UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

FORM 10-K

(Mark One)

x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 20062007

 

OR

 

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from            to            

 

Commission File Number 0-25131000-25131

INFOSPACE, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware 91-1718107

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

601 108th Avenue NE, Suite 1200, Bellevue, Washington 98004

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:

(425) 201-6100

 


 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Common Stock, par value $.0001 per share

Title of each className of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $.0001 per shareNASDAQ Global Select Market

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

NoneSeries C Participating Preferred Stock

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes ¨    No x

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes ¨    No x

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x    No ¨

 

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (§229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of the registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. x

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, or a non-accelerated filer. See definitiondefinitions of “accelerated filer and large“large accelerated filer”, “accelerated filer”, and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer  xAccelerated filer  ¨        Non-accelerated filer  ¨

Large accelerated filer¨        Accelerated filer x        Non-accelerated filer ¨    Smaller reporting company ¨

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes¨    Nox

 

The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant outstanding as of June 30, 2006,2007, based upon the closing price of Common Stock on June 30, 20062007 as reported by Nasdaq,on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, was $575.0$438.6 million. Shares of voting stock held by each officer and director and by each person who owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting stock (as publicly reported by such persons pursuant to Section 13 and Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) have been excluded in thatbecause such persons may be deemed to be affiliates. This determination of affiliate status is not necessarily a conclusive determination for other purposes.

 

As of February 16, 2007, 31,469,06215, 2008, 34,362,696 shares of the registrant’s Common Stock were outstanding.

 

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Part III incorporates certain information by reference from the definitive proxy statement forto be filed by the registrant in connection with the Annual Meeting of Stockholders tentatively scheduled for May 14, 200712, 2008 (the “Proxy Statement”).

 



TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Part I

    
Item 1.  

Business

  3
Item 1A.  

Risk Factors

  11
Item 1B.  

Unresolved Staff Comments

  25
Item 2.  

Properties

  25
Item 3.  

Legal Proceedings

  25
Item 4.  

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

  25

Part II

    
Item 5.  

Market for Registrant’s Common Stock,Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

  2625
Item 6.  

Selected Consolidated Financial Data

  2827
Item 7.  

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

  3029
Item 7A.  

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

  4948
Item 8.  

Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

  50
Item 9.  

Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

  8281
Item 9A.  

Controls and Procedures

  8281
Item 9B.  

Other Information

  8583

Part III

    
Item 10.  

Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

  8584
Item 11.  

Executive Compensation

  8584
Item 12.  

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

  8584
Item 13.  

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

  8584
Item 14.  

Principal AccountingAccountant Fees and Services

  8584

Part IV

    
Item 15.  

Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

  8685
Signatures  8988


This report contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. You should not rely on forward-looking statements. The statements in this report that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. We use words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “plan,” “expect,” “future,” “intend,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “continue,” and similar expressions to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:

statements regarding new and future products and services;

statements regarding our future business plans and growth strategy;

the expected demand for and benefits of our products and services for our customers and distribution partners;

statements regarding the successful execution of the our strategic initiatives;

statements regarding seasonality of revenue and concentration of revenue sources;

anticipated benefits from the business and technologies we have acquired or intend to acquire;

anticipated development or acquisition of intellectual property and resulting benefits;

anticipated results of potential or actual litigation;

statements regarding our competitive environment;

statements regarding the impact of governmental regulation;

statements regarding employee hiring and retention, including anticipated reductions in force and headcount;

statements regarding the future payment of dividends;

anticipated revenue and expenses;

statements regarding expected impacts of changes in accounting rules;

statements regarding use of cash, cash needs and ability to raise capital;

statements regarding the condition of our cash investments; and

statements regarding potential liability from contractual relationships.

Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our results, levels of activity, performance, achievements and prospects, and those of the Internet industries generally, to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among others, those identified under Item 1A, “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this report.

ITEM 1.Business

 

This report contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. You should not rely on forward-looking statements. The statements in this report that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. We use words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “plan,” “expect,” “future,” “intend,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “continue,” and similar expressions to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:

statements regarding new and future products and services;

statements regarding our future business plans and growth strategy, including our recently announced restructuring and planned reduction of our mobile media content product offerings;

the expected demand for and benefits of our online and mobile products and services for our customers and distribution partners;

statements regarding seasonality of revenue and concentration of revenue sources;

anticipated benefits from the business and technologies we have acquired or intend to acquire;

anticipated development or acquisition of intellectual property and resulting benefits;

anticipated results of potential or actual litigation;

statements regarding our competitive environment;

statements regarding the impact of governmental regulation;

statements regarding employee hiring and retention, including anticipated reductions in force and headcount;

statements regarding the future payment of dividends;

anticipated revenue and expenses;

statements regarding expected impacts of changes in accounting rules, including the impact on deferred tax benefits;

statements regarding use of cash, cash needs and ability to raise capital; and

statements regarding potential liability from contractual relationships.

Forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our results, levels of activity, performance, achievements and prospects, and those of the wireless and Internet industries generally, to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, among others, those identified under Item 1A, “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this report.

Overview

 

InfoSpace, Inc. (“InfoSpace”, “Our”“our” or “We”“we”) is a developer ofdevelops search tools and technologies that assist consumers with finding content and information on the Internet. We offer search services that enable Internet or mobile phone.users to locate and view content, information, merchants, individuals, and products online. We useoffer search services through our technology, including metasearch, to power our own branded Web sites, Dogpile.com, WebCrawler.com, MetaCrawler.com, and provide private-label online search and directory services toWebFetch.com, as well as through the Web properties of distribution partners. In addition,Partner versions of our mobile applicationsWeb offerings are generally private-labeled and delivered with each distribution partner’s unique requirements.

Our search offerings differ from most other mainstream search services in that they provide programming“metasearch” technology that selects results from several search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, and sales opportunities to our mobile carrier partners, while providing consumers with relevant mobile functionalityMSN, among others.

We compete against other providers of Web search services. We also compete against more traditional advertising media, including radio, network and mobilecable television, newspaper, magazines, Internet, direct mail and others for a share of the U.S. advertising media content, including ringtones, graphics, and games. market.

We were founded in 1996 and are incorporated in the state of Delaware. Our principal corporate offices areoffice is located in Bellevue, Washington. We also have facilitiesoffices in Los Angeles, California; Westborough, Massachusetts; Woking, United Kingdom and Eastleigh, United Kingdom; and Papendrecht, The Netherlands.Bangalore, India. Our common stock is listed on the Nasdaq StockNASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “INSP.”

From 2004 to 2007, InfoSpace was comprised of three businesses: online search, online directory, and mobile. The mobile business was comprised of a mobile content product offering and a mobile services offering. In September 2006, we announced that we had beenas a result of being informed by one of our carrier partners that it intended to develop direct relationships for mobile ringtone content with the major record labels beginning in 2007, we restructured our operations accordingly and substantially reduced our mobile content offerings in 2007. We anticipatedIn 2007, we completed the sale of a significant portion of our remaining mobile content assets for $3.8 million. On October 31, 2007, we completed the sale of our directory business to Idearc Inc. for $225 million in cash. On December 28, 2007, we completed the sale of our mobile services business to Motricity, Inc. for $135 million in cash.

The operating results of the directory and mobile businesses have been presented as discontinued operations in our consolidated financial statements for all periods presented. The process used to separately present continuing and discontinued operations relied on certain estimates and assumptions, and the historical results of operations presented in our consolidated financial statements do not necessarily reflect the results of operations that such direct relationships between the carrier and content providers would have existed had we provided our online search services as a material negative impact onstandalone business throughout the periods presented. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of our business, overall market conditions and the process used to separately present continuing and discontinued operations, we believe that period-to-period comparisons of our revenues and operating results. As a result, during September 2006, we committed to a plan to make operational changes to our business to align operational focusresults are not necessarily meaningful, and costs with expectedyou should not rely upon them as indications of future revenues. The plan included a reduction in our workforce and consolidation of our facilities. We also suspended investment in mobile media content initiatives and, accordingly, intend to substantially reduce, through various initiatives, our mobile media content product offerings by mid-2007 by eliminating certain products including, but not limited to, ringtones, graphics and games. We will continue to operate our two business units: Online, comprised of our search and directory properties as well as our private label distribution service and Mobile services, including portal, storefront, messaging, and mobile search.performance.

 

Company Internet Site and Availability of SEC Filings.     Our corporate Internet site is located atwww.infospaceinc.com. We make available on that site our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, as well as any amendments to those filings, and other filings we make electronically with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). The filings, as well as our Code of Conduct and Ethics, can be found in the Investor Relations section of our site and are available free of charge. Information on our Internet site is not part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. TheIn addition, the SEC maintains an Internet site atwww.sec.gov that contains reports, proxy and information statements, and other information regarding us and other issuers that file electronically with the SEC.

 

ONLINE

Our Online search and directory services enable Internet users to locate information, merchants, individuals and products online. We offer search and directory services through our branded Web sites, Dogpile.com, Switchboard.com, InfoSpace.com, Webcrawler.com, MetaCrawler.com, and Zoo.com, as well as through the Web properties of distribution partners. Partner versions of our search and directory services are generally private-labeled and delivered with each distribution partner’s unique requirements. See Note 10—Business Unit Disclosures in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Item 8, of Part II of this Report) for further discussion.

Our search offerings differ from most other mainstream search services in that they provide “metasearch” technology that selects results from several search engines, including Google and Yahoo!, among others. We offer search services through our own Web sites, as well as through the Web properties of distribution partners including Akarl, Cablevision, Info.com, Verizon Online, WhenU, and others.

Our directory services include online yellow and white pages services. InfoSpace directory properties help Internet users find local and national merchants and individuals in North America. We offer directory services through our branded Web sites, such as Switchboard.com and InfoSpace.com, as well as through distribution partner relationships. We obtain the underlying directory listings primarily through our relationships with Yellowpages.com and Verizon.

We compete against other providers of Web search services, major Internet portals and Web-based directories. We also compete against more traditional advertising media, including radio, network and cable television, newspaper, magazines, Internet, direct mail and others for a share of the U.S. advertising media market.

MOBILE

Our Mobile business delivers data technology solutions, consulting and management services for the mobile operator market, including portal, storefront, search and messaging solutions. Additionally, we provide mobile media content products, including ringtones, graphics and games, to subscribers of our Mobile customers. However, we plan to substantially reduce, through various initiatives, our mobile media content product offerings

by mid-2007. Through our products, content and service offerings, our mobile operator partners are able to aggregate, configure and customize the services they offer under their own brand and deliver them to their subscribers. As of December 31, 2006, we had relationships with many leading mobile operators, including Cingular Wireless, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile US, Verizon Wireless, and Virgin Mobile UK. See Note 10—Business Unit Disclosures in the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Item 8, of Part II of this Report) for further discussion.

Competitors include mobile application providers, mobile application aggregators, mobile application enablers, entertainment and other digital media companies, and the mobile operators themselves.

Seasonality

 

Our online search and directory services are affected by seasonal fluctuations in Internet usage, which generally declines in the summer months. Our mobile productsmonths and services may also be subject to seasonality based onweeks following the timing of consumer product cycles and other factors, such as the timing of new mobile phone sales.holiday shopping season in December.

 

International Operations

We currently maintain facilities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and The Netherlands.

 

We have historically generated most of our revenues from customers in the United States. Revenue generated in the United States accounted for 97% in 2007, 98% in 2006, and 96% in 2006, 93% in 2005 and 93% in 2004 of our total revenues in those years.

 

Revenue Sources

 

OurWe receive revenues are derived from products and services deliveredour content providers, whom we refer to as our customers, when an end user of our Web search services clicks on a paid search link that is provided by a customer and displayed on our Web site or displayed on the Web property of a distribution partner. Revenues are recognized in the period in which a paid click occurs and are based on the amounts earned and remitted to us by our customers for such clicks. In

addition, we earn services revenue from certain distribution partners, across our two businesses, Online and Mobile.such as a fixed monthly fee in exchange for portal infrastructure services.

Our customers are primarily search content providers. We derive a significant portion of our revenue from a small number of customers and we expect that this concentration will continue in the foreseeable future. Cingular Wireless, Google and Yahoo! each accounted for more than 10% of our revenues in 2006.

Online Revenue:    We generate revenues from our Web search2007 and directory services when an end userjointly accounted for 95% or more of our services generates a paid search at our Web site. We also generate revenues from paid searches through a distribution partner’s Web property. Revenues are recognized in the period in which a paid search occurs2007, 2006, and are based on the amounts earned and remitted to us by our customer content providers. We also generate advertising revenues by selling banner, button and text-link advertisements based on cost per search or page view, which are recognized when the services are delivered.

Mobile Revenue:    We earn revenues typically through agreements with mobile operators for various services, which include subscriber usage, hosting and maintenance services, and professional services, as well as for the delivery of mobile media content products, such as ringtones, graphics and games. We recognize subscriber usage revenues based on a fee per user or per usage by the end user. We recognize revenue from hosting services and maintenance of such services in the period in which the service is provided. We sometimes earn one-time user set-up fees, which are generally amortized over the term of the customer contract. We recognize revenues from professional services in the period in which the work is completed and accepted by the customer. We recognize revenue from our mobile media content product when it is delivered.2005.

 

Product Development

 

We believe that our technology is essential to successfully implement our strategy of expandingexpand and enhancingenhance our products and services and maintainingmaintain the attractiveness and competitiveness of our products and

services. Product development expenses were $46.3$9.9 million in the year ended December 31, 2007, $6.8 million in the year ended December 31, 2006, $31.2and $6.6 million in the year ended December 31, 2005, and $23.1 million in the year ended December 31, 2004.2005.

 

Intellectual Property

 

Our success depends significantly upon our technology.technology and intellectual property rights. To protect our rights, we rely on a combination of copyright and trademark laws, patents, trade secrets, confidentiality agreements with employees and third parties and protective contractual provisions. Most of our employees have executed confidentiality and non-use agreements that contain provisions prohibiting the unauthorized disclosure and use of our confidential and proprietary information and that transfer to us any rights they may have in copyrightable works or patentable technologies that they may develop while under our employ. In addition, prior to entering into discussions with third parties regarding our business and technologies, we generally require that such parties enter into nondisclosure agreements with us. If these discussions result in a license or other business relationship, we also generally require that the agreement setting forth the parties’ respective rights and obligations include provisions for the protection of our intellectual property rights. For example, the standard language in our agreements with distribution partners provides that we retain ownership of all patents and copyrights in our technologies and requires them to display our patent, copyright and trademark notices.

 

We hold over 5039 U.S. registered trademarks and over 10075 foreign trademarks registered in various countries. We also have applied for registration of certain service marks and trademarks in the United States and in other countries, and will seek to register additional marks in the U.S. and foreign countries, as appropriate. We may not be successful in obtaining registration for the service marks and trademarks for which we have applied.applied or maintaining the registration of existing marks.

 

We hold over 307 U.S. and foreign patents. Our issued patents relate to our online directory, advertisement and location services, among others. We are currently pursuing certain pending U.S. and foreign patent applications that relate to various aspects of our technology. We anticipate on-going patent application activity in the future. However, patent claims may not be issued and, if issued, may be challenged or invalidated by third parties. In addition, issued patents may not provide us with any competitive advantages.

 

Despite our efforts to protect our rights, unauthorized parties may copy aspects of our products or services or obtain and use information, marks or technology that we regard as proprietary. The laws of some foreign countries do not protect proprietary rights to as great an extent as do the laws of the United States.States, and it is more difficult and costly to enforce our rights in foreign jurisdictions. In addition, others could independently develop substantially equivalent intellectual property. If we do not effectively protect our intellectual property, or if others independently develop substantially equivalent intellectual property, our business could suffer.

 

Companies and individuals in the artsInternet software and entertainmentapplication services industry, as well as in the Internet softwarearts and application servicesentertainment industry, have frequently resorted to litigation regarding intellectual property rights. We may have to litigate to enforce our intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets or to determine the validity and scope of others’ proprietary rights which are sometimes not clear or may change. From time to time, we have

received, and may receive in the future, notice of claims of infringement of others’ proprietary rights. Responding to any such claims could be time-consuming, result in costly litigation, divert management’s attention, cause product or service release delays, require us to redesign our products or services or require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements. If a successful claim of infringement were made against us and we could not develop non-infringing technology or license the infringed or similar technology on a timely and cost-effective basis, our business could suffer.

