Document:

Amendment No. 1 to Separation Agreement and Release

 Exhibit 10.32 
  
 AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO 
 SEPARATION AGREEMENT AND RELEASE 
  
 GENESIS MICROCHIP
INC. (the “Company”) and CHANDRASHEKAR M. REDDY, having entered into a Separation Agreement and Release on January 3, 2003 (the “Agreement”), hereby amend the Agreement, effective as of November 10, 2004, as follows: 

 
 Section 2(b) of the Agreement is amended in its entirety to read as
follows: 
  
 (b) Post-Termination Exercise. The Parties
agree that, subject to all requirements of the Sage Plan, the First NSO, the Second NSO and the Sage ISO shall remain exercisable until May 30, 2005 and shall expire if not exercised on or prior to such date. Employee understands that the Sage ISO
no longer qualifies for treatment as an incentive stock option and will be treated as a nonstatutory stock option, for income, employment and capital gains tax purposes. 
  
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have executed this Amendment on the respective dates set forth below: 
  

					
	CHANDRASHEKAR M. REDDY	 	 	 	 
			
	 /s/ Chandrashekar M. Reddy
	 	 	 	 Date: November 10, 2004

	 	 	 	 	 

  

					
	 GENESIS MICROCHIP INC.
	 	 	 	 
			
	 /s/ Michael Healy
	 	 	 	 Date: November 10, 2004

	 Name: Michael Healy
 Title: CFORights Agreement

 EXHIBIT 4.1 
  

MarketWatch, Inc. 
  
 and 
  
 Mellon Investor Services LLC 
  
 as Rights Agent

  
  
 RIGHTS AGREEMENT 
  
 Dated as of
November 14, 2004 

 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
  

					
	 
Section 1.
	  	Certain Definitions	  	1
			
	 
Section 2.
	  	Appointment of Rights Agent	  	8
			
	 
Section 3.
	  	Issuance of Rights Certificates	  	8
			
	 
Section 4.
	  	Form of Rights Certificates	  	10
			
	 
Section 5.
	  	Countersignature and Registration	  	11
			
	 
Section 6.
	  	Transfer, Split Up, Combination and Exchange of Rights Certificates; Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Rights Certificates	  	11
			
	 
Section 7.
	  	Exercise of Rights; Purchase Price; Expiration Date of Rights	  	12
			
	 
Section 8.
	  	Cancellation and Destruction of Rights Certificates	  	14
			
	 
Section 9.
	  	Reservation and Availability of Capital Stock	  	14
			
	 
Section 10.
	  	Preferred Stock Record Date	  	16
			
	 
Section 11.
	  	Adjustment of Purchase Price, Number and Kind of Shares or Number of Rights	  	16
			
	 
Section 12.
	  	Certificate of Adjusted Purchase Price or Number of Shares	  	25
			
	 
Section 13.
	  	Consolidation, Merger or Sale or Transfer of Assets or Earning Power	  	26
			
	 
Section 14.
	  	Fractional Rights and Fractional Shares	  	29
			
	 
Section 15.
	  	Rights of Action	  	31
			
	 
Section 16.
	  	Agreement of Rights Holders	  	31
			
	 
Section 17.
	  	Rights Certificate Holder Not Deemed a Stockholder	  	32
			
	 
Section 18.
	  	Concerning the Rights Agent	  	32
			
	 
Section 19.
	  	Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Rights Agent	  	33
			
	 
Section 20.
	  	Duties of Rights Agent	  	34
			
	 
Section 21.
	  	Change of Rights Agent	  	36
			
	 
Section 22.
	  	Issuance of New Rights Certificates	  	37
			
	 
Section 23.
	  	Redemption and Termination	  	37

  

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Section 24.
	  	Notice of Certain Events	  	38
			
	 
Section 25.
	  	Notices	  	39
			
	 
Section 26.
	  	Supplements and Amendments	  	39
			
	 
Section 27.
	  	Successors	  	40
			
	 
Section 28.
	  	Determinations and Actions by the Board of Directors, etc	  	40
			
	 
Section 29.
	  	Benefits of this Agreement	  	41
			
	 
Section 30.
	  	Severability	  	41
			
	 
Section 31.
	  	Governing Law	  	41
			
	 
Section 32.
	  	Counterparts	  	41
			
	 
Section 33.
	  	Descriptive Headings	  	42
			
	 
Section 34.
	  	Exchange	  	42
			
	 
Exhibit A.
	  	Form of Rights Certificate	  	A
			
	 
Exhibit B.
	  	Form of Summary of Rights	  	B
			
	 
Exhibit C
	  	Certificate of Designation	  	C

  

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 RIGHTS AGREEMENT 
  

RIGHTS AGREEMENT, dated as of November 14, 2004 (the “Agreement”), between MarketWatch, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”), and Mellon Investor Services LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company, as rights agent (the “Rights Agent”). 
  
 WHEREAS, effective November 14, 2004 (the “Rights Dividend Declaration Date”), the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board
of Directors”) (i) authorized and declared a dividend of one right (“Right”) for each share of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of the Company (the “Company Common Stock”) outstanding at the Close of
Business on November 25, 2004 (the “Record Date”), and (ii) authorized the issuance of one Right (as such number may hereinafter be adjusted pursuant hereto) for each share of Company Common Stock issued between the Record Date and
the earlier of the Distribution Date and the Expiration Date and, in certain circumstances, for each share of Company Common Stock issued after the Distribution Date but before the Expiration Date; 
  
 WHEREAS, each Right initially represents the right to purchase, upon the
terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth, one Unit of Series A Preferred Stock; 
  
 WHEREAS, the Company proposes to enter into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “Merger
Agreement”), dated as of November 14, 2004, with Dow Jones & Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Parent”), and Parent’s subsidiary, Golden Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Merger
Sub”); and 
  
 WHEREAS, pursuant to the Merger Agreement,
Merger Sub will be merged with and into Company (the “Merger”), with the Company surviving the Merger. 
  
 NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements herein set forth, the parties hereby agree as follows: 
  
 
Section 1. Certain Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement, the following terms have the meanings indicated: 
  
 (a) “Acquiring Person” shall mean any Person who or which, together with all Affiliates and Associates of such Person,
shall be the Beneficial Owner of 15% or more of the shares of Company Common Stock then outstanding. Notwithstanding the foregoing: 
  
 (i) an “Acquiring Person” shall not include: 
  
 (A) the Company; 
  

(B) any Subsidiary of the Company; 
  

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 (C) any employee benefit plan maintained by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;

  
 (D) any trustee or fiduciary with respect to
such employee benefit plan acting in such capacity or a trustee or fiduciary holding shares of Company Common Stock for the purpose of funding any such plan; 
  

(E) Pearson PLC (“Pearson”) and its Affiliates and Associates, for so long as the number of shares of Company Common
Stock beneficially owned by Pearson and its Affiliates and Associates does not exceed (other than as a result of the acquisition after the date hereof of beneficial ownership of shares of Company Common Stock pursuant to a dividend or distribution
paid or made by the Company on the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock or pursuant to a split or subdivision of the Company Common Stock) the number of shares of Company Common Stock beneficially owned by Pearson and its Affiliates and
Associates on the date hereof plus an additional 1.0% of the number of shares of Company Common Stock outstanding on the date hereof (the “Pearson Threshold”); provided, however, that if, prior to the Expiration Date,
Pearson or any of its Affiliates and Associates sells, assigns, transfers or otherwise disposes of the Beneficial Ownership of any shares of Company Common Stock of which Pearson or its Affiliates and Associates is the Beneficial Owner on the date
hereof, the Pearson Threshold shall be reduced to that percentage of the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock which Pearson and its Affiliates and Associates beneficially own, determined immediately after giving effect to such sale,
assignment, transfer or other disposition, plus an additional 1.0% of the number of shares of Company Common Stock outstanding on the date hereof; provided, further, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary
none of Pearson and its Affiliates and Associates shall be an Acquiring Person for so long as Pearson and its Affiliates and Associates do not beneficially own 15% or more of the shares of Company Common Stock then outstanding; 
  
 (F) Viacom Inc. (“Viacom”) and its
Affiliates and Associates, for so long as the number of shares of Company Common Stock beneficially owned by Viacom and its Affiliates and Associates does not exceed (other than as a result of the acquisition after the date hereof of beneficial
ownership of shares of Company Common Stock pursuant to a dividend or distribution paid or made by the Company on the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock or pursuant to a split or subdivision of the Company Common Stock) the number of shares
of Company Common Stock beneficially owned by Viacom and its Affiliates and Associates on the date hereof plus an additional 1.0% of the number of shares of Company Common Stock outstanding on the date hereof (the “Viacom
Threshold”); provided, however, that if, prior to the Expiration Date, Viacom or any of its Affiliates and Associates sells, assigns, transfers or otherwise disposes of the Beneficial Ownership of any shares of Company Common
Stock of which Viacom or its Affiliates and Associates is the Beneficial Owner on the date hereof, the Viacom Threshold shall be reduced to that percentage of the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock which Viacom and its Affiliates 

  

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and Associates beneficially own, determined immediately after giving effect to such sale, assignment, transfer or other disposition, plus an additional 1.0%
of the number of shares of Company Common Stock outstanding on the date hereof; provided, further, however, that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary none of Viacom and its Affiliates and Associates shall be an
Acquiring Person for so long as Viacom and its Affiliates and Associates do not beneficially own 15% or more of the shares of Company Common Stock then outstanding; 
  
 (G) any Person if: 
  
 (1) the Board of Directors determines in good faith that such Person who would otherwise be an
“Acquiring Person” became such inadvertently (including, without limitation, because (x) such Person was unaware that it beneficially owned a percentage of Company Common Stock that would otherwise cause such Person to be an
“Acquiring Person” or (y) such Person was aware of the extent of its Beneficial Ownership of Company Common Stock but had no actual knowledge of the consequences of such Beneficial Ownership under this Agreement) and without any intention
of changing or influencing control of the Company; 
  
 (2) such Person does not become the Beneficial Owner of any additional shares of Company Common Stock after such Person becomes aware that such Person would be an Acquiring Person (but for the operation of this clause (G); and 

 
 (3) such Person as promptly as practicable (as
determined in good faith by the Board of Directors) divested or divests itself of Beneficial Ownership of a sufficient number of shares of Company Common Stock so that such Person would no longer be an “Acquiring Person;” 
  
 or 
  
 (H) any Person who becomes the Beneficial Owner of 15% or more of the then-outstanding shares of Company
Common Stock as a result of the acquisition of shares of Company Common Stock directly from the Company in one or more transactions approved by the Board of Directors, 
  
 and 
  
 (ii) no Person shall be deemed an “Acquiring Person” as a result of the acquisition of shares of Company Common Stock by the
Company which, by reducing the number of shares of Company Common Stock outstanding, increases the proportional number of shares beneficially owned by such Person; provided, however, that if (x) a Person would become an Acquiring
Person (but for the operation of this subclause (ii)) as a result of the acquisition of shares of Company Common Stock by the Company and (y) after such share acquisition by the Company, such Person becomes the Beneficial 

  

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Owner of any additional shares of Company Common Stock (other than pursuant to the grant or exercise of an option under a Company stock option plan or
pursuant to a dividend or distribution paid or made by the Company on the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock or pursuant to a split or subdivision of the Company Common Stock), then such Person shall be deemed an Acquiring Person unless,
upon becoming the Beneficial Owner of such additional shares, such Person is the Beneficial Owner of less than 15% of the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock. 
  
 Each Person identified in subclauses (A), (B), (C) and (D) of this Section (1)(a) is individually an “Exempt
Person” and collectively “Exempt Persons.” 
  
 (b) “Affiliate” and “Associate” shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as in effect on the date hereof. 
  
 (c) A Person shall be deemed the “Beneficial Owner” of, and shall be deemed to have “Beneficial
Ownership” of and to “beneficially own”, any securities: 
  
 (i) which such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates, directly or indirectly, has the right to vote or dispose of
or has “beneficial ownership” of under Rule 13d-3 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act (the “Exchange Act Regulations”) as in effect on the date hereof; provided, however, that a Person
shall not be deemed the “Beneficial Owner” of, to have “Beneficial Ownership” of or to “beneficially own”, any securities under this subparagraph (i) as a result of an agreement, arrangement or understanding to vote
such securities if such agreement, arrangement or understanding (A) arises solely from a revocable proxy or consent given in response to a public proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, the applicable provisions of
the Exchange Act and the Exchange Act Regulations, and (B) is not reportable by such Person on Schedule 13D under the Exchange Act (or any comparable or successor report); 
  
 (ii) which are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any other Person (or any Affiliate or
Associate of such other Person) with which such Person (or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates) has any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing), for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting (except
pursuant to a revocable proxy or consent as described in the proviso to subparagraph (i) of this paragraph (c)) or disposing of such securities; or 
  
 (iii) which such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates, directly or indirectly, has the right to acquire (whether
such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time or upon the satisfaction of conditions) pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding (whether or not in writing) or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange
rights, rights, warrants or options, or otherwise; 
  
 provided, however, that under this paragraph (c) a Person shall not be deemed the “Beneficial Owner” of, to have “Beneficial Ownership” of, or to “beneficially own”, any securities: 
  

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 (A) tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made in accordance with Exchange Act
Regulations by such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates until such tendered securities are accepted for purchase or exchange, 
  
 (B) that may be issued upon exercise of Rights at any time prior to the occurrence of a Triggering Event, or 
  
 (C) that may be issued upon exercise of Rights from and
after the occurrence of a Triggering Event, which Rights were acquired by such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or Associates prior to the Distribution Date or pursuant to Section 3(c) or Section 22 hereof (the “Original
Rights”) or pursuant to Section 11(i) hereof in connection with an adjustment made with respect to any Original Rights; and 
  
 further provided, however, that: 
  
 (x) nothing in this paragraph (c) shall cause a Person engaged in business as an underwriter of securities to be the “Beneficial
Owner” of, to have “Beneficial Ownership” of, or to “beneficially own” any securities acquired through such Person’s participation in good faith in a firm commitment underwriting until the expiration of forty days after
the date of such acquisition, 
  
 (y) no decision
reached, or action taken, by the Board of Directors or any committee thereof shall cause any Person (or any Affiliate or Associate of such Person) who is a member of the Board of Directors or such committee to be deemed, for the purposes of this
Agreement, to be a Beneficial Owner of any securities beneficially owned by any other Person (or any Affiliate or Associate of such Person) who is a member of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof solely by reason of such membership of the
Board of Directors or any committee thereof or participation in the decisions or actions thereof on the part of either or both of such Persons, and 
  
 (z) no Person who is an officer, director or employee of an Exempt Person shall be deemed, solely by reason of such Person’s status
or authority as such, to be the “Beneficial Owner” of, to have “Beneficial Ownership” of, or to “beneficially own” any securities that are “beneficially owned” (as defined in this paragraph (c)), including,
without limitation, in a fiduciary capacity, by an Exempt Person or by any other such officer, director or employee of an Exempt Person. 
  
 Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, for purposes of this Agreement, the rights of Pearson and its Affiliates, on the one hand, and
Viacom and its Affiliates, on the other hand, with respect to the shares of Company Common Stock held by Viacom and its Affiliates, on the one hand, and Pearson and its Affiliates, on the other hand, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the First
Amended and Restated Stockholders’ Agreement by and among CBS Broadcasting Inc., Pearson Overseas Holdings Limited, MarketWatch.com, Inc., and NMP, Inc., dated as of March 23, 2004, as presently in effect (the “Stockholders’
Agreement”), shall not be deemed to constitute beneficial ownership of such other Person’s shares of Company Common Stock; provided, however, that any acquisition of such other Person’s shares of Company Common
Stock or rights with respect to such other Person’s shares of Company Common Stock that would constitute Beneficial Ownership of such shares of Company Common Stock but for the operation of this sentence, including without limitation any
acquisition pursuant to the exercise of any rights under the Stockholders’ Agreement, shall be deemed to constitute the acquisition of Beneficial Ownership of such shares for all purposes of this Agreement as of the date of such acquisition.

  

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 Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, none of Parent, Merger Sub or
any of their respective Affiliates or Associates, including an officers, directors or employees of any thereof, shall be deemed to beneficially own any shares of Company Common Stock of which it may be deemed to be the beneficial owner (but for this
sentence) by reason of: (x) the approval, execution or delivery of the Merger Agreement; (y) the consummation of the Merger or any of the other transactions contemplated in the Merger Agreement; or (z) the public announcement of any of the
foregoing. 
  
 (d) “Business
Day” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the city of New York are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close. 
  
 (e) “Close of Business” on any given date
shall mean 5:00 P.M., New York time, on such date; provided, however, that if such date is not a Business Day it shall mean 5:00 P.M., New York time, on the next succeeding Business Day. 
  
 (f) “Common Stock” of any Person other than the Company shall mean the capital stock of
such Person with the greatest voting power, or, if such Person shall have no capital stock, the equity securities or other equity interest having power to control or direct the management of such Person. 
  
 (g) “Company” has the meaning given it in
the first paragraph of this Agreement, and also means a Principal Party to the extent provided in Section 13(a). 
  
 (h) “Person” shall mean any individual, partnership, firm, limited liability company, corporation, association, trust,
unincorporated organization or other entity, as well as any syndicate or group deemed to be a person under Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act as in effect on the date hereof. 
  
 (i) “Preferred Stock” shall mean the Series A Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share, of
the Company having the voting powers, designation, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights and qualifications, limitations and restrictions described in the Certificate of Designation set forth as Exhibit C hereto
and as amended from time to time. 
  
