MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL - Feb. 6, 2001 - The Star Tribune Company and Vindigo, the leading developer of personal navigation applications for handheld devices, today launched a mobile dining, entertainment and shopping resource for the Twin Cities. Vindigo is currently available for use on all Palm Powered™ handheld devices. It is available today, free-of-charge, from the Star Tribune Web site at www.startribune.com/news2go or from the Vindigo Web site at www.vindigo.com.

The service features startribune.com reviews on hundreds of restaurants in Minneapolis-St. Paul, sorted by type of cuisine, neighborhood and price range. Vindigo also includes, movie listings, shopping destinations, bars and clubs, plus walking directions to every listing. In addition, consumers can use their handhelds to write short restaurant reviews, which will be sent to the startribune.com when they sync their handheld devices with their personal computers.

"Star Tribune is pleased to be working with Vindigo to offer this service to handheld users," said Robert Schafer, director of business development for startribune.com. "This is an essential part of our strategy as an information company: To deliver valuable information to our customers wherever they are, in whatever form our customers choose."

"The Star Tribune is the leading source of information for the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. We are now enabling the Star Tribune to bring its trusted restaurant reviews and content to people via their handheld devices," said Glenn Edelman, director of business development for Vindigo.

How it Works: Download and Go... Everywhere

Vindigo is available today for users of Palm and Palm-compatible handheld devices. By simply downloading the application from the Star Tribune and Vindigo Web sites ( www.startribune.com/news2go and www.vindigo.com), users have access to choices of places to go and things to do. Each time users sync their handheld devices, any new information is automatically downloaded. Vindigo’s differential synchronization technology, VSync, keeps sync time to a minimum, on average less than five seconds, by only downloading new and updated information. The application also uses proprietary data compression technology to minimize the application’s size and to speed searching.

About startribune.com®

The Star Tribune Company, an information and communications company serving the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, is a subsidiary of The McClatchy Company of Sacramento, Calif. (NYSE:MNI).

The startribune.com® site is the most frequently used local news and information service for the Twin Cities market, with 26 million page views and 1.69 million unique visitors per month. In addition to up-to-the-minute news coverage, the startribune.com network of services includes: cars.com, WorkAvenue, Homezone, Travel, Shopping, Communities and FreeTime. Editor & Publisher Interactive selected startribune.com as one of the nation’s three best newspaper-sponsored online services in both 1999 and 2000.

Star Tribune also produces the Star Tribune newspaper, one of the top 20 largest metropolitan newspapers in the nation.

About Vindigo

Vindigo creates resource-rich software for mobile devices that allows people to explore, enjoy and connect to the world around them. The company's core product, also called Vindigo, transforms Palm Powered™ handheld computers into personal navigators. It delivers location-specific information about the limitless choices of places to go and things to do in popular cities. Combining mobility, insiders' insight, and in-depth content from the nation's most trusted local sources, Vindigo instantly adapts to a user's location and interests. Vindigo gives busy people the ability to make quick, savvy, lifestyle decisions about where to eat, shop and play anytime, wherever they are.

Vindigo is a privately held company backed by General Atlantic Partners LLC, Flatiron Partners, Carlin Ventures and select private investors. The company’s headquarters is located at 259 West 30th Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10001. For information, contact Vindigo at (212) 590-6900 or via the Web at www.vindigo.com.