clause 14 continue to
apply if this Agreement is terminated.

Regulatory
matters

Co-
operation

15.1The parties shall co-operate with each other to
ensure that all information necessary or desirable for making (or responding to
any requests for further information following) any notification or filing made
in respect of this Agreement, or the transactions contemplated by it, is
supplied to the party dealing with such notification and filing and that they
are properly, accurately and promptly made.

Regulatory
Action

15.2If any material Regulatory Action is taken or
threatened, the parties shall promptly meet to discuss:
(a)the situation and the action to be taken as a result;
and

(b)whether any modification to the terms of this
Agreement (or any agreement entered into pursuant to this Agreement) should be
made in order that any requirement (whether as a condition of giving any
approval, exemption, clearance or consent or otherwise) of the European
Commission or any other regulatory authority may be reconciled with, and within
the intended scope of, the business arrangement contemplated by this Agreement.
The parties shall co-operate to give effect to any agreed
modifications.

Relationship with Financial Times group and MarketWatch
group

Contracts

16.1Each party shall ensure that any contracts (other
than the IP Transaction Documents) between the JVC and members of that party's
Group are made on an arm's length commercial basis and on terms that are not
unfairly prejudicial to the interests of either party or the JVC.

Claims by
JVC

16.2If the JVC has or may have any claim against a
party arising out of any agreement entered into by the JVC and any member of
that party's Group, that party will ensure that its nominated Directors shall
not do anything to prevent or hinder the JVC asserting or enforcing the claim
against the first mentioned party and that they shall, if necessary, enable all
decisions regarding such claims to be taken by the directors nominated by the
party wishing to assert or enforce the claim.  This is without prejudice to any
right of the latter party itself to dispute the claim.

Tax
matters

Consortium
relief

17.1Each Party shall use all reasonable endeavours so
that all of the JVC's trading losses and other amounts eligible for relief from
corporation tax under Chapter IV of Part X of the Income and Corporation Taxes
Act 1988 (ICTA) (consortium relief) are surrendered
or made available to the Shareholders and/or other members of the relevant
party's Group in proportion to their shareholdings in the JVC.  For this
purpose:  
(a)the JVC and each party shall give all consents and
take such other action (including, in the case of the JVC, submission of
computations) as may reasonably be required to ensure that surrenders are
promptly and effectively made within any relevant time limits;

(b)each party shall ensure, in respect of each surrender
that the relevant claimant company makes a payment in relation to the amount
surrendered (as referred to in s402(6) ICTA) within one (1) month of the date on
which corporation tax becomes (or but for the utilisation of relevant relief
would have become) payable by the claimant company for its corresponding
accounting period (as provided by s403A(8) ICTA);

(c)the amount of any payment referred to in paragraph (b)
shall be equal to the net present value of loss of benefit from time to time by
the JVC, discounted at the rate of 1 per cent. over the Base Rate of
Barclays Bank PLC from time to time;

(d)any such payment made pursuant to paragraph (b) shall
be subject to return if and to extent that it is determined that relevant losses
or other amounts surrendered are not available for surrender for reasons other
than insufficiency of profits of the claimant or other members of the relevant
party's Group.

Assurances

Exercise of
rights and powers of
control

18.1So far as it is legally able, each party agrees
with the other to exercise all voting rights and powers (direct or indirect)
available to it in relation to any person and/or the JVC to ensure that the
provisions of this Agreement (and the other agreements referred to in this
Agreement) are completely and punctually fulfilled, observed and performed and
generally that full effect is given to the principles set out in this
Agreement.

Performance
by
Subsidiaries

18.2Each party shall ensure that its Subsidiaries
perform:
(a)all obligations under this Agreement which are
expressed to relate to members of its respective Group (whether as Shareholders
or otherwise) and

(b)all obligations under any agreement entered into by
any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to this Agreement.

The liability of a party under this clause 18.2 shall not be
discharged or impaired by any amendment to or variation of this Agreement any
release of or granting of time or other indulgence to any of its Subsidiaries or
any third party or any other act, event or omission which but for this clause
would operate to impair or discharge the liability of such party under this
clause 18.2.

Non-
assignment

19.No party nor any Shareholder in its Group shall,
nor shall purport, to assign, transfer, charge or otherwise deal with all or any
of its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement nor grant, declare, create
or dispose of any right or interest in it, or sub-contract the performance of
any of its obligations under this Agreement in whole or in part (otherwise than
pursuant to a transfer of Shares to a third party in accordance with the terms
of this Agreement) or the assignment by a party of its interest herein to its
wholly-owned direct or indirect subsidiary in accordance with clause 12.11
of this Agreement.

Waiver of
rights

20.No waiver by a party of a failure by the other
party to perform any provision of this Agreement operates or is to be construed
as a waiver in respect of any other failure whether of a like or different
character.

Amendments

21.A variation of this Agreement (or of any of the
documents referred to in it) is valid only if it is in writing and signed by or
on behalf of each party.

Invalidity

22.If any provision of this Agreement is or is held
to be invalid or unenforceable, then so far as it is invalid or unenforceable it
has no effect and is deemed not to be included in this Agreement.  This shall
not invalidate any of the remaining provisions of this Agreement.  The parties
shall then use all reasonable endeavours to replace the invalid or unenforceable
provision by a valid provision the effect of which is as close as possible to
the intended effect of the invalid or unenforceable provision.

No partnership or
agency

23.1Nothing in this Agreement (or any of the
arrangements contemplated by it) is or shall be deemed to constitute a
partnership between the parties nor, except as may be expressly set out in it,
constitute either party the agent of the other for any purpose.

23.2Unless the parties agree otherwise in writing,
neither of them shall:
(a)enter into any contracts or commitments with third
parties as agent for the JVC or for the other party; or

(b)describe itself as such an agent or in any way hold
itself out as being such an agent.

Announcements

24.1No formal public announcement or press release in
connection with the signature or subject matter of this Agreement shall (subject
to clause 24.2) be made or issued by or on behalf of either party or any of its
Subsidiaries without the prior written approval of the other party (such
approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).

24.2If a party has an obligation to make or issue any
announcement required by law or by any stock exchange or by any governmental
authority, the relevant party shall give the other party reasonable opportunity
to comment on any announcement or release before it is made or issued (provided
that this shall not have the effect of preventing the party making the
announcement or release from complying with its legal and/or stock exchange
obligations).

Costs

25.Each of the parties shall, subject to clause 11.5,
pay its own costs, charges and expenses (including taxation) incurred in
connection with negotiating, preparing and implementing this Agreement and the
transactions contemplated by it.  The approved costs, fees and other expenses
incurred by either party on behalf of the JVC in accordance with the provisions
herein in connection with the formation of the JVC prior to Completion shall be
borne equally by the parties.

Entire
agreement

26.1This Agreement, the IP Transaction Documents and
set out the entire agreement and understanding between the parties with respect
to the subject matter of it and supersedes any prior understanding or agreement
in relation to such subject matter.

26.2Neither party has relied or has been induced to enter
into this Agreement in reliance on any representation, warranty or undertaking
which is not set out in this Agreement.

26.3A party may claim in contract for breach of warranty
under this Agreement but no party shall be liable to the other for any
misrepresentation or untrue statement which is not set out in this
Agreement.

Conflict with
articles

Supremacy
of this
Agreement

27.1If the provisions of this Agreement conflict with
the Memorandum and Articles or the JVC's other constitutional documents the
provisions of this Agreement shall prevail as between the parties. The parties
shall:
(a)exercise all voting and other rights and powers
available to them to give effect to the provisions of this Agreement; and

(b)(if necessary) ensure that any required amendment is
made to the Memorandum and Articles or other constitutional document of the
JVC.

Transfers
of
Shares

27.2Without prejudice to the generality of clause
27.1, the provisions of this Agreement shall prevail in relation to the transfer
of Shares and, accordingly:
(a)neither party shall use the provisions of any Article
of the Articles of the JVC to frustrate the operation of clauses 11 or 12 of
this Agreement;

(b)each party shall promptly give (or ensure that any
Shareholder in its Group promptly gives) any approval under the Articles of the
JVC which is necessary or appropriate to give full and immediate effect to the
procedure contemplated by the provisions of clauses 11 or 12 and/or any transfer
of Shares permitted under this Agreement; and

(c)each party, irrevocably and by way of security for the
performance of its obligations under this Agreement to transfer Shares, appoints
the other party its attorney to execute, sign and do all such deeds, documents,
acts and things as are reasonably required for the purpose of or in connection
with effecting and perfecting any such transfer of Shares.

Termination of
agreement

Duration

28.1This Agreement shall continue in full force and
effect until the earlier of (i) the date that is fifteen years after the date
hereof, or (ii) such time as a Financial Times Group Member and a MarketWatch
Group Member do not both hold Shares in the JVC. If as a result of any issue,
sale or disposal made in accordance with this Agreement the Shares are not so
held, then this Agreement shall terminate and cease to be of any effect.  This
shall not:
(a)relieve any party from any liability or obligation for
any matter, undertaking or condition which has not been done, observed or
performed by that party before termination;

(b)affect the terms of any agreement replacing this
Agreement entered into by Financial Times and MarketWatch, or any successor of
either of them holding Shares;

(c)affect the terms of clause 14 of this Agreement
(Confidentiality) and clause 24 (Announcements).