 

MetaCrawler License Agreement.    We hold an exclusive, perpetual worldwide license, subject to certain limited exceptions, to the MetaCrawler intellectual property and related search technology from the University of Washington, which we use in our web search services.

Competition

 

We operate in the online search and directory markets and mobile services and media markets,market, which areis extremely competitive and rapidly changing. Our current and prospective competitors include many large

companies that have substantially greater resources than we have.have, some of whom are also our customers, and many small and start-up companies with a large variety of competitive products and services. We believe that the primary competitive factors in the market for online and mobilesearch services are:

 

our customers going direct to our distribution partners or our third party content providers, such as our recent announcement that one of our mobile customers plans to develop direct licensing relationships with the major record labels beginning in 2007;partners;

 

the ability to meet the specific information, content, and service demands of a particular Web property, mobile device or platform;property;

 

the cost-effectiveness, reliability and security of the products and application services;

 

the ability to provide products and application services that are innovative and attractive to consumers subscribers and other end users;

 

the ability to develop innovative products and services that enhance the appearance and utility of the Web property, mobile device or platform; andproperties;

 

the ability to meet the needs of mobile operators and other major customers and distribution partners.partners; and

the ability of our competitors to develop and market new or enhanced products and search services.

 

Although we believe that no one competitor offers all of the products and services we do, our primary offerings face competition from various sources. We compete, directly or indirectly, in the following ways, among others:

 

Our distribution partners and third party content providersour customers are also our competitors.competitors, such as Google and Yahoo!;

 

Ourour online search services compete with search providers and Internet portals such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft’s MSN. Our online directory services compete with Internet portals and print and Web-based directories. These services also compete against more traditional advertising media, including radio, network and cable television, newspaper, magazines, Internet, direct mail and others for a share of the U.S. advertising market. Othermarket;

other information and content services we provide compete with specialized content providers.providers; and

 

Our mobile services competein international markets, in addition to competing with mobile application aggregators, mobile application enablers, media companies, content developers and publishers, and in-house information technology departments of mobile operators and device manufacturers.

In international markets,U.S.-based search providers, we compete with local companies which may have a competitive advantage due to their greater understanding of and focus on a particular local market.

 

We expect that in the future we will experience competition from other Internet application and mobile services companies, as well as from other content providers. Some of these companiespotential competitors are currently customers or distribution partners or content providers of ours, the loss of which could harm our business.

 

Many of our current customers have establishedhad relationships with some of our current and potential future competitors. Some ofdistribution partners. If our customers are also our competitors. If our competitors develop software and application services that are superior to ours, or that achieve greater market acceptance than ours, our business will suffer.

 

Governmental Regulation

 

Because of the increasing use of the Internet, and wireless devices, U.S. and foreign governments have adopted or may in the future adopt laws and regulations relating to the Internet, or use of wireless devices, addressing issues such as consumer protection, user

privacy, security, pricing, age verification, content, taxation, copyrights and other intellectual property, distribution, advertising and product and services quality.

 

Recent concerns regarding Internet and wireless device user privacy have led to the introduction of U.S. federal and state legislation to protect user privacy and data security. Existing federal laws regarding user privacy that we may be subject to include the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, which regulates the online and,

in some interpretations, wireless collection of personal information from children under 13, and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which regulates the collection and processing of personal information by financial informationinstitutions as well as imposes information security obligations. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”) has initiated investigationsused its authority to regulate unfair and hearings regarding Internetdeceptive trade practices to investigate and regulate user privacy and data security which could result in rulesconcerns, and such investigations or regulations thatregulation could adversely affect our business. Various states have likewise sought to regulate consumer protection, advertising, privacy and data security in ways that may affect the collection, use and disclosure of information. For example, California has passed several laws relating to the collection, storage and distribution of personal information, requiring in part the posting of a privacy policy and disclosure of how information is shared with third parties for marketing purposes as well as obligating businesses to secure such information. We could become subject to new laws and regulations that could limit or prohibit our ability to distribute our products and services, conduct targeted advertising, to distributecollect, use or collecttransfer user information or impose new data security requirements that could require us to expend substantial resources. In addition, numerous states now require that companies notify individuals of security breaches that may result in third parties gaining unauthorized access to certain types of personal information. We believe we take reasonable steps to protect the security and confidentiality of the information we collect and store but there is no guarantee that third parties will not gain unauthorized access despite our efforts or that we will not incur costs on us.in complying with our notification obligations under such circumstances.

 

CountriesMany countries outside of the United States may have more restrictive privacy laws.laws than the United States. The European Union, for example, strictly regulates the collection, use and transfer of personal information of Europeanits residents. Further, information lawfully collected in the European Union may not be transferred for processing outside Europethe European Union to a country that lacks adequate protections. The European Union has deemed the U.S. to lack such protections and transfers of personal information gathered in Europethe European Union to the United States are only permitted under limited circumstances. Other countries such as Canada follow models similar to the European Union albeit without express prohibitions on data export. These and similar restrictions may limit our ability to collect, use, and usetransfer information regarding Internet users in those countries.

 

We may be subject to provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act and similar state laws that regulate consumer protection and advertising in all media, including the Internet, and require advertisers to substantiate advertising claims before disseminating advertising. The FTC and various state attorneys general have recently brought actions charging deceptive advertising via the Internet and may actively monitor Internet advertising. The United States and various individual states have also enacted restrictions on advertising through other media. For example, in the United States, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, “Do Not Call” legislation and similar state laws regulate the manner in which we may advertise goods and services via telephones and facsimiles. Also, with respect to our tournament games, most states regulate the provision of prizes for mobile games or other contests, and other states may adopt similar regulations.

 

Other countries similarly regulate direct and indirect marketing. For example, the European Union has enacted an electronic communications directive that imposes certain restrictions on the use of cookies and action tags as well as the sending of unsolicited communications. Also, like the United States, the members of the European Union and other countries each may have localized consumer protection, advertising, and privacy related legislation that may impose additional costs or limit our ability to conduct business in such regions and elsewhere.

 

We may also be subject to the provisions of the Child Online Protection Act (“COPA”), which restricts the distribution of certain materials deemed harmful to children. The ActCOPA is also designed to restrict access to such materials by children, and accordingly, the provisions of this ActCOPA may apply to certain Internet and wireless product and service providers even though such companies are not engaged in the business of distributing the harmful materials.

Although some court decisions have cast doubt on the constitutionality of the Act,COPA, and we have instituted processes for voluntary compliance with provisions of the ActCOPA that may be relevant to our business, the ActCOPA could subject us to liability.

 

These or other laws or regulations that may be enacted in the future could have adverse effects on our business, including higher regulatory compliance costs, limitations on our ability to provide some services in some countries, and liabilities which might be incurred through lawsuits or regulatory penalties. For example, numerous states now require that companies notify individuals of security breaches that may result in third parties gaining unauthorized access to certain types of personal information. We believe we take reasonable steps to protect the security and confidentiality of the information we collect and store but there is no guarantee that third parties will not gain unauthorized access despite our efforts or that we will not incur costs in complying with our notification obligations under such circumstances.

Employees

 

As of January 31, 2007,2008, we had approximately 530170 employees. None of our employees are represented by a labor union and we consider employee relations to be positive. There is significant competition for qualified personnel in our industry, particularly for software development and other technical staff. We believe that our future success will depend in part on our continued ability to hire and retain qualified personnel.

 

Executive Officers and Directors of the Registrant

 

The following table sets forth certain information as of February 16, 200715, 2008 with respect to our executive officers and directors:

 

Name

  

Age

  

Position

James F. Voelker

  5556  Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President

Allen M. HsiehDavid B. Binder

  4638  Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Brian T. McManus

49Executive Vice President—Online

Steven L. ElfmanBruce M. Allenbaugh

  51  Executive Vice President—MobileChief Marketing Officer

R. Bruce Easter, Jr.Sunil Thomas

  4938  Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

Eric M. Emans

34Chief Accounting Officer

Alejandro C. Torres

45General Counsel and Secretary

John E. Cunningham, IV

  4950Director

Nicholas (Nick) F. Graziano

36  Director

Jules Haimovitz

  5657  Director

Richard D. Hearney

  6768Director

William J. Ruckelshaus

43  Director

Lewis M. Taffer.

  5960  Director

George M. Tronsrue, III

  5051  Director

Vanessa A. Wittman

  3940  Director

 

James F. Voelker has served as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since December 2002, and also as President since December 2005. He also held the title of President from December 2002 to April 2003. He has served as a director since July 2002. Mr. Voelker served as President and a director of NEXTLINK Communications, Inc. (now XO Communications, Inc.), a broadband communications company, from inception in 1994 through 1998.

 

Allen M. HsiehDavid B. Binder was appointedhas served as our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since January 1, 2008. Mr. Binder joined the Company as Vice President of Finance in October 2004. From November 2006,2001 to October 2004, he served as Director, and later Senior Director, of Business Development at drugstore.com, Inc., an online drug store.

Bruce M. Allenbaugh has served as our Chief Marketing Officer since December 2007, after serving as interima consultant from November 2007. From May 2006 to September 2006, Mr. Allenbaugh served as Vice Presidentof Marketing and Business Development for Trumba Corporation, an online calendar services provider. From May 2001 to February 2004, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Communications at Safeco Corporation, a property casualty insurance company.

Sunil Thomas has served as Chief FinancialTechnology Officer fromsince January 1, 2008. Mr. Thomas has held various engineering positions since joining InfoSpace in 1999. From May 2006 to December 2007, Mr. Thomas served as Vice President, Engineering. From April 2006 to OctoberMay 2006, he served as Senior Director, Engineering after serving as Director of Engineering from January 2004 to April 2006. From December 1999 to December 2003, he served as Senior Development Manager.

Eric M. Emanshas served as our Chief Accounting Officer since January 1, 2008. Mr. HsiehEmans joined usthe Company as Corporate Controller in September 2006. However, Mr. Emans had previously held various positions at the Company from September 2003 to December 2005, including Manager, Revenue Assurance and Senior Manager, Finance. From December 2005 to September 2006, he served as Director, Mobile Operations, at Corbis Corporation, a provider of visual content and rights services. From June 1999 to September 2003, he served as Auditor at Deloitte & Touche, LLP, an accounting firm.

Alejandro C. Torreshas served as our General Counsel and Secretary since January 1, 2008. Mr. Torres joined InfoSpace in June 2003 as Chief Accounting Officer and Vice President Financial Operations.Senior Corporate Counsel. From February 2000October 1993 to MarchJune 2003, he served as Vice President Financean attorney at Terabeam Corp.Riddell Williams, P.S., a provider of fiberless optics communications. Prior to Terabeam he served in various positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, a big four accountingmajor Seattle law firm, from July 1985 to February 2000, the last two years as a partner in their accounting and auditing practice.

Brian T. McManuswas appointed Executive Vice President—Online in October 2006, after serving as Executive Vice President Sales and Business Development from January 2006 to October 2006. He also served as Executive Vice President, Search and Directory from April 2003 to January 2006. From April 2000 to October 2002, he served as Vice President of Corporate Development at Internet service provider Epoch Internet.

Steven L. Elfmanwas appointed Executive Vice President—Mobile in October 2006, after serving as Executive Vice President, Technology and Operations and Managing Director of Europe from August 2005 to October 2006. He also served as Vice President-Mobile Operations from November 2004 to July 2005, and as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President-Engineering and Operations from July 2003 to November 2004. From May 2003 to July 2003,where he was a consultant at Accenture Ltd.,member of the firm’s corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and finance practices and a consulting company. From September 2001 to May 2003, Mr. Elfman served as Executive Vice President of Operations at Terabeam Corp., a provider of fiberless optics communications.Principal from March 2000.

 

R. Bruce Easter, Jr. joined us in December 2006 as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. From February 2003 to December 2006, he served as General Counsel for Seattle Northwest Securities Corporation, an investment banking firm. From January 1995 through December 1999, he served as Vice President and General Counsel at NEXTLINK Communications.

John E. Cunningham, IV has served as a director of InfoSpace since July 1998. Mr. Cunningham has been a general partner of Clear Fir Partners, L.P., a private equity investment partnership, since February 1998. Since January 2004, he has served as a board member of Citel Technologies, Inc., a telecommunications company, and also served as its non-executive chairmanChairman from January 2004 to July 2006. From April 19951996 until February 2003, he served as President of Kellett Investment Corporation, an investment fund for private companies.

 

Jules HaimovitzNicholas (Nick) Graziano was appointedhas served as a director insince May 2007. Mr. Graziano is a Managing Director of Sandell Asset Management Corp., an investment manager. Mr. Graziano has been with Sandell since September 2006. From February 2004 to July 2006, Mr. Graziano was an investment analyst with Icahn Associates Corp., the primary investment vehicle of Carl Icahn, including Icahn Partners, a multi-billion dollar global hedge fund. In this position, he was responsible for analysis and execution of investment strategies, including public and private equity and distressed debt. From February 2002 to February 2004, Mr. Graziano was an analyst with March Partners LLC, a global event-driven hedge fund. Mr. Graziano is a director of WCI Communications, Inc., a homebuilding and real estate services company, and of Fair Isaac Corporation, a provider of decision management systems.

Jules Haimovitz has served as a director since October 2005. SinceFrom July 2007, he has served as President of Haimovitz Consulting, a media consulting firm. From July 2002 to July 2007, Mr. Haimovitz has served as Vice Chairman and Managing Partner of Dick Clark Productions Inc., a producer of programming for television, cable networks and syndicators. From June 1999 to July 2004, Mr. Haimovitz served in various capacities at Metro Goldwyn Mayer Inc., including President of MGM Networks Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, Executive Consultant to the CEO, and Chair of the Library Task Force. Mr. Haimovitz is a director of Blockbuster, Inc., a provider of in-home movie and game entertainment.entertainment and of ImClone Systems Incorporated, a biopharmaceutical company.

 

Richard D. Hearney has served as a director since September 2001. General Hearney served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Business Executives for National Security, an organization focusing on national security policy, from December 2000 to April 2002.

 

William J. Ruckelshaus has served as a director since May 2007. Mr. Ruckelshaus has served as Chief Financial Officer of Revenue Science, Inc., an Internet advertising technology and services company, since May 2006. From July 2002 to April 2006, he served as Senior Vice President Corporate Development at Expedia, Inc., an online travel agency, where he oversaw Expedia’s mergers and acquisitions and led the corporate strategic planning effort.

Lewis M. Taffer has served as a director since June 2001. Since March 2006, Mr. Taffer has served as an Operating Advisor at Pegasus Capital Advisors.Advisors, a private equity fund manager. Since May 2006, he has served as a director and Senior Vice President at iGPS Company LLC, a provider of RFID (radio frequency identification)-tagged plastic pallet rental systems and an affiliate of Pegasus Capital Advisors. Since January 2005, he has been an independent management consultant. From January 2004 to January 2005, Mr. Taffer served as Executive Vice President, Acquisition Marketing of America Online. From May 2001 through December 2003, Mr. Taffer was an independent consultant specializing in marketing, business development and strategic partnerships.

 

George M. Tronsrue, III was appointedhas served as a director insince February 2003. Since March 2004, Mr. Tronsrue has served as President and Co-Manager of Jericho Fund, LLC, an investment and consulting company. From January 2000 to March 2004, Mr. Tronsrue served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Monet Mobile Networks Inc., a wireless Internet service provider. Monet Mobile filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March 2004.

 

Vanessa A. Wittman was appointedhas served as a director insince April 2003. From March 2003 to December 2006, Ms. Wittman served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Adelphia Communications Corporation, a cable television company. From February 2000 to March 2003, Ms. Wittman served as Chief Financial Officer of broadband network services provider 360networks, Inc.

ITEM 1A.    Risk Factors

 

RISKS RELATED TO OUR BUSINESS

 

A substantial portionOur strategic direction is changing, including through the completed sales of our revenues is dependentdirectory and mobile services businesses, and our focus on our relationships with a small number of distribution partners who distribute our products and services, the loss of which would have a material adverse effect on our financial results.online search may not be successful.