 (j)
“Stock Acquisition Date” shall mean the first date of public announcement (including, without limitation, the filing of any report, or any amendment to any report, pursuant to Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act (or any comparable or
successor report)) by the Company or an Acquiring Person that an Acquiring Person has become such; provided, however, that if such Person is determined not to have become an Acquiring Person pursuant to Section 1(a) hereof, then no
Stock Acquisition Date shall be deemed to have occurred. 
  
 (k) “Subsidiary” shall mean, with reference to any Person, any other Person of which an amount of voting securities or equity interests sufficient to elect at least a majority of the directors or
equivalent governing body of such other Person is beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person, or any other Person otherwise controlled by such first-mentioned Person. 
  

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 (l) “Triggering Event” shall mean any Section 11(a)(ii) Event or any
Section 13 Event. 
  
 In addition, the following terms are defined
in the Sections indicated below: 
  

			
	 Defined Term

	  	Section Number

	 Adjustment Shares
	  	11(a)(ii)
	 common stock equivalents
	  	11(a)(iii)
	 Company Common Stock
	  	Whereas
clause
	 current market price
	  	11(d)
	 Current Value
	  	11(a)(iii)
	 Distribution Date
	  	3(a)
	 Equivalent Preferred Stock
	  	11(b)
	 Exchange Act
	  	1(b)
	 Exchange Act Regulations
	  	1(c)
	 Exchange Ratio
	  	34(a)
	 Exempt Person
	  	1(a)
	 Expiration Date
	  	7(a)
	 Final Expiration Date
	  	7(a)
	 Merger
	  	Whereas
clause
	 Merger Agreement
	  	Whereas
clause
	 Merger Sub
	  	Whereas
clause
	 Nasdaq
	  	11(d)(i)
	 Original Rights
	  	1(c)
	 Parent
	  	Whereas
clause
	 Pearson
	  	1(a)(i)(E)
	 Pearson Threshold
	  	1(a)(i)(E)
	 Purchase Price
	  	7(b)
	 Record Date
	  	Whereas
clause
	 Redemption Price
	  	23(a)
	 Registered Common Stock
	  	13(b)(ii)
	 Registration Date
	  	9(c)
	 Registration Statement
	  	9(c)
	 Right
	  	Whereas
clause
	 Rights Certificates
	  	3(a)
	 Rights Dividend Declaration Date
	  	Whereas
clause
	 Section 11(a)(ii) Event
	  	11(a)(ii)(C)
	 Section 11(a)(iii) Trigger Date
	  	11(a)(iii)
	 Section 13 Event
	  	13(a)
	 Securities Act
	  	9(c)
	 Spread
	  	11(a)(iii)
	 Summary of Rights
	  	3(b)
	 Trading Day
	  	11(d)(i)
	 Unit
	  	7(b)
	 Viacom
	  	1(a)(i)(F)
	 Viacom Threshold
	  	1(a)(i)(F)

  
 
Section 2. Appointment of Rights Agent. The Company hereby appoints the Rights Agent to act as rights agent for the Company in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof, 

  

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and the Rights Agent hereby accepts such appointment. The Company may from time to time appoint such co-rights agents as it may deem necessary or desirable.
The Rights Agent shall have no duty to supervise, and in no event shall be liable for, the acts or omissions of any such co-rights agent. 
  
 
Section 3. Issuance of Rights Certificates. 
  
 (a) Until the earlier of (i) the Close of Business on the tenth Business Day after the Stock Acquisition Date, and (ii) the Close of
Business on the tenth Business Day (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event) after the date that a tender or exchange offer by any Person (other than an Exempt
Person) is first published or sent or given within the meaning of Rule 14d-4(a) of the Exchange Act Regulations or any successor rule, if upon consummation thereof such Person would be an Acquiring Person (including, in the case of both clause (i)
and (ii), any such date which is after the date of this Agreement and prior to the issuance of the Rights) (the earlier of (i) and (ii) above being the “Distribution Date”): 
  
 (x) the Rights will be evidenced (subject to the provisions
of paragraph (b) of this Section 3) by the certificates for shares of Company Common Stock registered in the names of the holders of shares of Company Common Stock as of and subsequent to the Record Date (which certificates for shares of Company
Common Stock shall be deemed also to be certificates for Rights) and not by separate certificates, and 
  
 (y) the Rights will be transferable only in connection with the transfer of the underlying shares of Company Common Stock including a
transfer to the Company; 
  
 provided, however, that if a tender or
exchange offer is terminated prior to the occurrence of a Distribution Date, then no Distribution Date shall occur as a result of such tender or exchange offer. The Company shall promptly notify the Rights Agent in writing upon the occurrence of the
Distribution Date and, if such notification is given orally, the Company shall confirm the same in writing on or prior to the Business Day next following. Until such notice is received by the Rights Agent, the Rights Agent may conclusively presume
for all purposes that the Distribution Date has not occurred. As soon as practicable after the Company has notified the Rights Agent of the occurrence of the Distribution Date, the Rights Agent will send by first-class, insured, postage prepaid
mail, to each record holder of shares of Company Common Stock as of the Close of Business on the Distribution Date, at the address of such holder shown on the records of the Company, one or more rights certificates, in substantially the form of
Exhibit A hereto (the “Rights Certificates”), evidencing one Right for each share of Company Common Stock so held, subject to adjustment as provided herein. 
  
 In the event that an adjustment in the number of Rights per share of Company Common Stock has been made pursuant to Section
11(p) hereof, at the time of distribution of the Rights Certificates, the Company may make the necessary and appropriate rounding adjustments (in accordance with Section 14(a) hereof) so that Rights Certificates representing only whole numbers of
Rights are distributed and cash is paid in lieu of any fractional Rights. As of and after the Distribution Date, the Rights will be evidenced solely by such Rights Certificates. 
  

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 (b) As promptly as practicable following the Record Date, the Company will send a copy of
a Summary of Rights to Purchase Preferred Stock, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit B (the “Summary of Rights”), by first-class, postage prepaid mail, to each record holder of shares of Company Common Stock as of
the Close of Business on the Record Date, at the address of such holder shown on the records of the Company. With respect to certificates for Company Common Stock outstanding as of the Record Date or issued subsequent to the Record Date but prior to
the earlier of the Distribution Date and the Expiration Date, until the Distribution Date the Rights will be evidenced by such certificates registered in the names of the holders thereof. Until the Distribution Date (or, if earlier, the Expiration
Date), the surrender for transfer of any such certificate for Company Common Stock outstanding as of the Record Date shall also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Company Common Stock represented thereby. 
  
 (c) Rights shall, without any further action, be issued in
respect of all shares of Company Common Stock which are issued (including any shares of Company Common Stock held in treasury) after the Record Date but prior to the earlier of the Distribution Date and the Expiration Date. In addition, Rights shall
be issued with respect to all shares of Company Common Stock described in the second sentence of Section 22 hereof, subject to the provisions thereof. Certificates representing such shares of Company Common Stock issued after the Record Date shall
bear the following legend: 
  
 This certificate also evidences
and entitles the holder hereof to certain Rights as set forth in the Rights Agreement between MarketWatch, Inc. (the “Company”) and Mellon Investor Services LLC (the “Rights Agent”) dated as of November 14, 2004, as amended from
time to time (the “Rights Agreement”), the terms of which are hereby incorporated herein by reference and a copy of which is on file at the office of the Rights Agent. Under certain circumstances, as set forth in the Rights Agreement, such
Rights will be evidenced by separate certificates and will no longer be evidenced by this certificate. The Company will mail to the holder of this certificate a copy of the Rights Agreement, as in effect on the date of mailing, without charge
promptly after receipt of a written request therefor. UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES SET FORTH IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT, RIGHTS ISSUED TO, OR HELD BY, ANY PERSON WHO IS, WAS OR BECOMES AN ACQUIRING PERSON OR ANY AFFILIATE OR ASSOCIATE THEREOF (AS SUCH
TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT), WHETHER CURRENTLY HELD BY OR ON BEHALF OF SUCH PERSON OR BY ANY SUBSEQUENT HOLDER, MAY BECOME NULL AND VOID. 
  
 With respect to certificates representing shares of Company Common Stock that bear the foregoing legend, until the earlier of the Distribution Date and
the Expiration Date, the Rights associated with the shares of Company Common Stock represented by such certificates shall be evidenced by such certificates alone and registered holders of the shares of Company Common Stock shall also be the
registered holders of the associated Rights, and the transfer of any of such certificates shall also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the shares of Company Common Stock represented by such certificates. 
  

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 (d) In the event that the Company purchases or acquires any shares of Company Common
Stock after the Record Date but prior to the Distribution Date, any Rights associated with such shares of Company Common Stock shall be deemed canceled and returned so that the Company shall not be entitled to exercise any Rights associated with the
shares of Company Common Stock that are no longer outstanding. 
  
 (e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, shares of Company Common Stock and Rights (and any securities issuable on their exercise) may be issued and transferred by book-entry and not represented
by physical certificates. 
  
 
Section 4. Form of Rights Certificates. 
  
 (a) The Rights Certificates (and the forms of election to purchase and of assignment and the certificates to be printed on the reverse thereof) shall each be substantially in the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto and
may have such marks of identification or designation and such legends, summaries or endorsements printed thereon as the Company may deem appropriate and as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Agreement, or as may be required to comply
with any applicable law or any rule or regulation thereunder or with any rule or regulation of any stock exchange or automated quotation system on which the Rights may from time to time be listed or to conform to usage. Subject to the provisions of
Section 11 and Section 22 hereof, the Rights Certificates, whenever distributed, shall be dated as of the Record Date (or in the case of Rights issued with respect to Common Stock issued by the Company after the Record Date, as of the date of
issuance of such Common Stock) and on their face shall entitle the holders thereof to purchase such number of Units of Preferred Stock as shall be set forth therein at the price set forth therein, provided, however, that the amount and
type of securities, cash or other assets that may be acquired upon the exercise of each Right and the Purchase Price thereof shall be subject to adjustment as provided herein. 
  
 (b) Any Rights Certificate that represents Rights which are null and void pursuant to Section 7(e) of this
Agreement and any Rights Certificate issued pursuant to Section 6 or Section 11 hereof upon transfer, exchange, replacement or adjustment of any other Rights Certificate referred to in this sentence, shall contain (to the extent feasible) the
following legend: 
  
 The Rights represented by this Rights
Certificate are or were beneficially owed by a Person who was or became an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement). Accordingly, this Right Certificate and the Rights
represented hereby are null and void. 
  
 The provisions of
Section 7(e) hereof shall be operative whether or not the foregoing legend is contained on any such Right Certificate. 
  
 
Section 5. Countersignature and Registration. 
  
 (a) Any Rights Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman, its Chief Executive Officer, its President or one
of its Vice Presidents and shall be attested by its Secretary, Treasurer or one of its Assistant Secretaries and shall have affixed thereto the Company’s seal (if any) or a facsimile thereof. The signature of any of these officers on the Rights
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facsimile signatures of the individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals
or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the countersignature of such Rights Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of such Rights Certificates. No Rights Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Agreement or be valid for any purpose unless there appears on such Rights Certificate a countersignature duly and properly executed by the Rights Agent by manual signature of an authorized signatory, and such countersignature upon any Rights
Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Rights Certificate has been duly countersigned as required hereunder. 
  
 (b) Following the Distribution Date, receipt by the Rights Agent of notice to that effect and all other relevant information referred to
in Section 3(a), the Rights Agent will keep or cause to be kept, at its office designated for surrender of Rights Certificates upon exercise or transfer, books for registration and transfer of the Rights Certificates issued hereunder. Such books
shall show the name and address of each holder of the Rights Certificates, the number of Rights evidenced on its face by each Rights Certificate and the date of each Rights Certificate. 
  

	 	
Section  6.	Transfer, Split Up, Combination and Exchange of Rights Certificates; Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Rights Certificates. 

  
 (a) Subject to the provisions of Sections 4, 7(e) and 14
hereof, at any time after the Close of Business on the Distribution Date, and at or prior to the Close of Business on the Expiration Date, any Rights Certificate or Certificates may be transferred, split up, combined or exchanged for another Rights
Certificate or Certificates, entitling the registered holder to purchase a like number of Units of Preferred Stock (or, following a Triggering Event, other securities, cash or other assets, as the case may be) as the Rights Certificate or
Certificates surrendered then entitled such holder (or former holder, in the case of a transfer) to purchase. Any registered holder desiring to transfer, split up, combine or exchange any Rights Certificate or Certificates shall make such request in
writing delivered to the Rights Agent, and shall surrender the Rights Certificate or Certificates to be transferred, split up, combined or exchanged at the office of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose. Neither the Rights Agent nor the
Company shall be obligated to take any action whatsoever with respect to the transfer of any such surrendered Rights Certificate until the registered holder shall have completed and executed the certificate set forth in the form of assignment on the
reverse side of such Rights Certificate and shall have provided such additional evidence of the identity of the Beneficial Owner (or former Beneficial Owner) of the Rights represented by such Rights Certificate or Affiliates or Associates thereof as
the Company or the Rights Agent shall reasonably request. Thereupon the Rights Agent shall, subject to the provisions of Section 7(e), Section 14 and Section 34 hereof, countersign and deliver to the Person entitled thereto a Rights Certificate or
Rights Certificates, as the case may be, as so requested. The Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer, split up, combination or exchange of Rights
Certificates. The Rights Agent shall have no duty or obligation under this Section 6(a) unless and until it is satisfied that all such taxes and/or governmental charges have been paid. 
  

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 (b) Subject to Section 7(e) hereof, if a Rights Certificate shall be mutilated, lost,
stolen or destroyed, upon request by the registered holder of the Rights represented thereby and upon payment to the Company and the Rights Agent of all reasonable expenses incident thereto, there shall be issued, in exchange for and upon
cancellation of the mutilated Rights Certificate, or in substitution for the lost, stolen or destroyed Rights Certificate, a new Rights Certificate, in substantially the form of the prior Rights Certificate, of like tenor and representing the
equivalent number of Rights, but, in the case of loss, theft or destruction, only upon receipt of evidence satisfactory to the Company and the Rights Agent of such loss, theft or destruction of such Rights Certificate and, if requested by the
Company or the Rights Agent, indemnity also satisfactory to it. 
  
 
Section 7. Exercise of Rights; Purchase Price; Expiration Date of Rights. 
  
 (a) Prior to the earlier of (i) the Close of Business on the tenth anniversary hereof (the “Final Expiration Date”), (ii)
the time at which the Rights are redeemed as provided in Section 23 hereof, (iii) the time at which the Rights are exchanged as provided in Section 34 hereof, and (iv) immediately prior to the Effective Time (as defined in the Merger Agreement), at
which time the Rights are deemed terminated (the earlier of (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) being the “Expiration Date”), the registered holder of any Rights Certificate may, subject to the other provisions hereof, including without
limitation Sections 7(e), 7(f), 9(c), 11(a) and 23 hereof, exercise the Rights evidenced thereby, in whole or in part, at any time after the Distribution Date upon surrender of the Rights Certificate, with the form of election to purchase and the
certificate on the reverse side thereof duly and properly executed, to the Rights Agent at the office of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose, together with payment of the aggregate Purchase Price (as hereinafter defined) for the number of
Units of Preferred Stock (or, following a Triggering Event, other securities, cash or other assets, as the case may be) for which such surrendered Rights are then exercisable. 
  
 (b) The purchase price for each one one-hundredth of a share (each such one one-hundredth of a share being a
“Unit”) of Preferred Stock upon exercise of Rights shall be $100 subject to adjustment from time to time as provided in Sections 11 and 13(a) hereof (such purchase price, as so adjusted, being the “Purchase Price”),
and shall be payable in lawful money of the United States of America in accordance with paragraph (c) below. 
  
 (c) Upon receipt of a Rights Certificate representing exercisable Rights, with the form of election to purchase and the certificate duly
and properly executed, accompanied by payment, with respect to each Right so exercised, of the Purchase Price for the Units of Preferred Stock (or, following a Triggering Event, other securities, cash or other assets, as the case may be) to be
purchased thereby as set forth below and an amount equal to any applicable transfer tax or evidence satisfactory to the Company of payment of such tax, the Rights Agent shall, subject to Section 20(k) hereof, thereupon promptly: 
  
 (i) (A) requisition from any transfer agent of the Preferred
Stock (or make available, if the Rights Agent is the transfer agent for the Preferred Stock) a certificate or certificates for the number of Units of Preferred Stock to be purchased, and the Company hereby irrevocably authorizes its transfer agent
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Preferred Stock issuable upon exercise of the Rights hereunder with a depositary agent, requisition from the depositary agent depositary receipts
representing interests in such number of Units of Preferred Stock as are to be purchased (in which case certificates for the Units of Preferred Stock represented by such receipts shall be deposited by the transfer agent with the depositary agent)
and the Company hereby directs the depositary agent to comply with such request, 
  
 (ii) after receipt of such certificates or depositary receipts, cause the same to be delivered to or, upon the order of the registered
holder of such Rights Certificate, registered in such name or names as may be designated by such holder, 
  
 (iii) requisition from the Company the amount of cash, if any, to be paid in lieu of fractional shares in accordance with Section 14
hereof, and 
  
 (iv) after receipt thereof,
deliver such cash, if any, to or upon the order of the registered holder of such Rights Certificate. 
  
 In the event that the Company is obligated to issue Company Common Stock or other securities of the Company, pay cash and/or distribute other property
pursuant to Section 11(a) hereof, the Company will make all arrangements necessary so that such Company Common Stock, other securities, cash and/or other property are available for distribution by the Rights Agent, if and when appropriate. The
payment of the Purchase Price (as such amount may be reduced pursuant to Section 11(a)(iii) hereof) may be made in cash or by certified or bank check or money order payable to the order of the Company. 
  
 (d) In case the registered holder of any Rights Certificate
shall exercise less than all the Rights evidenced thereby, a new Rights Certificate evidencing the Rights remaining unexercised shall be issued by the Rights Agent and delivered to, or upon the order of, the registered holder of such Rights
Certificate, registered in such name or names as may be designated by such holder, subject to the provisions of Sections 6 and 14 hereof. 
  