Notices

Notices

29.1Any notice or other formal communication to be
given under this Agreement shall be in writing and signed by or on behalf of the
party giving it.  It shall be:
(a)sent by fax to the number set out in clause 29.2 with
confirmation of receipt; or

(b)delivered by hand or sent by prepaid recorded
delivery, special delivery or registered post to the relevant address in clause
29.2.  

In each case it shall be marked for the attention of the
relevant party set out in clause 29.2 (or as otherwise notified from time to
time under this Agreement). Any notice given by hand delivery, fax or post shall
be deemed to have been duly given:
(a)if hand delivered, when delivered;

(b)if sent by fax, twelve (12) hours after the time of
despatch;

(c)if sent by recorded delivery, special delivery or
registered post, at 10 am on the second Business Day from the date of
posting

unless there is evidence that it was received earlier than
this and provided that, where (in the case of delivery by hand or by fax) the
delivery or transmission occurs after 6 pm on a Business Day or on a day which
is not a Business Day, service shall be deemed to occur at 9 am on the next
following Business Day. References to time in this clause are to local time in
the country of the addressee.

Address of
notices

29.2The addresses and fax numbers of the parties for
the purpose of clause 29.1 are:
(a)Financial Times:

Address: Number One, Southwark Bridge, London SE1
9HL

Fax No:0171 373 3960

For the attention of:Company Secretary
(b)MarketWatch:

Address:825 Battery Street

San Francisco, California 94111 U.S.A. 

Fax No:(415) 392-1954

For the attention of:Chief Executive Officer

With a copy to:
Fenwick & West LLP

Two Palo Alto Square

Palo Alto, CA 94306

Fax:  (650) 494-1417

Attention: John W. Kastelic

English
language

29.3All notices or formal communications under or in
connection with this Agreement shall be in the English language or, if in any
other language, accompanied by a translation into English.  In the event of any
conflict between the English text and the text in any other language, the
English text shall prevail.

Settlement of
disputes

30.1If any dispute between Financial Times and
MarketWatch arises in connection with this Agreement or any associated agreement
entered into pursuant to this Agreement, they shall use all reasonable
endeavours to resolve the matter amicably.  If one party gives the other notice
that a material dispute has arisen and the parties are unable to resolve the
dispute within thirty (30) days of service of the notice, then the dispute shall
be referred to the respective Chairmen of Financial Times and MarketWatch.
Neither party shall resort to litigation or arbitration against the other under
this Agreement until thirty (30) days after the referral. This shall not affect
a party's right, where appropriate, to seek an immediate remedy for an
injunction, specific performance or similar court order to enforce the
obligations of the other party.

Arbitration

30.2If any dispute arising out of or in connection
with this Agreement is unresolved by the Chairmen of Financial Times and
MarketWatch pursuant to clause 30.1, it shall be referred to and finally settled
by arbitration under the Rules of the London Court of International Arbitration
by one or more arbitrators appointed in accordance with those Rules. The place
of arbitration shall be London.  The language of arbitration proceedings shall
be English.

Counterparts

31.This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by the parties to it on separate counterparts, each of which
shall be an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same
instrument.

Governing
law

32.This Agreement shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of England.

As witness this Agreement has been signed by the duly
authorised representatives of the parties the day and year first before
written.

 

SIGNED by _____ _____ _____)

for and on behalf of)

FINANCIAL TIMES)

GROUP LIMITED)

SIGNED by _____ _____ _____)

for and on behalf of)

MARKETWATCH.COM INC. )

LIMITED)

EXHIBIT A

FT Trade Mark Licence

TRADE MARK LICENCE AGREEMENT (this Licence Agreement)
made on _____ _____ 2000

Between

(1)FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED, a company
incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, whose registered office is at
Number One, Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HL (the Licensor)

(2)FINANCIAL TIMES MARKETWATCH.COM (EUROPE)
LIMITED, a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales whose
registered office is at [ _____ _____ _____ ] (the
Licensee).

Whereas

(A)The Licensor is the owner of "FT" and
"FINANCIAL TIMES" trade marks, short details of the existing
registrations and applications for which in the Territory are set out in the
Schedule hereto.

(B)The Licensor has entered into a Joint Venture
Agreement with MarketWatch.com, Inc. (MarketWatch) (the JV
Agreement).  Pursuant to the JV Agreement the Licensor and MarketWatch
have agreed to form a joint venture and acquire shares in the Licensee for the
purpose of jointly developing the Business and the Licensee is accordingly to be
given certain rights to use "FT" and "FINANCIAL TIMES" word
marks, inter alia, as part of the Corporate Name of the Licensee and in
connection with the Business to be conducted by the Licensee, subject to the
terms and conditions of this Licence Agreement. 

It is agreed as follows

Definitions

1.1In this Licence Agreement, unless separately
defined below or the context otherwise requires, all expressions shall have the
meanings given to them in the JV Agreement:

Accounting Period means each of the three month
periods ending on 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December for each year
of the Term and the part of any such period from the Effective Date to the end
of such period and from the commencement of any such period until [1700 GMT] on
the final day of the Term or, as the case may be, the date of termination of
this Licence Agreement;

Co-Branded Site means a website containing
content that derives from and is substantially similar to the content of the
Website that is operated under an agreement between the Licensee and a third
party to promote and derive revenue for the Business among other things.

Corporate Name means the company, business or
trading name of the Licensee;

Domain Name means any domain name used as part
of the uniform resource locator (URL) of Websites or Co-Branded Sites on the
Internet registered in the name of the Licensee at the domain name registries in
the Territory;

Effective Date means the date of this Licence
Agreement first set forth above;

Ft.com means the website owned and operated by
the Licensor and located on the Internet under the domain name
"ft.com";

Internet means the global network of interconnecting computer
systems including without limitation the worldwide web;

Licensed Marks means the marks "FT" and
"FINANCIAL TIMES" and registrations and applications for registration
for these marks in any jurisdiction;

Net Revenues means the total amount of all
revenues received in the ordinary course of the Licensee's conduct of the
Business less Value Added Tax or any analogous tax in any other
jurisdiction, and less usual trade discounts, allowances for returns, and any
product packing, insurance and transport costs, but in all events
excluding:
(a)any revenue derived from the Licensor or MarketWatch;
and

(b)revenue attributable to enterprises that are acquired
by Licensee, with such revenue for each relevant year deemed fixed as of the
date of such enterprises' acquisition, by computing the enterprise's revenue for
the 12 month period ended immediately prior to the date of its
acquisition;

Promotional Material means any promotional and
advertising materials in any media created by (or on behalf of) the Licensee for
the purpose of promoting the Business in the Territory;

Royalty Rate means five percent (5%) for the
first five (5) years, and three percent (3%) for the next five years and two
percent (2%) for the last five years thereafter until the fifteenth anniversary
of the Effective Date.

Term means the period from the Effective Date
until the first to occur of the following events:
(a)termination of this Licence Agreement pursuant to
Clause 8.2 below; or

(b)expiration or earlier termination of the JV Agreement
pursuant to Clause 28.1 of the JV Agreement; or

(c)on Financial Times ceasing to provide Core Services
pursuant to Clause 11.6 of the JV Agreement; or

(d)on liquidation of the JVC pursuant to Clauses 10.5 or
11.10 of the JV Agreement.

Website means a website established by (or on
behalf of) the Licensee for the purposes of the Business.

1.2In this Licence Agreement, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(a)references to persons shall include individuals,
bodies corporate (whenever incorporated), unincorporated associations and
partnerships;

(b)the headings are inserted for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction of the Agreement;

(c)references to one gender shall include each gender and
all genders;

(d)any reference to an enactment is a reference to it as
from time to time amended, consolidated or re-enacted (with or without
modification) and includes all instruments or orders made under such
enactments.

Grant of Licence

2.1In consideration of the payment of the royalties
pursuant to clause 6 of this Licence Agreement by the Licensee to the Licensor
the Licensor hereby grants to the Licensee a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-
based licence during the Term and for a period of  ninety (90) days thereafter,
throughout the Territory to use the Licensed Marks:
(a)in any page of the Website and any Co-Branded Site
(including in any hypertext links within the Website which link to ft.com);

(b)as part of the Domain Name and to register such Domain
Name at the domain name registries in the Territory;

(c)on and in the Promotional Material;

(d)as part of the Corporate Name; and

(e)in connection with the Business,

subject to the terms and conditions of this Licence
Agreement.  The Licensee may grant sublicenses of the foregoing rights but only
as to combination brands listed in Clause 3(f) below (and not as stand alone
Licensed Trade Marks) and only for use in connection with Co-Branded Sites
(including in links to Co-Branded Sites from other websites), and on and in
Promotional Material therefor; provided that, any such sublicensee must execute
a sublicense agreement that contains provisions that are, as to the Licensed
Trade Marks and as to Licensor, at least as protective as the provisions of this
Licence Agreement.  Any such sublicence agreements shall provide for expiry co-
terminous with the expiry or earlier termination of this Licence Agreement.

Acknowledgement

2.2The Licensee acknowledges and accepts that, as at
the date of this Licence Agreement, the Licensor has not obtained trade mark
registrations for Licensed Trade Marks in all countries of the world and
accordingly in countries where the licensor has not obtained such registrations
the Licensor can and does licence under Clause 2.1 only such unregistered trade
mark right, title and interest as it may own in and to the Licensed Trade Marks.
The Licensor makes no express warranty or representation (and none shall be
implied) as to the extent of rights in the Licensed Marks, if any.