 

We relyhave recently completed a major restructuring of our business. On October 31, 2007, we completed the sale of our directory business to Idearc Inc. and, on December 28, 2007, we completed the sale of our mobile services business to Motricity, Inc. This significantly reduced the size of our business and our revenues, and our business model now centers on our relationships with distribution partners, including mobile operators, Web portals and software application providers, for distribution of ouronline search products and services. We generated approximately 51% of our total revenues through relationships with our top five distribution partners for the year ended December 31, 2006. We cannot assure you that these relationships will continue or result in benefits to us that outweigh the cost of the relationships. One of our challenges is providing our distribution partners with relevant products and services at competitive prices in rapidly evolving markets. In September 2006, we announced that one of our major mobile customers plans to develop direct licensing relationships with the major record labels beginning in 2007. We anticipate that the direct relationships to be developed by this mobile customer and our substantial reduction of our mobile media content product offerings will have a material negative impact on our revenues. In addition, other distribution partners, including our other mobile distribution partners, may create their own products and services or also seek to license products and services from others that compete with or replace the products and services that we provide. Also, many of our search distribution partners are developing companies with limited operating histories and evolving business models that may prove unsuccessful even if our products and services are relevant and our prices competitive. If we are not able to maintain our relationships with our distribution partners, our financial results would be materially adversely affected.

Our mobile operator distribution partner agreements generally come up for renewal on an annual basis, and our agreements with most of our online search and directory distribution partners come up for renewal in 2007 and 2008. Such agreements may be terminated or may not be renewed or replaced on favorable terms, which could adversely impact our financial results. In particular, we are experiencing pricing pressure in our mobile business, and competition is increasing for consumer traffic in the search and directory markets. We anticipate that the cost of our content for our revenue sharing arrangements with our search distribution partners will increase as revenues grow and may increase on a relative basis compared to revenues to the extent that there are changes to existing arrangements or we enter into new arrangements on less favorable terms.

Failure by us or our search distribution partners to comply with the requirements imposed by our search content providers relating to the distribution of content may require us to modify, terminate or not enter into certain distribution relationships, may cause the content provider to terminate its agreement with us, and may expose us to liability.

If our search distribution partners or we fail to meet the requirements and guidelines promulgated by our major search content providers, we may not be able to continue to provide content to such distribution partners, we may be liable to such content providers for certain damages they may suffer, and the content provider may terminate its agreement with us. In the past, certain of our search content providers had notified us that we were not in compliance with respect to our use of their content or the redistribution of their content by our distribution partners. We have been able to cure such breaches, however, thereThere can be no assurance that if we breach our agreements in the future wefocus on online search will be able to cure the breach. Our agreements with some of our major content providers give such content providers the ability to terminate their agreements with us immediately in the case of certain breaches, regardless of whether such breaches could be cured.

Additionally, agreements with our search content providers may be amended from time to time by both parties or may be subject to different interpretation by either party, which may require the rights we grant to our search distribution partners to be modified to comply with such amendments or interpretations. The agreements with our search distribution partners generally provide that we may modify the rights we grant to them to avoid being in conflict with the agreements with our search content providers. For example, recent changes by some of

our search content providers such as Google and Yahoo! to their approval processes and guidelines with respect to downloadable applications through which content is provided to end users have resulted in some of our search distribution partners changing the manner in which they distribute their downloadable applications to end users to meet the new approval processes and guidelines. Other distribution partners have not been able to meet the new guidelines, and as a result we no longer provide the applicable content or any content, as the case may be, to such distribution partners or certain of their downloadable applications. Also, our search content providers have approval processes with respect to the redistribution of their content by our distribution partners. Some of our distribution partners that redistribute such content have not complied with such approval processes, and we no longer provide the applicable content to such partners or such partners no longer redistribute the content.produce acceptable results. If our search content providers impose additional restrictions, some of our distribution partners may be required to make changes to the manner in which they distribute their downloadable applications or may be required to cease redistributing the content. If such distribution partners are unable to meet the new restrictions, we may need to terminate our agreement with such distribution partners or no longer provide the applicable content to such partners.

The loss or reduction of content that we can make available to our distribution partners, as well as the termination of distribution or content provider agreements, as described above, could have a material adverse effect on our financial results.

A substantial portion of our revenues is attributable to a small number of customers, the loss of any one of which would harm our financial results.

We derive a substantial portion of our revenues from a small number of customers. We expect that concentration will continue in the foreseeable future. Our top five customers represented approximately 85%, 81%, and 82% of our revenues in 2006, 2005, and 2004, respectively. Cingular Wireless, Google and Yahoo! each accounted for more than 10% of our revenues in 2006. Our principal agreements with these customers expire in 2007, 2009 and 2008, respectively. Also, some of these customers are competitors of each other, and the way we do business with one of them may not be acceptable to one or some of their competitors with whom we also do business, which may result in such competitors not renewing their agreements with us on favorable terms.

If any of our top customers significantly reduces or eliminates the content or services it receives from us under our existing contracts, or we are unable to renew the contracts on favorable terms,not successful in implementing or any of these customers are unwilling to pay us amounts that they owe us, or dispute amounts they owe us or have paid to us, our financial results would materially suffer. For example, in September 2006, we announced that one of our mobile customers plans to develop direct licensing relationships with the major record labels beginning in 2007. Althoughoperating under this mobile customer can continue to receive, or reduce further, the mobile content and services it receives from us under our existing agreements, we expect that the loss of the labeltones content portion will have a material negative impact on our revenues.

If our content providers or distribution partners disagree with our estimate of our royalty liability, it could expose us to significant liability and adversely impact our financial results.

Under our agreements with content providers, we calculate our royalty liability based on inputs from various sources of data and have been and are continuously subject to audits by our content providers and distribution partners. If our content providers disagree with the royalty amounts we have calculated that are due to them and we are unable to resolve those disagreements amicably, it may subject us to potential litigation and substantial costs even if it is found that the amounts we determined were due to them were accurate. If a content provider or distribution partner prevails in showing that the royalty amount due to it was not what was intended under our agreement with them and our estimate of the royalty liability was significantly different, it could subject us to significant liability to the affected content provider or distribution partner and have an adverse effect on our financial results. As we announced in January 2007, one of our content providers, EMI Entertainment World, Inc.

(“EMI”), recently instituted litigation against us due to a disagreement, among other things, over the amount of royalties due to them from the content they provide. Although we believe that EMI’s claims are without merit and that we have meritorious defenses to them and intend to vigorously defend the suit, there can be no assurance that we will prevail or that other content providers will not also disagree with the royalty amount due to them and initiate their own litigation, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial results.

Our agreements with some of our major customers contain minimum performance commitments or minimum service level requirements that we must meet in order to avoid reduction in payments from such customers.

Under our agreements with some of our major customers, we are required to generate a minimum amount of revenue. If we do not reach these minimums, we may receive reduced revenues from our customers or we may be required to compensate our customer for the difference between the minimum and the shortfall. If such shortfall is substantial, it could have a material adverse effect on our financial results.

Furthermore, we have entered into service level agreements with most of our mobile operator customers and certain other customers. These agreements generally call for specific system up times and 24/7 support and include penalties for non-performance. We may be unable to fulfill these commitments, which could subject us to substantial penalties under those agreements, harm our reputation and result in the loss of customers and distribution partners, which would have an adverse effect on our financial results.

Our strategic direction is evolving, including through our restructuring, which could negatively affect our future results.

Since inception, ournew business model, has evolved and is likely to continue to evolve as we refine our product offerings and market focus. Since 2003, we have focused on our search, directory, and mobile products and services. We continue to evaluate opportunities in a rapidly evolving market. In September 2006, we announced that one of our mobile customers plans to develop direct licensing relationships with the major record labels beginning in 2007. In light of that announcement, we plan to continue building on our foundations in mobile technology and services and online discovery, including leveraging our search and directory technology and applications for mobile devices. However, we have suspended investments in developing or obtaining more mobile content and certain new mobile distribution channels, including our direct to consumer online web site, Moviso.com, and we plan to substantially reduce, through various initiatives, our mobile media content product offerings by mid-2007. Thesestock price will suffer. Moreover, any other future changes to our business may not prove successful in the short or long term due to a variety of factors, including competition, consumer adoption and demand for our products and services, and other factors described in this section, and may have a material negative impact on our financial results.

 

In addition, we have in the past and may in the future find it advisable to streamline operations and reduce expenses, including, without limitation, such measures as reductions in the workforce, discretionary spending, and/or capital expenditures, as well as other steps to reduce expenses. In September 2006, we announcedWe have streamlined operations and reduced expenses as a restructuring plan that includesresult of the elimination of approximately 250 positions taking place through mid-2007 and the recording of restructuring charges of $62.3 million as partsale of our effort to align costs with expected future revenues.directory and mobile services businesses, including reductions in the workforce. Effecting thisany restructuring or any such restructuring will likely placestreamlining places significant strains on management, our employees, and our operational, financial, and other resources. In addition, any such restructuringactions could impair our development, marketing, sales and customer support efforts or alter our product development plans. Our suspension of investment in developing or obtaining new content and our ongoing process of substantially reducing our mobile media content product offeringsWe may also negatively impactincur liability from early termination or assignment of contracts, potential failure to meet required support levels of our relationships with our mobile operator distribution partnersplatforms due to loss of employees who may decide, prior to our product offering reduction, to obtain content or servicesmaintain such platforms, potential litigation and other effects from other sources offering a more complete mobile contentsuch restructuring and services package.streamlining. Such effects from restructuring and streamlining could have a more immediate negative impact on our financial results.

WeA substantial portion of our revenues is dependent on our relationships with a small number of distribution partners who distribute our online search products and services, the loss of which could have identified a material weakness in our internal controls as of December 31, 2006 that, if not properly remediated, could result in material misstatements inadverse effect on our financial statements in future periods.results.

 

BasedWe rely on an evaluationour relationships with online search distribution partners, including internet service providers, Web portals and software application providers, for distribution of our disclosure controlsonline search products and procedures as of December 31, 2006, our management has concluded that such disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of such date due to the existence of a deficiency in the operationservices. We generated approximately 43% of our internal accounting controls, which constituted a material weakness inonline search revenues through relationships with our internal control over financial reporting. As defined in Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Auditing Standard No. 2, a material weakness is a significant deficiency, or a combination of significant deficiencies, that results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected. The identified deficiency pertained to controls which were not adequately designed to ensure proper accounting and disclosure of deferred income taxes. These ineffective controls resulted in adjustments to our previously reported unaudited financial results as of, andtop ten distribution partners for the quarter and full year ended, December 31, 2006.

Because of this material weakness, there is risk that a material misstatement of our annual or quarterly financial statements will not be prevented or detected. We are currently in the process of designing and implementing control procedures to remediate the material weakness. We cannot guarantee, however, that such remediation efforts will correct the material weakness such that our internal control over financial reporting will be effective. In the event that we do not adequately remedy this material weakness, or if we fail to maintain effective internal controls in future periods, our operating results, financial position and stock price could be adversely affected.

We have a history of incurring net losses, we may incur net losses in the future, and we may not be able to regain or sustain profitability on a quarterly or annual basis.

While we achieved profitability in each of the twelve fiscal quarters ending on June 30, 2006, in the fourth quarter of 2006, and on an annual basis for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, we incurred net losses on an annual basis in 2006 and from our inception through December 31, 2003 and in the third quarter of 2006. For the year ended December 31, 2006, we recorded a loss2007. We cannot assure you that these relationships will continue or will result in benefits to us that outweigh the cost of $15.1 million. Asthe relationships. One of December 31, 2006, we had an accumulated deficit of $1.0 billion. We may incur net losses in the future including from our operations, the impairment of goodwill or other intangible assets, losses from acquisitions, restructuring charges or expense related to stock-based compensation and other equity awards. There can be no assurance that we will be able to regain profitability on a quarterly or annual basis or, if regained, to sustain it.

Our financial results are likely to continue to fluctuate, which could causechallenges is providing our stock price to be volatile or decline.

Our financial results have varied on a quarterly basis and are likely to fluctuate in the future. These fluctuations could cause our stock price to be volatile or decline. Several factors could cause our quarterly results to fluctuate materially, including:

the loss, termination or reduction in scope of key distribution or content relationships, such as by distribution partners licensing content directly from content providers;

increased costs related to investments for new initiatives, including newwith relevant products and services at competitive prices in rapidly evolving markets. Distribution partners may create their own products and newservices or may seek to license products and services from others that compete with or replace the products and services that we provide. Also, many of our distribution channels;

additional restructuring charges wepartners are developing companies with limited operating histories and evolving business models that may need to incur in the future;

litigation expense including settlement claims;

variable demand forprove unsuccessful even if our products and services including seasonal fluctuations, rapidly evolving technologiesare relevant and marketsour prices competitive. If we are not able to maintain our relationships with our distribution partners, our financial results would be materially adversely affected.

Our agreements with most of our distribution partners come up for renewal in 2008 and 2009. Such agreements may be terminated or may not be renewed or replaced on favorable terms, which could adversely impact our financial results. In particular, competition is increasing for consumer preferences;

the impact on revenues or profitability of changes in pricing for our products and services;

the results from shiftstraffic in the mix of products and servicesonline search market. Recently, we provide;

the effects of acquisitions by us, our customers or our distribution partners;

increases in the costs or availability of content for or distribution of our products;

the adoption of the accounting standard in 2006 that requires us to expense the fair value of our employee stock options and other equity awards;

the adoption of new laws, rules or regulations, or new court rulings, regarding intellectual property that may adversely affect our ability to continue to acquire content and distribute our products and services, or the ability ofhave experienced increased competition from our content providers, whom we refer to as customers, seeking to enter into agreements directly with our existing or potential distribution partners, making it increasingly difficult for us to continuerenew agreements with existing major distribution partners or to provide usenter into distribution agreements with theirnew partners on favorable terms. We anticipate that our content or distributeand distribution

costs for our productsrevenue sharing arrangements with our distribution partners will increase as revenues grow and services ormay increase our potential liability;

impairment in the value of long-lived assets or the value of acquired assets, including goodwill, core technology and acquired contracts and relationships;

the effect of changes in accounting principles or in our accounting treatmentas a percentage of revenues to the extent that there are changes to existing arrangements or expenses;

the adoption ofwe enter into new regulations or accounting standards; and

the foreign currency effects from transactions denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar.

For these reasons, among others, you should not relyarrangements on period-to-period comparisons of our financial results to forecast our future performance. Furthermore, our fluctuating operating results may fall below the expectations of securities analysts or investors, which could cause the trading price of our stock to decline.less favorable terms.

 

If advertisers perceive that they are not receiving quality traffic to their sites through their paid-per-click advertisements, they may reduce or eliminate their advertising through the Internet, which could have a negative material impact on our financial results.

 

Most of our revenues from our online search and directory business are based on the number of paid “clicks” on commercial search results served on our own Web sites or our distribution partners’ Web properties. Generally, each time a user clicks on a commercial search result, the content providercustomer that provided the commercial search result receives a fee from the advertiser who paid for such commercial click and the content providercustomer pays us a portion of that fee. If the click originated from one of our distribution partners’ Web properties, we share a portion of the fee we receive with such partner. If an advertiser receives what it perceives to be a large percentage of clicks for which it needs to pay, but that do not result in the intended objectives of such advertiser, the advertiser may reduce or eliminate its advertisements through the content providercustomer that provided the commercial search result to us. This leads to a loss of revenue to our content providerscustomers and consequently to fewer fees paid to us. The content providercustomer may also suspend or terminate our ability to provide its content through such distribution partners. The payment of fewer fees paid to us or the inability to provide content through such distribution partners could have a material negative effect on our financial results.

 

We operate in new and rapidly evolving markets, and our business model continues to evolve, which makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects.

Our potential for future profitability must be considered in the light of the risks, uncertainties, and difficulties encountered by companies that are in new and rapidly evolving markets and continuing to innovate with new and unproven technologies or services, as well as undergoing significant change. Our search, directory and mobile products and services are in young industries that have undergone rapid and dramatic changes in their short history. In addition to the other risks we describe in this section, some of these risks relate to our potential inability to:

retain and expand our existing mobile customer arrangements, or maintain or expand amount of products and services provided to them under such arrangements, or expand into new mobile services markets;

attract and retain distribution partners for our search and directory services;

attract and retain content partners;

manage our growth, control expenditures and align costs with revenues; and

respond quickly and appropriately to competitive developments, including:

rapid technological change;

alternatives to access the Internet or mobile devices;

changes in customer requirements;

new products introduced into our markets by our competitors; and

regulatory changes affecting the industries we operate in or the markets we serve both in the United States and foreign countries.