 (e) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, from and after the first occurrence of any Section 11(a)(ii) Event, any
Rights beneficially owned by: 
  
 (i) an
Acquiring Person or an Associate or Affiliate of an Acquiring Person, 
  
 (ii) a transferee of an Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) which becomes a transferee after the Acquiring Person becomes such, or 
  
 (ii) a transferee of an Acquiring Person (or of any such Associate or Affiliate) which becomes a transferee
prior to or concurrently with the Acquiring Person becoming such and which receives such Rights pursuant to either (A) a transfer (whether or not for consideration) from the Acquiring Person (or any such Associate or Affiliate) to holders of equity
interests in such Acquiring Person (or any such Associate or Affiliate) or to any Person with whom the Acquiring Person (or such Associate or Affiliate) has any continuing agreement, arrangement or understanding regarding the transferred Rights,
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which the Board of Directors has determined to be part of a plan, arrangement or understanding which has as a primary purpose or effect the avoidance of this
Section 7(e), 
  
 shall be null and void without any further
action, and no holder of such Rights shall have any rights whatsoever with respect to such Rights, whether under any provision of this Agreement or otherwise. The Company shall use all reasonable efforts to ensure that the provisions of this Section
7(e) and Section 4(b) hereof are complied with, but the Company and the Rights Agent shall have no liability to any holder of Rights or any other Person as a result of the Company’s failure to make or delay in making any determinations with
respect to an Acquiring Person or its Affiliates or Associates or any transferee or any of them hereunder. 
  
 (f) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any Rights Certificate to the contrary, neither the Rights Agent nor the Company shall
be obligated to undertake any action with respect to a registered holder upon the occurrence of any purported exercise by such registered holder unless such registered holder shall have (i) completed and executed the certificate following the form
of election to purchase set forth on the reverse side of the Rights Certificate surrendered for such exercise, (ii) not indicated an affirmative response to clause 1 or 2 thereof, and (iii) provided such additional evidence of the identity of the
Beneficial Owner (or former Beneficial Owner) of the Rights represented by such Rights Certificate or Affiliates or Associates thereof as the Company or the Rights Agent shall reasonably request. 
  
 
Section 8. Cancellation and Destruction of Rights Certificates. All Rights Certificates surrendered for the purpose of exercise, transfer, split up, combination or exchange shall, if surrendered to the Company or
any of its agents, be delivered to the Rights Agent for cancellation or in cancelled form, or, if surrendered to the Rights Agent, shall be cancelled by it, and no Rights Certificates shall be issued in lieu thereof except as expressly permitted by
this Agreement. The Company shall deliver to the Rights Agent for cancellation and retirement, and the Rights Agent shall so cancel and retire, any Rights Certificates acquired by the Company otherwise than upon the exercise thereof. The Rights
Agent shall deliver all cancelled Rights Certificates to the Company, or shall, at the written request of the Company, destroy such cancelled Rights Certificates, and in such case shall deliver a certificate of destruction thereof to the Company.

  
 
Section 9. Reservation and Availability of Capital Stock. 
  
 (a) The Company shall at all times prior to the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event cause to be reserved and kept available, out of
its authorized and unissued shares of preferred stock or its authorized and issued shares of preferred stock held in its treasury, and after the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, to the extent reasonably practical, cause to be reserved and
kept available, out of its authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock, Company Common Stock and/or other securities or its authorized and issued shares held in its treasury, the number of shares of Preferred Stock (and, following the
occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, Company Common Stock and/or other securities) that, as provided in this Agreement, will be sufficient to permit the exercise in full of all outstanding Rights. Upon the occurrence of any events resulting in
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outstanding Rights above the number then reserved, the Company shall make appropriate increases in the number of shares so reserved to the extent reasonably
practicable. 
  
 (b) If the shares of Preferred
Stock (and, following the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, Company Common Stock and/or other securities) to be issued and delivered upon the exercise of the Rights may be listed on any national securities exchange or automated quotation
system, the Company shall use its best efforts to cause, from and after the time that the Rights become exercisable, all securities reserved for such issuance to be listed on such exchange upon official notice of issuance upon such exercise.

  
 (c) The Company shall use its best efforts:

  
 (i) as soon as practicable following the
earliest date after the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event and a determination by the Company in accordance with Section 11(a)(iii) hereof of the consideration to be delivered by the Company upon exercise of the Rights or, if so required by
law, as soon as practicable following the Distribution Date (such date being the “Registration Date”), to file a registration statement on an appropriate form under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities
Act”), with respect to the securities that may be acquired upon exercise of the Rights (the “Registration Statement”), 
  
 (ii) to cause the Registration Statement to become effective as soon as practicable after such filing, 
  
 (iii) to cause the Registration Statement to continue to be
effective (and to include a prospectus complying with the requirements of the Securities Act) until the earlier of (A) the date as of which the Rights are no longer exercisable for the securities covered by the Registration Statement, and (B) the
Expiration Date, and 
  
 (iv) to take as soon as
practicable following the Registration Date such action as may be required to ensure that any acquisition of securities upon exercise of the Rights complies with any applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws. 
  
 The Company may temporarily suspend, for a period of time not to exceed one
hundred twenty (120) days after the Registration Date, the exercisability of the Rights in order to prepare and file such registration statement and permit it to become effective. Upon any such suspension, the Company shall issue a public
announcement stating that the exercisability of the Rights has been temporarily suspended, as well as a public announcement at such time as the suspension is no longer in effect, with prompt written notice (including a copy of such announcement) to
the Rights Agent in either such event. In addition, if the Company shall determine that a registration statement is required following the Distribution Date, but before the Registration Date, the Company may temporarily suspend the exercisability of
the Rights until such time as a registration statement has been declared effective. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, the Rights shall not be exercisable in any jurisdiction if the requisite qualification in such
jurisdiction shall not have been obtained, the exercise thereof shall not be permitted under applicable law or a registration statement shall not have been declared effective. 
  

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 (d) The Company shall take all such action as may be necessary to ensure that all shares
of Preferred Stock (and, following the occurrence of a Triggering Event, any other securities that may be delivered upon exercise of Rights) shall be, at the time of delivery of the certificates or depositary receipts for such securities (subject to
payment of the Purchase Price), duly and validly authorized and issued and fully paid and nonassessable. 
  
 (e) The Company shall pay any documentary, stamp or other tax or charge imposed in connection with the issuance or delivery of the Rights
Certificates or of any Preferred Stock (or any other securities or assets, as the case may be) upon the exercise of Rights; provided, however, the Company shall not be required to pay any such tax or charge imposed in connection with
the issuance or delivery of Units of Preferred Stock, or any certificates or depositary receipts for such Units of Preferred Stock (or, following the occurrence of a Triggering Event, any other securities, cash or assets, as the case may be) to any
Person other than the registered holder of the Rights Certificates evidencing the Rights surrendered for exercise. The Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any certificates or depositary receipts for Units of Preferred Stock (or,
following the occurrence of a Triggering Event, any other securities, cash or assets, as the case may be) to, or in a name other than that of, the registered holder upon the exercise of any Rights until any such tax or charge shall have been paid
(any such tax or charge being payable by the holder of such Rights Certificate at the time of surrender) or until it has been established to the Company’s satisfaction that no such tax or charge is due. 
  
 
Section 10. Preferred Stock Record Date. Each Person in whose name any certificate or depositary receipt for Units of Preferred Stock (or other securities, as the case may be) is issued upon the exercise of Rights
shall for all purposes be deemed to have become the holder of record of the Units of Preferred Stock (or other securities) represented thereby on, and such certificate shall be dated, the date upon which the Rights Certificate evidencing such Rights
was duly surrendered and payment of the Purchase Price (and any applicable taxes or charges) was duly made; provided, however, that if the date of such surrender and payment is a date upon which the Preferred Stock (or other
securities, as the case may be) transfer books of the Company are closed, such Person shall be deemed to have become the record holder of such securities on, and such certificate shall be dated, the next succeeding Business Day on which the
Preferred Stock (or other securities) transfer books of the Company are open; further provided, however, that if delivery of Units of Preferred Stock (or other securities, as the case may be) is delayed pursuant to Section 9(c) hereof,
such Persons shall be deemed to have become the record holders of such Units of Preferred Stock (or other securities) only when such Units (or other securities) first become deliverable. Prior to the exercise of the Rights evidenced thereby, the
holder of a Rights Certificate shall not be entitled to any rights of a stockholder of the Company with respect to securities for which the Rights shall be exercisable, including, without limitation, the right to vote, to receive dividends or other
distributions or to exercise any preemptive rights, and shall not be entitled to receive any notice of any proceedings of the Company, except as provided herein. 
  
 
Section 11. Adjustment of Purchase Price, Number and Kind of Shares or Number of Rights. The Purchase Price, the number and kind of securities purchasable upon exercise of each Right and the number of Rights
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 (a) (i) In the event the Company shall at any time after the date of this Agreement (A)
declare a dividend on the Preferred Stock payable in shares of Preferred Stock, (B) subdivide the outstanding Preferred Stock, (C) combine the outstanding Preferred Stock into a smaller number of shares, or (D) issue any shares of its capital stock
in a reclassification of the Preferred Stock (including any such reclassification in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation), except as otherwise provided for herein, including this
Section 11(a) and Section 7(e) hereof, the Purchase Price in effect at the time of the record date for such dividend or of the effective date of such subdivision, combination or reclassification, and the number and kind of shares of Preferred Stock
or other capital stock, as the case may be, issuable on such date upon exercise of the Rights, shall be proportionately adjusted so that the holder of any Right exercised after such time shall be entitled to receive, upon payment of the Purchase
Price then in effect, the aggregate number and kind of shares of Preferred Stock or other capital stock, as the case may be, which, if such Right had been exercised immediately prior to such date and at a time when the transfer books of the Company
were still open, such holder would have owned upon such exercise and been entitled to receive by virtue of such dividend, subdivision, combination or reclassification. If an event occurs which would require an adjustment under both this Section
11(a)(i) and Section 11(a)(ii) hereof, the adjustment provided for in this Section 11(a)(i) shall be in addition to, and shall be made prior to, any adjustment required pursuant to Section 11(a)(ii) hereof. 
  
 (ii) In the event any Person, alone or together with its
Affiliates and Associates, shall become an Acquiring Person, other than pursuant to any transaction set forth in Section 13(a) hereof, then, immediately upon the occurrence of such event (a “Section 11(a)(ii) Event”), each holder of
a Right (except as otherwise provided herein, including Section 7(e) hereof) shall thereafter have the right to receive, upon exercise of such Right at the then-current Purchase Price in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, in lieu of the
number of Units of Preferred Stock for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event (whether or not such Right was then exercisable), such number of Units of Preferred Stock as shall equal the
result obtained by: 
  
 (A) multiplying the
then-current Purchase Price by the number of Units of Preferred Stock for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event (whether or not such Right was then exercisable) (such product thereafter
being, for all purposes of this Agreement, other than Section 13 hereof, the “Purchase Price”), and 
  
 (B) dividing that product by 50% of the current market price (determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) per Unit of Preferred Stock on
the date of such first occurrence 
  
 (such Units of Preferred
Stock being the “Adjustment Shares”); provided, however, that the Purchase Price and the number of Units of Preferred Stock so receivable upon exercise of a Right shall, following the Section 11(a)(ii) Event, be subject to further
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foregoing, the Rights shall not be exercisable until the time period during which the Rights may be redeemed pursuant to Section 23 hereof shall have
expired. From and after the occurrence of a Section 13(a) Event, any Rights that have not theretofore been exercised pursuant to this Section 11(a)(ii) shall thereafter be exercisable only in connection with Section 13 and not pursuant to this
Section 11(a)(ii). The Company shall give the Rights Agent written notice of the identity of any such Acquiring Person, Affiliate or Associate, or the nominee of any of the foregoing, and the Rights Agent may rely on such notice in carrying out its
duties under this Agreement and shall be deemed not to have any knowledge of the identity of any such Acquiring Person, Affiliate or Associate, or the nominee of any of the foregoing unless and until it shall have received such notice. 

 
 (iii) The Company, by the vote of a majority of the Board
of Directors, may at its option substitute for a Unit of Preferred Stock issuable upon the exercise of Rights in accordance with the foregoing subparagraph (ii), shares of Company Common Stock or fractions thereof having a current market price (as
determined by Section 11(d) hereof) equal to the current market price of a Unit of Preferred Stock on the date of the Section 11(a)(ii) Event. In the event that the number of shares of Preferred Stock (or, if the Company shall have determined to
substitute shares of Company Common Stock for Units of Preferred Stock pursuant to the preceding sentence, Company Common Stock) which are authorized by the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation, but not outstanding or reserved for issuance
for purposes other than upon exercise of the Rights, is not sufficient to permit the exercise in full of the Rights in accordance with the foregoing subparagraph (ii) of this Section 11(a), the Company shall, to the extent permitted by applicable
law: 
  
 (A) determine the excess of (1) the
value of the Adjustment Shares issuable upon the exercise of a Right (the “Current Value”) over (2) the Purchase Price (such excess being the “Spread”), and 
  
 (B) with respect to each Right (other than Rights which have
become void pursuant to Section 7(e)), make adequate provision to substitute, in whole or in part, for such Adjustment Shares, upon exercise of a Right and payment of the applicable Purchase Price, (1) cash, (2) a reduction in the Purchase Price,
(3) shares of Company Common Stock or other equity securities of the Company (including, without limitation, shares, or units of shares, of preferred stock (such other shares being “common stock equivalents”)), (4) debt securities
of the Company, (5) other assets, or (6) any combination of the foregoing, having an aggregate value which, when added to the value of the Units of Preferred Stock actually issued upon exercise of such Right, shall have an aggregate value equal to
the Current Value (less the amount of any reduction in such Purchase Price), where such aggregate value has been determined by a majority of the Board of Directors, after receiving advice from a nationally recognized investment banking firm;

  
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first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event and (y) the date on which the Company’s right of redemption pursuant to Section 23(a) expires (such thirty
day period, as it may be extended hereunder, being referred to herein as the “Substitution Period,” and the later of (x) and (y) being referred to herein as the “Section 11(a)(iii) Trigger Date”), then, subject to
Section 34 hereof, the Company shall be obligated (to the extent permitted by applicable law) to deliver, upon the surrender for exercise of a Right and without requiring payment of the Purchase Price, Units of Preferred Stock (to the extent
available) and then, if necessary, shares (or fractions of shares, at the discretion of the Board of Directors) of Company Common Stock and cash, or a combination thereof, which Units of Preferred Stock, shares (or fractions of shares) of Company
Common Stock and/or cash shall have an aggregate value equal to the Spread. If a majority of the Board of Directors determines in good faith that it is likely that sufficient additional shares of Preferred Stock or Company Common Stock could be
authorized for issuance upon exercise in full of the Rights, then the Substitution Period may be extended to the extent necessary, but not more than ninety days after the Section 11(a)(iii) Trigger Date, in order that the Company may seek
stockholder approval for the authorization of such additional shares. 
  
 To the extent that the Company determines that some action need be taken pursuant to the second and/or third sentences of this Section 11(a)(iii), the Company (x) shall provide, subject to Section 7(e) hereof, that
such action shall apply uniformly to all outstanding Rights and (y) may suspend the exercisability of the Rights until the expiration of the Substitution Period in order to seek any authorization of additional shares and/or to decide the appropriate
form of distribution to be made pursuant to such second sentence and to determine the value thereof. If any such suspension occurs, the Company shall issue a public announcement stating that the exercisability of the Rights has been temporarily
suspended, as well as a public announcement at the time such suspension is no longer in effect, with prompt written notice to the Rights Agent (including a copy of the announcement) in either such event. For purposes of this Section 11(a)(iii), the
value of a Unit of Preferred Stock or share of Company Common Stock shall be the current market price (as determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) per Unit of Preferred Stock or share of Company Common Stock, as the case may be, on the Section
11(a)(iii) Trigger Date and the value of any common stock equivalent shall be deemed to have the same value as a Unit of Preferred Stock on such date. 
  
 (b) In case the Company shall fix a record date for the issuance of rights, options or warrants to all holders of Preferred Stock
entitling them to subscribe for or purchase (for a period expiring within forty-five calendar days after such record date) shares of Preferred Stock (or shares having substantially the same rights, privileges and preferences as shares of Preferred
Stock (“Equivalent Preferred Stock”)) or securities convertible into Preferred Stock or Equivalent Preferred Stock at a price per share of Preferred Stock or per share of Equivalent Preferred Stock (or having a conversion price per
share, if a security convertible into Preferred Stock or Equivalent Preferred Stock) less than the current market price (as determined pursuant to Section l1(d) hereof) per share of Preferred Stock on such record date, the Purchase Price to be in
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 (i) the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such record date, by 
  
 (ii) a fraction, (A) the numerator of which shall be the sum
of the number of shares of Preferred Stock outstanding on such record date, plus the number of shares of Preferred Stock which the aggregate offering price of the total number of shares of Preferred Stock and/or Equivalent Preferred Stock so to be
offered (and/or the aggregate initial conversion price of the convertible securities so to be offered) would purchase at such current market price, and (B) the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Preferred Stock outstanding on such
record date, plus the number of additional shares of Preferred Stock and/or Equivalent Preferred Stock to be offered for subscription or purchase (or into which the convertible securities so to be offered are initially convertible). 
  
 In case such subscription price may be paid by delivery of consideration,
part or all of which may be in a form other than cash, the value of such consideration shall be as determined in good faith by a majority of the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent
and shall be conclusive for all purposes. Shares of Preferred Stock owned by or held for the account of the Company or any Subsidiary shall not be deemed outstanding for the purpose of any such computation. Such adjustment shall be made successively
whenever such a record date is fixed, and in the event that such rights, options or warrants are not so issued, the Purchase Price shall be adjusted to be the Purchase Price which would then be in effect if such record date had not been fixed.