Conditions Of Use
3.The Licensee hereby undertakes that:

(a)it will use the Licensed Marks only as licensed herein
and not otherwise;

(b)consistent with prudent business judgement and Clause
3.1(a) of the JV Agreement, the Licensed Marks shall form part of the branding
of the Business will be used prominently in the Website;

(c)the Website and the Promotional Material will conform
to such standards of quality as the Licensor may from time to time reasonably
require, which shall be no lower than that generally achieved by the Licensor in
providing Ft.com and related goods and services in the course of its business as
at the date of this Licence Agreement;

(d)it will not use the Licensed Marks in a manner which
is reasonably likely to be prejudicial to the use of the Licensed Marks by the
Licensor or its successors, assignees or licensees;

(e)the Licensed Marks shall be used in a layout, form,
size, printing style, colour and type face to be approved by the Licensor in
advance of use (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed);

(f)it will not use the Licensed Marks together or in
combination with any other marks, names, logos, symbols or devices without the
prior written consent of the Licensor, other than in the forms:
(i)as part of a hypertext link to Licensor's website
only, "Financial Times" or "ft.com";

(ii)"Financial Times MarketWatch"; and

(iii)as part of, or in reference to (including but
not limited to use in keywords or metatags), the Domain Names only, "FT
MarketWatch.com" "FT MarketWatch", "FTMKTW.com" and
"FTMKTW".

Provided, however, that the marks in paragraphs 3(f) (ii) and
(iii) (but not the Licensed Marks alone) may be used in other combinations with
third party trade marks in describing a Co-Branded Site.

(g)it will not use any device mark, logo, or symbol which
is substantially similar to or so nearly resembles the Licensed Marks as to be
likely to cause deception or confusion;

(h)it will include on the home page of the Website, a
statement that "THE FINANCIAL TIMES and the "FT" are trade
marks of The Financial Times Limited and are used under licence" (or as
may be advised in writing to the Licensee, an equivalent statement in relation
to the Licensor's successors in title or assignees as the case may be);

(i)it will not use the Licensed Marks in a manner which
is reasonably likely to cause material harm to the goodwill attaching to the
Licensed Marks;

(j)it will meet, no more than quarterly, if so required
by the Licensor, to discuss the maintenance of the above standards of quality
and presentation.

Samples and Access

4.If it is found that any item of the Promotional
Material or any page of the Website or a Co-Branded Site bearing or intended to
bear the Licensed Marks (the Materials) is not in conformity to
any material extent with any of the Licensee's obligations under this Licence
Agreement, the Licensor shall give the Licensee written notice of that fact
setting out the reasons for the lack of conformity in reasonable detail.  The
Licensee undertakes that it will not print, publish, distribute, issue to the
public, sell or offer for sale any non-conforming Materials under the Licensed
Marks without the prior written consent of the Licensor.

Acknowledgement/Registration of the Marks

5.1The Licensee acknowledges and agrees
that:
(a)all rights in and to the Licensed Marks belong to the
Licensor (subject only to the limited rights granted herein);

(b)it shall not in any territory acquire or claim any
interest in or title to the Licensed Marks or the goodwill attaching thereto by
virtue of the rights granted to it under this Licence Agreement or through its
use of the Licensed Marks under this Licence Agreement; and

(c)all goodwill arising through use of the Licensed Marks
by the Licensee in any territory shall at all times be deemed to have accrued to
the Licensor.

5.2Further, the Licensee undertakes that:
(a)it shall not, in any jurisdiction, apply to register,
register or seek to register any trade marks, domain names, (other than Domain
Names, the Corporate Name and name combinations set forth in paragraphs 3(f)
(ii) and (iii) above, as licensed herein), copyright or analogous right which is
identical with or substantially similar to or includes any of the Licensed
Marks;

(b)it shall use its best endeavours not to do anything
which is reasonably likely to prejudice the Licensor's rights in and to the
Licensed Marks;

(c)at the Licensor's request and reasonable expense, it
shall execute or procure the execution of any document which may be necessary to
allow the recordal of the rights granted to the Licensee under this License
Agreement and the corresponding cancellation of such recordal on the termination
or expiry of this Licence Agreement, for whatever reason;

(d)at the Licensor's request and reasonable expense, it
shall provide the Licensor with such reasonable assistance as the Licensor
considers necessary for the purpose of pursuing any application or obtaining or
maintaining any registration of the Licensed Marks.

Payment of Royalties

6.1The Licensee agrees to pay the Licensor payments,
calculated by multiplying the Net Revenues by the Royalty Rate, payable
quarterly in arrears.  Moneys payable pursuant to this clause shall accompany
the statement furnished by the Licensee pursuant to Clause 6.2(a).

6.2The Licensee shall deliver to the Licensor:
(a)within thirty (30) days following each Accounting
Period, a statement showing Net Revenues for the most recent Accounting Period
and the calculation of the royalty based on the Royalty Rate; and

(b)any other information reasonably required in order to
understand the royalty payments and Net Revenues as shall be requested by the
Licensor from time to time.

6.3All moneys to be paid hereunder shall be made together
with any value added tax (or other similar tax) chargeable thereon.  

6.4All moneys due hereunder shall be paid in full without
deductions, except only for such tax as the Licensee is obliged to deduct under
any applicable law.  The Licensee shall give the Licensor all reasonable
assistance without charge to the Licensor to recover (under the provisions of
double tax conventions or other lawful manner) any tax so withheld and to obtain
any necessary authorisations and the like to enable the Licensee lawfully to pay
without deduction of tax or to enable the Licensor to recover such tax or to
obtain a tax credit in respect of any amount of tax so withheld.

6.5In the event of any payment required to be made by the
Licensee under this Licence Agreement not being received by the Licensor on or
before the due date of payment, interest shall become payable thereon both
before and after judgment at the rate of 3 per cent above the base rate of
Barclays Bank plc (or, if such rate is not available, the nearest equivalent
rate of another clearing bank in the City of London nominated by the Licensor
and reasonably acceptable to Licensee) for the time being in force from the due
date for payment to the date when payment is actually received.  In the event of
any other rate being substituted for the base rate then such substituted rate
shall apply for the purpose of this Clause 6.

6.6If any dispute shall arise between the parties hereto
as to any royalty payment to be made hereunder, such dispute shall be determined
by an accountant appointed in default of agreement between the parties by the
President for the time being of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in
England and Wales who shall act as an expert and not as an arbitrator and the
fees and expenses of the accountant shall be borne equally by the parties unless
the accountant directs otherwise.  

6.7All payments to be made by the Licensee to the
Licensor shall be made in a mutually agreed manner.

6.8Licensor shall have the right, at its own expense, to
use certified accounting representatives reasonably acceptable to Licensee to
make examinations and audits, by prior arrangement, during normal business
hours, of Licensee's accounts that contain information supporting or reflecting
Licensee's calculation of the statement provided under Clause 6.2(a) of this
Licence Agreement.  Any information so revealed shall be maintained in strict
confidence by both the certified accounting representative and Licensee, shall
not be disclosed by either of them to any third party, and shall be used solely
to verify Licensee's calculation of the statement provided under Clause
6.2(a).

Infringements

7.1The provisions of Section 30(2) of the Trade Marks
Act 1994 (as amended, re-enacted or replaced from time to time) or similar or
analogous legislation in any country in the world, if any, are expressly
excluded by the parties for the purposes of this Licence Agreement.

7.2(a)Subject as provided in clause 7.2(b)
below, the Licensor shall have the exclusive right in its sole and absolute
discretion, and at its own expense, to assume the conduct of all actions and
proceedings relating to the Licensed Marks in any country in the world and the
Licensee agrees to provide to the Licensor at the Licensor's reasonable expense
all assistance which the Licensor may reasonably require in connection
therewith.  Any costs or damages recovered as a result of any such actions or
proceedings shall be for the account of the Licensor unless any such
infringements have clearly caused financial loss to the Licensee in which case
the parties agree to negotiate in good faith an appropriate allocation of any
damages so recovered.

7.2(b)If the Licensor decides not itself to bring any
action for infringement of the Licensed Marks in any jurisdiction, the Licensor
shall at the request of the Licensee lend its name to infringement proceedings
taken by the Licensee in that jurisdiction, subject to receiving an indemnity
from the Licensee in respect of the costs or liabilities so incurred by the
Licensor and provided always that the Licensor shall have the right to approve
all matters relating to the conduct of any proceedings taken in its name such
approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.   Any costs or damages
recovered as a result of proceedings taken by the Licensee shall be for the
account of the Licensee unless any such infringements have clearly caused
financial loss to the Licensor in which case the parties agree to negotiate in
good faith an appropriate allocation of any damages so recovered.

7.3The Licensee shall stop using the Licensed Marks
anywhere in the world as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt of written
notice from the Licensor (or the Licensor's trade mark agents or legal advisers
from time to time) which reasonably demonstrates that such use infringes the
intellectual property rights of any third party.

Term And Termination

8.1This Agreement shall commence on the Effective
Date and shall, subject only to the other provisions of this Clause 8, expire
automatically without need for further notice on the expiration of the Term.