If we do not effectively address the risks we face, we may not be able to achieve profitability.

We depend on third parties for content, and the loss of access to or increased cost of this content could cause us to reduce our product offerings to customers and could negatively impact our financial results.

We currently create only a relatively small portion of our content. In most cases, we acquire rights to content from numerous third-party content providers, and our future success is highly dependent upon our ability to maintain relationships with these content providers and enter into new relationships with other content providers.

We typically license content under arrangements that require us to pay usage or fixed monthly fees for the use of the content or require us to pay under a revenue-sharing arrangement. In the future, some of our content providers may not give us access to important content or may increase the royalties, fees or percentages that they charge us for their content, which could have a material negative effect on our operating results. If we fail to enter into or maintain satisfactory arrangements with content providers, particularly with our major content providers, our ability to provide a variety of products and services to our customers could be severely limited, which would have a material negative effect on our operating results. Also, even if we maintain agreements with our major content partners, such partners may directly contract with our distribution partners as well, reducing the demand by our distribution partners for content coming through us. Additionally, our content license and royalty fees will increase to the extent that our revenues related to such products and services increase and may increase as a percent of revenues as a result of price competition and carrier demand for our products and services and the mix of our product sales.

Further, our musical composition and other media licenses for the creation of mobile content consisting of ringtones generally require royalty payments on a “most favored nation” basis, which requires us to pay the highest royalty paid to any licensor to all such licensors. Also, our agreements with the four major record labels for ringtones, which comprise a significant portion of our mobile business revenues, typically have terms of one year or less. As part of our September 2006 restructuring plans, however, we intend to substantially reduce our role as a provider of mobile content; accordingly, these content agreements are expected to have less of an impact on our financial results going forward.

If we fail to detect invalid click activity, we could lose the confidence of advertisers and of our content providers,customers, which could cause our business to suffer.

 

Poor quality traffic may be a result of invalid click activity. Such invalid click activity occurs, for example, when a person or automated click generation program clicks on a commercial search result to generate fees for the Web property displaying the commercial search result rather than to view the Web page underlying the commercial search result or when a competitor of the advertiser clicks on the advertiser’s search result to increase the advertising expense of the advertiser. Some of this invalid click activity is sometimes referred to as

“click “click fraud.” When such invalid click activity is detected, content providersour customers may refund the fee paid by the advertiser for such invalid clicks. When such invalid click activity is detected as coming from one of our distribution partners’ Web properties or our own Web sites, our content providerscustomers may refund the fees paid by the advertisers for such invalid clicks, which in turn reduces the amount of fees the content providercustomer pays us. If we or our content providerscustomers are unable to effectively detect and stop invalid click activity, advertisers may see a reduced return on their advertising investment with the content providercustomer because such invalid clicks do not generate quality traffic to such advertisers, which could lead such advertisers to reduce or terminate their investment in such ads. This could also lead to a loss of advertisers and revenue to our content providerscustomers and consequently to fewer fees paid to us. Additionally, if we are unable to detect and stop invalid click activity that may originate from our own Web sites or the Web properties of our distribution partners, our content providerscustomers may impose restrictions on our ability to provide their commercial search results on our own Web sites or to our current and future distribution partners, which could have a material negative impact on our financial results.

 

Although we and our content providerscustomers have in place certain systems to assist with the detection of invalid clicks, these systems may not detect all such invalid click activity, including new types of invalid click activity that may appear. From time to time, some of our search content providerscustomers may notify us that poor quality traffic may be originating from one of our distribution partners. Although the poor quality traffic may be due to factors other than invalid click activity, if we are unable to resolve or determine what factor may be creating the poor quality traffic, we may terminate our agreement with such distribution partner or stop providing content to such distribution partner from the partnercustomer that notified us of such traffic in an attempt to maintain the confidence of our content providercustomer and their advertisers in the overall quality of our traffic.

A substantial portion of our revenues is attributable to a small number of customers, the loss of any one of which would harm our financial results.

We acquire rights to content from numerous third-party content providers, whom we refer to as customers, and our future success is highly dependent upon our ability to maintain relationships with these customers and enter into new relationships with other customers. We derive a substantial portion of our revenues from continuing online search operations from a small number of customers. We expect that concentration will continue in the foreseeable future. Our top two customers jointly accounted for 95% or more of our online search revenues in 2007, 2006, and 2005. Google and Yahoo! each accounted for more than 10% of our revenues in 2007. Our principal agreements with these customers expire in 2011. Also, our customers are competitors of each other, and the way we do business with one of them may not be acceptable to one or some of their competitors with whom we also do business, which may result in such competitors not renewing their agreements with us on favorable terms. If any of our top customers significantly reduces or eliminates the content it provides to us under our existing contracts, or we are unable to renew the contracts on favorable terms, or any of these customers are unwilling to pay us amounts that they owe us, or dispute amounts they owe us or have paid to us, our financial results would materially suffer.

Failure by us or our search distribution partners to comply with the requirements imposed by our customers relating to the distribution of content may require us to modify, terminate or not enter into certain distribution relationships, may cause the customer to terminate its agreement with us, and may expose us to liability.

If our search distribution partners or we fail to meet the requirements and guidelines promulgated by our customers, we may not be able to continue to use such customers’ content or provide the content to such distribution partners, we may be liable to such customers for certain damages they may suffer, and such customers may terminate their agreements with us. In the past, certain of our customers had notified us that we were not in compliance with respect to our use of their content or the redistribution of their content by our distribution partners. We have been able to cure such breaches, however, there can be no assurance that if we breach our agreements in the future we will be able to cure the breach. Our agreements with some of our major customers, including Google and Yahoo!, give such customers the ability to terminate their agreements with us immediately in the case of certain breaches, regardless of whether such breaches could be cured.

Additionally, agreements with our customers may be amended from time to time by both parties or may be subject to different interpretation by either party, which may require our use or the rights we grant to our search distribution partners to be modified to comply with such amendments or interpretations. The agreements with our distribution partners generally provide that we may modify the rights we grant to them to avoid being in conflict with the agreements with our customers. Also, some of our customers have approval processes with respect to the redistribution of their content by our distribution partners. Some of our distribution partners that redistribute such content have not complied with such approval processes, and we no longer provide the applicable content to such partners or such partners no longer redistribute the content. If our customers impose additional restrictions, some of our distribution partners may be required to change the manner in which such customer’s content is used or distributed or cease using or distributing such customer’s content. If some of our distribution partners are unable to meet the restrictions, we may need to terminate our agreement with such distribution partners or no longer provide the applicable content to such partners.

The loss or reduction of content that we can use or make available to our distribution partners, as well as the termination of distribution or customer agreements, as described above, could have a material adverse effect on our financial results.

If our former mobile content providers disagree with our estimate of our royalty liability due to them, it could expose us to significant liability and adversely impact our financial results.

Under our agreements with our former mobile content providers, we calculated our royalty liability based on inputs from various sources of data and have been and continue to be subject to audits by our former mobile

content providers. If our former mobile content providers disagree with the royalty amounts we calculated were due to them and we are unable to resolve those disagreements amicably, it may subject us to potential litigation and substantial costs even if it is found that the amounts we determined were due to them were accurate. If a former mobile content provider prevails in showing that the royalty amount due to it was not what was intended under our agreement with them and our estimate of the royalty liability was significantly different, it could subject us to significant liability to the affected mobile content provider and have an adverse effect on our financial results. As we announced in January 2007, one of our former mobile content providers, EMI Entertainment World, Inc. (“EMI”), instituted litigation against us due to a disagreement, among other things, over the amount of royalties that were due to it from the mobile content it provided. Although we believe that EMI’s claims are without merit and that we have meritorious defenses to them and intend to vigorously defend the suit, there can be no assurance that we will prevail or that other former mobile content providers will not also disagree with the royalty amount due to them and initiate their own litigation, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial results.

We have in the past identified a material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting that we have been able to remediate; however, there can be no assurance that in the future a material weaknesses may be identified that, if not properly remediated, could result in material misstatements in our financial statements in future periods.

Under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, our management is required to evaluate and determine the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. In 2006, as part of its evaluation of our internal control over financial reporting, our management determined that we had a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting pertaining to our deferred income tax benefit and related income tax asset, which we believe has since been remediated. As defined in Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Auditing Standard No. 5, a material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. We strive to maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting in order to prevent and detect material misstatements in our annual and quarterly financial statements and prevent fraud. We cannot assure, however, that such efforts will be effective. If we fail to maintain effective internal controls in future periods, our operating results, financial position and stock price could be adversely affected.

We have a history of incurring net losses, we may incur net losses in the future, and we may not be able to regain or sustain profitability on a quarterly or annual basis.

We have incurred net losses on an annual basis from our inception through December 31, 2007, except for 2004, 2005 and 2007. As of December 31, 2007, we had an accumulated deficit of $1.0 billion. We may incur net losses in the future including from our operations, the impairment of goodwill or other intangible assets, losses from acquisitions, restructuring charges or expense related to stock-based compensation and other equity awards. There can be no assurance that we will be able to conduct our business profitably in the future.

Our financial results are likely to continue to fluctuate, which could cause our stock price to be volatile or decline.

Our financial results have varied on a quarterly basis and are likely to fluctuate in the future. These fluctuations could cause our stock price to be volatile or decline. Several factors could cause our quarterly results to fluctuate materially, including:

the loss, termination or reduction in scope of key distribution relationships, such as by distribution partners licensing content directly from content providers;

increased costs related to investments for new initiatives, including new products and services, marketing and new distribution channels;

cash distributions to our shareholders or stock repurchases;

additional restructuring charges we may need to incur in the future;

litigation expense, including settlement;

variable demand for our products and services, including seasonal fluctuations, rapidly evolving technologies and markets and consumer preferences;

the impact on revenues or profitability of changes in pricing for our products and services;

the results from shifts in the mix of products and services we provide;

the effects of acquisitions by us, our customers or our distribution partners;

increases in the costs or availability of content for our products and services;

the requirement to expense the fair value of our employee stock options and other equity awards;

the adoption of new laws, rules or regulations, or new court rulings, regarding intellectual property that may adversely affect our ability to continue to acquire content and distribute our products and services, or the ability of our customers or distribution partners to continue to provide us with their content or distribute our products and services or increase our potential liability;

impairment in the value of long-lived assets or the value of acquired assets, including goodwill, core technology and acquired contracts and relationships;

the effect of changes in accounting principles or in our accounting treatment of revenues or expenses;

the adoption of new regulations or accounting standards;

actual or perceived economic downturn that may lead to lower online advertising spend by advertisers, resulting in lower monetization rates for paid search;

the foreign currency effects from transactions denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar; and

volatility in the financial markets and the related potential changes to the fair value of our long-term investments.

For these reasons, among others, you should not rely on period-to-period comparisons of our financial results to forecast our future performance. Furthermore, our fluctuating operating results may fall below the expectations of securities analysts or investors, which could cause the trading price of our stock to decline.

Certain of our long-term investments recently failed to trade at recent auctions, which resulted in an impairment charge to a portion of such investments.

We do not issue or invest in financial instruments or their derivatives for trading or speculative purposes. Included within our investment portfolio are auction rate securities that we purchased for $40.4 million. These investments failed to trade at recent auctions due to insufficient bids from buyers. While we now earn a premium interest rate on the auction rate securities that failed to settle in the auction process, the investments cannot be quickly converted into cash and were considered illiquid as of December 31, 2007. We determined that the fair value of those auction rate securities was $37.5 million at December 31, 2007, and we recorded an impairment charge $2.2 million to a portion of the auction rate securities. If the issuers of such auction rate securities are unable to successfully close future auctions and their credit ratings deteriorate, the fair value of those auction rate securities may continue to decline and we may record further impairment charges. Additionally, if such issuers default with respect to such securities, we may no longer continue to receive any interest and may have to further impair such investments. If we are unable to liquidate these investments when we need such liquidity for business purposes, we may need to change or postpone such business purposes or find alternative financing for such business purposes, if available.

Our stock price has been and is likely to continue to be highly volatile.

The trading price of our common stock has been highly volatile. Since our common stock began trading on December 15, 1998, our stock price has ranged from $3.70 to $1,385.00 (as adjusted for stock splits). On February 15, 2008, the closing price of our common stock was $10.40. Our stock price could decline or be

subject to wide fluctuations in response to factors such as the other risks discussed in this section and the following, among others:

actual or anticipated variations in quarterly and annual results of operations;

announcements of significant acquisitions, dispositions, charges, changes in or loss of material contracts or other business developments by us, our customers, distribution partners or competitors;

conditions or trends in the search products and services markets;

announcements of technological innovations, new products or services, or new customer or partner relationships by us or our competitors;

changes in financial estimates or recommendations by securities analysts;

disclosures of any material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting;

the adoption of new regulations or accounting standards; and

announcements or publicity relating to litigation and similar matters.

In addition, the stock market in general, and the NASDAQ Global Select Market and the market for Internet and technology company securities in particular, have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations. These broad market and industry factors and general economic conditions may materially and adversely affect our stock price. Our stock has been subject to such price and volume fluctuations in the recent past. Often, class action litigation has been instituted against companies after periods of volatility in the overall market and the price of such companies’ stock. If such litigation were to be instituted against us, even if we were to prevail, it could result in substantial cost and diversion of management’s attention and resources.

We operate in new and rapidly evolving markets, and our business model continues to evolve, which makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects.

Our potential for future profitability must be considered in the light of the risks, uncertainties, and difficulties encountered by companies that are in new and rapidly evolving markets and continuing to innovate with new and unproven technologies or services, as well as undergoing significant change. Our online search products and services are in young industries that have undergone rapid and dramatic changes in their short history. We have also recently completed the sale of our directory and mobile services businesses. In addition to the other risks we describe in this section, some of these risks relate to our potential inability to:

execute our business strategy based on our new business model;

attract and retain users to our owned and operated sites;

attract and retain distribution partners for our online search services;

attract and retain customers;

manage our growth, control expenditures and align costs with revenues;

respond quickly and appropriately to competitive developments, including:

rapid technological change;

alternatives to access the Internet;

changes in customer requirements;

new products introduced into our markets by our competitors; and

regulatory changes affecting the industries we operate in or the markets we serve both in the United States and foreign countries; and

expand our customer base in markets in which we operate and into other markets.

If we do not effectively address the risks we face, we may not be able to achieve profitability.

If we are unable to hire, retain and motivate highly qualified employees, including our key employees, we may not be able to successfully manage our business.

Our future success depends on our ability to identify, attract, hire, retain and motivate highly skilled technical, managerial, sales and marketing, and corporate development personnel. Qualified personnel with experience relevant to our online search business are scarce and competition to recruit them is intense. If we fail to successfully hire and retain a sufficient number of highly qualified employees, we may have difficulties in supporting our customers or expanding our business. Realignments of resources, reductions in workforce, including our reduction in workforce related to our restructuring or to the sale of our directory and mobile services businesses, or other operational decisions have created and could continue to create an unstable work environment and may have a negative effect on our ability to hire, retain and motivate employees.

Our business and operations are substantially dependent on the performance of our key employees, all of whom, except our chief executive officer, are employed on an at-will basis. We have recently experienced significant changes at our executive management level, and may do so in the future. If we lose the services of one or more key employees and are unable to recruit and retain a suitable successor(s), we may not be able to successfully manage our business or achieve our business objectives. There can be no assurance that any retention program we initiate will be successful at retaining employees, including key employees.

In light of current market and regulatory conditions, the value of stock options or restricted stock units granted to employees may cease to provide sufficient incentive to our employees.