  
 (c) In case the Company shall fix a record
date for a distribution to all holders of shares of Preferred Stock (including any such distribution made in connection with a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing or surviving corporation) of evidences of indebtedness,
cash (other than a regular periodic cash dividend paid out of funds legally available therefor), assets (other than a dividend payable in shares of Preferred Stock, but including any dividend payable in stock other than Preferred Stock) or
subscription rights, options or warrants (excluding those referred to in Section 11(b) hereof), the Purchase Price to be in effect after such record date shall be determined by multiplying: 
  
 (i) the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such
record date, by 
  
 (ii) a fraction, (A) the
numerator of which shall be the current market price (as determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) per share of Preferred Stock on such record date, less the fair market value (as determined in good faith by a majority of the Board of Directors,
whose determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent and shall be conclusive for all purposes) of the cash, assets or evidences of indebtedness so to be distributed or of such subscription rights, options or warrants
distributable in respect of a share of Preferred Stock and (B) the denominator of which shall be such current market price per share of Preferred Stock. 
  

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 Such adjustments shall be made successively whenever such a record date is fixed, and in the event that such distribution
is not so made, the Purchase Price shall be adjusted to be the Purchase Price which would have been in effect if such record date had not been fixed. 
  
 (d) (i) For the purpose of any computation hereunder, the “current market price” per share of Company Common Stock or
Common Stock on any date shall be deemed to be the average of the daily closing prices per share of such shares for the ten consecutive Trading Days immediately prior to such date; provided, however, if prior to the expiration of such
requisite ten Trading Day period the issuer announces either (A) a dividend or distribution on such shares payable in such shares or securities convertible into such shares (other than the Rights), or (B) any subdivision, combination or
reclassification of such shares, and the ex-dividend date for such dividend or distribution or the record date for such subdivision, combination or reclassification, as the case may be, shall not have occurred prior to the commencement of the
requisite ten Trading Day period, then, and in each such case, the “current market price” shall be properly adjusted to take into account such event. The closing price for each day shall be: 
  
 (x) if the shares are listed or admitted to trading on a
national securities exchange or interdealer quotation system, the last sale price, regular way, or, in the case no such sale takes place on such day, the average of the closing bid and asked prices, regular way, in either case as reported in the
principal consolidated transaction reporting system with respect to securities listed on the principal national securities exchange or interdealer quotation system on which such shares are listed or admitted to trading, or 
  
 (y) if such shares are not listed or admitted to trading on
any national securities exchange or interdealer quotation system, the last quoted price or, if not so quoted, the average of the high bid and low asked prices in the over-the-counter market, as reported by the Nasdaq National Market
(“Nasdaq”) or such other system then in use, or 
  
 (z) if on any such date such shares are not quoted by any such organization, the average of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by a professional market maker making a market in such shares selected by the
Board of Directors. 
  
 If on any such date no market maker is
making a market in such shares, or if such shares are not publicly held or so listed or traded, “current market price” per share shall mean the fair value per share as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors, whose determination
shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent and shall be conclusive for all purposes. The term “Trading Day” shall mean, if such shares are listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange, a day
on which the principal national securities exchange on which such shares are listed or admitted to trading is open for the transaction of business or, if such shares are not so listed or admitted, a Business Day. 
  

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 (ii) For the purpose of any computation hereunder, the “current market
price” per share of Preferred Stock shall be determined in the same manner as set forth for Company Common Stock in clause (i) of this Section 11(d) (other than the penultimate sentence thereof). If the current market price per share of
Preferred Stock cannot be determined in the manner provided above or if the Preferred Stock is not publicly held or listed or traded in a manner described in clause (i) of this Section 11(d), the “current market price” per share of
Preferred Stock shall be conclusively deemed to be an amount equal to (A) 100 (as such amount may be appropriately adjusted for such events as stock splits, stock dividends and recapitalizations with respect to Company Common Stock occurring after
the date of this Agreement) multiplied by (B) the current market price per share of Company Common Stock. If neither Company Common Stock nor Preferred Stock is publicly held or so listed or traded, “current market price” per share of the
Preferred Stock shall mean the fair value per share as determined in good faith by a majority of the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent and shall be conclusive for all purposes. For
all purposes of this Agreement, the “current market price” of a Unit of Preferred Stock shall be equal to (A) the current market price of one share of Preferred Stock divided by (B) 100. 
  
 (e) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, no
adjustment in the Purchase Price shall be required unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least 1% in the Purchase Price; provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason of this Section 11(e) are not
required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment. All calculations under this Section 11 shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest one one-thousandth of a share of Company Common Stock or
Common Stock or other share or one one hundred-thousandth of a share of Preferred Stock, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the first sentence of this Section 11(e), any adjustment required by this Section 11 shall be made no later than the earlier
of (i) three years from the date of the transaction which mandates such adjustment and (ii) the Expiration Date. 
  
 (f) If as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to Section 11(a)(ii) or 13(a) hereof, the holder of any Right thereafter exercised shall
become entitled to receive any shares of capital stock other than Preferred Stock, thereafter the number of such other shares so receivable upon exercise of any Right and the Purchase Price thereof shall be subject to adjustment from time to time in
a manner and on terms as nearly equivalent as practicable to the provisions with respect to the Preferred Stock contained in Sections 11(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (l) and (m), and the provisions of Sections 7, 9, 10, 13 and 14
hereof with respect to the Preferred Stock shall apply on like terms to any such other shares. 
  
 (g) All Rights originally issued by the Company subsequent to any adjustment made to the Purchase Price hereunder shall evidence the right
to purchase, at the adjusted Purchase Price, the number of Units of Preferred Stock (or other securities or amount of cash or combination thereof) that may be acquired from time to time hereunder upon exercise of the Rights, all subject to further
adjustment as provided herein. 
  
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Sections 11(b) and (c), each Right outstanding immediately prior to the making of such adjustment shall thereafter evidence the right to purchase, at the
adjusted Purchase Price, that number of Units of Preferred Stock (calculated to the nearest one ten-thousandth of a Unit) obtained by (i) multiplying (x) the number of Units of Preferred Stock covered by a Right immediately prior to this adjustment
by (y) the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to such adjustment of the Purchase Price and (ii) dividing the product so obtained by the Purchase Price in effect immediately after such adjustment of the Purchase Price. 
  
 (i) The Company may elect, on or after the date of any
adjustment of the Purchase Price, to adjust the number of Rights, in lieu of any adjustment in the number of Units of Preferred Stock that may be acquired upon the exercise of a Right. Each of the Rights outstanding after the adjustment in the
number of Rights shall be exercisable for the number of Units of Preferred Stock for which a Right was exercisable immediately prior to such adjustment. Each Right held of record prior to such adjustment of the number of Rights shall become that
number of Rights (calculated to the nearest one ten-thousandth) obtained by dividing (x) the Purchase Price in effect immediately prior to adjustment of the Purchase Price by the (y) Purchase Price in effect immediately after adjustment of the
Purchase Price. The Company shall make a public announcement of its election to adjust the number of Rights (with prompt written notice thereof to the Rights Agent), indicating the record date for the adjustment, and, if known at the time, the
amount of the adjustment to be made. This record date may be the date on which the Purchase Price is adjusted or any day thereafter, but, if the Rights Certificates have been issued, shall be at least ten days later than the date of such public
announcement. If Rights Certificates have been issued, upon each adjustment of the number of Rights pursuant to this Section 11(i), the Company shall, as promptly as practicable, cause to be distributed to holders of record of Rights Certificates on
such record date Rights Certificates evidencing, subject to Section 14 hereof, the additional Rights to which such holders shall be entitled as a result of such adjustment, or, at the option of the Company, shall cause to be distributed to such
holders of record in substitution and replacement for the Rights Certificates held by such holders prior to the date of adjustment, and upon surrender thereof, if required by the Company, new Rights Certificates evidencing all the Rights to which
such holders shall be entitled after such adjustment. Rights Certificates to be so distributed shall be issued, executed by the Company and countersigned by the Rights Agent in the manner provided for herein (and may bear, at the option of the
Company, the adjusted Purchase Price) and shall be registered in the names of the holders of record of Rights Certificates on the record date specified in the public announcement. 
  
 (j) Irrespective of any adjustment or change in the Purchase Price or the number of Units of Preferred Stock
issuable upon the exercise of the Rights, the Rights Certificates theretofore and thereafter issued may continue to express the Purchase Price per Unit and the number of Units of Preferred Stock which were expressed in the initial Rights
Certificates issued hereunder. 
  
 (k) Before
taking any action that would cause an adjustment reducing the Purchase Price below the par or stated value, if any, of the number of Units of Preferred Stock or other shares of capital stock issuable upon exercise of the Rights, the Company shall
take any corporate action which may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary in order that the Company may validly and legally issue such fully paid and nonassessable number of Units of Preferred Stock or other shares at such adjusted Purchase
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 (l) In any case in which this Section 11 shall require that an adjustment in the Purchase
Price be made effective as of a record date for a specified event, the Company may elect to defer (with prompt written notice thereof to the Rights Agent) until the occurrence of such event the issuance to the holder of any Right exercised after
such record date of that number of Units of Preferred Stock and shares of other capital stock or securities of the Company, if any, issuable upon such exercise over and above the number of Units of Preferred Stock and shares of other capital stock
or securities of the Company, if any, issuable upon such exercise on the basis of the Purchase Price in effect prior to such adjustment; provided, however, that the Company shall deliver to such holder a due bill or other appropriate
instrument evidencing such holder’s right to receive such additional shares (fractional or otherwise) or securities upon the occurrence of the event requiring such adjustment. 
  
 (m) Anything in this Section 11 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall be entitled to make such
reductions in the Purchase Price, in addition to those adjustments expressly required by this Section 11, as and to the extent that in their good faith judgment the Board of Directors shall determine to be advisable in order that any (i)
consolidation or subdivision of the Preferred Stock, (ii) issuance wholly for cash of any shares of Preferred Stock at less than the current market price, (iii) issuance wholly for cash of shares of Preferred Stock or securities which by their terms
are convertible into or exchangeable for shares of Preferred Stock, (iv) stock dividends or (v) issuance of rights, options or warrants referred to in this Section 11, hereafter made by the Company to holders of its Preferred Stock, shall not be
taxable to such holders or shall reduce the taxes payable by such holders. 
  
 (n) The Company shall not, at any time after the Distribution Date, (i) consolidate with any other Person (other than a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o)
hereof), (ii) merge with or into any other Person (other than a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), or (iii) sell or transfer (or permit any Subsidiary to sell or transfer), in one
transaction, or a series of transactions, assets or earning power aggregating more than 50% of the assets or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any other Person or Persons (other than the Company and/or any of
its wholly owned Subsidiaries in one or more transactions each of which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), if: 
  
 (x) at the time of or immediately after such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer there are any rights, warrants or other instruments
or securities outstanding or agreements in effect which would substantially diminish or otherwise eliminate the benefits intended to be afforded by the Rights, or 
  
 (y) prior to, simultaneously with or immediately after such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer, the
Person which constitutes, or would constitute, the “Principal Party” for purposes of Section 13(a) hereof shall have distributed or otherwise transferred to its stockholders or other persons holding an equity interest in such Person Rights
previously owned by such Person or any of its Affiliates and Associates. 
  
 (o) After the Distribution Date, the Company shall not, except as permitted by Section 23, Section 26 or Section 34 hereof, take (or permit any Subsidiary to take) any action if 

  

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at the time such action is taken it is reasonably foreseeable that such action will diminish substantially or otherwise eliminate the benefits intended to be
afforded by the Rights. 
  
 (p) Anything in this
Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding, in the event that the Company shall at any time after the Rights Dividend Declaration Date and prior to the Distribution Date (i) declare a dividend on the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock payable
in shares of Company Common Stock, (ii) subdivide the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock or (iii) combine the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, the number of Rights associated with each share of
Company Common Stock then outstanding, or issued or delivered thereafter prior to the Distribution Date or in accordance with Section 22 hereof, shall be proportionately adjusted so that the number of Rights thereafter associated with each share of
Company Common Stock following any such event shall equal the result obtained by multiplying: 
  
 (x) the number of Rights associated with each share of Company Common Stock immediately prior to such event, by 
  
 (y) a fraction, (A) the numerator of which shall be the
total number of shares of Company Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the occurrence of the event and (B) the denominator of which shall be the total number of shares of Company Common Stock outstanding immediately following the occurrence
of such event. 
  
 
Section 12. Certificate of Adjusted Purchase Price or Number of Shares. 
  
 (a) Whenever any event affecting the Rights or their exercisability is made (including without limitation an event which causes the Rights
to become null and void) as provided in Section 11 or Section 13 hereof, the Company shall notify the Rights Agent in writing of such event and provide a brief statement of the facts accounting for such event. 
  
 (b) Whenever an adjustment is made as provided in Section 11
or Section 13 hereof, the Company shall (x) promptly prepare a certificate setting forth such adjustment and a brief statement of the facts accounting for such adjustment, (y) promptly file with the Rights Agent and with each transfer agent for the
Preferred Stock and the Company Common Stock, a copy of such certificate, and (z) mail a brief summary thereof to each holder of a Rights Certificate (or, if prior to the Distribution Date, to each holder of a certificate representing shares of
Company Common Stock) in accordance with Section 25 hereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing sentence, the failure of the Company to make such certification or give such notice shall not affect the validity of such adjustment or the force or effect of
the requirement for such adjustment. The Rights Agent shall be fully protected in relying on any such certificate and on any adjustment or any statement therein contained and shall have no duty or liability with respect to, and shall not be deemed
to have knowledge of, any adjustment or any such event unless and until it shall have received such a certificate. 
  
 
Section 13. Consolidation, Merger or Sale or Transfer of Assets or Earning Power. 
  
 (a) In the event that, following the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, directly or indirectly, either: 
  

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 (x) the Company shall consolidate with, or merge with and into, any other Person (other
than a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), and the Company shall not be the continuing or surviving corporation of such consolidation or merger, 
  
 (y) any Person (other than a wholly owned Subsidiary of the
Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o) hereof) shall consolidate with, or merge with or into, the Company, and the Company shall be the continuing or surviving corporation of such consolidation or merger and, in connection with
such consolidation or merger, all or part of the outstanding shares of Company Common Stock shall be changed into or exchanged for stock or other securities of the Company or any other Person or cash or any other property, or 
  
 (z) the Company shall sell or otherwise transfer (or one or
more of its Subsidiaries shall sell or otherwise transfer) to any Person or Persons (other than the Company or any of its wholly owned Subsidiaries in one or more transactions each of which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), in one or more
transactions, assets or earning power aggregating 50% or more of the assets or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) 
  
 (any such event being a “Section 13 Event”), then, and in each such case: 
  
 (i) each holder of a Right (other than Rights which have become void as provided in Section 7(e) hereof)
shall thereafter have the right to receive, upon the exercise thereof at the then-current Purchase Price, in accordance with this Agreement and in lieu of Units of Preferred Stock or shares of Company Common Stock, such number of validly authorized
and issued, fully paid, nonassessable and freely tradeable shares of Common Stock of the Principal Party, which shares shall not be subject to any liens, encumbrances, rights of call or first refusal, transfer restrictions or other adverse claims,
as shall be equal to the result obtained by: 
  
 (A) multiplying (x) the then-current Purchase Price by (y) the number of Units of Preferred Stock for which a Right is exercisable immediately prior to the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event (or, if a Section 11(a)(ii) Event has
occurred prior to the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event, multiplying (x) the number of such Units for which a Right would be exercisable hereunder but for the occurrence of such Section 11(a)(ii) Event by (y) the Purchase Price which would be
in effect hereunder but for such first occurrence), and 
  
 (B) dividing that product (which, following the first occurrence of a Section 13 Event, shall be the “Purchase Price” for all purposes of this Agreement) by 50% of the current market price (determined
pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) per share of the Common Stock of such Principal Party on the date of consummation of such Section 13 Event; 
  
 provided, however, that the Purchase Price (as theretofore adjusted in accordance with Section 11(a)(ii) hereof) and the number of shares of
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Party so receivable upon exercise of a Right shall be subject to further adjustment as appropriate in accordance with Section 11(f) hereof to reflect any
events occurring in respect of the Common Stock of such Principal Party after the occurrence of such Section 13 Event; 
  
 (ii) such Principal Party shall thereafter be liable for, and shall assume, by virtue of such Section 13 Event, all the obligations and
duties of the Company pursuant to this Agreement; 
  
 (iii) the term “Company” shall thereafter be deemed to refer to such Principal Party in all respects, it being specifically intended that the provisions of Section 11 hereof shall apply only to such Principal Party following the
first occurrence of a Section 13 Event; 
  
 (iv)
such Principal Party shall take such steps (including, but not limited to, the reservation of a sufficient number of shares of its Common Stock in accordance with Section 9 hereof) in connection with the consummation of any such transaction as may
be necessary to assure that the provisions of this Agreement shall thereafter be applicable, as nearly as reasonably may be, in relation to its shares of Common Stock thereafter deliverable upon the exercise of the Rights; 
  
 (v) such Principal Party shall take such steps as may be
necessary to assure that, upon the subsequent occurrence of any merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially all of the assets, recapitalization, reclassification of shares, reorganization or other extraordinary transaction in respect of such
Principal Party, each holder of a Right shall thereupon be entitled to receive, upon exercise of a Right and payment of the Purchase Price, such cash, shares, rights, warrants and other property which such holder would have been entitled to receive
had it, at the time of such transaction, owned the shares of Common Stock of the Principal Party purchasable upon the exercise of a Right, and such Principal Party shall take such steps (including, but not limited to, reservation of shares of stock)
as may be necessary to permit the subsequent exercise of the Rights in accordance with the terms hereof for such cash, shares, rights, warrants and other property; and 
  
 (vi) the provisions of Section 11(a)(ii) hereof shall be of no further effect following the first occurrence
of any Section 13 Event. 
  