8.2The Licensor may terminate this Licence Agreement by
giving written notice to the Licensee and MarketWatch effective
forthwith:
(a)if the Licensee challenges, by formal action taken
with any governmental agency, the validity of the Licensed Marks or the
Licensor's right to use or license the Licensed Marks; or

(b)if the Licensee commits a material breach of any term
or condition of this Licence Agreement and such breach continues unremedied for
more than 45 days after the Licensor has served a notice in writing on the
Licensee giving details of the breach requiring its remedy by the Licensee or
the Licensee, commits a material breach of any term or condition of this Licence
Agreement which is not capable of remedy, or commits persistent breaches of any
term or condition of this Licence Agreement (whether or not material and whether
or not capable of remedy); or 

(c)if (save for the purposes of a voluntary
reorganisation, reconstruction or amalgamation) an order is made or a resolution
is passed for the winding-up of the Licensee or if a provisional liquidator is
appointed in respect of the Licensee, or if an administration order is made in
respect of the Licensee, or if a receiver (which expression shall include an
administrative receiver) is appointed in respect of the Licensee or all or any
of its assets and is not discharged within a period of 30 days, or if the
Licensee is unable to pay its debts within the meaning of Section 123 of
the Insolvency Act 1986 or any analogous or equivalent legislation in any
country of the world, or if any voluntary arrangement is proposed in respect of
the Licensee under Section 1 of the Insolvency Act 1986 or any analogous or
equivalent legislation in any country of the world; or

(d)upon a change of Control of MarketWatch.

Effects Of Termination

9.1Within ninety (90) days of expiry or termination
of this License Agreement for any reason: 
(a)the rights and licence granted hereunder to the
Licensee shall cease and the Licensee shall immediately discontinue any and all
use of the Licensed Marks; and

(b)the Licensor may request that the Licensee delete or
remove the Licensed Marks from or (where such deletion or removal is not
reasonably practicable) destroy and provide to the Licensor satisfactory
evidence of destruction, deletion or removal or if the Licensor shall so elect
deliver to the Licensor, at the Licensor's cost, for destruction all materials
in the possession or control of the Licensee to which the Licensed Marks is
affixed; and

the Licensee shall otherwise cease all use of the Licensed
Marks, including without limitation all use of the trade mark "Financial
Times MarketWatch".

9.2Within ninety (90) days of expiry or termination of
this Licence Agreement for any reason the Licensee shall provide to the Licensor
satisfactory evidence that it has changed its Corporate Name so as not to
include any of the Licensed Marks.

9.3Within ninety (90) days of expiry or termination of
this License Agreement for any reason the Licensee shall provide to the Licensor
satisfactory evidence that it has either changed the Domain Name so as not to
include any of the Licensed Marks or cancelled the Domain Name.

9.4Termination of this Licence Agreement shall be without
prejudice to the rights of either party which may have accrued up to the date of
such termination.

General 

Successors in Title/Assignment/Sub-Licensing

10.1The rights and obligations of the Licensee under
this Licence Agreement are personal to the Licensee and, subject as expressly
provided in Clause 2.1 above, the Licensee may not (and may not purport to)
assign, transfer, charge, sublicense, or otherwise part with all or any of its
rights and/or obligations under this Licence Agreement (except that the Licensor
hereby expressly consents to the novation of this Licence Agreement in favour of
the JVC).

Notices

10.2.1Any notice or other communication to be given
by one party to the other under, or in connection with the matters contemplated
by, this License Agreement shall be in writing and signed by or on behalf of the
party giving it and may be served by leaving it or sending it by fax, pre-paid
recorded delivery or registered post to the address and for the attention of the
relevant party set out in Clause 10.2.2 (or as otherwise notified from time
to time hereunder).  Any notice so served by hand, fax or post shall be deemed
to have been received:
(a)in the case of delivery by hand, when delivered;

(b)in the case of fax, twelve (12) hours after the time
of despatch;

(c)in the case of prepaid internationally recognized
courier, 48 hours from the date of posting.

10.2.2The addresses of the parties for the purposes of
Clause 10.2.1 are as follows
(a)Address for notices to the Licensor:
·
Number One

Southwark Bridge

London SE1 9HL

England

Attention:   Company Secretary

(b)Address for notices to the Licensee:
·
825 Battery Street

San Francisco, California 94111

U.S.A.

Attention:   CEO

Entire Agreement

10.3This Agreement represents the entire agreement
and understanding between the Licensor and the Licensee in relation to the use
of the Licensed Marks by the Licensee and shall supersede all arrangements or
agreements relating to the Licensed Marks previously entered into or made
between the parties and all such arrangements or agreements are hereby
terminated.

Precedence of Agreements

10.4In the event of any inconsistency between the
provisions of this License Agreement and the JV Agreement, the provisions of the
JV Agreement shall prevail.

Legal relationship

10.5Nothing in this Licence Agreement shall be
construed to constitute either party the partner, joint venturer, agent or
employee of the other party and, except as expressly provided in this Licence
Agreement, neither party by virtue of this Licence Agreement has authority to
transact any business in the name of the other party or on its behalf or incur
any liability for or on behalf of the other party.

Variation

10.6Any right, power, privilege or remedy of a party
under or pursuant to this Licence Agreement shall not be capable of being varied
or waived, otherwise than by an express waiver or variation in writing.

Waiver

10.7No failure or delay by any party in exercising
any right, power, privilege or remedy under this Licence Agreement shall impair
such right, power, privilege or remedy, or operate or be construed as a waiver
or variation thereof or preclude its exercise at any subsequent time or on any
subsequent occasion and no single or partial exercise of any such right, power,
privilege or remedy shall preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the
exercise of any other right, power, privilege or remedy.

Counterparts

10.8This Agreement may be executed in counterparts,
each of which shall be considered an original, with the same effect as if the
parties or their representatives signed the same instrument.

Severance

10.9If any provision of this Licence Agreement is
held to be invalid or unenforceable, then such provision shall (so far as
invalid or unenforceable) be given no effect and shall be deemed not to be
included in this Licence Agreement but without invalidating any of the remaining
provisions of this Licence Agreement.  The parties shall then use all reasonable
endeavours to replace the invalid or unenforceable provisions by a valid and
enforceable substitute provision the effect of which is as close as possible to
the intended effect of the invalid or unenforceable provision.

Further Assurance

10.10Each party agrees to execute such documents and
waivers and generally do everything further that may be necessary to fulfil its
obligations under this Licence Agreement.

Law and jurisdiction

10.11This Agreement shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with English law and the parties irrevocably agree that
the English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes
which may arise out of or in connection with this Licence Agreement.

In Witness Whereof the parties have executed this Licence
Agreement on the date hereinbefore mentioned:  

SIGNED by)

)

duly authorised for and on behalf of)

FINANCIAL TIMES LIMITED)

in the presence of:

SIGNED by)

)

duly authorised for and on behalf of )

FINANCIAL TIMES)

MARKETWATCH.COM (EUROPE) LIMITED)

in the presence of:

EXHIBIT B

MarketWatch Trade Mark Licence

TRADEMARK LICENSE DEED (the Deed) made on
_____ _____ 2000

Between

(1)[Appropriate MarketWatch Group Member], a
company incorporated under the laws of [] whose business offices are located
at [] (the Licensor); and,

(2)FINANCIAL TIMES MARKETWATCH.COM (EUROPE)
LIMITED, a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, whose
registered office is at Number One, Southwark Bridge, London SE1 0HL (the
Licensee)

Whereas

(A)The Licensor [is a fully-owned subsidiary of
MarketWatch.com, Inc. (MarketWatch) and] is the owner of the
"MARKETWATCH", "MARKETWATCH.com" and "MKTW"
trademarks and existing registrations and applications for such trademarks as
set forth in Schedule A attached hereto.

(B)MarketWatch has entered into a Joint Venture Agreement
with the Financial Times Limited (Financial Times) (the JV
Agreement).  As provided in the JV Agreement, MarketWatch and Financial
Times have agreed to form a joint venture and acquire shares in the Licensee for
the purpose of jointly developing the Business.  Accordingly, the Licensee is to
be given certain rights to use the mark "MARKETWATCH" and certain
other trademarks as part of the Corporate Name of the Licensee and in connection
with the Business to be conducted by the Licensee, subject to the terms and
conditions of this Deed. 

It is agreed as follows

Definitions

1.1In this Deed, unless separately defined below or
the context otherwise requires, all expressions will have the meanings given to
them in the JV Agreement:

Co-Branded Site means a website containing
content that derives from and is substantially similar to the content of the
Website that is operated under an agreement between the Licensee and a third
party to promote and derive revenue for the Business among other things.

Corporate Name means the company, business or
trading name of the Licensee;

Domain Name means any domain name used as part
of the uniform resource locator (URL) of Websites or Co-Branded Sites on the
Internet registered in the name of the Licensee at the domain name registries
worldwide;

Effective Date means the date of this Deed
first set forth above;

Internet means the global network of interconnecting computer
systems, including without limitation the worldwide web;

Licensed Marks means the marks and names
"MARKETWATCH", "MARKETWATCH.com", "MKTW" and
"FTMARKETWATCH.com" and registrations and applications for
registration for these marks and names in any jurisdiction;

MarketWatch.com means the website owned and operated by
MarketWatch and located on the Internet under the domain name
"MarketWatch.com";

Promotional Material means any promotional and
advertising materials in any media created by (or on behalf of) the Licensee for
the purpose of promoting the Business in the world;

Term means the period from the Effective Date
until the first to occur of the following events:
(a)termination of this Deed pursuant to Section 7.2
below; or

(b)expiration or earlier termination of the JV Agreement
pursuant to Clause 28.1 of the JV Agreement; or

(c)on MarketWatch ceasing to provide Core Services
pursuant to Clause 11.6 of the JV Agreement; or

(d)on liquidation of the JVC pursuant to Clauses 10.5 or
11.10 of the JV Agreement.