Like many technology companies, we use stock options, restricted stock units and other equity-based awards to recruit technology professionals and senior level employees. We have instituted a restricted stock unit program in lieu of issuing stock options to employees, other than executives, because stock options are not currently seen as providing enough incentive to attract or retain employees and because, beginning in 2006, the accounting treatment of options required us to expense the fair value of our employee stock options, which may make it difficult or overly expensive for us to issue stock options to our employees in the future. Additionally, due to the reduction in our stock price as a result of our recent dividends, most outstanding options held by employees have an exercise price significantly higher than the current market price of our stock. With respect to those executives to whom we also issue options, we face a significant challenge in retaining them if the value of these stock options is either not substantial enough or so substantial that the executive leaves after their stock options have vested. If our stock price does not increase significantly above the prices of our options, or option programs become impracticable, we may need to issue new options or other equity incentives or increase other forms of compensation to motivate and retain our executives. We may undertake or seek stockholder approval to undertake other equity-based programs to retain our employees, which may be viewed as dilutive to our stockholders or may increase our compensation costs. Additionally, there can be no assurance that any such programs we undertake, including the restricted stock unit awards, will be successful in motivating and retaining our employees.

Our search products and services may expose us to claims relating to how the content was obtained, distributed or displayed.

Our online search services link users, either directly through our Web sites or indirectly through the Web properties of our distribution partners, to third party Web pages and content in response to search queries and other requests. These services could expose us to legal liability from claims relating to such third-party content and sites, the manner in which these services are distributed and displayed by us or our distribution partners, or how the content provided by our customers was obtained or provided by our customers. Such claims could include the following: infringement of copyright, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights; violation of privacy and publicity rights; unfair competition; defamation; providing false or misleading information; obscenity; and illegal gambling. Regardless of the legal merits of any such claims, they could result in costly litigation, be time consuming to defend and divert management’s attention and resources. If there were a

determination that we had violated third-party rights or applicable law, we could incur substantial monetary liability, be required to enter into costly royalty or licensing arrangements (if available), or be required to change our business practices. We may also have obligations to indemnify and hold harmless certain of our customers or distribution partners for damages they suffer for such violations under our contracts with them. Implementing measures to reduce our exposure to such claims could require us to expend substantial resources and limit the attractiveness of our products and services. As a result, these claims could result in material harm to our business.

In the past, there have been legal actions brought or threatened against distributors of downloadable applications deemed to be “adware” or “spyware.” Additionally, certain bills are pending and some laws have been passed in certain jurisdictions setting forth requirements that must be met before a downloadable application is downloaded to an end user’s computer. We partner with some distribution partners that provide adware to their users if the partners adhere to our strict guidelines requiring them, among other things, to disclose to the user what the adware does and to obtain the consent of the user before the application is downloaded. The adware must also be easy to uninstall. We also review the application the partner proposes to use before we distribute our results to them. We also have the right to audit our partners, and if we find that they are not following our guidelines, we can terminate our agreement with them or cease providing content to that downloadable application. Some partners have not been able to meet the new guidelines imposed by us or some of our customers, and we no longer provide the applicable content or any content, as the case may be, to such partners or certain of their downloadable applications. We work closely with some of our major customers to try to identify potential distribution partners that do not meet our guidelines or are in breach of our distribution agreements and we work with our distribution partners to ensure they deliver quality traffic. However, there can be no assurance that the measures we implement to reduce our exposure to claims that certain ways in which the content is distributed violate legal requirements will be successful. As stated above, these claims could result in material harm to our business.

 

Our financial and operating results will suffer if we are unsuccessful at integrating acquired technologies and businesses.

 

We have acquired a number of technologies and businesses in the past and may engage in further acquisitions in the future. Acquisitions may involve use of cash, potentially dilutive issuances of stock, the potential incurrence of debt and contingent liabilities or amortization expenses related to certain intangible assets. In the past, our financial results have suffered significantly due to impairment charges of goodwill and other intangible assets related to prior acquisitions. Acquisitions also involve numerous risks which could materially and adversely affect our results of operations or stock price, including:

 

difficulties in assimilating the operations, products, technology, information systems and personnel of acquired companies which result in unanticipated costs, delays or allocation of resources;

 

difficulties in acquiring foreign companies, including risks related to integrating operations across different cultures and languages, currency risks and the particular economic, political and regulatory risks associated with specific countries;

 

the dilutive effect on earnings per share as a result of incurring operating losses and the amortization of acquired intangible assets for the acquired business;

 

diverting management’s attention from other business concerns;

 

impairing relationships with our customers or those of the acquired companies, or breaching a significant or material contractcontracts due to the consummation of the acquisition;

 

impairing relationships with our employees or those of the acquired companies;

 

failing to achieve the anticipated benefits of the acquisitions in a timely manner or at all; and

 

adverse outcome of litigation matters assumed in or arising out of the acquisitions.

The success of the operations of companies that we have acquired will often depend on the continued efforts of the management and key employees of those acquired companies. Accordingly, we have typically attempted to retain key employees and members of existing management of acquired companies under the overall supervision

of our senior management. We have, however, not always been successful in these attempts at retention. Failure to retain key employees of an acquired company may make it more difficult to integrate or manage the business of the acquired company, may reduce the anticipated benefits of the acquisition by increasing costs, causing delays, or otherwise and may expose us to additional competition from companies these employees may join or form.

 

Our stock price has been and is likely to continue to be highly volatile.

The trading price of our common stock has been highly volatile. Since we began trading on December 15, 1998, our stock price has ranged from $3.70 to $1,385.00 (as adjusted for stock splits). On February 16, 2007, the closing price of our common stock was $23.19. Our stock price could decline or be subject to wide fluctuations in response to factors such as the other risks discussed in this section and the following, among others:

actual or anticipated variations in quarterly and annual results of operations;

announcements of significant acquisitions, dispositions, charges, changes in or loss of material contracts or other business developments by us, our customers, distribution partners or competitors;

conditions or trends in the search, directory or mobile products and services markets;

announcements of technological innovations, new products or services, or new customer or partner relationships by us or our competitors;

changes in financial estimates or recommendations by securities analysts;

disclosures of any material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting;

the adoption of new regulations or accounting standards; and

announcements or publicity relating to litigation and similar matters.

In addition, the stock market in general, and the Nasdaq Stock Market and the market for Internet and technology company securities in particular, have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations. These broad market and industry factors and general economic conditions may materially and adversely affect our stock price. Our stock has been subject to such price and volume fluctuations in the recent past. Often, class action litigation has been instituted against companies after periods of volatility in the overall market and the price of such companies’ stock. If such litigation were to be instituted against us, even if we were to prevail, it could result in substantial cost and diversion of management’s attention and resources.

If we are unable to retain our key employees, we may not be able to successfully manage our business.

Our business and operations are substantially dependent on the performance of our executive officers and key employees, all of whom, except our chief executive officer, are employed on an at-will basis. If we lose the services of one or more of our executive officers or key employees and are unable to recruit and retain a suitable successor(s), we may not be able to successfully manage our business or achieve our business objectives. Additionally, our recently announced reduction of approximately 250 positions, to occur through mid-2007 and related to our restructuring, could place significant strain on many of the remaining employees, including key employees, as well as create uncertainty about their and our future prospects. We recently instituted a restricted stock unit program aimed at retaining employees who were not scheduled for termination. However, there can be no assurance that this or any other retention program we initiate will be successful at retaining employees, including key employees. Also, some employees scheduled to be terminated may decide to terminate their employment before their scheduled termination by us, creating additional strain and uncertainty on the remaining employees. If we are unable to retain the services of the remaining key employees, or if employees who are key during some aspects of the restructuring but who are scheduled to be terminated leave before their scheduled termination by us, it could increase the potential effects of the restructuring on our development, sales and customer support efforts or alter our product development plans.

Unless we are able to hire, retain and motivate highly qualified employees, we will be unable to execute our business strategy.

Our future success depends on our ability to identify, attract, hire, retain and motivate highly skilled technical, managerial, sales and marketing, and corporate development personnel. Our services and the industries to which we provide our services are relatively new. Qualified personnel with experience relevant to our business are scarce and competition to recruit them is intense. If we fail to successfully hire and retain a sufficient number of highly qualified employees, we may have difficulties in supporting our customers or expanding our business. Realignments of resources, reductions in workforce, including our recently announced reduction in workforce of approximately 250 positions to occur through mid-2007, or other operational decisions have created and could continue to create an unstable work environment and may have a negative effect on our ability to hire, retain and motivate employees.

In light of current market and regulatory conditions, the value of stock options granted to employees may cease to provide sufficient incentive to our employees.

Like many technology companies, we use stock options and other equity-based awards to recruit technology professionals and senior level employees. Our stock options, which typically vest over a two-, three- or four-year period, are one of the means by which we have historically attempted to motivate long-term employee performance. Beginning in 2006, the accounting treatment of options required us to expense the fair value of our employee stock options, which may make it difficult or overly expensive for us to issue stock options to our employees in the future. We also face a significant challenge in retaining our employees if the value of these stock options is either not substantial enough or so substantial that the employees leave after their stock options have vested. If our stock price does not increase significantly above the prices of our options, or option programs become impracticable, we may need to issue new options or other equity incentives or increase other forms of compensation to motivate and retain our employees. We recently instituted a restricted stock unit program in lieu of issuing stock options to employees, other than executives, because stock options were not currently seen as providing enough incentive to attract or retain employees. We may undertake or seek stockholder approval to undertake other equity-based programs to retain our employees, which may be viewed as dilutive to our stockholders or may increase our compensation costs. Additionally, there can be no assurance that any such programs, including the restricted stock unit awards, we undertake will be successful in motivating and retaining our employees.

Our search and directory products and services may expose us to claims relating to how the content was obtained or distributed.

Our search and directory services link users, either directly through our Web sites or indirectly through the Web properties of our distribution partners, to third party Web pages and content in response to search queries. These services could expose us to legal liability from claims relating to such third-party content and sites, the manner in which these services are distributed by us or our distribution partners, or how the content provided by our third-party content providers was obtained or provided by our content providers. Such claims could include the following: infringement of copyright, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights; violation of privacy and publicity rights; unfair competition; defamation; providing false or misleading information; obscenity; and illegal gambling. Regardless of the legal merits of any such claims, they could result in costly litigation, be time consuming to defend and divert management’s attention and resources. If there were a determination that we had violated third-party rights or applicable law, we could incur substantial monetary liability, be required to enter into costly royalty or licensing arrangements (if available), or be required to change our business practices. We may also have obligations to indemnify and hold harmless certain of our content or distribution partners for damages they suffer for such violations under our contracts with them. Implementing measures to reduce our exposure to such claims could require us to expend substantial resources and limit the attractiveness of our products and services to our customers. As a result, these claims could result in material harm to our business.

Recently, there have been legal actions brought or threatened against distributors of downloadable applications deemed to be “adware” or “spyware.” Additionally, certain bills are pending and some laws have

been passed in certain jurisdictions setting forth requirements that must be met before a downloadable application is downloaded to an end user’s computer. We partner with some distribution partners that provide adware to their users if the partners adhere to our strict guidelines requiring them, among other things, to disclose to the user what the adware does and to obtain the consent of the user before the application is downloaded. The adware must also be easy to uninstall. We also review the application the partner proposes to use before we distribute our results to them. We also have the right to audit our partners, and if we find that they are not following our guidelines, we can terminate our agreement with them or cease providing content to that downloadable application. Some partners have not been able to meet the new guidelines imposed by us or some of our content providers, and we no longer provide the applicable content or any content, as the case may be, to such partners or certain of their downloadable applications. We work closely with some of our major content providers to try to identify potential distribution partners that do not meet our guidelines or are in breach of our distribution agreements and we work with our distribution partners to ensure they deliver quality traffic. However, there can be no assurance that the measures we implement to reduce our exposure to claims that certain ways in which the content is distributed violate legal requirements will be successful. As stated above, these claims could result in material harm to our business.

Our efforts to increase our presence in markets outside the United States may be unsuccessful and could result in losses.

 

We plan to expand our mobile andcurrently provide online search offerings internationally, particularly in Europe. We have limited experience in marketing and operating our products and services in international markets, and we may not be able to successfully execute our business model in these markets. Our success in these markets will be directly linked to the success of relationships with our distribution and content partners and other third parties.

 

As the international markets in which we operate continue to grow, competition in these markets will intensify. Local companies may have a substantial competitive advantage because of their greater understanding of and focus on the local markets. Some of our domestic competitors who have substantially greater resources than we do may be able to more quickly and comprehensively develop and grow in the international markets. International expansionOur international presence may also require significant financial investment including, among other things, the expense of developing localized products, the costs of acquiringmaintaining foreign companies and the integration of such companies with our operations, expenditure of resources in developing distribution and content relationships and the increased costs of supporting remote operations. Although our revenues from our European offerings have increased in absolute dollars, they have declined as a percentage of our overall revenues.

 

Other risks of doing business in international markets include the increased risks and burdens of complying with different legal and regulatory standards, difficulties in managing and staffing foreign operations, limitations on the repatriation of funds and fluctuations of foreign exchange rates, varying levels of Internet technology adoption and infrastructure, and ability to enforce our contracts in foreign jurisdictions. In addition, our success in international expansioninternationally could be limited by barriers to international expansionsuch markets, such as tariffs, adverse tax consequences, and technology export controls. If we cannot manage these risks effectively, the costs of doing business in some international markets may be prohibitive or our costs may increase disproportionately to our revenues.

If the third party that provides us with data center services is unable to provide us with such services at the performance and reliability levels we require, or we are unable to transition such services effectively, our operations and financial results could be adversely affected.

Our success depends, in part, on the performance, reliability and availability of our services. In connection with our recently completed sale of our mobile services business, we disposed of most of our data center assets and the personnel who operated such assets, and, through a transition period expected to end in September 2008, a third party will be providing data center services to us for our on-going online search business. During this transition period, as we develop our own data centers for our on-going online search business, we will be dependent on such third party to provide us with the data center services we previously provided to ourselves at the same or better levels of performance and reliability. Additionally, the data center infrastructure and components of the third party providing us these services is also used by the third party to provide similar services to itself and another company. Changes made at the request of one company to the infrastructure may result in unforeseen and adverse effects on the services being provided to us. Failure by the third party to provide us such services at such levels of performance and reliability, or adverse effects resulting from changes to the infrastructure, could have a material adverse effect on our operations and our financial results.

Furthermore, the cost of replacing the services currently being provided to us by the third party will most likely result in significant additional capital and operating expenses, which could have a material adverse effect

on our financial results. Also, if we have not replaced the services currently being provided by the third party when the transition period expires, we will need to operate our systems either through an extension with such third party or an alternative provider. The potential alternative provider may expose us to similar risks as our current provider, which may have a material adverse effect on our operations and financial performance. In addition, the transition to an alternative provider or us may result in significant additional capital and operating expenses. The migration of the services to us or to an alternative service provider also exposes us to the potential loss or corruption of our data as a result of the transition, which may have a negative effect on our operations. We will also need to hire new personnel to operate our own data centers. There can be no assurance that we will be able to identify, hire and retain adequate and trained personnel to operate our own data centers, which could have a material adverse effect on our operations and financial results.

Our systems could fail or become unavailable, which could harm our reputation, result in a loss of current and potential customers and cause us to breach agreements with our partners.

In connection with our recently completed sale of our mobile services business, we disposed of most of our data center assets and the personnel who operated such assets, and, through a transition period expected to end in September 2008, a third party will be providing data center services to us for our on-going online search business. Thereafter, either we or another third party will need to provide data center services to support our business. Regardless of whether we or a third party provides the data center services for use in our business, we or the third party may not have disaster and redundancy planning or facilities in place so that business-critical systems services are redundant across two physical locations. Such systems and operations could be damaged or interrupted by fire, flood, power loss, telecommunications failure, Internet breakdown, break-in, earthquake or similar events. We would face significant damage as a result of these events, and our business interruption insurance may not be adequate to compensate us for all the losses that may occur. In addition, such systems use sophisticated software that may contain bugs that could interrupt service. For these reasons, we and, during the transition period, the third party providing us with these services may be unable to develop or successfully manage the infrastructure necessary to meet current or future demands for reliability and scalability of our systems, which could have a material adverse effect on our operations or financial results.