 (b)
“Principal Party” shall mean: 
  
 (i) in the case of any transaction described in clause (x) or (y) of the first sentence of Section 13(a) hereof, (A) the Person that is the issuer of any securities into which shares of Company Common Stock are converted in such merger or
consolidation, or, if there is more than one such issuer, the issuer of Common Stock that has the highest aggregate current market price (determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) and (B) if no securities are so issued, the Person that is the
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Common Stock of which has the highest aggregate current market price (determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof); and 
  
 (ii) in the case of any transaction described in clause (z)
of the first sentence of Section 13(a) hereof, the Person that is the party receiving the largest portion of the assets or earning power transferred pursuant to such transaction or transactions, or, if each Person that is a party to such transaction
or transactions receives the same portion of the assets or earning power transferred pursuant to such transaction or transactions or if the Person receiving the largest portion of the assets or earning power cannot be determined, whichever Person
the Common Stock of which has the highest aggregate current market price (determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof); 
  
 provided, however, that in any such case: 
  
 (1) if the Common Stock of such Person is not at such time and has not been continuously over the preceding twelve-month period registered
under Section 12 of the Exchange Act (“Registered Common Stock”) or such Person is not a corporation, and such Person is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of another Person that has Registered Common Stock outstanding, “Principal
Party” shall refer to such other Person; 
  
 (2) if the Common Stock of such Person is not Registered Common Stock or such Person is not a corporation, and such Person is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of another Person but is not a direct or indirect Subsidiary of another Person
which has Registered Common Stock outstanding, “Principal Party” shall refer to the ultimate parent entity of such first-mentioned Person; 
  
 (3) if such Person is directly or indirectly controlled by more than one Person, and one or more of such other Persons has Registered
Common Stock outstanding, “Principal Party” shall refer to whichever of such Persons is the issuer of the Registered Common Stock having the highest aggregate current market price (determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof); and

  
 (4) if such Person is directly or indirectly
controlled by more than one Person, and none of such other Persons have Registered Common Stock outstanding, “Principal Party” shall refer to whichever ultimate parent entity is the corporation having the greatest stockholders equity or,
if no such ultimate parent entity is a corporation, shall refer to whichever ultimate parent entity is the entity having the greatest net assets. 
  
 (c) The Company shall not consummate any such consolidation, merger, sale or transfer unless the Principal Party shall have a sufficient
number of authorized shares of its Common Stock which have not been issued or reserved for issuance to permit the exercise in full of the Rights in accordance with this Section 13, and unless prior thereto the Company and such Principal Party shall
have executed and delivered to the Rights Agent a supplemental agreement providing for the terms set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 13 and further providing that the Principal Party, as soon as practicable after the date of such
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 (i) (A) file on an appropriate form a registration statement under the Securities Act
with respect to the Rights and the Common Stock that may be acquired upon exercise of the Rights, (B) use its best efforts to cause such registration statement to become effective as soon as practicable after filing and remain effective (and to
include a prospectus complying with the requirements of the Securities Act) until the Expiration Date, and (C) take such action as may be required to assure that any acquisition of such Common Stock upon the exercise of the Rights complies with any
applicable state securities or “blue sky” laws; and 
  
 (ii) deliver to holders of the Rights historical financial statements for the Principal Party and each of its Affiliates which comply in all respects with the requirements for registration on Form 10 under the
Exchange Act. 
  
 (d) In case the Principal Party
which is to be a party to a transaction referred to in this Section 13 has a provision in any of its authorized securities or in its certificate of incorporation or by-laws or other instrument governing its corporate affairs, which provision would
have the effect of (i) causing such Principal Party to issue, in connection with, or as a consequence of, the consummation of a transaction referred to in this Section 13, shares of Common Stock of such Principal Party at less than the then current
market price per share (determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) or securities exercisable for, or convertible into, Common Stock of such Principal Party at less than such then current market price (other than to holders of Rights pursuant to
this Section 13) or (ii) providing for any special payment, tax or similar provisions in connection with the issuance of the Common Stock of such Principal Party pursuant to the provisions of this Section 13; then, in such event, the Company shall
not consummate any such transaction unless prior thereto the Company and such Principal Party shall have executed and delivered to the Rights Agent a supplemental agreement providing that the provision in question of such Principal Party shall have
been cancelled, waived or amended, or that the authorized securities shall be redeemed, so that the applicable provision will have no effect in connection with, or as a consequence of, the consummation of the proposed transaction. 
  
 (e) The provisions of this Section 13 shall similarly apply
to successive mergers or consolidations or sales or other transfers. In the event that a Section 13 Event shall occur at any time after the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, the Rights which have not theretofore been exercised shall
thereafter become exercisable in the manner and for the securities described in Section 13(a). 
  
 
Section 14. Fractional Rights and Fractional Shares. 
  
 (a) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of Rights or to distribute Rights Certificates which evidence fractional Rights.
In lieu of issuing such fractional Rights, there shall be paid to the Persons to which such fractional Rights would otherwise be issuable an amount in cash equal to such fraction of the market value of a whole Right. For purposes of this Section
14(a), the market value of a whole Right shall be the closing price of the Rights for the Trading Day immediately prior to the date on which such fractional Rights would have been otherwise issuable. The closing price of the Rights for any day shall
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 (x) if the Rights are listed or admitted to trading on a national securities exchange or
interdealer quotation system, the last sale price, regular way, or, in the case no such sale takes place on such day, the average of the closing bid and asked prices, regular way, in either case as reported in the principal consolidated transaction
reporting system with respect to securities listed on the principal national securities exchange or interdealer quotation system on which the Rights are listed or admitted to trading, or 
  
 (y) if the Rights are not listed or admitted to trading on any national securities exchange or interdealer
quotation system, the last quoted price or, if not so quoted, the average of the high bid and low asked prices in the over-the-counter market, as reported by Nasdaq or such other system then in use, or 
  
 (z) if on any such date the Rights are not quoted by any
such organization, the average of the closing bid and asked prices as furnished by a professional market maker making a market in the Rights selected by the Board of Directors. 
  
 If on any such date no such market maker is making a market in the Rights, the fair value of the Rights on such date as
determined in good faith by the Board of Directors shall be used and such determination shall be described in a statement filed with the Rights Agent and shall be conclusive for all purposes. 
  
 (b) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of
shares of Preferred Stock (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one-hundredth of a share of Preferred Stock) upon exercise of the Rights or to distribute certificates which evidence such fractional shares of Preferred Stock
(other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one-hundredth of a share of Preferred Stock); provided, however, that in lieu of fractions of shares of Preferred Stock which are integral multiples of one one-hundredth of a
share of Preferred Stock, the Company may provide for the issuance of depositary receipts pursuant to an appropriate agreement between the Company and a depositary selected by it, provided that such agreement shall provide that the holders of such
depositary receipts shall have all the rights, privileges and preferences to which they are entitled as beneficial owners of the Preferred Stock represented by such depositary receipts. In lieu of such fractional shares of Preferred Stock that are
not integral multiples of one one-hundredth of a share, the Company may pay to the registered holders of Rights Certificates at the time such Rights are exercised as herein provided an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the then current
market price of a share of Preferred Stock on the day of exercise, determined in accordance with Section 11(d) hereof. 
  
 (c) The Company shall not be required to issue fractions of shares of Company Common Stock upon exercise of the Rights or to distribute
certificates which evidence fractional shares of Company Common Stock. In lieu of such fractional shares of Company Common Stock, the Company may pay to the registered holders of Rights Certificates at the time such Rights are exercised as herein
provided an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the current market value of one (1) share of Company Common Stock. For purposes of this Section 14(c), the current market value of one share of Company Common Stock shall be the closing

  

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price per share of Company Common Stock (as determined pursuant to Section 11(d)(i) hereof) on the Trading Day immediately prior to the date of such
exercise. 
  
 (d) The holder of a Right by the
acceptance of the Rights expressly waives his right to receive any fractional Rights or any fractional shares upon exercise of a Right, except as permitted by this Section 14. 
  
 (e) Whenever a payment for fractional Rights or fractional shares of Company Common Stock is to be made by
the Rights Agent, the Company shall (i) promptly prepare and deliver to the Rights Agent a certificate setting forth in reasonable detail the facts related to such payments and the prices and/or formulas utilized in calculating such payments, and
(ii) provide sufficient monies to the Rights Agent in the form of fully collected funds to make such payments. The Rights Agent shall be fully protected in relying upon such a certificate and shall have no duty with respect to, and shall not be
deemed to have knowledge of any payment for fractional Rights or fractional shares of Company Common Stock under any Section of this Agreement relating to the payment of fractional Rights or fractional shares of Company Common Stock unless and until
the Rights Agent shall have received such a certificate and sufficient monies. 
  
 
Section 15. Rights of Action. All rights of action in respect of this Agreement, other than rights of action vested in the Rights Agent pursuant to Sections 18 and 20 hereof, are vested in the respective
registered holders of the Rights Certificates (and, prior to the Distribution Date, the registered holders of certificates representing shares of Company Common Stock); and any registered holder of a Rights Certificate (or, prior to the Distribution
Date, of a certificate representing shares of Company Common Stock), without the consent of the Rights Agent or of the holder of any other Rights Certificate (or, prior to the Distribution Date, of a certificate representing shares of Company Common
Stock), may, in his own behalf and for his own benefit, enforce, and may institute and maintain any suit, action or proceeding against the Company or any other Person to enforce, or otherwise act in respect of, his right to exercise the Rights
evidenced by such Rights Certificate in the manner provided in such Rights Certificate and in this Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing or any remedies available to the holders of Rights, it is specifically acknowledged that the holders of
Rights would not have an adequate remedy at law for any breach of this Agreement and shall be entitled to specific performance of the obligations hereunder and injunctive relief against actual or threatened violations of the obligations hereunder of
any Person subject to this Agreement. 
  
 
Section 16. Agreement of Rights Holders. Every holder of a Right by accepting the same consents and agrees with the Company and the Rights Agent and with every other holder of a Right that: 
  
 (a) prior to the Distribution Date, the Rights will be
transferable only in connection with the transfer of Company Common Stock; 
  
 (b) after the Distribution Date, the Rights Certificates are transferable only on the registry books of the Rights Agent if surrendered at the office of the Rights Agent designated for such purposes, duly endorsed or
accompanied by a proper instrument of transfer and with the appropriate forms and certificates duly and properly executed; 
  

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 (c) subject to Section 6(a) and Section 7(f) hereof, the Company and the Rights Agent may
deem and treat the Person in whose name a Rights Certificate (or, prior to the Distribution Date, the associated Company Common Stock certificate) is registered as the absolute owner thereof and of the Rights evidenced thereby (notwithstanding any
notations of ownership or writing on the Rights Certificates or the associated Company Common Stock certificate made by any Person other than the Company or the Rights Agent) for all purposes whatsoever, and neither the Company nor the Rights Agent,
subject to the last sentence of Section 7(e) hereof, shall be affected by any notice to the contrary; and 
  
 (d) notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, neither the Company nor the Rights Agent shall have any liability to any
holder of a Right or any other Person as a result of its inability to perform any of its obligations under this Agreement by reason of any preliminary or permanent injunction or other order, decree, judgment or ruling (whether interlocutory or
final) issued by a court of competent jurisdiction or by a governmental, regulatory or administrative agency or commission, or any statute, rule, regulation or executive order promulgated or enacted by any governmental authority, prohibiting or
otherwise restraining performance of such obligation; provided, however, the Company must use its best efforts to have any such order, decree, judgment or ruling lifted or otherwise overturned as promptly as practicable. 
  
 
Section 17. Rights Certificate Holder Not Deemed a Stockholder. No holder, as such, of any Rights Certificate shall be entitled to vote, receive dividends or be deemed for any purpose the holder of the number of
shares of Preferred Stock or any other securities of the Company which may at any time be issuable on the exercise of the Rights represented thereby, nor shall anything contained herein or in any Rights Certificate be construed to confer upon the
holder of any Rights Certificate, as such, any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company or any right to vote for the election of directors or upon any matter submitted to stockholders at any meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to
any corporate action, or, except as provided in Section 24 hereof, to receive notice of meetings or other actions affecting stockholders, or to receive dividends or subscription rights, or otherwise, until the Right or Rights evidenced by such
Rights Certificate shall have been exercised in accordance with the provisions hereof. This Section 17 shall also apply to holders, as such, of Rights prior to the issuance of Rights Certificates. 
  
 
Section 18. Concerning the Rights Agent. 
  
 (a) The Company agrees to pay to the Rights Agent reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder and, from time to time, on demand of the Rights Agent, its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses,
including reasonable fees and disbursements of its counsel, incurred in connection with the execution and administration of this Agreement and the exercise and performance of its duties hereunder. The Company shall indemnify the Rights Agent for,
and hold it harmless against, any loss, liability, damage, judgment, fine, penalty, claim, demand, settlement, cost or expense (including without limitation the reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel) incurred without gross negligence, bad
faith or willful misconduct on the part of the Rights Agent (which gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct must be determined by a final non-appealable order of a court of competent jurisdiction), for anything done or omitted by the Rights
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Agreement or the exercise or performance of its duties hereunder, including, without limitation, the reasonable costs and expenses of defending against a
claim of liability hereunder. The provisions of this Section 18 and Section 20 below shall survive the termination of this Agreement, the exercise of expiration of the Rights and resignation, replacement or removal of the Rights Agent 
  
 (b) The Rights Agent shall be authorized and protected and
shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it in connection with its acceptance and administration of this Agreement and the exercise and performance of its duties hereunder in reliance upon any Rights
Certificate or certificate for Preferred Stock or for other securities of the Company, instrument of assignment or transfer, power of attorney, endorsement, affidavit, letter, notice, direction, consent, certificate, statement or other paper or
document reasonably believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, executed and, where necessary, verified or acknowledged by the proper Person or Persons, or otherwise upon the advice of counsel as set forth in Section 20 hereof. 

 
 
Section 19. Merger or Consolidation or Change of Name of Rights Agent. 
  
 (a) Any Person into which the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent may be merged or with which it may be consolidated, or any Person
resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to the corporate trust or stockholder services businesses of the Rights Agent or any successor Rights
Agent, shall be the successor to the Rights Agent under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any document or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto; provided, however, that such Person would be eligible for
appointment as a successor Rights Agent under the provisions of Section 21 hereof. In case at the time such successor Rights Agent shall succeed to the agency created by this Agreement, any of the Rights Certificates shall have been countersigned
but not delivered, any such successor Rights Agent may adopt the countersignature of a predecessor Rights Agent and deliver such Rights Certificates so countersigned; and in case at that time any of the Rights Certificates shall not have been
countersigned, any successor Rights Agent may countersign such Rights Certificates either in the name of the predecessor or in the name of the successor Rights Agent; and in all such cases such Rights Certificates shall have the full force provided
in the Rights Certificates and in this Agreement. 
  
 (b) In case at any time the name of the Rights Agent shall be changed and at such time any of the Rights Certificates shall have been countersigned but not delivered, the Rights Agent may adopt the countersignature under its prior name and
deliver Rights Certificates so countersigned; and in case at that time any of the Rights Certificates shall not have been countersigned, the Rights Agent may countersign such Rights Certificates either in its prior name or in its changed name; and
in all such cases such Rights Certificates shall have the full force provided in the Rights Certificates and in this Agreement. 
  
 
Section 20. Duties of Rights Agent. The Rights Agent undertakes to perform only the duties and obligations expressly imposed by this Agreement (and no implied duties) upon the following terms and conditions, by
all of which the Company and the holders of Rights Certificates, by their acceptance thereof, shall be bound: 
  

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 (a) The Rights Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be legal counsel for the
Company or an employee of the Rights Agent), and the advice or opinion of such counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection to the Rights Agent and the Rights Agent shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken or
omitted by it and in accordance with such advice or opinion. 
  
 (b) Whenever in the performance of its duties under this Agreement the Rights Agent shall deem it necessary or desirable that any fact or matter (including, without limitation, the identity of any Acquiring Person and
the determination of “current market price”) be proved or established by the Company prior to taking or omitting any action hereunder, such fact or matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be specified herein) may be deemed to be
conclusively proved and established by a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company
and delivered to the Rights Agent; and such certificate shall be full authorization and protection to the Rights Agent and the Rights Agent shall incur no liability for or in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it under the
provisions of this Agreement in reliance upon such certificate. 
  
 (c) The Rights Agent shall be liable hereunder only for its own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct (which gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct must be determined by a final non-appealable
order of a court of competent jurisdiction). Anything to the contrary notwithstanding, in no event shall the Rights Agent be liable for special, punitive, indirect, consequential or incidental loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including but not
limited to lost profits), even if the Rights Agent has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage. Any liability of the Rights Agent under this Agreement will be limited to the amount of annual fees paid by the Company to the Rights
Agent. 
  
 (d) The Rights Agent shall not be
liable for or by reason of any of the statements of fact or recitals contained in this Agreement or in the Rights Certificates or be required to verify the same (except as to its countersignature on such Rights Certificates), but all such statements
and recitals are and shall be deemed to have been made by the Company only. 
  
