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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (12396)	7/9/1998 12:00:00 PM
From: TEColeman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 27307

The posts on this thread are quite numerous for the past few days, I haven't looked at them all, so I'm probably asking questions that were already asked. Doesn't the "one time charge" of 44.1 million bother anyone? Didn't they get a chunk of their increase in earnings from the purchase of another company? How can they report the additional increase in earnings while making the write off just a footnote? Why do we expect earnings to continue at this pace next year unless Yahoo continues to acquire other companies (very probable). Isn't this the same BS that went on in the 70's with inflated P/E ratios through acquisitions? Wasn't there a market crash after all that? Didn't their earnings actually go down? (loss of 81 cents versus 50 cents this time last year). How does Yahoo charge for its advertising space (Which is limited by the size of the screen, but not but the number of links). Is there a premium for screens with more average hits? "(A) Pro forma net income (loss) per share diluted excludes the effect of in-process purchased technology of $44,100,000 incurred in connection with the acquisition of Viaweb Inc. during the quarter ended June 30, 1998 and excludes the effect of a one-time non-cash charge of $21,245,000 related to the Visa Marketplace restructuring incurred during the quarter ended June 30, 1997." TEC