If the volume of traffic to our products and services increases substantially, we must respond in a timely fashion by expanding our systems, which may entail upgrading our technology and network infrastructure. During the transition period discussed above, we may need to rely on the third party providing data center services to us to carry out such expansion and upgrading of their systems, technology and infrastructure. Our ability or that of the third party to support our expansion and upgrade requirements may be constrained due to our or the third party’s business demands. Due to the number of our customers and the products and services that we offer, we could experience periodic capacity constraints which may cause temporary unanticipated system disruptions, slower response times and lower levels of customer service. Our business could be harmed if we are unable to accurately project the rate or timing of increases, if any, in the use of our products and application services or we or, during the transition period, the third party fails to expand and upgrade its systems and infrastructure to accommodate these increases in a timely manner.

The security measures we have implemented to secure information we collect and store may be breached, which could cause us to breach agreements with our partners and expose us to potential investigation and penalties by authorities and potential claims by persons whose information was disclosed.

We take reasonable steps to protect the security, integrity and confidentiality of the information we collect and store but there is no guarantee that inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure will not occur or that third parties will not gain unauthorized access despite our efforts. If such unauthorized disclosure or access does occur, we may be required to notify persons whose information was disclosed or accessed under existing and proposed laws. We also may be subject to claims of breach of contract for such disclosure, investigation and penalties by regulatory authorities and potential claims by persons whose information was disclosed.

We may be subject to liability for our use or distribution of information that we gather or receive from third parties and indemnity protections or insurance coverage may be inadequate to cover such liability.

We obtain content and commerce information from third parties. When we distribute this information, we may be liable for the data that is contained in that content. This could subject us to legal liability for such things as defamation, negligence, intellectual property infringement, violation of privacy or publicity rights and product or service liability, among others. Laws or regulations of certain jurisdictions may also deem some content illegal, which may expose us to legal liability as well. We also gather personal information from users in order to provide personalized services. Gathering and processing this personal information may subject us to legal liability for, among other things, negligence, defamation, invasion of privacy or product or service liability. We are also subject to laws and regulations, both in the United States and abroad, regarding the collection and use of end user information. If we do not comply with these laws and regulations, we may be exposed to legal liability.

Although the agreements by which we obtain content contain indemnity provisions, these provisions may not cover a particular claim or type of claim or the party giving the indemnity may not have the financial resources to cover the claim. Our insurance coverage may be inadequate to cover fully the amounts or types of claims that might be made against us. Any liability that we incur as a result of content we receive from third parties could harm our financial results.

If others claim that our products infringe their intellectual property rights, we may be forced to seek expensive licenses, reengineer our products, engage in expensive and time-consuming litigation or stop marketing and licensing our products.

Third parties have in the past and may in the future make claims against us alleging infringement of copyrights, trademark rights, trade secret rights or other proprietary rights, or alleging unfair competition or violations of privacy or publicity rights. In some cases, the ownership or scope of an entity’s or person’s rights is unclear and may also change over time, including through changes in U.S. or international intellectual property laws or regulations or through court decisions or decisions by agencies or regulatory boards that manage such rights.

We attempt to avoid infringing known proprietary rights of third parties in our product development, marketing, and licensing efforts. However, we do not regularly conduct patent searches to determine whether the technology used in our products infringes patents held by third parties. Patent searches generally return only a fraction of the issued patents that may be deemed relevant to a particular product or service. It is therefore nearly impossible to determine, with any level of certainty, whether a particular product or service may be construed as infringing a U.S. or foreign patent. Because patent applications in the United States are not publicly disclosed until the patent is issued, applications may have been filed by third parties that relate to our products. In addition, other companies, as well as research and academic institutions, have conducted research for many years in the search technology field, and this research could lead to the filing of further patent applications.

If we were to discover that our products violated or potentially violated third-party proprietary rights, including those third-party proprietary rights that came about due to decisions and other changes regarding a person’s or entity’s proprietary rights discussed above, we might be required to obtain licenses that are costly or contain terms unfavorable to us, or expend substantial resources to reengineer those products so that they would not violate such third party rights. Any reengineering effort may not be successful, and we cannot be certain that any such licenses would be available on commercially reasonable terms. Any third-party infringement claims against us could result in costly litigation or liability and be time consuming to defend, divert management’s attention and resources, cause product and service delays or require us to enter into royalty and licensing agreements.

We rely heavily on our technology and intellectual property, but we may be unable to adequately or cost-effectively protect or enforce our intellectual property rights, thus weakening our competitive position and negatively impacting our financial results.

To protect our rights in our products, services, and technology, we rely on a combination of copyright and trademark laws, patents, trade secrets, and confidentiality agreements with employees and third parties and protective contractual provisions. We also rely on the law pertaining to trademarks and domain names to protect the value of our corporate brands and reputation. Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may copy aspects of our products, services or technology, or obtain and use information, marks or technology that we regard as proprietary, or otherwise violate or infringe our intellectual property rights. In addition, it is possible that others could independently develop substantially equivalent intellectual property. If we do not effectively protect our intellectual property, or if others independently develop substantially equivalent intellectual property, we could lose our competitive position.

Effectively policing the unauthorized use of our products, services, and technology is time-consuming and costly, and there can be no assurance that the steps taken by us will prevent misappropriation of our technology or other proprietary assets. Our intellectual property may be subject to even greater risk in foreign jurisdictions, as protection is not sought or obtained in every country in which our products, services, and technology are available. Also, the laws of many countries do not protect proprietary rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States and intellectual property developed for us by our employees or contractors in foreign jurisdictions may not be as protected as if created in the United States and it is often more difficult and costly to enforce our rights in foreign jurisdictions. If we cannot adequately protect our intellectual property, our competitive position in markets abroad may suffer.

 

We have implemented anti-takeover provisions that could make it more difficult to acquire us.

 

Our certificate of incorporation, bylaws, and Delaware law contain provisions that could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire us without the consent of our board of directors, even if the transaction would be beneficial to our stockholders. Provisions of our charter documents which could have an anti-takeover effect include:

 

the classification of our board of directors into three groups so that directors serve staggered three-year terms, which may make it difficult for a potential acquirer to gain control of our board of directors;

the ability to authorize the issuance of shares of undesignated preferred stock without a vote of stockholders;

 

a prohibition on stockholder action by written consent; and

 

limitations on stockholders’ ability to call special stockholder meetings.

 

On July 19, 2002, our board of directors adopted a stockholder rights plan, pursuant to which we declared and paid a dividend of one right for each share of common stock held by stockholders of record as of August 9, 2002. Unless redeemed by us prior to the time the rights are exercised, upon the occurrence of certain events, the rights will entitle the holders to receive shares of our preferred stock, or shares of an acquiring entity. The issuance of the rights would make the acquisition of InfoSpace more expensive to the acquirer and could delay or discourage third parties from acquiring InfoSpace without the approval of our board of directors.

 

Our systems could fail or become unavailable, which could harm our reputation, result in a loss of current and potential customers and cause us to breach agreements with our partners.

Our success depends, in part, on the performance, reliability and availability of our services. We have data centers in Seattle and Bellevue, Washington; Los Angeles, California; Waltham, Massachusetts; and Papendrecht, The Netherlands. Although we have completed our disaster and redundancy planning for certain of our business-critical systems so that some are now redundant across two physical locations, we have not yet completed our disaster recovery and redundancy planning for others. Our systems and operations could be damaged or interrupted by fire, flood, power loss, telecommunications failure, Internet breakdown, break-in, earthquake or similar events. We would face significant damage as a result of these events, and our business interruption insurance may not be adequate to compensate us for all the losses that may occur. In addition, our systems use sophisticated software that may contain bugs that could interrupt service. For these reasons, we may be unable to develop or successfully manage the infrastructure necessary to meet current or future demands for reliability and scalability of our systems.

If the volume of traffic to our products and services increases substantially, we must respond in a timely fashion by expanding our systems, which may entail upgrading our technology and network infrastructure. Due to the number of our customers and the products and services that we offer, we could experience periodic capacity constraints which may cause temporary unanticipated system disruptions, slower response times and lower levels of customer service. Our business could be harmed if we are unable to accurately project the rate or timing of increases, if any, in the use of our products and application services or expand and upgrade our systems and infrastructure to accommodate these increases in a timely manner.

The security measures we have implemented to secure information we collect and store may be breached, which could cause us to breach agreements with our partners and expose us to potential investigation and penalties by authorities and potential claims by persons whose information was disclosed.

We take reasonable steps to protect the security, integrity and confidentiality of the information we collect and store but there is no guarantee that inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure will not occur or that third parties will not gain unauthorized access despite our efforts. If such unauthorized disclosure or access does occur, we may be required to notify persons whose information was disclosed or accessed under existing and proposed laws. We also may be subject to claims of breach of contract for such disclosure, investigation and penalties by regulatory authorities and potential claims by persons whose information was disclosed.

We may be subject to liability for our use or distribution of information that we gather or receive from third parties.

We obtain content and commerce information from third parties. When we distribute this information, we may be liable for the data that is contained in that content. This could subject us to legal liability for such things

as defamation, negligence, intellectual property infringement, violation of privacy or publicity rights and product or service liability, among others. Laws or regulations of certain jurisdictions may also deem some content illegal, which may expose us to legal liability as well. We also gather personal information from users in order to provide personalized services. Gathering and processing this personal information may subject us to legal liability for, among other things, negligence, defamation, invasion of privacy or product or service liability. We are also subject to laws and regulations, both in the United States and abroad, regarding the collection and use of end user information. If we do not comply with these laws and regulations, we may be exposed to legal liability.

Many of the agreements by which we obtain content do not contain indemnity provisions in favor of us. Even if a given contract does contain indemnity provisions, these provisions may not cover a particular claim or type of claim or the party giving the indemnity may not have the financial resources to cover the claim. Our insurance coverage may be inadequate to cover fully the amounts or types of claims that might be made against us. Any liability that we incur as a result of content we receive from third parties could harm our financial results.

If others claim that our products infringe their intellectual property rights, we may be forced to seek expensive licenses, reengineer our products, engage in expensive and time-consuming litigation or stop marketing and licensing our products.

We attempt to avoid infringing known proprietary rights of third parties in our product development efforts. However, we do not regularly conduct patent searches to determine whether the technology used in our products infringes patents held by third parties. Patent searches generally return only a fraction of the issued patents that may be deemed relevant to a particular product or service. It is therefore nearly impossible to determine, with any level of certainty, whether a particular product or service may be construed as infringing a U.S. or foreign patent. Because patent applications in the United States are not publicly disclosed until the patent is issued, applications may have been filed by third parties that relate to our products. In addition, other companies, as well as research and academic institutions, have conducted research for many years in the search and directory and mobile and wireless technology fields, and this research could lead to the filing of further patent applications.

In addition to patent claims, third parties have in the past and may in the future make claims against us alleging infringement of copyrights, trademark rights, trade secret rights or other proprietary rights, or alleging unfair competition or violations of privacy or publicity rights. In some cases, the ownership or scope of an entity’s or person’s rights is unclear and may also change over time, including through changes in U.S. or international intellectual property laws or regulations or through court decisions or decisions by agencies or regulatory boards that manage such rights.

If we were to discover that our products violated or potentially violated third-party proprietary rights, including those third-party proprietary rights that came about due to decisions and other changes regarding a person’s or entity’s proprietary rights discussed above, we might be required to obtain licenses that are costly or contain terms unfavorable to us, or expend substantial resources to reengineer those products so that they would not violate such third party rights. Any reengineering effort may not be successful, and we cannot be certain that any such licenses would be available on commercially reasonable terms. Any third-party infringement claims against us could result in costly litigation or liability and be time consuming to defend, divert management’s attention and resources, cause product and service delays or require us to enter into royalty and licensing agreements.

We rely heavily on our technology, but we may be unable to adequately or cost-effectively protect or enforce our intellectual property rights, thus weakening our competitive position and negatively impacting our financial results.

To protect our rights in our products and technology, we rely on a combination of copyright and trademark laws, patents, trade secrets, and confidentiality agreements with employees and third parties and protective contractual provisions. We also rely on the law pertaining to trademarks and domain names to protect the value of our corporate brands and reputation. Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties

may copy aspects of our products or services or obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary, or infringe our trademarks. In addition, it is possible that others could independently develop substantially equivalent intellectual property. If we do not effectively protect our intellectual property, we could lose our competitive position.

Effectively policing the unauthorized use of our products and trademarks is time-consuming and costly, and there can be no assurance that the steps taken by us will prevent misappropriation of our technology or trademarks. Our intellectual property may be subject to even greater risk in foreign jurisdictions, as protection is not sought or obtained in every country in which our services are available. Also, the laws of many countries do not protect proprietary rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. If we cannot adequately protect our intellectual property, our competitive position in markets abroad may suffer.

RISKS RELATED TO THE INDUSTRIES IN WHICH WE OPERATE

 

Intense competition in the mobile,online search and directory markets could prevent us from increasing distribution of our services in those markets or cause us to lose market share.

 

Our current business model depends on distribution of our products and services into the mobile,online search and directory markets, which are extremely competitive and rapidly changing. Many of our competitors or potential competitors have substantially greater financial, technical and marketing resources, larger customer bases, longer

operating histories, more developed infrastructures, greater name recognition or more established relationships in the industry than we have. Our competitors may be able to adopt more aggressive pricing policies, develop and expand their product and service offerings more rapidly, adapt to new or emerging technologies and changes in customer and distribution partner requirements more quickly, take advantage of acquisitions and other opportunities more readily, achieve greater economies of scale, and devote greater resources to the marketing and sale of their products and services than we can. Some of the companies we compete with are currently customers of ours, the loss of which could harm our business. Because of these competitive factors and due to our relatively small size and financial resources, we may be unable to compete successfully.

 

Some of the companies we compete with are currently customers of ours, the loss of which could harm our business. Many of our customers have established relationships with some of our competitors. If these competitors develop products and services that compete with ours, we could lose market share and our revenues could decrease. Additionally, our financial results could be adversely affected as well if our distribution partners create their own products and services that compete or replace the products and services we provide.provide or they acquire such products and services from other sources. We continue to experience increased competition from customers seeking to enter into agreements directly with our existing or potential distribution partners, making it increasingly difficult for us to renew agreements with existing major distribution partners or to enter into distribution agreements with new partners on favorable terms.

 

Consolidation in the industries in which we operate could lead to increased competition and loss of customers.

 

The Internet industry (including the search and directory segments) and the wireless industry havesearch) has experienced substantial consolidation. We expect this consolidation to continue. These acquisitions could adversely affect our business and results of operations in a number of ways, including the following:

customers could acquire or be acquired by one of our other customers and stop licensing content to us, or gain additional negotiating leverage in their relationships with us;

 

our distribution partners could acquire or be acquired by one of our competitors and terminate their relationship with us;

 

our distribution partners could merge with each other, which could reduce our ability to negotiate favorable terms; and

 

competitors could improve their competitive positions through strategic acquisitions; and

companies from whom we acquire content could acquire or be acquired by one of our competitors and stop licensing content to us, or gain additional negotiating leverage in their relationships with us.acquisitions.

 

Security breaches may pose risks to the uninterrupted operation of our systems.

 

Our networks or those from third parties that we utilize may be vulnerable to unauthorized access by hackers or others, computer viruses and other disruptive problems. Someone who is able to circumvent security measures could misappropriate our proprietary

information or cause interruptions in our operations. Subscribers to some of our services are required to provide information in order to utilize the service that may be considered to be personally identifiable or private information. Unauthorized access to, and abuse of, this information could subject us to a risk of loss or litigation and liability.

 

We may need to expend significant capital or other resources protecting against the threat of security breaches or alleviating problems caused by breaches. Although we intend to continue to implement and improve our security measures, persons may be able to circumvent the measures that we implement in the future. Eliminating computer viruses and alleviating other security problems may require interruptions, delays or cessation of service to users accessing our services, any of which could harm our business.

 

In connection with the sale of our mobile services business, we disposed of most of our data center assets and a third party will be providing data center services to us through a transition period expected to end in September 2008. During this transition period, as we develop our own data centers for our on-going online search business, we will rely on a third party to provide us with the data center services we previously provided to ourselves, which includes security of our networks. Failure by the third party to prevent breaches of our network security could have a material adverse affect our operations and financial results.

Governmental regulation and the application of existing laws may slow business growth, increase our costs of doing business and create potential liability.