 (e) The Rights Agent shall not have any liability for or be under any responsibility in respect of the validity of this Agreement or the execution and delivery hereof (except the due execution hereof by the Rights
Agent) or for the validity or execution of any Rights Certificate (except its countersignature thereof); nor shall it be responsible for any breach by the Company of any covenant or failure by the Company to satisfy conditions contained in this
Agreement or in any Rights Certificate; nor shall it be responsible for any adjustment required under the provisions of Section 11 or Section 13 hereof or for the manner, method or amount of any such adjustment or the ascertaining of the existence
of facts that would require any such adjustment (except with respect to the exercise of Rights evidenced by Rights Certificates after actual notice of any such adjustment); nor shall it by any act hereunder be deemed to make any representation or
warranty as to the authorization or reservation of any shares of Preferred Stock or any other securities to be issued pursuant to this Agreement or any Rights Certificate or as to whether any shares of Preferred Stock or any other securities will,
when so issued, be validly authorized and issued, fully paid and nonassessable. 
  

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 (f) The Company shall perform, execute, acknowledge and deliver or cause to be performed,
executed, acknowledged and delivered all such further acts, instruments and assurances as may reasonably be required by the Rights Agent for the performance by the Rights Agent of its duties under this Agreement. 
  
 (g) The Rights Agent is hereby authorized and directed to
accept instructions with respect to the performance of its duties hereunder from the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Secretary, any Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer or any Assistant
Treasurer of the Company, and to apply to such officers for advice or instructions in connection with its duties, and such instructions shall be full authorization and protection to the Rights Agent and the Rights Agent shall not be liable for or in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it in accordance with instructions of any such officer or for any delay in acting while waiting for those instructions. The Rights Agent shall be fully authorized and protected in relying upon the
most recent instructions received by any such officer. Any application by the Rights Agent for written instructions from the Company may, at the option of the Rights Agent, set forth in writing any action proposed to be taken, suffered or omitted by
the Rights Agent under this Agreement and the date on and/or after which such action shall be taken or suffered or such omission shall be effective. The Rights Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or suffered by, or omission of, the Rights
Agent in accordance with a proposal included in any such application on or after the date specified in such application (which date shall not be less than five Business Days after the date any officer of the Company actually receives such
application, unless any such officer shall have consented in writing to an earlier date) unless, prior to taking any such action (or the effective date in the case of an omission), the Rights Agent shall have received written instructions in
response to such application specifying the action to be taken, suffered or omitted. 
  
 (h) The Rights Agent and any stockholder, affiliate, director, officer or employee of the Rights Agent may buy, sell or deal in any of the
Rights or other securities of the Company or have a pecuniary interest in any transaction in which the Company may be interested, or contract with or lend money to the Company or otherwise act as fully and freely as though it were not Rights Agent
under this Agreement. Nothing herein shall preclude the Rights Agent or any such stockholder, affiliate, director, officer of employee from acting in any other capacity for the Company or for any other Person. 
  
 (i) The Rights Agent may execute and exercise any of the
rights or powers hereby vested in it or perform any duty hereunder either itself (through its directors, officers and employees) or by or through its attorneys or agents, and the Rights Agent shall not be answerable or accountable for any act,
default, neglect or misconduct of any such attorneys or agents or for any loss to the Company or any other Person resulting from any such act, default, neglect or misconduct, absent gross negligence or bad faith in the selection and continued
employment thereof (which gross negligence or bad faith must be determined by a final, non-appealable order, judgment, decree or ruling of a court of competent jurisdiction). 
  
 (j) No provision of this Agreement shall require the Rights Agent to expend or risk its own funds or
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for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnification against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. 
  
 (k) If, with respect to any Rights Certificate surrendered
to the Rights Agent for exercise or transfer, the certificate attached to the form of assignment or form of election to purchase, as the case may be, has either not been completed, not signed or indicates an affirmative response to clause 1 and/or 2
thereof, the Rights Agent shall not take any further action with respect to such requested exercise or transfer without first consulting with the Company. 
  
 
Section 21. Change of Rights Agent. The Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent may resign and be discharged from its duties under this Agreement upon thirty days’ prior notice in writing mailed to the
Company and to each transfer agent for the Company Common Stock or Preferred Stock, by registered or certified mail, and, if such resignation occurs after the Distribution Date, to the holders of the Rights Certificates by first-class mail. The
Company may remove the Rights Agent or any successor Rights Agent upon thirty days’ prior notice in writing, mailed to the Rights Agent or successor Rights Agent, as the case may be, and to each transfer agent for the Company Common Stock or
Preferred Stock, by registered or certified mail, and, if such removal occurs after the Distribution Date, to the holders of the Rights Certificates by first-class mail. If the Rights Agent shall resign or be removed or shall otherwise become
incapable of acting, the Company shall appoint a successor to the Rights Agent. If the Company shall fail to make such appointment within a period of thirty days after giving notice of such removal or after it has been notified in writing of such
resignation or incapacity by the resigning or incapacitated Rights Agent or by the holder of a Rights Certificate (who shall, with such notice, submit his Rights Certificate for inspection by the Company), then any registered holder of any Rights
Certificate may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a new Rights Agent. Any successor Rights Agent, whether appointed by the Company or by such a court, shall be (a) a Person organized and doing business under the
laws of the United States or any state of the United States in good standing, shall be authorized under applicable laws to exercise corporate trust or stock transfer or stockholder service powers and shall be subject to supervision or examination by
federal or state authorities and which has at the time of its appointment as Rights Agent a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000 or (b) an Affiliate of a corporation described in clause (a). After appointment, the successor Rights
Agent shall be vested with the same powers, rights, duties and responsibilities as if it had been originally named as Rights Agent without further act or deed; but the predecessor Rights Agent shall deliver and transfer to the successor Rights Agent
any property at the time held by it hereunder, and execute and deliver any further assurance, conveyance, act or deed necessary for the purpose. Not later than the effective date of any such appointment, the Company shall file notice thereof in
writing with the predecessor Rights Agent and each transfer agent of the Company Common Stock or Preferred Stock, and, if such appointment occurs after the Distribution Date, mail a notice thereof in writing to the registered holders of the Rights
Certificates. Failure to give any notice provided for in this Section 21, however, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of the resignation or removal of the Rights Agent or the appointment of the successor Rights Agent.

  
 
Section 22. Issuance of New Rights Certificates. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Agreement or the Rights to the contrary, the Company may, at its option, issue 

  

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new Rights Certificates evidencing Rights in such form as may be approved by the Board of Directors to reflect any adjustment or change made in accordance
with the provisions of this Agreement in the Purchase Price or the number or kind or class of shares or other securities or property that may be acquired under the Rights Certificates. 
  
 In addition, in connection with the issuance or sale of shares of Company Common Stock following the Distribution Date and
prior to the Expiration Date, the Company (a) shall, with respect to shares of Company Common Stock so issued or sold pursuant to the exercise of stock options or under any employee plan or arrangement, or upon the exercise, conversion or exchange
of securities hereinafter issued by the Company, and (b) may, in any other case, if deemed necessary or appropriate by the Board of Directors, issue Rights Certificates representing the appropriate number of Rights in connection with such issuance
or sale; provided, however, that (i) no such Rights Certificate shall be issued if, and to the extent that, the Company shall be advised by counsel that such issuance would create a significant risk of material adverse tax consequences to the
Company or the Person to whom such Rights Certificate would be issued, and (ii) no such Rights Certificate shall be issued if, and to the extent that, appropriate adjustment shall otherwise have been made in lieu of the issuance thereof. 

 
 
Section 23. Redemption and Termination. 
  
 (a) Subject to Section 30 hereof, the Company may, at its option, by action of the Board of Directors, at any time prior to the earlier of (i) the Close of Business on the tenth Business Day following the Stock
Acquisition Date or (ii) the Final Expiration Date, redeem all but not less than all of the then-outstanding Rights at a redemption price of $.001 per Right, as such amount may be appropriately adjusted to reflect any stock split, stock dividend or
similar transaction occurring after the date hereof (such redemption price being the “Redemption Price”). The Company may, at its option, by action of the Board of Directors, pay the Redemption Price either in shares of Company
Common Stock (based on the “current market price”, as defined in Section 11(d) hereof, of the shares of Company Common Stock at the time of redemption) or cash or any other form of consideration deemed appropriate by the Board of Directors
and the redemption of the Rights shall be effective at such time and on the basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors may in its sole discretion establish. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Rights shall
not be exercisable until such time as the Company’s right of redemption has expired. 
  
 (b) Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors ordering the redemption of the Rights as provided in Section 23(a) above (or at
such later time as the Board of Directors may establish for the effectiveness of such redemption), and without any further action and without any notice, the right to exercise the Rights will terminate and the only right thereafter of the holders of
Rights shall be to receive the Redemption Price for each Right so held. The Company shall promptly give notice of such redemption to the Rights Agent and the holders of the then-outstanding Rights by mailing such notice to all such holders at each
holder’s last address as it appears upon the registry books of the Rights Agent or, prior to the Distribution Date, on the registry books of the transfer agent for the Company Common Stock, provided, however, that the failure to give, or
any defect in, any such notice shall not affect the validity of such redemption. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall be deemed 

  

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given, whether or not the holder receives the notice. Each such notice of redemption will state the method by which the payment of the Redemption Price will
be made. 
  
 (c) The Company may, at its option,
discharge all of its obligations with respect to the Rights by (i) issuing a press release announcing the manner of redemption of the Rights in accordance with this Agreement, and (ii) mailing payment of the Redemption Price to the registered
holders of the Rights as their last addresses as they appear on the registry books of the Rights Agent or, prior to the Distribution date, on the registry books of the transfer agent of the Company Common Stock, and upon such action, all outstanding
Rights and Rights Certificates shall be null and void without any further action by the Company. 
  
 
Section 24. Notice of Certain Events. 
  
 (a) In case the Company shall propose, at any time after the Distribution Date: 
  
 (i) to pay any dividend payable in stock of any class to the holders of Preferred Stock or to make any other distribution to the holders
of Preferred Stock (other than a regular periodic cash dividend paid out of funds legally available therefor), 
  
 (ii) to offer to the holders of Preferred Stock rights or warrants to subscribe for or to purchase any additional shares of Preferred
Stock or shares of stock of any class or any other securities, rights or options, 
  
 (iii) to effect any reclassification of its Preferred Stock (other than a reclassification involving only the subdivision of outstanding
shares of Preferred Stock), 
  
 (iv) to effect
any consolidation or merger into or with any other Person (other than a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company in a transaction which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), or to effect any sale or other transfer (or to permit one or more of its
Subsidiaries to effect any sale or other transfer), in one or more transactions, of more than 50% of the assets or earning power of the Company and its Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) to any other Person or Persons (other than the Company and/or any
of its wholly owned Subsidiaries in one or more transactions each of which complies with Section 11(o) hereof), or 
  
 (v) to effect the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, 
  
 then, in each such case, the Company shall give to each holder of a Rights Certificate, to the extent feasible and in
accordance with Section 25 hereof, a notice of such proposed action, which shall specify the record date for the purposes of such stock dividend, distribution of rights or warrants, or the date on which such reclassification, consolidation, merger,
sale, transfer, liquidation, dissolution, or winding up is to take place and the date of participation therein by the holders of the shares of Preferred Stock, if any such date is to be fixed, and such notice shall be so given in the case of any
action covered by clause (i) or (ii) above at least twenty (20) days prior to the record date for determining holders of the shares of Preferred Stock for purposes of such action, and in the case of any such other action, at least twenty (20) days
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of Preferred Stock, whichever shall be the earlier; provided, however, no such notice shall be required pursuant to this Section 24, if any wholly
owned Subsidiary of the Company effects a consolidation or merger with or into, or effects a sale or other transfer of assets or earnings power to, any other wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company. 
  
 (b) In case any Triggering Event shall occur, then, in any
such case, (i) the Company shall as soon as practicable thereafter give to the Rights Agent and to each holder of a Rights Certificate, to the extent feasible and in accordance with Section 25 hereof, a notice of the occurrence of such event, which
shall specify the event and the consequences of the event to holders of Rights under Section 11(a)(ii) or Section 13 hereof, as the case may be, and (ii) all references in the preceding paragraph (a) to Preferred Stock shall be deemed thereafter to
refer also to Company Common Stock and/or, if appropriate, other securities of the Company. 
  
 
Section 25. Notices. All notices and other communications provided for hereunder shall, unless otherwise stated herein, be in writing (including by telex, telegram or cable) and mailed or sent or delivered, if to
the Company, at its address at: 
  
 MarketWatch,
Inc. 
 825 Battery Street 
 San Francisco, CA 94111 
 Attention: General Counsel 
  
 and if to the Rights Agent, at its address at: 

 
 Mellon Investor Services LLC 
 235 Montgomery Street, 23rd Floor 
 San Francisco, CA 94104 
 Attention: Cecil Bobey 
 Fax: (415) 989-5241 
  
 With a copy to: 
  
 Mellon Investor Services LLC 
 85 Challenger Road 
 Ridgefield Park, New Jersey 07660-2108 
 Attention: General Counsel 
  
 Notices or demands authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the Company or the Rights Agent to the holder of any Rights Certificate (or, if
prior to the Distribution Date, to the holder of certificates representing shares of Company Common Stock) shall be sufficiently given or made if sent by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed to such holder at the address of such holder as
shown on the registry books of the Company. 
  
 
Section 26. Supplements and Amendments. Prior to the Distribution Date, and subject to the other provisions of this Section 26, the Company may, in its sole and absolute discretion, and the Rights Agent shall, if
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or shares of Company Common Stock. From and after the Distribution Date, subject to the other provisions of this Section 26, the Company may, in its sole and
absolute discretion, and the Rights Agent shall, if the Company so directs, supplement or amend this Agreement without the approval of any holders of Rights Certificates in order: 
  
 (i) to cure any ambiguity, 
  
 (ii) to correct or supplement any provision contained herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any
other provisions herein, 
  
 (iii) to shorten or
lengthen any time period hereunder, or 
  
 (iv)
to change or supplement the provisions hereunder in any manner which the Company may deem necessary or desirable and which shall not adversely affect the interests of the holders of Rights Certificates (other than an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate
or Associate of an Acquiring Person); 
  
 provided, however, that this
Agreement may not be supplemented or amended to lengthen, pursuant to clause (iii) of this sentence, (A) subject to Section 30 hereof, a time period relating to when the Rights may be redeemed at such time as the Rights are not then redeemable, or
(B) any other time period unless such lengthening is for the purpose of protecting, enhancing or clarifying the rights of, and/or the benefits to, the holders of Rights (other than Acquiring Person or an Associate or Affiliate of an Acquiring
Person). 
  
 Upon the delivery of a certificate from an
appropriate officer of the Company which states that the proposed supplement or amendment is in compliance with the terms of this Section 26, the Rights Agent shall execute such supplement or amendment; provided, however, that the Rights Agent may,
but shall not be obligated to, enter into any supplement or amendment that affects the Rights Agent’s own rights, duties, obligations or immunities under this Agreement. 
  
 Prior to the Distribution Date, the interests of the holders of Rights shall be deemed coincident with the interests of the
holders of Company Common Stock. 
  
 
Section 27. Successors. All the covenants and provisions of this Agreement by or for the benefit of the Company or the Rights Agent shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns
hereunder. 
  
 
Section 28. Determinations and Actions by the Board of Directors, etc. For all purposes of this Agreement, any calculation of the number of shares of Company Common Stock outstanding at any particular time,
including for purposes of determining the particular percentage of such outstanding shares of Company Common Stock of which any Person is the Beneficial Owner, shall be made in accordance with the last sentence of Rule 13d-3(d)(1)(i) of the Exchange
Act Regulations as in effect on the date hereof. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the Board of Directors shall have the exclusive power and authority to administer this Agreement and to exercise all rights and powers specifically
granted to the Board of Directors or to the Company, or as may be necessary or advisable in the administration of this Agreement, including, without limitation, the right and power (i) to interpret the provisions of 

  

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this Agreement, and (ii) to make all determinations deemed necessary or advisable for the administration of this Agreement (including, without limitation, a
determination whether to redeem or not redeem the rights or to amend this Agreement and whether any proposed amendment adversely affects the interest of the holders of Rights Certificates. All such actions, calculations, interpretations and
determinations (including, for purposes of clause (y) below, all omissions with respect to the foregoing) which are done or made by the Board of Directors in good faith shall (x) be final, conclusive and binding on the Company, the Rights Agent, the
holders of the Rights and all other parties, and (y) not subject the Board of Directors or any member thereof to any liability to the holders of the Rights. The Rights Agent is entitled always to assume the Company’s Board of Directors acted in
good faith and shall be fully protected and incur no liability in reliance thereon. 
  
 
Section 29. Benefits of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to give to any Person other than the Company, the Rights Agent and the registered holders of the Rights Certificates (and, prior
to the Distribution Date, registered holders of shares of Company Common Stock) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement; but this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the Company, the Rights Agent and
the registered holders of the Rights Certificates (and, prior to the Distribution Date, registered holders of shares of Company Common Stock). 
  
 
Section 30. Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction or other authority to be invalid, void or unenforceable, the remainder of
the terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions of this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated; provided, however, that notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the
contrary, if any such term, provision, covenant or restriction is held by such court or authority to be invalid, void or unenforceable and the Board of Directors determines in its good faith judgment that severing the invalid language from this
Agreement would adversely affect the purpose or effect of this Agreement and the Rights shall not then be redeemable, the right of redemption set forth in Section 23 hereof shall be reinstated and shall not expire until the Close of Business on the
tenth Business Day following the date of such determination by the Board of Directors. 
  
 
Section 31. Governing Law. This Agreement, each Right and each Rights Certificate issued hereunder shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Delaware applicable to contracts
executed in and to be performed entirely in such State; provided, however, that, to the extent they relate to the Rights Agent, provisions relating to the rights, duties and obligations of the Rights Agent under this Agreement shall be governed by,
and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York applicable to contracts executed in and to be performed entirely in such State. 
  
