Bruce Stewart Will Join kgb as CEO, Mobile & Digital

NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- kgb, formerly INFONXX
(www.kgbusa.com), the world's largest independent provider of directory
assistance and enhanced information services, today announced the appointment of
Bruce Stewart as CEO of the new global Mobile & Digital division. Stewart leaves
his post as Vice President & General Manager of the Connected Life Americas
Division with Yahoo! (YHOO) based in Sunnyvale, California to join kgb, a
privately-held, New York-based company known for having built some of the most
highly successful and recognizable brands in the telecommunication services
sector. Stewart will join kgb this fall.

"Bruce is joining us at an exciting time, just as we are expanding into new
digital and mobile text product lines that are evolving rapidly to keep pace
with our customers' needs," said kgb CEO and President, Robert Pines. "We are in
the business of providing immediate, specific, accurate and convenient answers
to the questions millions of consumers send us 24 hours a day, every day, via
phone, text, and the Internet. kgb answered over a billion questions last year
and, with Bruce at the helm of our Mobile & Digital division, I think we'll
reach two billion even sooner than we had planned," Pines said.

"kgb is known for building world-class brands. The Company has been consistently
ahead of the curve in introducing products that drive the knowledge industry
forward, from directory assistance services to mobile text-based and Internet
"find" services," said Stewart. "I am delighted to join kgb's global leadership
team at a time when the Company is positioned to ensure that digital information
services -- starting with mobile text -- reach their immense potential for
consumers everywhere."

Stewart brings broad executive management experience in mobile and digital
operations to his post at kgb, having managed Yahoo!'s mobile, PC desktop, and
its broadband business in the Americas, including its broadband partnerships
with ATT, Verizon and Rogers Cable. At Yahoo!, Stewart was instrumental in
driving the success of several of Yahoo!'s mobile initiatives over the past
three years, including the expansion of Yahoo!'s mobile partnerships in the
North America and Latin America regions with leading companies such as ATT,
T-Mobile, Sprint, America Movil, Telefonica and Rogers Wireless. On a global
basis, Stewart also developed global OEM relationships with Apple, RIM, LG,
Samsung, Motorola and Nokia.

More recently, Stewart also drove the growth of new mobile services including
mobile search, mobile advertising, and launched mobile finance and news content
sites, and new sports properties such as March Madness, Olympics, and Fantasy
Football. He has significant experience developing major Web properties within
Internet brands and has had responsibility for a large revenue and employee
base. Prior to Yahoo!, Bruce served as a Senior Vice President with America
Online (AOL) working on the Netscape brand, was Executive Vice President with
Exodus Communications, managing all of their international operations in Europe
and Asia, and early on was a partner with InterMedia Partners, then the largest
privately held cable MSO which was an early leader in delivering digital
entertainment, high speed internet and advanced cable communications services.

kgb has pioneered the provision of a broad range of information services beyond
traditional directory assistance, including call completion, "TXT-Direct," movie
listings, train schedules, price comparisons and "Ask Us Anything" across
multiple platforms, including mobile and landline phones, SMS and the Internet.
In 2007, kgb launched its innovative "Ask Us Anything" two-way text messaging
service in the United Kingdom and will continue to expand two-way text offerings
throughout Europe and the U.S. this year and next. In 2008, kgb won the Pelorus
Award for best mobile text service in the United States.

In 2007, kgb also began offering an innovative suite of advertising services to
small, medium and large businesses through 118//Media in the U.K. 118//Media
offers a multi-modal, bundled advertising solution of enhanced voice, Mobile TXT
and online services. Seven thousand advertisers have signed on since the product
launched last year. In September of 2008, kgb partnered with Call Genie in the
U.K. to create a self-service advertising solution with a degree of precision
audience targeting never before available.

ABOUT kgb

kgb (formerly INFONXX), a privately held company, is the world's largest
independent provider of directory assistance and enhanced information services,
having built some of the most successful and recognizable brands in the
telecommunication services sector. kgb is also the largest and fastest growing
independent wholesale directory assistance service provider in the U.S. kgb is
in the business of providing immediate, specific, accurate and convenient
answers to questions 24 hours a day, every day, via phone, text, and the
Internet. In 2007, kgb served millions of consumers and answered over a billion
questions.

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CONTACT: kgb
Amy Wolfcale
212-909-8289
amy.wolfcale@kgb.com