 

The growth and development of the Internet and wireless communication havehas led to new laws and regulations, as well as the application of existing laws to wireless communications and the Internet. Application of these laws can be unclear. The costs of complying or failure to comply with these laws and regulations could limit our ability to operate in our markets, expose us to compliance costs and substantial liability and result in costly and time-consuming litigation.

 

Several federal or state laws could impact our business. Federal laws include those designed to restrict the online distribution of certain materials deemed harmful to children and impose additional restrictions or obligations for online services when dealing with minors. Such legislation may impose significant additional costs on our business or subject us to additional liabilities. The application to advertising in our industries of existing laws regulating or requiring licenses for certain businesses can be unclear. Such regulated businesses may include, for example, gambling; distribution of pharmaceuticals, alcohol, tobacco or firearms; or insurance, securities brokerage and legal services. Additionally, certain bills are pending and some laws have been passed in certain jurisdictions setting forth requirements that must be met before a downloadable application is downloaded to an end user’s computer. Moreover, regulations by the Federal Communications Commission regarding unsolicited commercial email to wireless devices have created new requirements that could adversely affect our business by limiting our ability to communicate with users and increasing our burden of disclosure.

 

We post our privacy policies and practices concerning the use and disclosure of user data. Any failure by us to comply with our posted privacy policies, FTCFederal Trade Commission (“FTC”) requirements or other privacy-related laws and regulations could result in proceedings by the FTC or others, including potential class action litigation, which could potentially have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. In this regard, there are a large number of legislative proposals before the United States Congress and various state legislative bodies regarding privacy and data protection issues related to our business. It is not possible to predict whether or when such legislation may be adopted, and certain proposals, if adopted, could materially and adversely affect our business through a decrease in user registrations and revenues. This could be caused by, among other possible provisions, the required use of disclaimers or other requirements before users can utilize our services.

 

The FTC has recommended to search engine providers that paid-ranking search results be delineated from non-paid results. To the extent that the FTC may in the future issue specific requirements regarding the nature of such delineation, which would require modifications to the presentation of search results, revenue from the affected search engines could be negatively impacted.

 

Due to the nature of the Internet, it is possible that the governments of states and foreign countries might attempt to regulate Internet transmissions, through data protection laws amongst others, or institute proceedings for violations of their laws. We might unintentionally violate such laws, such laws may be modified and new laws may be enacted in the future. Any such developments (or developments stemming from enactment or modification of other laws) could increase the costs of regulatory compliance for us or force us to change our business practices.

We rely on the infrastructure of the Internet and of wireless networks, over which we have no control and the failure of which could substantially undermine our operations.

 

Our success depends, in large part, on other companies maintaining the Internet system infrastructure and mobile operators who distribute our mobile content and services to maintain their proprietary wireless networks.infrastructure. In particular, with respect to the Internet, we rely on other companies to maintain a reliable network backbone that provides adequate speed, data capacity and security and to develop products that enable reliable Internet access and services. With respect to wireless networks, we depend on mobile operators to maintain their wireless networks so as to provide adequate speed, data capacity and security and that enable reliable mobile access to our products and services.

As the Internet and usage of mobile services continues to experience growth in the number of users, frequency of use and amount of data transmitted, the Internet system infrastructure and the wireless networks of mobile operators may be unable to support the demands placed on them, and the Internet’s and mobile operators’ networks performance or reliability may suffer as a result of this continued growth. Some of the companies that we rely upon to maintain network infrastructure may lack sufficient capital to support their long-term operations. The failure of the internet infrastructure or wireless networks would substantially undermine our operations and may have a material adverse effect on our financial results.

ITEM 1B.    Unresolved Staff Comments

 

Not applicable with respect to the current reporting period.

 

ITEM 2.    Properties

 

Our principal corporate office is located in Bellevue, Washington, and we have business operations in: Los Angeles, California, Waltham and Westborough, Massachusetts, Woking, and Eastleigh, United Kingdom and Papendrecht, The Netherlands. Our Bellevue and Woking facilities are utilized by both our Online and Mobile businesses; our Westborough facilities are utilized by our Online business; and our Los Angeles, Eastleigh, and Papendrecht facilities are utilized by our Mobile business. We have data centers in Bellevue and Seattle, Washington, Los Angeles, California, Waltham, Massachusetts, and Papendrecht, The Netherlands.Bangalore, India. All of our facilities are leased. We believe our properties are suitable and adequate for our present and anticipated near term needs.

 

ITEM 3.    Legal Proceedings

 

See Note 7—6—Commitments and Contingencies of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Item 8, of Part II of this Report) for information regarding legal proceedings.

 

ITEM 4.    Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

 

Not applicable with respect to the current reporting period.

PART II

 

ITEM 5.Market for Registrant’s Common Stock,Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

 

Market for Our Common Stock

 

Our common stock has been tradedtrades on the Nasdaq StockNASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “INSP”“INSP.” Our common stock has traded on NASDAQ since December 15, 1998, the date of our initial public offering. Prior to that time, there was no public market for our common stock. The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, the high and low sales prices for our common stock as reported by the Nasdaq StockNASDAQ Global Select Market.

 

  High  Low  High  Low

Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2006:

    

Fiscal year ending December 31, 2007:

    

First Quarter

  $28.39  $22.80  $25.98  $20.15

Second Quarter

  $28.17  $21.26  $27.76  $18.11

Third Quarter

  $23.13  $17.28  $23.99  $12.56

Fourth Quarter

  $20.94  $18.37  $20.75  $16.75

Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2005:

    

Fiscal year ending December 31, 2006:

    

First Quarter

  $48.70  $36.68  $28.39  $22.80

Second Quarter

  $46.60  $28.90  $28.17  $21.26

Third Quarter

  $36.81  $21.90  $23.13  $17.28

Fourth Quarter

  $28.42  $21.36  $20.94  $18.37

 

On February 16, 2007,15, 2008, the last reported sale price for our common stock on the Nasdaq StockNASDAQ Global Select Market was $23.19$10.40 per share.

On May 15, 2007, we issued an aggregate of 1,150,761 shares of our common stock to two U.S. persons pursuant to an exercise of warrants to purchase shares of common stock held by such persons. Of these shares, 749,720 shares were issued for an aggregate sale price of $3.8 million in cash and 401,410 shares were issued pursuant to the exercise of 641,678 under the net exercise provision of a warrant. We issued the shares of our common stock in reliance on Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, on the basis that the offer and sale was undertaken as a private placement that did not involve a public offering.

Holders

As of February 16, 2007,15, 2008, there were 958933 holders of record of our common stock.

 

We have never declared, nor have we paid, any cashDividends

See Note 4 – Stockholders’ Equity of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Item 8, Part II of this Report) for information regarding dividends onapproved by our common stock. We currently intendboard of directors in fiscal years 2007, 2006 and 2005.

Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers.

See Note 4 – Stockholders’ Equity of the Notes to retain our earnings to finance future growthConsolidated Financial Statements (Item 8, Part II of this Report) for information regarding stock repurchases by us in fiscal years 2007, 2006 and therefore, do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. 2005.

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

Please see Part III, Item 12 of this reportAnnual Report on Form 10-K for disclosure relating to our equity compensation plans. Such information is incorporated by reference from our Proxy Statement.

Performance Graph

 

The information contained in the performance graph shall not be deemed to be “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the SEC, and such information shall not be incorporated by reference into any future filing under the Securities Act or Exchange Act, except to the extent that InfoSpace specifically incorporates it by reference into such filing.

 

Set forth below is a line graph comparing the cumulative return of (i) the Nasdaq U.S.NASDAQ Index (U.S.) and (ii) the NasdaqNASDAQ Computer Index for the five-year period ending on December 31, 2006.2007.

 

ITEM 6.    Selected Consolidated Financial Data

 

The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” our consolidated financial statements and notes thereto and other financial information included elsewhere in this report. The selected consolidated statements of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, and 20022003 are derived from our audited consolidated financial statements. In 2007, we sold our mobile and directory businesses to unaffiliated third parties, and our mobile and directory businesses have been presented as discontinued operations for all periods presented, and the remaining search business’s operating results are partly based on identifying and assigning costs to our search business that were initially shared by those three businesses. The process used to separately present continuing and discontinued operations relied on certain estimates and assumptions, and the historical results of operations presented in our selected financial data do not necessarily reflect the results of operations that would have existed had we provided our search services as a standalone business.

 

  Years Ended December 31,   Years ended December 31, 
  2006 (1) 2005  2004 2003 2002   2007 (1)(2) 2006 (1) 2005  2004 2003 
  (in thousands, except per share data)   (in thousands, except per share data) 

Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:

              

Revenues

  $371,737  $339,968  $249,354  $132,230  $114,972   $140,537  $153,800  $144,003  $120,673  $74,513 

Operating expenses:

              

Content and distribution

   178,327   145,351   92,688   27,583   15,026    61,765   62,346   59,897   47,616   17,695 

Systems and network operations

   31,222   21,375   14,220   10,988   16,101    9,800   11,494   7,592   6,204   5,814 

Product development

   46,340   31,203   23,142   17,781   29,128    9,921   6,814   6,640   5,677   4,917 

Sales and marketing

   46,518   31,062   23,486   17,487   19,433    29,259   15,935   15,809   12,206   7,661 

General and administrative

   51,725   40,234   36,348   32,225   42,687    105,083   34,507   27,344   24,839   21,869 

Depreciation

   16,083   9,061   6,974   10,819   18,089    5,542   5,044   3,334   3,462   6,660 

Amortization of intangible assets

   12,213   15,265   9,920   6,819   12,854    —     —     —     45   5,386 

Impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets

   —     —     —     1,151   76,385 

Restructuring (2)

   62,316   —     222   11,722   1,814 

Restructuring (3)

   9,590   62,316   —     222   11,722 

Other, net

   —     —     (3,203)  1,529   4,167    (3,248)  —     —     (3,203)  1,529 
                                

Total operating expenses

   444,744   293,551   203,797   138,104   235,684    227,712   198,456   120,616   97,068   83,253 
                                

Operating income (loss)

   (73,007)  46,417   45,557   (5,874)  (120,712)   (87,175)  (44,656)  23,387   23,605   (8,740)

Gain (loss) on investments

   —     154   425   (11,997)  (20,940)   (2,117)  —     154   425   (11,997)

Other income, net (3)

   19,381   89,322   4,991   8,190   6,932 

Other income, net (4)

   18,226   19,581   89,418   5,374   8,299 
                                

Income (loss) from continuing operations before minority interest, income taxes, discontinued operations and cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

   (53,626)  135,893   50,973   (9,681)  (134,720)

Income tax benefit (expense) (4)

   38,538   23,475   29   607   (430)

Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes and discontinued operations

   (71,066)  (25,075)  112,959   29,404   (12,438)

Income tax benefit (expense) (5)

   (19,671)  29,060   24,154   —     4,365 
                                

Income (loss) from continuing operations before discontinued operations and cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

   (15,088)  159,368   51,002   (9,074)  (135,150)

Discontinued operations (5):

       

Income (loss) from continuing operations before discontinued operations

   (90,737)  3,985   137,113   29,404   (8,073)

Discontinued operations (6):

       

Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of taxes

   —     —     2,277   2,755   (3,481)   (25,306)  (19,073)  22,255   23,875   1,754 

Gain on sale of discontinued operations, net of taxes

   —     —     29,122   —     —      130,622   —     —     29,122   —   

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle (6)

   —     —     —     —     (206,619)
                                

Net income (loss)

  $(15,088) $159,368  $82,401  $(6,319) $(345,250)  $14,579  $(15,088) $159,368  $82,401  $(6,319)
                                

Basic income (loss) per share:

              

Income (loss) from continuing operations

  $(0.48) $4.94  $1.59  $(0.29) $(4.41)  $(2.78) $0.13  $4.25  $0.92  $(0.26)

Income (loss) from discontinued operations

   —     —     0.98   0.09   (0.11)   (0.77)  (0.61)  0.69   0.74   0.06 

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

   —     —     —     —     (6.74)

Gain on sale of discontinued operations

   4.00   —     —     0.91   —   
                                

Basic net income (loss) per share

  $(0.48) $4.94  $2.57  $(0.20) $(11.26)  $0.45  $(0.48) $4.94  $2.57  $(0.20)
                                

Shares used in computing basic net income (loss) per share

   31,254   32,284   32,109   31,232   30,656 

Shares used in computing basic income (loss) per share

   32,640   31,254   32,284   32,109   31,232 
                                

Diluted income (loss) per share:

              

Income (loss) from continuing operations

  $(0.48) $4.47  $1.40  $(0.29) $(4.41)  $(2.78) $0.12  $3.85  $0.80  $(0.26)

Income (loss) from discontinued operations

   —     —     0.86   0.09   (0.11)   (0.77)  (0.58)  0.62   0.65   0.06 

Cumulative effect of change in accounting principle

   —     —     —     —     (6.74)

Gain on sale of discontinued operations

   4.00   —     —     0.81   —   
                                

Diluted net income (loss) per share

  $(0.48) $4.47  $2.26  $(0.20) $(11.26)  $0.45  $(0.46) $4.47  $2.26  $(0.20)
                                

Shares used in computing diluted net income (loss) per share

   31,254   35,616   36,541   31,232   30,656 

Shares used in computing diluted income (loss) per share

   32,640   33,042   35,616   36,541   31,232 
                                

   As of December 31,
   2006  2005  2004  2003  2002
   (in thousands)

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:

          

Cash, cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments

  $401,949  $375,373  $321,814  $295,323  $276,218

Working capital

   417,951   397,669   309,411   353,659   287,228

Total assets

   765,839   743,379   626,094   492,315   481,396

Total stockholders’ equity

   678,565   664,971   562,396   446,532   448,136


   As of December 31,
   2007  2006  2005  2004  2003
   (in thousands)

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:

          

Cash, cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments

  $574,817  $400,831  $374,040  $318,508  $293,533

Working capital

   163,262   536,442   550,656   438,443   356,612

Total assets

   671,424   765,839   743,379   628,089   473,330

Total stockholders’ equity

   265,890   678,565   664,971   562,396   446,532

Special dividend

announced

Special dividend
paid
Special dividend
amount per share

May 2, 2007

May 28, 2007$6.30

November 14, 2007

January 8, 2008$9.00

(1) Effective January 1, 2006, we adopted the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (“SFAS”)Standards No. 123(R) which requires an enterprise to expense the fair value of an award of an equity instrument. Operating expenses of continuing operations in 2007 and 2006 include $16.9$34.1 million and $11.3 million of stock-based compensation expense, allocated as follows: $1.6 million

   Year ended
December 31,
   2007  2006

Systems and network operations

  $1,091  $1,194

Product development

   2,383   960

Sales and marketing

   7,948   2,400

General and administrative

   22,636   6,715
        

Total

  $34,058  $11,269
        

(2)In 2007, we recorded employee expenses in systemscontinuing operations related to the cash distributions to shareholders of $56.2 million. The expense was allocated as follows: $668,000 to Systems and network operations, $2.7$1.5 million in productto Product development, $4.8$6.8 million in salesto Sales and marketing, and $7.8$47.3 million in generalto General and administrative.
(2)(3) In 2007, we recorded restructuring charges of $9.6 million comprised of $8.0 million of employee separation costs, $831,000 of losses on contractual commitments, and $670,000 of stock-based compensation. In 2006, we recorded restructuring charges of $62.3 million comprised of $44.5 million of impairments of goodwill and other intangible assets, $8.7 million of employee separation costs, $5.7 million of losses on contractual commitments, $2.6 million in costs of abandoned facilities, and $824,000 of stock-based compensation.
(3)(4) In 2005, we received proceeds of $83.2 million from the settlement of several outstanding litigation matters and recognized a gain of $79.3 million comprised of the settlement proceeds and interest, less $3.9 million in legal fees.
(4)(5) In 2007, we recorded a full valuation allowance related to our deferred tax assets. In 2006, we recognized a portion of our deferred tax assets related to goodwill, operating loss carryforwards, and equity. In 2005, we recognized a portion of our deferred tax assets related to operating loss carryforwards.
(5)(6) We consummatedcompleted the sale of our directory business on October 31, 2007, the sale of our mobile business on December 28, 2007, and the sale of our Payment Solutions business on March 31, 2004, and the operating results and gaingains from the salesales of this businessthese businesses have been presented as discontinued operations for all periods presented.
(6)We adopted SFAS No. 142, Goodwill and Other Intangible Assetson January 1, 2002. We recorded a non-cash charge for the cumulative effect of change in accounting principle of $206.6 million as of January 1, 2002, which was related to impairment of goodwill. This amount was determined based on an independent valuation of our reporting units as of January 1, 2002 using a combination of our quoted stock price and projections of future discounted cash flows for each reporting unit.