 
Section 32. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed (including by facsimile) in one or more counterparts, and by the different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when executed shall be
deemed to be an original, but all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same instrument. 
  

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Section 33. Descriptive Headings. The headings contained in this Agreement are for descriptive purposes only and shall not affect in any way the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement. 
  
 
Section 34. Exchange. 
  
 (a) The Company, upon resolution of the Board of Directors, may, at its option, at any time after the first occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, exchange all or part of the then-outstanding and exercisable Rights
(which shall not include Rights that have become void pursuant to Section 7(e) hereof) for Units of Preferred Stock or shares of Company Common Stock (at the election of the Board of Directors) at an exchange ratio of one Unit of Preferred Stock or
one share of Company Common Stock, as the case may be, per Right, as appropriately adjusted to reflect any stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction occurring after the date hereof (such exchange ratio being the “Exchange
Ratio”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board of Directors shall not be empowered to effect such exchange at any time after any Person (other than an Exempt Person), together with all Affiliates and Associates of such Person, becomes
the Beneficial Owner of shares of Company Common Stock aggregating 50% or more of the shares of Company Common Stock then outstanding. From and after the occurrence of a Section 13(a) Event, any Rights that theretofore have not been exchanged
pursuant to this Section 34(a) shall thereafter be exercisable only in accordance with Section 13 and may not be exchanged pursuant to this Section 34(a). The exchange of the Rights by the Board of Directors may be made effective at such time, on
such basis and with such conditions as the Board of Directors in its sole discretion may establish. 
  
 (b) Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors ordering the exchange of any Rights pursuant to Section 34(a), and without any
further action and without any notice, the right to exercise such Rights shall terminate and the only right thereafter of a holder of such Rights shall be to receive that number of Units of Preferred Stock or shares of Company Common Stock, as the
case may be, equal to the number of such Rights held by such holder multiplied by the Exchange Ratio. The Company shall promptly mail a notice of any such exchange to the Rights Agent and all of the holders of such Rights at their last addresses as
they appear upon the registry books of the Rights Agent; provided, however, that the failure to give, or any defect in, such notice shall not affect the validity of such exchange. Any notice which is mailed in the manner herein provided shall
be deemed given, whether or not the holder receives the notice. Each such notice of exchange shall state the method by which the exchange of Units of Preferred Stock or shares of Company Common Stock, as the case may be, for Rights will be effected
and, in the event of any partial exchange, the number of Rights which will be exchanged. Any partial exchange shall be effected pro rata based on the number of Rights (other than Rights which have become void pursuant to the provisions of Section
7(e) hereof) held by each holder of Rights. 
  
 (c) In the event that the number of shares of Preferred Stock or Company Common Stock, as the case may be, which are authorized by the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation but not outstanding or reserved for issuance for purposes
other than upon exercise of the Rights are not sufficient to permit any exchange of Rights as contemplated in accordance with this Section 34, the Company, at the election of the Board of Directors, shall take all such action as may be necessary to
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Common Stock, as the case may be, for issuance upon exchange of the Rights or shall make adequate provision to substitute, in whole or in part, (1) cash, (2)
other equity securities of the Company, (3) debt securities of the Company, (4) other assets, or (5) any combination of the foregoing, having an aggregate value for each Right to be exchanged equal to the per share market price of one Unit of
Preferred Stock or share of Company Common Stock, as the case may be (determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) as of the date of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, where such aggregate value has been determined by the Board of Directors. To the extent
that the Company determines that action must be taken pursuant to the foregoing clauses of this Section 34(c), the Board of Directors may suspend the exercisability of the Rights for a period of up to sixty days following the date on which the event
described in Section 34(a) shall have occurred, in order to seek any authorization of additional shares of Company Common Stock and/or to decide the appropriate form of distribution to be made pursuant to the above provision and to determine the
value thereof. 
  
 (d) The Company shall not be
required to issue fractions of Units of Preferred Stock or fractions of shares of Company Common Stock or to distribute certificates which evidence fractional Units or fractional shares. In lieu of issuing fractional Units or fractional shares, the
Company may pay to the registered holders of Rights Certificates at the time such Rights are exchanged as herein provided an amount in cash equal to the same fraction of the current market price (determined pursuant to Section 11(d) hereof) of one
Unit of Preferred Stock or one share of Company Common Stock, as the case may be, on the Trading Day immediately prior to the date of exchange pursuant to this Section 34. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly and properly executed, all
as of the date first above written. 
  

			
	MARKETWATCH, INC.
		
	By:	 	/s/    DOUGLAS S.
APPLETON        
	 	 	 Name: Douglas S. Appleton
 Title: General Counsel and Secretary

  

			
	MELLON INVESTOR SERVICES LLC, as Rights Agent
		
	By:	 	/s/    CECIL D. BOBEY        
	 	 	 Name: Cecil D. Bobey
 Title: Assistant Vice President

  

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EXHIBIT A 
 TO RIGHTS AGREEMENT 
  
 FORM OF RIGHTS CERTIFICATE 
  

			
	Certificate No.                     	 	                     Rights

  
 NOT EXERCISABLE AFTER
THE EXPIRATION DATE (AS DEFINED IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT REFERRED TO BELOW). THE RIGHTS ARE SUBJECT TO REDEMPTION OR EXCHANGE, AT THE OPTION OF THE COMPANY, ON THE TERMS SET FORTH IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT. UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES SET FORTH IN THE
RIGHTS AGREEMENT, RIGHTS ISSUED TO, OR HELD BY, ANY PERSON WHO IS, WAS OR BECOMES AN ACQUIRING PERSON OR ANY AFFILIATE OR ASSOCIATE THEREOF (AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT), WHETHER CURRENTLY HELD BY OR ON BEHALF OF SUCH PERSON OR
BY ANY SUBSEQUENT HOLDER, MAY BECOME NULL AND VOID. 
  
 Rights
Certificate 
  
 (COMPANY NAME) 
  
 This certifies that
            , or registered assigns, is the registered holder of the number of Rights set forth above, each of which entitles the registered holder thereof, subject to the terms and
conditions of the Rights Agreement dated as of November 14, 2004, as amended from time to time (the “Rights Agreement”) (terms defined therein being used herein with the same meaning unless otherwise defined herein), between MarketWatch,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Mellon Investor Services LLC, as Rights Agent (which term shall include any successor Rights Agent under the Rights Agreement), to purchase from the Company at any time after the
Distribution Date and prior to the Expiration Date, at the office of the Rights Agent, one one-hundredth of a fully paid and nonassessable share of Series A Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”), of the Company
at the Purchase Price initially of $100.00 per one one-hundredth share of Preferred Stock (each such one one-hundredth of a share being a “Unit”), upon presentation and surrender of this Rights Certificate with the Election to Purchase and
related certificate duly and properly executed. The number of Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate (and the number and kind of shares which may be purchased upon exercise thereof) and the Purchase Price per Unit set forth above, are the
number and Purchase Price as of             , 200    , based on the Preferred Stock as constituted at such date. 
  
 Upon the occurrence of a Section 11(a)(ii) Event, if the Rights evidenced by
this Rights Certificate are beneficially owned by (i) an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of any such Acquiring Person or (ii) under certain circumstances described in the Rights Agreement, a direct or indirect transferee of any such
Acquiring Person, Associate or Affiliate, including a transferee of any person who, after such transfer, becomes an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person, such Rights shall become null and void and no holder hereof

  

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shall have any right with respect to such Rights from and after the occurrence of such Section 11(a)(ii) Event. 
  
 In certain circumstances described in the Rights Agreement, the Rights
evidenced hereby may entitle the registered holder thereof to purchase capital stock of an entity other than the Company or receive common stock, cash or other assets, all as provided in the Rights Agreement. 
  
 As provided in the Rights Agreement, the Purchase Price and the number and
kind of shares of Preferred Stock or other securities which may be purchased upon the exercise of the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate are subject to modification and adjustment upon the happening of certain events, including a Triggering
Event. 
  
 This Rights Certificate is subject to all of the terms
and conditions of the Rights Agreement, which terms and conditions are hereby incorporated herein by reference and made a part hereof and to which Rights Agreement reference is hereby made for a full description of the rights, limitations of rights,
obligations, duties and immunities hereunder of the Rights Agent, the Company and the holders of the Rights Certificates, which limitations of rights include the temporary suspension of the exercisability of such Rights under the specific
circumstances set forth in the Rights Agreement. Copies of the Rights Agreement are on file at the principal office of the Rights Agent and are available from the Rights Agent upon written request. 
  
 This Rights Certificate, with or without other Rights Certificates, upon
surrender at the office of the Rights Agent designated for such purpose, may be exchanged for another Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates of like tenor and date evidencing an aggregate number of Rights equal to the aggregate number of Rights
evidenced by the Rights Certificate or Rights Certificates surrendered. If this Rights Certificate shall be exercised in part, the registered holder shall be entitled to receive, upon surrender hereof, another Rights Certificate or Rights
Certificates for the number of whole Rights not exercised. 
  
 Subject to the provisions of the Rights Agreement, the Rights evidenced by this Certificate may be redeemed by the Company under certain circumstances at its option at a redemption price of $.001 per Right (as such amount may be adjusted
pursuant to the Rights Agreement), at any time prior to the earlier of the close of business on (i) the tenth business day following the Stock Acquisition Date and (ii) the Final Expiration Date. The Rights will not be exercisable until such time as
the Company’s right of redemption has expired. In addition, subject to the provisions of the Rights Agreement, the Rights may be exchanged, in whole or in part, for Units of Preferred Stock or shares of the Common Stock of the Company.
Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors of the Company authorizing any such exchange, and without any further action or any notice, the Rights (other than Rights which are not subject to such exchange) will terminate and the Rights
will only enable holders to receive the shares issuable upon such exchange. 
  
 No fractional shares of Preferred Stock will be issued upon the exercise of any Right or Rights evidenced hereby (other than fractions which are integral multiples of one one-hundredth of a share of Preferred Stock,
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depositary receipts), but in lieu thereof a cash payment will be made, as provided in the Rights Agreement. 
  
 No holder of this Rights Certificate, as such, shall be entitled to vote or
receive dividends or be deemed for any purpose the holder of Preferred Stock or of any other securities which may at any time be issuable on the exercise hereof, nor shall anything contained in the Rights Agreement or herein be construed to confer
upon the holder hereof, as such, any of the rights of a stockholder of the Company or any right to vote for the election of directors or upon any matter submitted to stockholders at any meeting thereof, or to give or withhold consent to any
corporate action, or to receive notice of meetings or other actions affecting stockholders (except as provided in the Rights Agreement), or to receive dividends of subscription rights, or otherwise, until the Rights evidenced by this Rights
Certificate shall have been exercised as provided in the Rights Agreement. 
  
 This Rights Certificate shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until it shall have been countersigned by the Rights Agent. 
  
 WITNESS the facsimile signature of the proper officers of the Company. Dated as of
                 , 2004 
  

			
	MARKETWATCH, INC.
		
	By:	 	 
	 	 	 Name:
 Title: President

  

			
		
	By:	 	 
	 	 	 Name:
 Title: Secretary

  
 Countersigned: 
  

			
	 MELLON INVESTOR SERVICES LLC
  
 as Rights Agent

		
	By:	 	 
	 	 	 Name:
 Title:

  

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 (Form of Reverse Side of Rights Certificate) 
  
 FORM OF ASSIGNMENT 
  
 (To be executed by the registered holder if such holder desires to

 transfer the Rights Certificate.) 
  
 FOR VALUE RECEIVED
                         hereby sells, assigns and transfers unto:
                                        
                                        
                     (Please print name and address of transferee) this Rights Certificate, together with all right, title and interest
therein, and does hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint                          Attorney, to transfer the within Rights
Certificate on the books of the within-named Company, with full power of substitution. 
  

			
	 	 	Dated:                 ,             
		
	 	 	 
	 	 	 Signature
  
 Signature Guaranteed:

  
  
 Certificate 
  
 The undersigned hereby certifies by checking the appropriate boxes in (1) and (2) that: 
  
 (1) this Rights Certificate [        ] is
[        ] is not being sold, assigned and transferred by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of any such Acquiring Person (as such terms are defined in the
Rights Agreement); and 
  
 (2) after due inquiry and to the best
knowledge of the undersigned, it [        ] did [        ] did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate from any Person who is, was or subsequently
became an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate of an Acquiring Person. 
  

			
	 	 	Dated:                 ,             
		
	 	 	 
	 	 	 Signature
  
 Signature Guaranteed:

  

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 NOTICE 
  
 The signature to the foregoing Assignment and Certificate must correspond to the name as written upon the face of this Rights Certificate in every
particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. 
  
 Signatures must be guaranteed by an approved eligible financial institution acceptable to the Rights Agent in its sole discretion or by a participant in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program, the Stock Exchange Medallion Program
or the New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program. 
  
 In the event
the certification set forth above is not completed, the Company will deem the Beneficial Owner of the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights
Agreement) and, in the case of an Assignment, will affix a legend to that effect on any Rights Certificates issued in exchange for this Rights Certificate. 
  

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 FORM OF ELECTION TO PURCHASE 
  
 (To be executed if the registered holder desires to exercise 
 Rights represented by the Rights Certificate.) 
  
 To: MarketWatch, Inc. 
  
 The
undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise                          Rights represented by this Rights Certificate to
purchase the Units of Preferred Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Rights (or such other securities of the Company or of any other person or other property which may be issuable upon the exercise of the Rights) and requests that certificates
for such Units (or such other securities) be issued in the name of and delivered to:                          (Please print
name and address)                          (Please insert social security or other identifying number).
                             
  
 If such number of Rights shall not be all the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate, a new Rights Certificate for the
balance of such Rights shall be registered in the name of and delivered to:
                                 (Please print name and address)
             (Please insert social security or other identifying number). 
  

			
	 	 	 Dated:             
            ,             

		
	 	 	 
	 	 	 Signature
  
 Signature Guaranteed:

  

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 Certificate 
  
 The undersigned hereby certifies by checking the appropriate boxes in (1) and (2) that: 
  
 (1) the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate [        ] are
[        ] are not being exercised by or on behalf of a Person who is or was an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or an Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement); and 
  
 (2) after due inquiry and to the best knowledge of the undersigned, it
[        ] did [        ] did not acquire the Rights evidenced by this Rights Certificate from any person who is, was or subsequently became an Acquiring Person or an
Affiliate or Associate thereof. 
  

			
	 	 	Dated:                          ,
            
		
	 	 	 
	 	 	 Signature
  
 Signature Guaranteed:

  
  
  
  
 NOTICE 
  
 The signature in the foregoing Election to
Purchase and Certificate must conform to the name as written upon the face of this Rights Certificate in every particular, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatsoever. 
  
 Signatures must be guaranteed by an approved eligible financial institution acceptable to the Rights Agent in its sole
discretion or by a participant in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program, the Stock Exchange Medallion Program or the New York Stock Exchange Medallion Program. 
  
 In the event the certification set forth above is not completed, the Company will deem the Beneficial Owner of the Rights
evidenced by this Rights Certificate to be an Acquiring Person or an Affiliate or Associate thereof (as such terms are defined in the Rights Agreement) and the election to purchase will not be honored. 
  

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EXHIBIT B 
 TO RIGHTS AGREEMENT 
  
 UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES 
 SET FORTH IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT, 
 RIGHTS ISSUED TO, OR HELD BY, ANY PERSON WHO IS, WAS OR BECOMES AN

 ACQUIRING PERSON OR ANY AFFILIATE OR ASSOCIATE THEREOF 
 (AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE RIGHTS AGREEMENT), 
 WHETHER CURRENTLY HELD BY OR ON BEHALF OF SUCH PERSON
OR BY ANY 
 SUBSEQUENT HOLDER, 
 MAY BECOME NULL AND VOID. 
  
 SUMMARY OF RIGHTS TO
PURCHASE PREFERRED STOCK 
  
 On November 14, 2004, the Board
of Directors of MarketWatch, Inc. (the “Company”) authorized and declared a dividend of one right (“Right”) for each outstanding share of its Common Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Company Common Stock”), to
stockholders of record at the close of business on November 25, 2004 (the “Record Date”), and authorized the issuance of one Right for each share of Company Common Stock by the Company (except as otherwise provided in the Rights Agreement,
as defined below) between the Record Date and the Distribution Date (as defined below). Each Right entitles the registered holder, subject to the terms of the Rights Agreement (as defined below), to purchase from the Company one one-hundredth of a
share (a “Unit”) of Series A Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”), at a purchase price of $100 per Unit, subject to adjustment. The purchase price is payable in cash or by certified or bank check or
money order payable to the order of the Company. The description and terms of the Rights are set forth in a Rights Agreement between the Company and Mellon Investor Services LLC, as Rights Agent, dated as of November 14, 2004, as amended from time
to time (the “Rights Agreement”). 
  
 Copies of the
Rights Agreement and the Certificate of Designation for the Preferred Stock have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as exhibits to a Registration Statement on Form 8-A dated November 15, 2004. Copies of the Rights Agreement and
the Certificate of Designation are available free of charge from the Company. This summary description of the Rights and the Preferred Stock does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to all of the provisions of
the Rights Agreement and the Certificate of Designation, including the definitions therein of certain terms, which Rights Agreement and Certificate of Designation are incorporated herein by reference. 
  
