Equilar Announces Termination of Agreement With ISS , Marketwire, August 22, 2011

REDWOOD
CITY, CA--(Marketwire - Aug 22, 2011) - Equilar, the leading provider
of executive compensation benchmarking and research solutions, today
announced that it has opted to terminate an agreement under which
Equilar provided compensation data to Institutional Shareholder Services
(ISS).

Since
2003, Equilar has provided a data feed of executive compensation data
directly to ISS. Effective immediately, Equilar has ceased supplying
data to ISS due to unresolved intellectual property rights issues.

About Equilar, Inc. (www.equilar.com)
Equilar's
award-winning product suite is the gold standard for benchmarking and
tracking executive compensation, board compensation, equity grants and
award policies and compensation practices.

Equilar
products and custom research services enable corporations, human
capital consulting firms, law firms, investors, individual executives,
and the media to accurately compare pay packages across thousands of
public companies using SEC and exclusive survey data.

Equilar
research is cited frequently by Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Reuters, The
New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and other leading media outlets.
Equilar (Redwood City, CA) was recognized recently as one of the
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