Website means a website established by (or on
behalf of) the Licensee for the purposes of the Business.

1.2In this Deed, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(a)references to persons will include individuals, bodies
corporate (whenever incorporated), unincorporated associations and
partnerships;

(b)the headings are inserted for convenience only and
will not affect the construction of the Deed;

(c)references to one gender will include each gender and
all genders;

(d)any reference to any law is a reference to that law as
it may be amended, consolidated or re-enacted (with or without modification)
from time to time and includes all instruments or orders made under such
laws.

Grant of License

2.1In consideration of the payment of the sum of
L1.00 by the Licensee to the Licensor, (receipt of which is acknowledged) the
Licensor hereby grants to the Licensee a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free
license during the Term and for a period of ninety (90) days thereafter, to use
the Licensed Marks:
(a)in any page of the Website and any Co-Branded Site
(including in any hypertext links within the Website which link to
MarketWatch.com);

(b)as part of Domain Names and to register such Domain
Names at the domain name registries worldwide;

(c)on and in the Promotional Material;

(d)as part of the Corporate Name; and

(e)in connection with the Business,

subject to the terms and conditions of this Deed.  The
Licensee may grant sublicenses of the foregoing rights but only as to
combination brands listed in Section 3(f) below (and not as stand alone Licensed
Marks) and only for use in connection with Co-Branded Sites (including in links
to Co-Branded Sites), and on and in Promotional Material therefor; provided
that, any such sublicensee must execute a sublicense agreement that contains
provisions that are, as to the Licensed Marks and as to Licensor, at least as
protective as the provisions of this Deed.  Any such sublicense agreements will
provide for expiration coterminous with the expiration or earlier termination of
this Deed.

Acknowledgement

2.2The Licensee acknowledges and accepts that, as at
the date of this Deed, the Licensor has not obtained trademark registrations for
the Licensed Marks in all countries worldwide.  Accordingly, in countries where
such registrations have not been obtained by Licensor or MarketWatch, the
Licensor can and does license under Section 2.1 only such unregistered trademark
right, title and interest as it may own  or have the right to sublicense in and
to the Licensed Marks.  The Licensor makes no express warranty or representation
(and none will be implied) as to the extent of rights in the Licensed Marks, if
any.

Conditions Of Use
3.The Licensee hereby agrees that:

(a)it will use the Licensed Marks only as licensed herein
and not otherwise;

(b)consistent with prudent business judgement and Section
3.1(a) of the JV Agreement, the Licensed Marks will form part of the branding
for the Business and will be used prominently in the Website;

(c)the Website and the Promotional Material will conform
to standards of quality as the Licensor may from time to time reasonably
require, which will be no lower than that generally achieved by the Licensor in
providing MarketWatch.com services and related goods and services in the course
of its business as at the date of this Deed;

(d)it will not use the Licensed Marks in a manner that is
reasonably likely to be prejudicial to the use of the Licensed Marks by the
Licensor or its successors, assignees or licensees;

(e)the Licensed Marks will be used in and with the
Website in a layout, form, size, printing style, color and type face to be
approved by the Licensor in advance of use (such approval not to be unreasonably
withheld or delayed);

(f)it will not use the Licensed Marks together or in
combination with any other marks, names, logos, symbols or devices without the
prior written consent of the Licensor, other than in the forms:
(i)as part of a hypertext link to the Licensor's Website
only,  "MarketWatch" and "MarketWatch.com"; 

(ii)"Financial Times Market Watch"; 
(iii)as part of, or in reference to (including but not
limited to use in keywords or metatags), Domain Names only, "FT
MarketWatch", "FT MarketWatch.com", "FTMKTW" and
"FTMKTW.COM"; 

provided, however, that the marks in paragraphs 3(f)(ii) and
(iii) above (but not the Licensed Marks alone) may be used in other combinations
with third party trademarks, in describing a Co-Branded Site.

(g)it will not use any device mark, logo, or symbol that
is substantially similar to or so nearly resembles the Licensed Marks as to be
likely to cause deception or confusion;

(h)it will include on the home page of the Website, a
statement that "MARKETWATCH, MARKETWATCH.com and MKTW" are
Trademarks of MarketWatch.com, Inc. and are used under license" (or as
may be advised in writing to the Licensee, an equivalent statement in relation
to the Licensor's successors in title or assignees as the case may be);

(i)it will not use the Licensed Marks in a manner that is
reasonably likely to cause material harm to the goodwill attaching to the
Licensed Marks;

(j)it will meet, no more than quarterly, if so required
by the Licensor, to discuss the maintenance of the above standards of quality
and presentation.

Samples and Access

4.If it is found that any of the Promotional Material
or any page of the JV Website or a Co-Branded Site bearing or intended to bear
the Licensed Marks (the Materials) does not conform to any
material extent with any of the Licensee's obligations under this Deed, the
Licensor will give the Licensee written notice of that fact setting out the
reasons for the lack of conformity in reasonable detail.  The Licensee agrees
not to print, publish, distribute, issue to the public, sell or offer for sale
any non-conforming Materials under the Licensed Marks without the prior written
consent of the Licensor.

Acknowledgement/Registration of the Marks

5.1The Licensee acknowledges and agrees
that:
(a)all rights in and to the Licensed Marks belong to the
Licensor (subject only to the limited rights granted herein);

(b)it will not acquire or claim any interest in or title
to the Licensed Marks or the goodwill attaching thereto by virtue of the rights
granted to it under this Deed or through its use of the Licensed Marks under
this Deed; and

(c)all goodwill arising through use of the Licensed Marks
by the Licensee in any territory will at all times be deemed to have accrued to
the Licensor.

5.2Further, the Licensee undertakes that:
(a)it will not, in any jurisdiction, apply to register,
register or seek to register any trademarks, domain names, (other than Domain
Names, the Corporate Name and name combinations set forth in paragraphs 3(f)
(ii) and (iii) above, as licensed under this Deed), copyright or analogous right
which is identical with or substantially similar to or includes any of the
Licensed Marks;

(b)it will use its best efforts not to do anything that
is reasonably likely to prejudice the Licensor's rights in and to the Licensed
Marks;

(c)at the Licensor's request and reasonable expense, it
will execute or procure the execution of any document which may be necessary to
allow the recordation of the rights granted to the Licensee under this Deed and
the corresponding cancellation of such recordation upon the termination or
expiration of this Deed , for whatever reason;

(d)at the Licensor's request and reasonable expense, it
will provide the Licensor and/or MarketWatch with such reasonable assistance as
the Licensor and/or MarketWatch considers necessary for the purpose of pursuing
any application or obtaining or maintaining any registration of the Licensed
Marks.

Infringement

6.1The provisions of Section 30(2) of the Trade Marks
Act 1994 (as amended, re-enacted or replaced from time to time) or similar or
analogous legislation in any country in the world, if any, are expressly
excluded by the parties for the purposes of this Deed.

6.2(a)Except as provided in Section 6.2(b)
below, the Licensor will have the exclusive right in its sole and absolute
discretion, and at its own expense, to assume the conduct of all actions and
proceedings relating to the Licensed Marks in any country in the world.  The
Licensee agrees to provide to the Licensor, at the Licensor's reasonable
expense, all assistance that the Licensor may reasonably require in connection
therewith.  Any costs or damages recovered as a result of any such actions or
proceedings will be for the account of the Licensor, unless any such
infringement has clearly caused financial loss to the Licensee.  In such case,
the parties agree to negotiate in good faith an appropriate allocation of any
damages so recovered.

6.2(b)If the Licensor decides not to bring any action
for infringement of the Licensed Marks in any jurisdiction, the Licensor will at
the request of the Licensee cooperate to enable infringement proceedings by the
Licensee in that jurisdiction.  However, such cooperation may be conditioned
upon the Licensor receiving an indemnity from the Licensee in respect of costs
or liabilities incurred by the Licensor and the Licensor having the right to
approve all matters relating to the conduct of any proceedings taken in its name
such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.  Any costs or damages
recovered as a result of proceedings taken by the Licensee will be for the
account of the Licensee unless the infringement has clearly caused financial
loss to the Licensor.  In such case, the parties agree to negotiate in good
faith an appropriate allocation of any damages so recovered.

6.3The Licensee will stop using the Licensed Marks
anywhere in the world as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt of written
notice from the Licensor (or the Licensor's trademark agents or legal advisers
from time to time) which reasonably demonstrates that such use infringes the
intellectual property rights of any third party.

Term And Termination

7.1This Deed will commence on the Effective Date and
will, subject only to the other provisions of this Section 7, expire
automatically without need for further notice on the expiration of the Term.

