Interchange to Present at the 3rd Annual Thomas Weisel Partners Intern

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    LAGUNA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 5, 2005--Interchange Corp. (NASDAQ:INCX), a leading provider of local and national paid-search services in the United States and Europe, will be presenting at the 3rd annual Thomas Weisel Partners Internet Conference being held at the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco, May 16-17, 2005. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Heath Clarke and Chief Financial Officer Doug Norman will present on Tuesday, May 17, 2005, at 2:40 p.m. (PDT).
    Interested parties may listen to a live webcast of their remarks at the following link: http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=12660&s=40&k=266B8D7A A83678A946002A1B6CA687AB. (Due to the length of this URL, it may be necessary to copy and paste this hyperlink into your Internet browser's URL address field.) This link will be available for 30 days after the conference.

    About Interchange

    Interchange Corp. (NASDAQ:INCX) utilizes proprietary search technologies to enable consumers to find and connect with businesses in seven countries and five languages. The company serves local and national U.S. Internet search markets with its ePilot(TM) search service and Local Direct(TM) search and advertising platform, and the wireless U.S. local-search market with its recently released SMS LOCAL(TM) service (beta). Interchange Europe serves various European Internet, wireless and operator-assisted local-search markets. Interchange generates revenues principally from paid-search advertising. Interchange specializes in local-search and recently acquired the Local.com domain name in order to develop a worldwide local-search destination site. The company plans to unite its various Internet and wireless local-search technologies under the Local.com brand, which is expected to be launched in the second half of 2005.
    The company currently has headquarters in Laguna Hills, with European offices in Stockholm, Madrid, and London. For more information on Interchange, please visit: www.interchangeusa.com.

    About Thomas Weisel Partners

    Thomas Weisel Partners is a merchant bank providing investment banking, institutional brokerage, private client services, private equity investing and asset management exclusively focused on the growth sectors of the economy. The firm's distinctive competence is combining deep domain expertise, superior transaction execution capability and senior-level attention. Thomas Weisel Partners has 550 employees and has headquarters in San Francisco with additional offices in New York, Boston and Palo Alto, Calif.

    Forward-Looking Statements: All statements other than statements of historical fact included in this document regarding our anticipated financial position, business strategy and plans and objectives of our management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. When used in this report, words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "plans," "expect," "intend" and similar expressions, as they relate to Interchange or our management, identify forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements are based on the beliefs of our management as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to our management. Actual results could differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, our ability to re-launch the Local.com domain and incorporate our local-search technologies, market the Local.com domain as a destination for consumers seeking local-search results, grow our business by enhancing our local-search services, expand our Advertiser and Distribution Networks, expand internationally, integrate the operations and effectively utilize the technology of Inspire, a Swedish Internet and wireless local-search technology company, which we recently acquired, integrate the operations and effectively utilize the technology of Inspire, develop our products and sales, marketing, finance and administrative functions and successfully integrate our expanded infrastructure, as well as our dependence on major advertisers, competitive factors and pricing pressures, changes in legal and regulatory requirements, and general economic conditions. Any forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to our operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this paragraph.
    Our Annual Report on Form 10-KSB, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-QSB, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as if the date they are made. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason.

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CONTACT: Interchange Corp. Cameron Triebwasser (Media), 949-789-5242 Fax: 949-784-0880 ctriebwasser@interchangeusa.com or BPC Financial Marketing John Baldissera (Investors), 800-368-1217

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