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[Gangster]

Yiieepphhiieehh!!!

Nachbörslich fast 30% im plus! Endlich mal richtig gepokert in diesen miesen Börsenzeiten!
Und am 1. Mai fällt die Entscheidung ob der AOL Deal verlängert wird! Wenn dies der Fall ist, gehts nochmal 20-30% bergauf!

Wäre en Nervenkitzel wert!

Gruß Gangster!!!

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SUNNYVALE & PASADENA, Calif., Apr 25, 2002 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo! Inc.
(Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet company, and Overture Services, Inc.
(Nasdaq: OVER), the world`s leading provider of Pay-For-Performance search to Web
sites across the Internet, today announced that they have extended their
relationship to a three-year agreement to distribute Overture`s search listings
through Yahoo! Sponsor Matches.

Under the agreement, Overture will continue to provide Yahoo! with its
editorially reviewed Pay-For-Performance search results from its growing base of
60,000 advertisers. This agreement is a renewal of a relationship that began in
November 2001. The terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

"We will continue to leverage our strength as the leading search platform and
are extremely pleased to be working with an industry leader like Overture," said
Terry Semel, chairman and chief executive officer, Yahoo! Inc. "Search and paid
listings are key growth areas for Yahoo! and with the strong success of Sponsor
Matches since its launch in November, we are looking forward to providing even
more comprehensive and enhanced search opportunities for advertisers and
consumers."

Yahoo! Sponsor Matches is an enhanced placement program that gives Web sites
increased visibility in Yahoo!`s search results, distinguished in clearly
demarcated sections. Since its inception, the Yahoo! Sponsor Matches program has
shown strong performance and experienced click-through rates considerably higher
than the industry average. Businesses are able to reach their targeted consumers
more effectively through enhanced placement in search results on keywords that
are relevant to their business and consumers are able to find services that are
relevant to their needs.

"We are excited to announce this long-term partnership with one of the most
popular destination sites on the Internet," said Ted Meisel, president and chief
executive officer, Overture Services, Inc. "It is clear that Yahoo! views search
as a strategic priority and we look forward to developing new search products
with them in the future."

Overture`s search results are generated by Overture`s 60,000 advertisers who bid
for placement on keywords that are relevant to their businesses. These listings
are carefully screened by Overture`s 100-person editorial team before being
distributed to the company`s affiliate partner network, which includes many of
the Internet`s most popular destination sites.



About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive online products and services
to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo! reaches more than 237 million
individuals worldwide each month, and is the No. 1 Internet brand globally.
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Yahoo!`s global network includes 25 World
properties and is available in 13 languages.



About Overture (formerly GoTo)

Overture, (Nasdaq: OVER), formerly known as GoTo, is the leader in
Pay-For-Performance search on the Internet. The company created the market for
Pay-For-Performance search by redefining how businesses market online. In the
first quarter of 2002, Overture facilitated more than 587 million paid
introductions on a worldwide basis between consumers and its approximately
60,000 advertisers, who bid for placement on relevant search results and pay
Overture only when a consumer clicks on their listing. Following a rigorous
screening for user relevance by Overture`s 100-person editorial team, the
company distributes its search results to tens of thousands of sites across the
Internet, including America Online, Microsoft and Yahoo! - making it the largest
Pay-For-Performance search and advertising network on the Internet. Overture is
based in Pasadena, California, with offices in New York, San Francisco and the
UK, Germany and Ireland. For more information, visit www.overture.com.

Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. Overture and
Pay-For-Performance are service marks of Overture Services Inc. All other names
are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their respective
owners.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the
federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements include without
limitation statements regarding Yahoo!`s users will continue to use Overture
search results, that advertisers and businesses will want to participate in
Sponsored Matches by seeking enhanced placement in the search results, that
businesses will be able to reach customers more effectively through enhanced
placement in search results, that the companies will develop new search
products. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially.
These risks and uncertainties include, among others that the implementation may
not be successful or generate revenue for Overture or yield economic benefits to
Overture, that the development of new search products may not happen and if it
does happen that it will be successful or generate revenue for Overture or yield
economic benefits to Overture, the risk that Overture`s advertisers and
businesses may not want traffic from Yahoo! and the risk that Yahoo!`s users may
not want to use the Sponsor Matches product. For a discussion of other risks
that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from such
forward-looking statements, see the discussion of "Risks That Could Affect Our
Financial Condition and Results of Operations" in Overture`s 10-K filing with
the SEC for the period ended December 31, 2001. Overture undertakes no
obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or
circumstances occurring after the date of this press release.



