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Press Release

DIGITAL RIVER LAUNCHES INTERNATIONAL E-COMMERCE SITES FOR COREX TECHNOLOGIES

Opens 10 new online stores in Asia and Africa to augment
Corex’s international e-commerce offering

Minneapolis, MN —July 19, 2004: Digital River, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRIV), a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing today announced that it is providing CardScan, the maker of CardScan – a world leading business card scanner - with an international e-commerce solution. Based on the agreement, Digital River built and recently launched 10 new e-commerce sites to support the online marketing and sales of Corex’ CardScan product in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa and South Korea. Site services range from processing orders placed in local currencies and managing regional taxation requirements, to providing electronic and physical software delivery, multi-lingual customer service, fraud protection and e-marketing services.

The Corex-branded online stores are accessible at www.cardscan.com.

“Working with more than 40,000 companies, we have developed an international e-commerce solution that is designed to help our clients efficiently and effectively enter new geographies, build their customer bases and increase their brand recognition worldwide,” said Joel Ronning, Digital River’s CEO. “To help Corex build a successful online business, we are implementing many of our e-commerce best practices for catering to online shoppers in the Asia Pacific Rim, Middle East and Africa.”

“As the maker of a world best-selling business card reader, we looked for a company with a robust international e-commerce solution to help us fully realize the potential of our international online business,” said Paul Olean, vice president of marketing and sales at Corex. “We are pleased to leverage Digital River’s international and e-marketing capabilities to provide the best possible user experience for our customers.”

CardScan is a desktop device that quickly and accurately scans the printed information from business cards into the correct fields of an electronic address book. It automatically synchronizes to contact management systems, PDAs, hand-held devices and over 35 electronic address books to ensure that contact information is accurate and up to date.

About Corex Technologies
Corex Technologies Corporation is a leading provider of solutions designed to accelerate the capture, access, and accuracy of business contact information. Corex’ award-winning flagship product, CardScan, is a world best-selling business card reader and is bundled with sophisticated contact management tools, including CardScan.net and the AccuCard service. Corex is a privately-held company headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It introduced its products in Europe in 1999 and launched a concerted drive to augment European sales in 2004.

About Digital River, Inc.
Digital River, Inc., a global leader in e-commerce outsourcing, builds and manages online businesses for more than 40,000 software publishers, manufacturers, distributors and online retailers. Its multi-channel e-commerce solution, which supports both direct and indirect sales, is designed to help companies of all sizes maximize online revenues as well as reduce the costs and risks of running an e-commerce operation. The company’s comprehensive platform offers site development and hosting, order management, fraud prevention, site merchandising, advanced reporting and analytics, product fulfillment, e-marketing and multi-lingual customer service.

Founded in 1994, Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices in Chicago, Mountain View, California, London, and Cologne, Germany. For more details about Digital River, visit the corporate Web site at www.digitalriver.com or call 952-253-1234.

Digital River is a registered trademark of Digital River, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks, registrations or copyrights of their respective owners.

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