7.2The Licensor may terminate this Deed by giving written
notice to the Licensee and Financial Times effective forthwith:
(a)if the Licensee challenges, by formal action taken
with any governmental agency, the validity of the Licensed Marks or the
Licensor's right to use or license the Licensed Marks; or

(b)if the Licensee commits a material breach of any term
or condition of this Deed and such breach continues unremedied for more than
45 days after the Licensor has served a notice in writing on the Licensee
giving details of the breach requiring its remedy by the Licensee or the
Licensee commits a material breach of any term or condition of this Deed that is
not capable of remedy or the Licensee commits persistent breaches of any term or
condition of this Deed (whether or not material and whether or not capable of
remedy); or 

(c)if, except for purposes of a voluntary reorganization,
reconstruction or amalgamation, an order is made or a resolution is passed for
the winding-up of the Licensee or if a provisional liquidator is appointed in
respect of the Licensee, or if an administration order is made in respect of the
Licensee, or if an administrative receiver or other receiver is appointed in
respect of the Licensee or all or any of its assets and is not discharged within
a period of 30 days, or if the Licensee is unable to pay its debts within
the meaning of Section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 or any analogous or
equivalent legislation in any country of the world, or if any voluntary
arrangement is proposed in respect of the Licensee under Section 1 of the
Insolvency Act 1986 or any analogous or equivalent legislation in any country of
the world; or

(d)upon a change of Control of Financial Times.

Effects Of Termination

8.1Within ninety (90) days of expiration or
termination of this Deed for any reason: 
(a)the rights and License granted hereunder to the
Licensee will cease and the Licensee will immediately discontinue any and all
use of the Licensed Marks; and

(b)the Licensor may request that the Licensee delete or
remove the Licensed Marks from or (where such deletion or removal is not
reasonably practicable) destroy and provide to the Licensor satisfactory
evidence of destruction, deletion or removal or if the Licensor will so elect
deliver to the Licensor, at the Licensor's cost, for destruction all materials
in the possession or control of the Licensee to which the Licensed Marks is
affixed; and

the Licensee will otherwise cease all use of the Licensed
Marks, including but not limited to all use of the trademark "Financial
Times MarketWatch".

8.2Within ninety (90) days of expiration or termination
of this Deed for any reason, or thereafter as soon as practicable, the Licensee
will provide to the Licensor satisfactory evidence that it has changed its
Corporate Name so as not to include any of the Licensed Marks.

8.3Within ninety (90) days of expiration or termination
of this Deed for any reason, or thereafter as soon as practicable, the Licensee
will provide to the Licensor satisfactory evidence that it has either changed
the Domain Name so as not to include any of the Licensed Marks or cancelled the
Domain Name.

8.4Termination of this Deed will be without prejudice to
the rights of either party which may have accrued up to the date of such
termination.

General 

Successors in Title/Assignment/Sub-Licensing

9.1The rights and obligations of the Licensee under
this Deed are personal to the Licensee and, except as expressly provided in
Section 2.1 above, the Licensee may not (and may not purport to) assign,
transfer, charge, sublicense, or otherwise part with all or any of its rights
and/or obligations under this Deed (except that the Licensor hereby expressly
consents to the novation of this Deed in favor of the JVC).

Notices

9.2.1Any notice or other communication to be given by
one party to the other under, or in connection with the matters contemplated by,
this Deed will be in writing and signed by or on behalf of the party giving it
and may be served by leaving it or sending it by fax, prepaid recorded delivery
or registered post to the address and for the attention of the relevant party
set out in Section 9.2.2 (or as otherwise notified from time to time
hereunder).  Any notice so served by hand, fax, post or internationally-
recognized courier will be deemed to have been received:
(a)in the case of delivery by hand, when delivered;

(b)in the case of fax, twelve (12) hours after the time
of transmittal;

(c)in the case of prepaid internationally recognized
courier, 48 hours from the date of transmittal.

9.2.2The addresses of the parties for the purposes of
Section 9.2.1 are as follows:
(a)Address for notices to the Licensor:
·
825 Battery Street

San Francisco, California 94111

U.S.A.

Attention:  CEO

(b)Address for notices to the Licensee:
·
Number One

Southwark Bridge

London SE1 9HL

England

Attention:  Company Secretary

Entire Agreement

9.3This Deed represents the entire agreement and
understanding between the Licensor and the Licensee in relation to the use of
the Licensed Marks by the Licensee and supersedes all arrangements or agreements
relating to the Licensed Marks previously entered into or made between the
parties and all such arrangements or agreements are hereby terminated.

Precedence of Agreements

9.4In the event of any inconsistency between the
provisions of this Deed and the JV Agreement, the provisions of the JV Agreement
will prevail.

Legal relationship

9.5Nothing in this Deed will be construed to
constitute either party the partner, joint venturer, agent or employee of the
other party and, except as expressly provided in this Deed. Neither party by
virtue of this Deed has authority to transact any business in the name of the
other party or on its behalf or incur any liability for or on behalf of the
other party.

Variation

9.6Any right, power, privilege or remedy of a party
under or pursuant to this Deed will not be capable of being varied or waived,
other than by an express waiver or agreement signed by both parties.

Waiver

9.7No failure or delay by any party in exercising any
right, power, privilege or remedy under this Deed will impair such right, power,
privilege or remedy, or operate or be construed as a waiver or variation thereof
or preclude its exercise at any subsequent time or on any subsequent occasion
and no single or partial exercise of any such right, power, privilege or remedy
will preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other
right, power, privilege or remedy.

Counterparts

9.8This Deed may be executed in counterparts, each of
which will be considered an original, with the same effect as if the parties or
their representatives signed the same instrument.

Severance

9.9If any provision of this Deed is held to be
invalid or unenforceable, then such provision will (so far as invalid or
unenforceable) be given no effect and will be deemed not to be included in this
Deed but without invalidating any of the remaining provisions of this Deed.  The
parties will then use all reasonable efforts to replace the invalid or
unenforceable provisions by a valid and enforceable substitute provision the
effect of which is as close as possible to the intended effect of the invalid or
unenforceable provision.

Further Assurance

9.10Each party agrees to execute such documents and
waivers and generally do everything further that may be necessary to fulfil its
obligations under this Deed.

Law and jurisdiction

9.11This Deed will be governed by and construed in
accordance with English law and the parties irrevocably agree that the English
Courts will have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may arise
out of or in connection with this Deed.

Duly delivered as a deed on the date inserted on page 1

SIGNED AS A DEED and)

DELIVERED on behalf of)

[Appropriate MarketWatch Group Member])

a company incorporated in [] by )

_________________________ )

being a person, who in accordance with)

the laws of that territory, is acting under )

the authority of the company)

EXECUTED and DELIVERED)

as a DEED under the Common Seal of )

FINANCIAL TIMES)

MARKETWATCH.COM (EUROPE))

LIMITED)

in the presence of: 

Director:

Secretary

EXHIBIT C

MarketWatch Technology Licence

TECHNOLOGY LICENSE AGREEMENT (this Technology
Agreement) is entered into effective as of _____ _____ 2000

Between

(1)[Appropriate MarketWatch Group Member] a
company incorporated under the laws of [] whose business officers are
located at [] (Licensor); and,

(2)FINANCIAL TIMES MARKETWATCH.COM (EUROPE)
LIMITED, a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales, whose
registered office is at Number One, Southwark Bridge, London SE1 0HL
(Licensee)

Whereas

(A)Licensor [is a fully-owned subsidiary of
MarketWatch.com, Inc. (MarketWatch) and] controls, has rights to
or is the owner of the MarketWatch Technology; and,

(B)MarketWatch has entered into a Joint Venture Agreement
with the Financial Times Limited (Financial Times) (the JV
Agreement).  As provided in the JV Agreement, MarketWatch and Financial
Times have agreed to form a joint venture and acquire shares in Licensee for the
purpose of jointly developing the Business.  Accordingly, Licensee is to be
given certain rights to use the MarketWatch Technology in connection with the
Business to be conducted by Licensee, subject to the terms and conditions of
this Technology Agreement. 

It is agreed as follows

Definitions

1.1In this Technology Agreement, unless separately
defined below or the context otherwise requires, all expressions will have the
meanings given to them in the JV Agreement:

Accounting Period means each of the three (3)
month periods ending on 31 March, 30 June, 30 September and 31 December for
each year (or part thereof) during the Term and the part of any such period from
the Effective Date to the end of such period and from the commencement of any
such period until 17.00 GMT on the final day of the Term or, as the case may be,
the date of termination of this Technology Agreement;

Effective Date means the date of this
Technology Agreement first set forth above;

MarketWatch Technology means the website
infrastructure, content authoring tools and techniques, network operations
techniques, website architecture and databases used by MarketWatch, including
any modifications, improvements and enhancements to, and derivative works based
upon such technology provided by MarketWatch by means of the Services.
MarketWatch Technology does not include any source code.

Services has the meaning given to it by Section
6.1.

Services Costs means all costs incurred by the
Licensor referable to providing the Services to the Licensee (including labor,
employee benefits and administration, as well as other incremental costs
attributable to the Services provided, but not including any costs that would
otherwise be incurred by the Licensor in the normal course of its business)
which will not exceed, in any one year, the maximum annual fee for that year
approved by a unanimous vote of the Board of Directors of the Licensee.  

Term means the period from the Effective Date
until the first to occur of the following events:
(a)termination of this Technology Agreement according to
Section 8.2 below; or

(b)expiration or earlier termination of the JV Agreement
according to Clause 28.1 of the JV Agreement; or

(c)MarketWatch ceasing to provide Core Services pursuant
to Clause 11.6 of the JV Agreement; or

(d)on liquidation of the JVC pursuant to Clauses 10.5 or
11.10 of the JV Agreement.