CONTACT: Overture Services, Inc.

Al Duncan, 626/685-5714 (Media)

[e-mail]

Jim Olson, 626/229-5242

[e-mail]

Laurie Berman, 626/229-5368 (Investors)

[e-mail]

or

Yahoo!

Diana Lee, 408/349-6501

[e-mail]

or

Fleishman Hillard PR

Nicole Waddell, 503/221-2368

[e-mail]

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Dann noch das:
Apr 25, 2002 (TheStreet.com via COMTEX) -- Updated from 4:58 p.m. EDT

Overture Services may not be able to offer any details on its talks with America
Online, but it certainly had plenty of good news to share with investors
Thursday.

The pay-per-view Internet search engine posted a first-quarter profit of 48
cents a share, nearly half again as much as the analyst consensus estimate and
reversing a year-ago 13-cent loss. Overture also boosted second-quarter and
full-year financial targets, saying advertisers continue to pay the company more
for placement in Overture`s search results. And perhaps most important, execs
said in a postclose earnings conference call that Overture has extended by three
years its affiliation with Yahoo! .

After an early morning selloff provoked by worries about the AOL deal, Overture
shares jumped at the end of the trading day to finish 3 cents higher. The stock
then jumped $5.23, or 21%, to $30.86 after hours amid talk of the Yahoo! deal.

Overture shares have been moving strongly for the last month amid rampant
speculation about the fate of the AOL deal. The companies on Wednesday extended
that deal for the second time, this time to May 1, as they continue discussions.
Investors have worried less about the immediate financial implications of such a
move -- Overture has said in the past it can make its 2002 numbers without an
AOL renewal -- than about the prospect that AOL will lead a mass exodus of big
partners that will eventually lead to the company having to cut its prices to
draw business.

All those worries appeared overwrought, however briefly, Thursday afternoon.
Overture`s numbers were strong across the board: Revenue surged to $143 million
from $52 million a year earlier, beating the $126 million estimate.

The company projected a second-quarter profit of 27 cents a share on revenue of
$133 million; analysts had expected a 24-cent profit. A year ago, Overture lost
6 cents a share on $63 million in revenue. For 2002, the company said it should
earn 94 cents a share on revenue of $473 million, up from the analyst estimates
of 87 cents on $466 million and the year-ago earnings of 32 cents on revenue of
$288 million.


By George Mannes
Senior Writer

[Junkers87DStuka]

Was wird das ein kNALLER werden



Was bin ich froh, das Ding vor den Earnings gekauft zu haben

[sixx]

Schön dass andere Leute aufmerksam werden. Bin seit dem 16.12. 2000 drinne und war es vor her schon mal. Meine erste begegnung war in 98. Bin bei 40 Eingestiegen und habe bei 110 verkauft. Dann lief der wert bis 120. Bin dann wieder bei 7 $ rein und halte bis jetzt. Habe unter Goto monatelange ´"Monologthreads" geführt. Hoffe das ändert sich nun bald. Obwohl, so schlecht bin ich nicht gefahren. Vielleicht war das ja auch ein geheimniss des Erfolges. Bemerkenswert war, dass dieser Wert einer der am meisten geshortet Aktien war.
MFG Sixx

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26.04. 15:54
Overture Systems mit starkem Kursgewinn
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Die Aktien von Overture Systems können heute um 35.93 Prozent auf 34.84 Dollar steigen.

Das Unternehmen hatte am späten Donerstag abend in den USA ein Quartalsergebnis veröffentlicht, dass die Analystenschätzungen mit Leichtigkeit übertreffen konnte. Ferner gab das Unternehmen einen Gewinnausblick auf das zweite Quartal, der drei cents je Aktie besser ist, als bisher prognostiziert wurde. Darüber hinaus gab man bekannt, die Geschäftsbeziehung zu Yahoo! auf eine dreijährige Allianz ausgeweitet zu haben.

