Dex One and HCL Technologies to Optimize Digital Platform Development

Partnership Will Accelerate Digital Solutions for Customers and Reduce Costs

CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Dex One Corporation (NYSE: DEXO), a leading marketing solutions provider, today announced plans to energize its digital operations and optimize the development of digital solutions by partnering with HCL Technologies, a leading global information technology (IT) service provider. The initiative is part of Dex One's strategic plan to accelerate delivery of new digital offerings while reducing operational costs.

Dex One will add significant technical expertise and capacity to its product engineering and development teams. The company will strengthen its IT footprint, IT help desk support and quality assurance, and will increase flexibility for future IT growth across mobile and online platforms, including iOS, Android development, cloud-based device testing, Web 2.0 and data warehousing and business intelligence. Dex One and HCL will also develop and integrate new mobile, video and social media channels to further enhance marketing strategies for local businesses.

"By selecting HCL Technologies, we gain solid engineering expertise that complements our Santa Monica, Calif. and Denver digital product development teams. This powerful combination of people and processes will reduce development cycle times

and accelerate delivery of new digital solutions to our customers," said Atish Banerjea, Dex One senior vice president and chief technology officer. "Beyond the operational benefits, this partnership reduces our costs and is part of the company's larger effort to record $140 million in cost savings in 2011."

"Our engagement with Dex One is a strategic opportunity for us to work collaboratively with Dex One's product engineering and IT teams, leveraging our world-class media, publishing and entertainment expertise to jointly create Dex One's next generation digital products and services in social networking and collaboration space," said Karan Puri, Executive Vice President, Consumer Services for HCL Technologies.

Dex One will realign its IT operations to integrate and partner with HCL for a number of IT services, which will be supported by

HCL locations in Cary, N.C. and India.

About Dex One Corporation

Dex One Corporation (NYSE: DEXO) is a leading marketing solutions provider helping local businesses and their customers connect wherever and whenever they choose to search. Building on its heritage of delivering print-based solutions, the company provides integrated products and services to help its clients establish their digital presence and generate leads. Dex One's locally based marketing experts offer a broad network of local marketing solutions including online, mobile and print search solutions, such as DexKnows.com. For more information, visit www.DexOne.com.

About HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses. Since its inception into the global landscape after its IPO in 1999, HCL focuses on ‘transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value creation, and offers integrated portfolio of services including software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management, engineering and R&D services and BPO. HCL leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare. HCL takes pride in its philosophy of ‘Employee First' which empowers our 73,420 transformers to create a real value for the customers. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, had consolidated revenues of US$ 3.3 billion (Rs. 15,160 crores), as on 31 March

2011 (on LTM basis). For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com.

Certain statements contained in this press release regarding Dex One Corporation's and HCL Technologies' future operating results or performance or business plans or prospects and any other statements not constituting historical fact are "forward- looking statements" subject to the safe harbor created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All forward- looking statements reflect only Dex One's and HCL's, as appropriate, current beliefs and assumptions with respect to future business plans, prospects, decisions and results, and are based on information currently available to Dex One and HCL. Accordingly, the statements are subject to significant risks, uncertainties and contingencies, which could cause Dex One's or

HCL's actual operating results, performance or business plans or prospects to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these statements.

Media Contacts:

Dex One

Chris Hardman, 303-784-1351 chris.hardman@dexone.com

or

HCL Technologies

Avena Suri, 408-594-5237 avena.suri@hcl.com

or

ThinkMedia PARTNERS for HCL Tim Hurley, 978-740-1013 thurley@thinkmediapartners.comor

Investor Contact:

Dex One

Jamie Andelman, 800-497-6329 invest@dexone.com

Source: Dex One Corporation

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