1.2In this Technology Agreement, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(a)references to persons will include individuals, bodies
corporate (whenever incorporated), unincorporated associations and
partnerships;

(b)the headings are inserted for convenience only and
will not affect the construction of the Agreement;

(c)references to one gender will include each gender and
all genders;

(d)any reference to any law is a reference to it may be
amended, consolidated or re-enacted (with or without modification) from time to
time and includes all instruments or orders made under such
enactments.

Grant of License

2.1In consideration of the payment of the Services
Costs by Licensee pursuant to Section 6 of this Technology Agreement, and
subject to the terms and conditions of this Technology Agreement, Licensor
hereby grants to Licensee a non-exclusive, worldwide, non-transferable, royalty-
free license for the Term to import, use, modify, perform, create derivative
works, and reproduce the MarketWatch Technology, and to sub-license a Subsidiary
or sub-contractor to perform any of the above functions, solely to the extent
necessary for Licensee, its employees and contractors to operate the Business.

Reservation of Rights

2.2All rights not expressly granted in Section 2.1
above are reserved to Licensor.

Confidentiality

3.1Licensee agrees that the MarketWatch Technology is
the confidential information of Licensor.  Licensee shall: (i) hold the
MarketWatch Technology in strict confidence, (ii) not disclose the MarketWatch
Technology to any third party (including, without limitation, Financial Times)
(iii) not use the MarketWatch Technology for any purpose except solely to the
extent necessary for Licensee, its employees and contractors to operate the
Business, and (iv) take all reasonable measures to maintain the confidentiality
of the MarketWatch Technology, which will in no event be less than the measures
it uses to maintain the confidentiality of its own information of similar
importance.  Notwithstanding Section 3.1(ii) above, Licensee may disclose the
MarketWatch Technology to its employees, subsidiaries, contractors and
professional advisors with a bona fide need to know, but only to the extent
necessary to operate the Business, and provided further that such disclosure is
subject to a written non-disclosure agreement which includes terms at least as
restrictive as those of this Section 3.1.  

3.2  The obligations of Section 3.1 shall not apply to any
part of the MarketWatch Technology that: (i) is now, or hereafter becomes,
through no act or failure to act on the part of the Licensee, generally known or
available to the public; (ii) was rightfully acquired by the Licensee before its
receipt from Licensor and without restriction as to use or disclosure; (iii) is
hereafter rightfully furnished to Licensee by a third party, without restriction
as to use or disclosure; (iv) which the Licensee can document was independently
developed by Licensee; or (v) is required to be disclosed pursuant to law,
provided the Licensee uses reasonable efforts to give the Licensor reasonable
notice of such required disclosure sufficient for the Licensor to seek and
obtain confidential treatment of the MarketWatch Technology so disclosed.

Proprietary Rights

4.1The MarketWatch Technology is and will remain the
sole and exclusive property of Licensor and its suppliers, if any, whether the
MarketWatch Technology is separate or combined with any other technology,
subject only to the licenses expressly granted herein.  Subject to the License
granted in Section 2.1, Licensor's rights and ownership under this Section 4.1
will include and cover, but not be limited to:  (i) all copies of the
MarketWatch Technology, in whole and in part; (ii) all Intellectual Property
Rights in the MarketWatch Technology; and (iii) all modifications, improvements
and enhancements to, and derivative works based upon, the MarketWatch
Technology.  Licensee agrees to assign, as requested by Licensee from time to
time, and Licensee does hereby assign any and all right, title and interest in
and to any and all such modifications, improvements, enhancements and derivative
works, whether created by Licensee or for Licensee by third parties.

4.2Rights Notices.  Licensee will not delete or in
any manner alter the Intellectual Property Rights notices of Licensor and its
suppliers, if any, appearing on the MarketWatch Technology as delivered to
Licensee.  Licensee will reproduce and display such notices on each copy it
makes of the MarketWatch Technology.

4.3Licensee's Duties.  Licensee will use its
reasonable efforts to protect Licensor's Intellectual Property Rights in and to
the MarketWatch Technology and will report promptly to Licensor any infringement
of such rights of which Licensee becomes aware.  Licensee will cooperate with
Licensor in obtaining registrations of Intellectual Property Rights in and to
the MarketWatch Technology and otherwise protecting Licensor's proprietary
interests in the MarketWatch Technology.

Disclaimer of Warranty

5.THE MARKETWATCH TECHNOLOGY IS PROVIDED "AS
IS" AND, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NONINFRINGEMENT.  

Services and Service Fees

6.1Licensor will provide the right to use existing
technology development, implementation, technical management, and hosting
services (the Services), as agreed by Licensor and JV from year to
year during the Term.

6.2Licensee will pay the Services Costs to the Licensor
quarterly with the each payment due thirty (30) days after receipt of the
statement described in Section 6.2(a) below.  Within thirty (30) days following
each Accounting Period, Licensor will deliver to Licensee:
(a)a statement showing Services Costs for the prior
Accounting Period; and

(b)any other information reasonably required in order to
understand the calculation for Services Costs and corresponding fees payable, as
may be requested by Licensee from time to time.

6.3All Services Costs to be paid under this Technology
Agreement will be made together with any value added tax (or other similar tax)
chargeable thereon.  

6.4All Services Costs due hereunder will be paid in full
without deductions, except only for such tax as Licensee is obligated to deduct
under any applicable law.  Licensee will give Licensor all reasonable assistance
without charge to Licensor to recover (under the provisions of double tax
conventions or other lawful manner) any tax so withheld and to obtain any
necessary authorizations and the like to enable Licensee lawfully to pay without
deduction of tax or to enable Licensor to recover such tax or to obtain a tax
credit in respect of any amount of tax so withheld.

6.5In the event that any Services Costs are not received
by Licensor on or before the due date of payment, interest will be payable on
the past due amount both before and after judgment at the rate of three percent
(3%) above the base rate of Barclays Bank plc (or, if such rate is not
available, the nearest equivalent rate of another clearing bank in the City of
London nominated by Licensor and reasonably acceptable to Licensee) for the time
being in force from the due date for payment to the date when payment is
actually received.  In the event of any other rate being substituted for the
base rate, such substituted rate will apply for the purpose of this Section
6.

6.6If any dispute arises between the parties hereto as to
any payment to be made hereunder, such dispute will be determined by an
accountant mutually agreed upon by the parties or, if they cannot agree, an
accountant appointed by the then current President of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in England and Wales.  In any case, the accountant so selected will
act as an expert and not as an arbitrator.  The fees and expenses of the
accountant will be borne equally by the parties unless the accountant directs
otherwise.  

6.7All payments to be made by Licensee to Licensor will
be made in a mutually agreed manner.

6.8Licensee shall have the right, at its own expense, to
use certified accounting representatives reasonably acceptable to Licensor to
make examinations and audits, by prior arrangement, during normal business
hours, and not more frequently than semi-annually, of Licensor's accounts that
contain information supporting or reflecting Licensor's calculation of the
Services Costs.  Any information so revealed shall be maintained in strict
confidence by both the certified accounting representative and Licensee, shall
not be disclosed by either of them to any third party, and shall be used solely
to verify Licensor's calculation of the Services Costs.

Infringement

7.1(a)Except as provided in Section 7.1(b)
below, Licensor will have the exclusive right in its sole and absolute
discretion, and at its own expense, to assume the conduct of all actions and
proceedings relating to the MarketWatch Technology in any country in the world.
Licensee agrees to provide to Licensor, at Licensor's reasonable expense, all
assistance that Licensor may reasonably require in connection therewith.  Any
costs or damages recovered as a result of any such actions or proceedings will
be for the account of Licensor, unless any such infringement has clearly caused
financial loss to Licensee.  In such case, the parties agree to negotiate in
good faith an appropriate allocation of any damages so recovered.

7.1(b)If Licensor decides not to bring any action for
infringement of the MarketWatch Technology in any jurisdiction, Licensor will at
the request of Licensee cooperate to enable infringement proceedings in that
jurisdiction by Licensee.  However, such cooperation may be conditioned upon
Licensor receiving an indemnity from Licensee in respect of costs or liabilities
incurred by Licensor and Licensor having the right to approve all matters
relating to the conduct of any proceedings taken in its name such approval not
to be unreasonably withheld or delayed.   Any costs or damages recovered as a
result of proceedings taken by Licensee will be for the account of Licensee
unless the infringement has clearly caused financial loss to Licensor.  In such
case, the parties agree to discuss in good faith an appropriate allocation of
any damages so recovered.

7.2Licensee will stop using the MarketWatch Technology in
a jurisdiction as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt of written notice
from Licensor (or Licensor's legal advisers from time to time) which reasonably
demonstrates that such use infringes the intellectual property rights of any
third party in that jurisdiction.

Term And Termination

8.1This Agreement will commence on the Effective Date
and will, subject only to the other provisions of this Section 8, expire
automatically without need for further notice on the expiration of the Term.