Yahoo Aktien steigen um 3.76 Prozent auf 14.89 Dollar.

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02.05. 21:48
Einstufung von Yahoo und Overture
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Overture Services wird durch Salomon Smith Barney weiterhin mit Buy und Kursziel $43 bewertet.

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AOL Contract Move Sinks Pasadena, Calif.-Based Internet Search Engine`s Stock


PASADENA, Calif., May 02, 2002 (San Gabriel Valley Tribune - Knight
Ridder/Tribune Business News via COMTEX) -- Shares of Overture Services Inc.
plunged 35 percent Wednesday after AOL Time Warner Inc. canceled its contract
agreement with the Pasadena-based Internet search engine and instead signed a
deal with Overture`s rival Google Inc.

The news sent Wall Street investors scrambling to dump Overture stock, causing
its value to fall $12.20 to close at $21.99 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Overture`s stock is now trading at less than half its 52-week high of $43.16 on
Jan. 7.

The announcement of the loss of Overture`s largest client was made several hours
after the market closed Tuesday.

The termination is also extensive in its scope since it includes the contracts
of AOL.com, CompuServe and Netscape.

This is the second major contract Mountain View-based Google has been able to
wrestle from Overture, formerly GoTo.com. In March, Overture lost its contract
with Atlanta-based Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. to Google.

On April 5 Overture filed a patent infringement suit against Google, which
states its search services are too similar to Overture`s pay-for-performance
search results.

The short-term effect of losing the AOL contract is negligible because Overture
executives already figured the loss into second-quarter estimates, analysts
said.

But the long-term impact is that Google becomes a more significant competitor
with Overture, according to analysts.

"The financial implications are more daunting because AOL announced they signed
with Google," said Troy Mastin, an analyst with Chicago-based William Blair &
Co. "The risk is that when affiliate contracts come up for Overture, they have a
more formidable competitor to essentially bid against."

Overture`s other large contract is with Microsoft Network, which is not up for a
contract renewal until 2003.

"We are disappointed not to have AOL as a partner in the U.S.," Overture
President and Chief Executive Officer Ted Meisel said in a conference call to
investors Wednesday. "We believe AOL`s decision is not based on a comparison of
Overture`s pay-for-performance search engine with Google`s pay for performance
search engine."

Meisel added that he believes AOL`s decision is "an attempt to capitalize on
Google`s search brand and destination."

Overture will continue to provide search results for AOL`s Europe and UK
operations, Meisel said.

Neither Google nor AOL would disclose the financial terms of the deal.

"Google is the reigning champ of online search," Bob Pittman, COO-elect of AOL
Time Warner said in a written statement. "We are committed to providing AOL
members and Web users with the very best in online tools, content and
convenience, and we`re very pleased to bring Google`s popular platform to our
users."

The latest news negated recent gains Overture`s stock value reaped from the
announcement on April 25 that the company re-signed a deal to provide search
results for Yahoo! Inc.

Overture`s stock soared to highs of $35 a share over the past week, also buoyed
by the company`s first quarter 2002 earnings report, which showed revenue
increased 175 percent over the same period last year.

Overture also issued increased financial guidance Wednesday -- due to its strong
first-quarter results and its renewal with Yahoo! -- of approximately $2 million
in tax provision estimates for the quarter Second-quarter 2002 net income and
earnings per share estimates are now projected to be $14 million, the company
said.

Overture was spun off by Pasadena-based Idealab Corp., an Internet incubator,
itself mired in a $1 billion lawsuit from its own investors.


By Don Jergler

To see more of the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, or to subscribe to the
newspaper, go to http://www.sgvtribune.com


(c) 2002, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Calif. Distributed by Knight
Ridder/Tribune Business News.

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In der Börse Online is ein riesen Artikel der zum Kauf von Overture rät. In der Vergangenheit war das immer ein guter Zeitpunkt zum verkaufen. Scheisse! hätten die doch bloss ne andere Aktie empfohlen LOL. Börse Online is n guta Kontraindikator
MFG Stefan