 The Rights Agreement 
  
 Certificates; Distribution Date. Initially, the Rights will attach to
all certificates representing shares of outstanding Company Common Stock, and no separate Rights Certificates will be distributed. Subject to the provisions of the Rights Agreement, the Rights will separate from the Company Common Stock and the
“Distribution Date” will occur upon the earlier of (i) ten business days following a public announcement (the date of such announcement being the 

  

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“Stock Acquisition Date”) that a person or group of affiliated or associated persons (an “Acquiring Person”) has acquired or otherwise
obtained beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the then-outstanding shares of Company Common Stock, and (ii) ten business days (or such later date as may be determined by action of the Board of Directors prior to such time as any person becomes an
Acquiring Person) following the commencement of a tender offer or exchange offer that would result in a person or group becoming an Acquiring Person. Until the Distribution Date, (i) the Rights will be evidenced by Company Common Stock certificates
and will be transferred with and only with such Company Common Stock certificates, (ii) new Company Common Stock certificates issued after the Record Date (also including shares distributed from Treasury) will contain a notation incorporating the
Rights Agreement by reference and (iii) the surrender for transfer of any certificates representing outstanding Company Common Stock will also constitute the transfer of the Rights associated with the Company Common Stock represented by such
certificates. 
  
 An “Acquiring Person” does not include
certain persons specified in the Rights Agreement. 
  
 In addition
to other limited exceptions, none of Dow Jones & Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Buyer”), Golden Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Merger Sub”) or any of their respective affiliates or associates, including
any officers, directors or employees of any thereof, shall be deemed to beneficially own shares of Company Common Stock by reason of the approval, execution or delivery of the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of November 14, 2004 by and among
the Company, Buyer and Merger Sub and certain events related thereto. 
  
 The Rights are not exercisable until the Distribution Date and will expire at the close of business on the tenth anniversary of the Rights Agreement unless earlier redeemed or exchanged by the Company as described below. Under certain
circumstances the exercisability of the Rights may be suspended. In no event, however, will the Rights be exercisable prior to the expiration of the period in which the Rights may be redeemed as described below. 
  
 As soon as practicable after the Distribution Date, Rights Certificates will
be mailed to holders of record of Company Common Stock as of the close of business on the Distribution Date (and to each initial holder of certain shares of Company Common Stock issued after the Distribution Date) and, thereafter, the separate
Rights Certificates alone will represent the Rights. 
  
 Flip-In. In the event that a person becomes an Acquiring Person, then, in such case, each holder of a Right will thereafter have the right to receive, upon exercise, Units of Preferred Stock or, at the option of the Company, shares
of Company Common Stock (or, in certain circumstances, cash, property or other securities of the Company) having a value equal to two times the exercise price of the Right. The exercise price is the purchase price multiplied by the number of Units
of Preferred Stock issuable upon exercise of a Right prior to the event described in this paragraph. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, following the occurrence of the event set forth in this paragraph, all Rights that are, or (under certain
circumstances specified in the Rights Agreement) were, beneficially owned by any Acquiring Person or any affiliate or associate thereof (or certain transferees of any thereof) will be null and void. 
  

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 Flip-Over. In the event that, at any time following the date that any person becomes an Acquiring
Person, (i) the Company is acquired in a merger or other business combination transaction and the Company is not the surviving corporation, (ii) any person merges with the Company and all or part of the Company Common Stock is converted or exchanged
for securities, cash or property of the Company or any other person or (iii) 50% or more of the Company’s assets or earning power is sold or transferred, each holder of a Right (except Rights which previously have been voided as described
above) shall thereafter have the right to receive, upon exercise, common stock of the acquiring company having a value equal to two times the exercise price of the Right. 
  
 Redemption. At any time until ten business days following the Stock Acquisition Date, the Board of Directors may
redeem the Rights in whole, but not in part, at a price of $.001 per Right (subject to adjustment in certain events) (the “Redemption Price”) payable, at the election of the Board of Directors, in cash, shares of Company Common Stock or
other consideration considered appropriate by the Board of Directors. Immediately upon the action of the Board of Directors ordering the redemption of the Rights, the Rights will terminate and the only right of the holders of Rights will be to
receive the Redemption Price. 
  
 Exchange. The Company may
at any time after there is an Acquiring Person, by action of the Board of Directors, until the time specified in the Rights Agreement, exchange all or part of the then-outstanding and exercisable Rights (other than Rights that shall have become null
and void) for Units of Preferred Stock or shares of Company Common Stock pursuant to a one-for-one exchange ratio, subject to adjustment. 
  
 No Stockholder Rights; Taxation. Until a Right is exercised, the holder thereof, as such, will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company,
including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive dividends. While the distribution of the Rights will not be taxable to stockholders or to the Company, stockholders may, depending upon the circumstances, recognize taxable income in the
event that the Rights become exercisable for Units of Preferred Stock (or other consideration) or for common stock of the acquiring company or in the event of the redemption of Rights as set forth above. 
  
 Amendment. Any of the provisions of the Rights Agreement may be
amended without the approval of the holders of the Rights or Company Common Stock at any time prior to the Distribution Date. After such date, the provisions of the Rights Agreement may be amended in order to cure any ambiguity, defect or
inconsistency, to shorten or lengthen any time period under the Rights Agreement, or to make changes which do not adversely affect the interests of holders of Rights (excluding the interests of any Acquiring Person); provided, that no amendment
shall be made to lengthen (i) the time period governing redemption at such time as the Rights are not redeemable or (ii) any other time period unless such lengthening is for the purpose of protecting, enhancing or clarifying the rights of, and/or
the benefits to, the holders of Rights. 
  

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 Description of Preferred Stock 
  
 The Units of Preferred Stock that may be acquired upon exercise of the Rights will be nonredeemable and subordinate to any
other shares of preferred stock that may be issued by the Company. 
  
 If, as and when declared by the Board of Directors, each Unit of Preferred Stock will have a minimum preferential quarterly dividend of $.01 per Unit or any higher per share dividend declared on the Company Common Stock. 
  
 In the event of liquidation, the holder of a Unit of Preferred Stock will
receive a preferred liquidation payment equal to the greater of $.01 per Unit and the per share amount paid in respect of a share of the Company Common Stock. 
  

Units of Preferred Stock will have no voting rights, except as required by law. 
  
 In the event of any merger, consolidation or other transaction in which shares of Company Common Stock are exchanged, each
Unit of Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive the per share amount paid in respect of each share of Company Common Stock. 
  
 The rights of holders of the Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, liquidation and voting, and in the event of mergers and consolidations, are
protected by customary antidilution provisions. 
  
 Because of the
nature of the Preferred Stock’s dividend, liquidation and voting rights, the economic value of one Unit of Preferred Stock that may be acquired upon the exercise of each Right should approximate the economic value of one share of Company Common
Stock. 
  

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EXHIBIT C 
 TO RIGHTS AGREEMENT 
  
 CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATION 
 OF THE 
 SERIES A PREFERRED STOCK 
 OF 
 MARKETWATCH, INC. 
  
 The undersigned officer of MarketWatch, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Corporation”), DOES HEREBY
CERTIFY: 
  
 That, pursuant to the authority conferred upon the
Board of Directors of the Corporation by its First Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), the said Board of Directors, at a duly called meeting held on November 14, 2004, at which a
quorum was present and acted throughout, adopted the following resolution, which resolution remains in full force and effect on the date hereof, creating a series of Preferred Stock having a par value of $.01 per share, designated as Series A
Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), out of the Corporation’s shares of preferred stock of the par value of $.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”): 
  
 RESOLVED, that pursuant to the authority vested in the Board of Directors in
accordance with the provisions of its Certificate of Incorporation, the Board of Directors does hereby create, authorize and provide for 400,000 shares of its authorized Preferred Stock to be designated and issued as the “Series A Preferred
Stock”, having the voting powers, designation, relative, participating, optional and other special rights, preferences and qualifications, limitations and restrictions that are set forth as follows: 
  
 1. Dividends and Distributions. 
  
 (A) Subject to the prior and superior rights of the holders
of any shares of any other series of Preferred Stock or any other shares of stock of the Corporation ranking prior and superior to the shares of Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividends, each holder of one one-hundredth (1/100) of a share
(a “Unit”) of Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to receive, when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors out of funds legally available for that purpose, (i) quarterly dividends payable in cash on the last day of
February, May, August and November in each year (each such date being a “Quarterly Dividend Payment Date”), commencing on the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date after the first issuance of a Unit of Series A Preferred Stock, in
an amount per Unit (rounded to the nearest cent) equal to the greater of (a) $0.01 or (b) subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth, the aggregate per share amount of all cash dividends declared on shares of the Common Stock
since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of a Unit of Series A Preferred Stock, and (ii) subject to the provision for adjustment
hereinafter set forth, quarterly distributions (payable in kind) on each Quarterly Dividend Payment Date in an amount per Unit equal to the aggregate per share amount of all non-cash dividends or other distributions (other than a dividend payable

  

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in shares of Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, by reclassification or otherwise) declared on shares of Common Stock
since the immediately preceding Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, or, with respect to the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, since the first issuance of a Unit of Series A Preferred Stock. In the event that the Corporation shall at any time after
November 14, 2004 (the “Rights Declaration Date”) (i) declare any dividend on outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide outstanding shares of Common Stock or (iii) combine outstanding
shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in each such case the amount to which the holder of a Unit of Series A Preferred Stock was entitled immediately prior to such event under clause (b) or clause (ii) of the preceding
sentence shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction (y) the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock that are outstanding immediately after such event and (z) the denominator of which shall be the number of
shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event. 
  
 (B) The Corporation shall declare a dividend or distribution on Units of Series A Preferred Stock as provided in paragraph (A) above immediately after it declares a dividend or distribution on the shares of Common
Stock (other than a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock or a subdivision of the outstanding shares of Common Stock, by reclassification or otherwise); provided, however, that, in the event no dividend or distribution shall have been
declared on the Common Stock during the period between any Quarterly Dividend Payment Date and the next subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, a dividend of $0.01 per Unit on the Series A Preferred Stock shall nevertheless be payable on such
subsequent Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. 
  
 (C) Dividends shall begin to accrue and shall be cumulative on each outstanding Unit of Series A Preferred Stock from the Quarterly Dividend Payment Date next preceding the date of issuance of a Unit of Series A Preferred Stock, unless the
date of issuance of such Unit is prior to the record date for the first Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in which case dividends on such Unit shall begin to accrue from the date of issuance of such Unit, or unless the date of issuance is a Quarterly
Dividend Payment Date or is a date after the record date for the determination of holders of Units of Series A Preferred Stock entitled to receive a quarterly dividend and before such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date, in either of which events such
dividends shall begin to accrue and be cumulative from such Quarterly Dividend Payment Date. Accrued but unpaid dividends shall not bear interest. Dividends paid on Units of Series A Preferred Stock in an amount less than the aggregate amount of all
such dividends at the time accrued and payable on such Units shall be allocated pro rata on a Unit-by-Unit basis among all Units of Series A Preferred Stock at the time outstanding. The Board of Directors may fix a record date for the determination
of holders of Units of Series A Preferred Stock entitled to receive payment of a dividend or distribution declared thereon, which record date shall be no more than 30 days prior to the date fixed for the payment thereof. 
  
 2. Voting Rights. The holders of Units of Series A Preferred Stock
shall have no voting rights except pursuant to Section 10 below and as otherwise required by law. 
  

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 3. Certain Restrictions. 
  
 (A) Whenever quarterly dividends or other dividends or distributions payable on Units of Series A Preferred
Stock as provided herein are in arrears, thereafter and until all accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions, whether or not declared, on outstanding Units of Series A Preferred Stock shall have been paid in full, the Corporation shall not:

  
 (i) declare or pay dividends on, or make any
other distributions on, or redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of junior stock; 
  
 (ii) declare or pay dividends on, or make any other distributions on, any shares of parity stock, except dividends paid ratably on Units
of Series A Preferred Stock and shares of all such parity stock on which dividends are payable or in arrears in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of such Units and all such shares are then entitled; 
  
 (iii) redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for
consideration shares of any parity stock, provided, however, that the Corporation may at any time redeem, purchase or otherwise acquire shares of any such parity stock in exchange for shares of any junior stock; or 
  
 (iv) redeem or purchase or otherwise acquire for
consideration any Units of Series A Preferred Stock, or any shares of parity stock, except in accordance with a purchase offer made in writing or by publication (as determined by the Board of Directors) to all holders of such Units and shares of
parity stock upon such terms as the Board of Directors, after consideration of the respective annual dividend rates and other relative rights and preferences of the respective series and classes, shall determine in good faith will result in fair and
equitable treatment among the respective series and classes. 
  
 (B) The Corporation shall not permit any subsidiary of the Corporation to purchase or otherwise acquire for consideration any shares of stock of the Corporation, unless the Corporation could, under paragraph (A) of
this Section 3, purchase or otherwise acquire such shares at such time and in such manner. 
  

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 4. Reacquired Shares. Any Units of Series A Preferred Stock purchased or otherwise acquired by the
Corporation in any manner whatsoever shall be retired and cancelled promptly after the acquisition thereof. All such Units shall, upon their cancellation, become authorized but unissued shares (or fractions of shares) of Preferred Stock and may be
reissued as part of a new series of Preferred Stock to be created by resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors, subject to the conditions and restrictions on issuance set forth herein. 
  
 5. Liquidation, Dissolution or Winding Up. 
  
 (A) Upon any voluntary or involuntary liquidation,
dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, no distribution shall be made (i) to the holders of shares of junior stock, unless the holders of Units of Series A Preferred Stock shall have received, subject to adjustment as hereinafter provided in
paragraph (B), the greater of either (a) $0.01 per Unit plus an amount equal to accrued and unpaid dividends and distributions thereon, whether or not earned or declared, to the date of such payment, or (b) the amount equal to the aggregate per
share amount to be distributed to holders of shares of Common Stock, or (ii) to the holders of shares of parity stock, unless simultaneously therewith distributions are made ratably on Units of Series A Preferred Stock and all other shares of such
parity stock in proportion to the total amounts to which the holders of Units of Series A Preferred Stock are entitled under clause (i)(a) of this sentence and to which the holders of shares of such parity stock are entitled, in each case upon such
liquidation, dissolution or winding up. 
  
 (B)
In the event the Corporation shall at any time after the Rights Declaration Date (i) declare any dividend on outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide outstanding shares of Common Stock, or (iii) combine
outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in each such case the aggregate amount to which holders of Units of Series A Preferred Stock were entitled immediately prior to such event pursuant to clause (i)(b) of
paragraph (A) of this Section 5 shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction (y) the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock that are outstanding immediately after such event and (z) the denominator of which
shall be the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event. 
  
 6. Consolidation, Merger, etc. In case the Corporation shall enter into any consolidation, merger, combination or other transaction in which
the shares of Common Stock are exchanged for or converted into other stock or securities, cash and/or any other property, then in any such case Units of Series A Preferred Stock shall at the same time be similarly exchanged for or converted into an
amount per Unit (subject to the provision for adjustment hereinafter set forth) equal to the aggregate amount of stock, securities, cash and/or any other property (payable in kind), as the case may be, into which or for which each share of Common
Stock is converted or exchanged. In the event the Corporation shall at any time after the Rights Declaration Date (i) declare any dividend on outstanding shares of Common Stock payable in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide outstanding shares of
Common Stock, or (iii) combine outstanding Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, then in each such case the amount set forth in the immediately preceding sentence with respect to the exchange or conversion of Units of Series A Preferred
Stock shall be adjusted by multiplying such amount by a fraction (y) the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock that are outstanding immediately after 

  

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such event and (z) the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock that were outstanding immediately prior to such event. 

 
 7. Redemption. The Units of Series A Preferred Stock and shares of
Series A Preferred Stock shall not be redeemable. 
  
 8.
Ranking. The Units of Series A Preferred Stock and shares of Series A Preferred Stock shall rank junior to all other series of the Preferred Stock and to any other class of Preferred Stock that hereafter may be issued by the Corporation as to
the payment of dividends and the distribution of assets, unless the terms of any such series or class shall provide otherwise. 
  
 9. Fractional Shares. The Series A Preferred Stock may be issued in Units or other fractions of a share, which Units or other fractions shall
entitle the holder, in proportion to such holder’s Units or other fractional shares, to exercise voting rights, receive dividends, participate in distributions and to have the benefit of all other rights of holders of Series A Preferred Stock.

  
 10. Amendment. At any time when any Units of Series A
Preferred Stock are outstanding, neither the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation nor this Certificate of Designation shall be amended in any manner which would materially alter or change the powers, preferences or special rights of the
Units of Series A Preferred Stock so as to affect them adversely without the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority or more of the outstanding Units of Series A Preferred Stock, voting separately as a class. 
  
 11. Certain Definitions. As used in this resolution with respect to
the Series A Preferred Stock, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 
  
 (A) The term “Common Stock” shall mean the class of stock designated as the common stock, par value $.01 per share, of the
Corporation at the date hereof or any other class of stock resulting from successive changes or reclassification of the common stock. 
  
 (B) The term “junior stock” (i) as used in Section 3, shall mean the Common Stock and any other class or series of capital stock
of the Corporation hereafter authorized or issued over which the Series A Preferred Stock has preference or priority as to the payment of dividends or in the distribution of assets on any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation and
(ii) as used in Section 5, shall mean the Common Stock and any other class or series of capital stock of the Corporation over which the Series A Preferred Stock has preference or priority in the distribution of assets on any liquidation, dissolution
or winding up of the Corporation. 
  
 (C) The
term “parity stock” (i) as used in Section 3, shall mean any class or series of stock of the Corporation hereafter authorized or issued ranking pari passu with the Series A Preferred Stock as to the payment of dividends and (ii) as used in
Section 5, shall mean any class or series of capital stock of the Corporation ranking pari passu with the Series A Preferred Stock in the distribution of assets on any liquidation, dissolution or winding up. 
  

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 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, MarketWatch, Inc. has caused this Certificate of Designation to be signed by its
General Counsel and Secretary this 15th day of November, 2004. 
  

			
	MARKETWATCH, INC.
		
	By:	 	 
	 	 	 Name: Douglas S. Appleton
 Title: General Counsel and
Secretary

  

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