8.2Licensor may terminate this Technology Agreement by
giving written notice to Licensee and Financial Times forthwith:
(a)if Licensee challenges, by formal action taken with
any governmental agency, Licensor's right to use or license the MarketWatch
Technology; or

(b)if Licensee commits a material breach of any term or
condition of this Technology Agreement and such breach continues unremedied for
more than 45 days after Licensor has served a notice in writing on Licensee
giving details of the breach requiring its remedy by Licensee or Licensee
commits a material breach of any term or condition of this Technology Agreement
that is not capable of remedy or Licensee commits persistent breaches of any
term or condition of this Technology Agreement (whether or not material and
whether or not capable of remedy); or 

(c)if, except for purposes of a voluntary reorganisation,
reconstruction or amalgamation, an order is made or a resolution is passed for
the winding-up of Licensee or if a provisional liquidator is appointed in
respect of Licensee, or if an administration order is made in respect of
Licensee, or if an administrative receiver or other receiver is appointed in
respect of Licensee or all or any of its assets and is not discharged within a
period of 30 days, or if Licensee is unable to pay its debts within the
meaning of Section 123 of the Insolvency Act 1986 or any analogous or
equivalent legislation in any country of the world, or if any voluntary
arrangement is proposed in respect of Licensee under Section 1 of the
Insolvency Act 1986 or any analogous or equivalent legislation in any country of
the world.

Effects Of Termination

9.1The License to use and to sub-license the use of
The MarketWatch Technology granted by Section 2.1 above will survive termination
of this Technology Agreement for any reason other than termination by the
Licensor pursuant to Section 8.2 above, in which case the Licensee shall cease
all use of the MarketWatch Technology within 90 days of termination.

9.2Termination of this Technology Agreement will be
without prejudice to the rights of either party, which may have accrued up to
the date of such termination.

General 

Successors in Title/Assignment/Sub-Licensing

10.1The rights and obligations of Licensee under this
Technology Agreement are personal to Licensee and Licensee may not (and may not
purport to) assign, transfer, charge, sublicense, or otherwise part with all or
any of its rights and/or obligations under this Technology Agreement (except
that Licensor hereby expressly consents to the novation of this Technology
Agreement in favor of the Licensee).

Notices

10.2.1Any notice or other communication to be given
by one party to the other under, or in connection with the matters contemplated
by, this Technology Agreement will be in writing and signed by or on behalf of
the party giving it and may be served by leaving it or sending it by fax,
prepaid recorded delivery or registered post to the address and for the
attention of the relevant party set out in Section 10.2.2 (or as otherwise
notified from time to time hereunder).  Any notice so served by hand, fax, post
or internationally-recognized courier will be deemed to have been
received:
(a)in the case of delivery by hand, when delivered;

(b)in the case of fax, twelve (12) hours after the time
of transmittal;

(c)in the case of post, 48 hours after posting;

(d)in the case of prepaid internationally recognized
courier, 48 hours from the date of transmittal.

10.2.2The addresses of the parties for the purposes of
Section 10.2.1 are as follows
(a)Address for notices to Licensor:
·
825 Battery Street

San Francisco, California 94111

U.S.A.

Attention:CEO

(b)Address for notices to Licensee:
·
Number One

Southwark Bridge

London SE1 9HL

England

Attention:Company Secretary

Entire Agreement

10.3This Agreement represents the entire agreement
and understanding between Licensor and Licensee in relation to the license and
use of the MarketWatch Technology by Licensee and supersedes all arrangements or
agreements relating to the MarketWatch Technology previously entered into or
made between the parties and all such arrangements or agreements are hereby
terminated.

Precedence of Agreements

10.4In the event of any inconsistency between the
provisions of this Technology Agreement and the JV Agreement, the provisions of
the JV Agreement will prevail.

Legal relationship

10.5Nothing in this Technology Agreement will be
construed to constitute either party the partner, joint venturer, agent or
employee of the other party and, except as expressly provided in this Technology
Agreement. Neither party by virtue of this Technology Agreement has authority to
transact any business in the name of the other party or on its behalf or incur
any liability for or on behalf of the other party.

Variation

10.6Any right, power, privilege or remedy of a party
under or according to this Technology Agreement will not be capable of being
varied or waived, other than by an express waiver or agreement signed by both
parties.

Waiver

10.7No failure or delay by any party in exercising
any right, power, privilege or remedy under this Technology Agreement will
impair such right, power, privilege or remedy, or operate or be construed as a
waiver or variation thereof or preclude its exercise at any subsequent time or
on any subsequent occasion and no single or partial exercise of any such right,
power, privilege or remedy will preclude any other or further exercise thereof
or the exercise of any other right, power, privilege or remedy.

Counterparts

10.8This Agreement may be executed in counterparts,
each of which will be considered an original, with the same effect as if the
parties or their representatives signed the same instrument.

Severance

10.9If any provision of this Technology Agreement is
held to be invalid or unenforceable, then such provision will (so far as invalid
or unenforceable) be given no effect and will be deemed not to be included in
this Technology Agreement but without invalidating any of the remaining
provisions of this Technology Agreement.  The parties will then use all
reasonable efforts to replace the invalid or unenforceable provisions by a valid
and enforceable substitute provision the effect of which is as close as possible
to the intended effect of the invalid or unenforceable provision.

Limitation of Liability

10.10EXCEPT FOR LICENSEE'S BREACH OF ITS OBLIGATIONS
UNDER SECTIONS 3 OR 6.8 OF THIS TECHNOLOGY AGREEMENT, IN NO EVENT WILL EITHER
PARTY BE LIABLE TO THE OTHER PARTY UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT
FOR ANY CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL OR INDIRECT DAMAGES OF ANY KIND OR
NATURE, AT LAW OR EQUITY, AND WHETHER OR NOT ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES.  IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR BE LIABLE UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
AGREEMENT FOR ANY DAMAGES OF ANY KIND OR NATURE IN EXCESS OF FEES PAID TO
LICENSOR HEREUNDER.

Further Assurance

10.11Each party agrees to execute such documents and
waivers and generally do everything further that may be necessary to fulfil its
obligations under this Technology Agreement.

Law and jurisdiction

10.12This Agreement will be governed by and
construed in accordance with English law and the parties irrevocably agree that
the English Courts will have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes,
which may arise out of or in connection with this Technology Agreement.

In Witness Whereof the parties have executed this
Technology Agreement on the date hereinbefore mentioned:  

SIGNED by)

)

duly authorised for and on behalf of)

[Appropriate MarketWatch Group Member])

in the presence of:

SIGNED by)

)

duly authorised for and on behalf of )

FINANCIAL TIMES )

MARKETWATCH.COM (EUROPE))

LIMITED)

in the presence of:

6 January 2000

FINANCIAL TIMES GROUP LIMITED

MARKETWATCH.COM, INC.
JOINT VENTURE AGREEMENT 

relating to the establishment of

FINANCIAL TIMES MARKETWATCH.COM (EUROPE) LIMITED

as a jointly-owned company

Contents

ClausePage

Interpretation
*
Definitions*

Currency*

Construction and Interpretation
*

Agreed form*

Status*

	Purpose of the JVC
*

Business*

Commercial principles
*

Hyperlinks*

Source attribution*

	Incorporation of the JVC
*

No activity prior to Completion
*

	Conditions*

Conditions*

Endeavours to fulfil Conditions
*

Non-fulfilment of Conditions
*

	Conduct before Completion
*

Agreement on Funding Schedule and Business Plans
*

	Termination*

	Completion*

Further Services*

Rescission*

Change of name*

	Capital and further finance
*

Issues of new shares
*

Funding support by the parties
*

Further finance*

Guarantees*

	Directors and management
*

Supervision by the Board
*

Board of Directors, Chief Executive and Editor in
Chief*

Appointment and removal of Directors
*

Quorum*

Notice and Agenda*

Frequency of Meetings
*

Board voting*

	Reserved matters*

Use of powers*

Reserved Matters*

Deadlock*

Shareholder deadlock
*

Deadlock Notice*

	Default (including Insolvency)
*

Event of Default*

Put Option Notices and Call Option Notices
*

Reference to Expert*

Core Services*

Completion*

Transfer terms*

	Transfer of shares
*

General*

Restriction on transfer
*

Permitted Transfers*

Initial period*

Transfer Notice*

Right of Continuing Party to purchase
*

Obligation to complete
*

Seller's right to sell to Third Party Purchaser
*

Sale terms*

Agency Authority for Transfers
*

Intra-Group transfers
*

Shareholder ceasing to be a Subsidiary
*

Bring-along*

	Financial matters, Information and reporting
*

Accounting Principles
*

Auditors*

Financial Year*

Dividend policy*

Inspection and information*

Accounts, Business Plan and Budgets
*

	Confidentiality*

Confidentiality obligation
*

Exceptions from confidentiality obligation
*

Employees, agents and advisers
*

Return of Confidential Information
*

Survival after termination
*

	Regulatory matters
*

Co-operation*

Regulatory Action*

	Relationship with Financial Times group and MarketWatch
group*

Contracts*

Claims by JVC*

	Tax matters*

Consortium relief*

	Assurances*

Exercise of rights and powers of control
*

Performance by Subsidiaries
*

	Non-assignment*

	Waiver of rights*

	Amendments*

	Invalidity*

	No partnership or agency
*

	Announcements*

	Costs*

	Entire agreement*

	Conflict with articles
*

Supremacy of this Agreement
*

Transfers of Shares*

	Termination of agreement
*

Duration*

	Notices*

Notices*

Address of notices*

English language*

	Settlement of disputes
*

Arbitration*

	Counterparts*

	Governing law
*

EXHIBIT A*
FT Trade Mark Licence
*

EXHIBIT B*
MarketWatch Trade Mark Licence
*

EXHIBIT C*
MarketWatch Technology Licence
*

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