NewMarket Announces New 3 Yr. Microsoft SPLA Contract in South America and Upcoming Webcast to Review Q2 Report and 2010 $150 Million Revenue Forecast

DALLAS, TX--(Marketwire - August 17, 2010) -  NewMarket Technology, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: NWMT), a fully reporting company with audited and reviewed financial reports, today announced the Company's South American subsidiary RKM IT Solutions has completed a new Microsoft solution sale to Dayco Host (www.daycohost.com), a premier data center and hosting company in Northern Latin America. The contract term is for three years and involves Microsoft's Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) program. The SPLA program enables service providers and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) with a hosted offering to license Microsoft products on a monthly basis to provide services and hosted applications to their end customers. Customers who choose these services enjoy worldwide software distribution while having access to the latest versions of their selected software. Additionally, with the hosted solution, customers enjoy a flexible cost structure based on usage.

RKM is a Microsoft Large Account Reseller (LAR) and Enterprise Software Advisor (ESA) in Latin America and received the prestigious Associate of the Year in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions award at FOCUS 2009. Mid-Market and corporate customers in Latin America seek out the services of LAR/ESAs when implementing large Microsoft-based IT projects. Through this partnership with Microsoft, RKM offers high volume licensing, specifically "Enterprise Agreement" (EA) and "Select" for companies with more than 250 PCs and support services to large enterprises and institutional customers. Management from RKM recently joined NewMarket at the Microsoft World Partner Conference in Washington DC. For more information on RKM, please visit http://www.rkmve.com/.

NewMarket provides systems integration services, to include technology reseller, customization, integration, outsourcing and support services, primarily within the global emerging and growing markets in China, Southeast Asia, Latin America, North America and East Africa.

Second Quarter 2010 Review Webcast

NewMarket Technology has scheduled a Webcast presentation for release next Thursday, August 26^th to review its second quarter 2010 financial results and provide an update to the Company's $150 million profitable revenue forecast for 2010. A link to the second quarter review Webcast will be published to the corporate website Investor Relations page at www.newmarkettechnology.com upon release.

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About NewMarket Technology, Inc. (www.newmarkettechnology.com)
NewMarket Technology is a global small business incubator. NewMarket's current portfolio of operations provides systems integration, technology infrastructure services and emerging technology. NewMarket's operations strategically focus on providing technology and support services in emerging and developing economies with high growth rate potential where technology purchasing is on the rise. In addition to its base of operations in North America, NewMarket has operations today in the growing economies of China, Southeast Asia, Africa, Brazil and Northern Latin America. Overall, NewMarket reported over $95 million in revenue for 2008 and reported over $98 million in profitable revenue for 2009.

NewMarket's operations provide services and support for both brand-name technologies, such as Microsoft, as well as emerging technologies ranging from mobile computing to various security and wireless broadband technologies. NewMarket's rapid growth since 2002 placed the Company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 for 5 consecutive years. NewMarket was recognized as the third fastest growing technology company in the United States in 2006 and the number one fastest growing technology company in North Texas for two years in a row.

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