ITEM 7.Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

You should read the following discussion and analysis in conjunction with “Selected Consolidated Financial Data” and our consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included elsewhere in this report.

 

Overview

 

InfoSpace, Inc. (“InfoSpace”, “Our” or “We”) is a developer of search tools and technologies that assist consumers with finding content and information on the Internet or mobile phone.Internet. We use our metasearch technology to power our own branded Web sites and provide private-label online search and directory services to distribution partners. In addition,

We offer search services that enable Internet users to locate information, merchants, individuals, and products online. We offer search services through our mobile applications provide programmingWeb sites, Dogpile.com, WebCrawler.com, MetaCrawler.com, and sales opportunities toWebFetch.com, as well as through the Web properties of distribution partners. Partner versions of our carrier partners, while providing consumersWeb offerings are generally private-labeled and delivered with relevant mobile functionality and mobile media content, including ringtones, graphics, and games. each distribution partner’s unique requirements.

We were founded in 1996 and are incorporated in the state of Delaware. Our principal corporate office is located in Bellevue, Washington. We also have facilitiesoffices in Los Angeles, California; Westborough, Massachusetts; Woking, United Kingdom and Eastleigh, United Kingdom; and Papendrecht, The Netherlands.Bangalore, India. Our common stock is listed on the Nasdaq StockNASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol “INSP.”

 

Our OnlineFrom 2004 to 2007, InfoSpace was comprised of three businesses: online search, online directory, and directory services enable Internet users to locate information, merchants, individuals, and products online. We offer search and directory services through our branded Web sites, Dogpile.com, Switchboard.com, InfoSpace.com, Webcrawler.com, MetaCrawler.com, and Zoo.com, as well as through the Web propertiesmobile. The mobile business was comprised of distribution partners. Partner versions of our search and directory services are generally private-labeled and delivered with each distribution partner’s unique requirements.

Our Mobile business delivers data technology solutions, consulting and management services for thea mobile operator market, including portal, storefront, search and messaging solutions. Additionally, we provide mobile media content, including ringtones, graphics and games, to subscribers of our Mobile customers. However, we plan to substantially reduce, through various initiatives, our mobile media content product offerings by mid-2007. Through our products, contentoffering and service offerings, oura mobile operator partners are able to aggregate, configure and customize the services they offer under their own brand and deliver them to their subscribers.

Overviewoffering. In 2006, as a result of 2006 Operating Results

The following is an overview of our operating results for the year ended December 31, 2006. A more detailed discussion of our operating results, comparing our operating results for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004, is included under the heading “Historical Results of Operations” in this Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

In September 2006, we announced that we had beenbeing informed by one of our carrier partners that it intended to develop direct relationships for mobile ringtone content with the major record labels beginning in 2007, we restructured our operations accordingly and substantially reduced our mobile content offerings in 2007. In 2007, we completed the sales of significant portions of our remaining mobile content assets for an aggregate $3.8 million in cash. In addition, we undertook further strategic restructuring initiatives in 2007, which resulted in the sale of our online directory business and mobile services business. On October 31, 2007, we completed the sale of our online directory business to Idearc Inc. for $225 million in cash, and on December 28, 2007, we completed the sale of our mobile services business to Motricity, Inc. for $135 million in cash.

Overview of 2007 Operating Results

The following is an overview of our operating results for the year ended December 31, 2007. A more detailed discussion of our operating results, comparing our operating results for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005, is included under the heading “Historical Results of Operations” in this Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

On October 31, 2007, we completed the sale of our directory business to Idearc Inc. for $225 million in cash. On December 28, 2007, we completed the sale of our mobile services business to Motricity, Inc. for $135 million in cash. In 2007, we completed the sale of our mobile content assets for $3.8 million. We anticipatedrecorded a gain on sales of our directory and mobile businesses of $130.6 million, net of income taxes, in 2007, which was recorded as a gain on the sale of discontinued operations.

The operating results of the directory and mobile businesses have been presented as discontinued operations in our consolidated financial statements for all periods presented. The loss from our discontinued operations, net of income taxes, was $25.3 million in 2007, as compared to a loss of $19.1 million in 2006. The process used to separately present continuing and discontinued operations relied on certain estimates and assumptions, and the historical results of operations presented in our consolidated financial statements do not necessarily reflect the results of operations that such direct relationships between the carrier and content providers would have existed had we provided our online search services as a material negative impact onstandalone business throughout the periods presented. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of our business, overall market conditions and the process used to separately present continuing and discontinued operations, we believe that

period-to-period comparisons of our revenues and operating results. As a result, during September 2006, we committed to a plan to make operational changesresults are not necessarily meaningful, and you should not rely upon them as indications of future performance.

Following the sale of our mobile and directory businesses, our revenues are derived exclusively from search products and services delivered to our business to align operational focuscustomers and costs with expected future revenues. The plan included a reduction indistribution partners. We generate revenues from our workforce and consolidationWeb search services when an end user of our facilities. We also suspended investmentservices clicks on a paid search link displayed on our Web site or displayed on a distribution partner’s Web property. In addition, we earn services revenue from certain distribution partners, such as a fixed monthly fee in mobile media content initiatives and, accordingly, intendexchange for portal infrastructure services. Revenues from continuing operations for 2007 decreased to substantially reduce, through various initiatives, our mobile media content product offerings by mid-2007 by eliminating certain products including but not limited to ringtones, graphics and games. We will continue to operate our two business units: Online, comprised of our search and directory properties as well as our private label distribution service and Mobile services, including portal, storefront, messaging, and mobile search. Additionally, in 2006 we announced the closing of our office in Hamburg, Germany. As a result of these operational changes, in 2006 we recorded an aggregate $62.3 million restructuring charge, which includes impairment for goodwill and other intangible assets, employee separation costs, losses on contractual commitments and costs to consolidate facilities.

Revenues for 2006 increased to $371.7$140.5 million from $340.0$153.8 million in 2005. Revenues from our Online business increased to $186.9 million in 2006 from $182.6 million in 2005.2006. This increasedecrease was primarily due to better monetizationa decrease in revenue from search results delivered through certain of our distribution partners and partially due to decreased paid searches.click volume on our owned properties. During 2006,2007, approximately 60%58% of our search revenues came from our search distribution partners. Revenues from our Mobile business increasedpartners, as compared to $184.8 millionapproximately 60% in 2006 from $157.4 million in 2005, primarily attributable to an increase in sales of our media download products, such as ringtones and graphics. Mobile revenues are expected to decrease in the near term as we substantially reduce our mobile media content product offerings.2006.

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Content and distribution costs from continuing operations for 2006 increased2007 decreased to $178.3$61.8 million from $145.4 million in 2005. Total segment gross profit, comprised of revenues net of content and distribution costs, decreased to $193.4$62.3 million in 2006, from $194.6 million in 2005. Segment gross profit from our Online business increased to $120.2 million from $114.5 million in 2005,primarily due to better monetizationa decrease in revenue from search results delivered through certain of our paid searches, primarily fromdistribution partners, partially offset by increases in our own branded Web sites. Segment gross profit for our Mobile segment decreasedrevenue sharing rates, and minimum contractual payments made to $73.2 million in 2006 from $80.1 million in 2005, primarily attributable to an increase in content costs associated with our media downloads and the loss of a service agreement at the end of 2005. Mobile content costs, as a percentage of revenue, increased at a greater rate as a result of an increase in content costs and the shift of the mix of products and services we provide. In particular, sales of our labeltone or true tone (MP3-like quality) ringtones, that have a greater cost as a percentage of revenue than our other media download products, represented a larger share of our Mobile revenues in 2006.distribution partners.

 

Other operating expenses from continuing operations for 2006,2007, excluding the restructuring charge of $62.3 million recorded in the second half of 2006,charges, were $204.1$154.1 million, an increase of $55.9$85.3 million from $148.2$68.8 million in 2005.2006. Other operating expenses include expenses related to systems and network operations, product development, sales and marketing, general and administrative, depreciation and amortization of intangible assets.depreciation. The increase from 20052006 was primarily attributable to spending on certaincash payments and equity awards to employees and directors related to the cash distributions to shareholders, and stock-based compensation related to accelerating the vesting of equity awards in connection with the sale of our mobile and directory businesses.

As a result of selling our directory and mobile services businesses in 2007, we committed to a plan to make operational changes to our business, initiatives, general growthwhich included a reduction in our operations,workforce and the effectconsolidation of expensing stock optionsour facilities, and other equity-based awards as required under Statementwe recorded $7.4 million of Financial Accounting Standard (“SFAS”) No. 123(R),Share-Based Payment, which we adopted on January 1, 2006. Increased operating costsrestructuring charges in 2007 related to our initiatives and growththat plan. Total restructuring charges for 2007 were $9.6 million, a decrease of $52.7 million from $62.3 million in our business2006.

Other, net for 2007 was $3.2 million as compared to no recorded other, net items in 2006. The increase from 2006 was primarily relatedue to increasesgains from selling non-core assets. Also, loss on investments, net for 2007 was $2.1 million, as compared to no investment gains or losses in personnel costs, including salaries, benefits and other employee costs, and costs of temporary help2006. The increase from contractors2006 was primarily due to augment our staffing needs, as well as increases in marketing and promotional costs and depreciation expense. In lightan other-than-temporary impairment of our restructuring described above, we have suspended investments in developing or obtaining new Mobile content and certain Mobile distribution channels, including our direct to consumer online web site, Moviso.com.auction rate securities investments.

 

Additionally, interest income increaseddecreased in 20062007 to $19.6$18.2 million compared to interest income in 20052006 of $11.3$19.6 million and was primarily attributable to an increase in interest rates and, to a lesser extent, moreless available cash and marketable investments on hand to invest. In 2005, we recognized a gain, net of legal costs, of $79.3 million in connection with the settlement of certain litigation matters, including theDreiling v. Jain, et al. derivative lawsuit and theDreiling v. Jain, et. al.Section 16(b) case. We also recognized income tax expense from continuing operations in 2007 of $19.7 million primarily from the establishment of a valuation allowance against deferred tax assets, as compared to our recognition of an income tax benefit from continuing operations in 2006 of $28.6$29.1 million primarily from the realization of a deferred tax asset related to a portion of our net operating loss carryforward, an increase of $3.6 millioncarryforward.

Loss from our realization of a similar deferred tax asset in 2005. Additionally, we recorded a net tax benefit of $9.9 million from ourcontinuing operations in 2006 as compared to a net expense of $1.5 million from our operations in 2005.

Net loss for 20062007 was $15.1$90.7 million compared to net income from continuing operations of $159.4$4.0 million in 2005. The net loss in 2006, was primarilyand attributable to the items noted above.

 

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

The “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” as well as disclosures included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses and disclosures of contingencies.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has defined a company’s most critical accounting policies as the ones that are the most important to the portrayal of the company’s financial condition and results of operations, and which require the company to make its most difficult and subjective judgments, often as a result of the need to make estimates of matters that are inherently uncertain. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate the estimates used, including those related to impairment of goodwill, and other intangible assets, useful lives of other intangible assets, purchase accounting, other-than-temporary impairment of investments, revenue recognition, the estimated allowance for sales returns and doubtful accounts, restructuring-related liabilities, accrued contingencies and valuation allowance for our deferred tax assets. We base our estimates on historical experience, current conditions and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances and, based on information available to us at that time, we make judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources as well as identify and assess our accounting treatment with respect to commitments and contingencies. Actual results may differ significantly from these estimates under different assumptions, judgments or conditions. We believe the following critical accounting policies involve the more significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements. We also have other accounting policies, which involve the use of estimates, judgments and assumptions that are significant to understanding our results. For additional information see Item 8 of Part II of this Report, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data—Data – Note 1: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to our Consolidated Financial Statements.

Discontinued Operations

In accordance with the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 144,Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-lived Assets, the gains on sale, results of operations and cash flows of the directory and mobile businesses presented for all periods have been reported as discontinued operations. In addition, the assets and liabilities of the directory and mobile business have been classified as assets and liabilities of discontinued operations at December 31, 2007 and 2006. The process used to separately present continuing and discontinued operations required significant judgment to implement and relied on certain estimates and assumptions. Different estimates and assumptions could materially affect the allocations of gains on sale, results of operations, cash flows, assets and liabilities to the directory and mobile businesses.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

Our revenues are derived from products and services delivered to our customers across our two businesses, Online and Mobile.search customers. In general, we recognize revenues in the period in which the services are performed, products are delivered or transaction occurs. In certain arrangements, we record deferredperformed. Search revenue for amounts received from customers in advance of the performance of services or upon execution of an agreement and recognize revenues ratably over the term of the agreement or expected customer life. We generally record revenueis recorded on a gross basis in accordance with Emerging Issues Task Force Issue 99-19,Reporting Revenue Gross as a Principal versus Net as an Agent. For distribution partner arrangementsWe are the primary obligor in the revenue-generating relationships with our Online businesssearch engine customers, we recordseparately negotiate each revenue on a gross basis and the correspondingor unit pricing contract independent of any revenue sharing payments as aarrangements and assume the credit risk for amounts invoiced to such customers. We, through our meta-search technology, determine the paid click, content and information directed to our owned and operated Web sites and our distribution expense. For mobile operatorpartners’ Web properties. We earn revenue from our search engine and directory listing customers by providing paid search clicks generated from our distribution partners’ Web properties based on separately negotiated and agreed-upon terms with each distribution partner.

We recognize amounts due to our distribution partners in which we license the content, we record revenue on a gross basisperiod they are earned and the corresponding licensing expenseclassify such costs as contentContent and distribution expense. Inexpense in the event the mobile operator customer directly licenses the content, we record as revenue the service fees we earn.Consolidated Statement of Operations. See Item 8 of Part II of this Report, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data—Data – Note 1: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to our Consolidated Financial Statements, for a description of products and services and the related revenue recognition policy for each of our business units.policy.

 

Income Taxes

 

We account for income taxes under the asset and liability method, under which deferred tax assets, including net operating loss carryforwards, and liabilities are determined based on temporary differences between

the book and tax basis of assets and liabilities. We periodically evaluate the likelihood of the realization of deferred tax assets, and reduce the carrying amount of the deferred tax assets by a valuation allowance to the extent we believe a portion will not be realized. We consider many factors when assessing the likelihood of future realization of our deferred tax assets, including our recent cumulative earnings experience by taxing jurisdiction, expectations of future taxable income, the carryforward periods available to us for tax reporting purposes, and other relevant factors. The range of possible judgments relating to the valuation of our deferred tax assets is wide.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2006,2007, based on the weight of available evidence, we determined that it was not more likely than not that a portion ofwe would realize our deferred tax asset would be realized and,assets. Accordingly, we recorded a valuation allowance against our net deferred tax assets at December 31, 2007. During the years ended December 31, 2006 our deferredand 2005, we recorded an income tax asset, net ofbenefit on continuing operations primarily attributable to a reduction in the valuation allowance is $104.0 million. See discussion in our Results of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004.against deferred tax assets. Significant judgment is required in making

this assessment, and it is very difficult to predict when, if ever, our assessmentwe may conclude that the remainingany portion of our deferred tax assets are more likely than not realizable.

 

DuringInvestments

We account for our marketable investments, including auction rate securities, in accordance with SFAS No. 115,Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities. At December 31, 2007, we held auction rate securities that failed to settle at auction in 2007. We have classified these investments as long-term. Given the evaluationlack of quoted market prices for the auction rate securities that we hold, we determined their fair value to be $37.5 million at December 31, 2007 by using a discounted cash flow model that relied upon certain estimates, including the term to settle and the discount rates applied to future cash flows. Significant judgment is required in determining the fair value of the auction rate securities that we hold.

We periodically evaluate whether the declines in fair value of our disclosure controls and procedures asinvestments are other than temporary. As of December 31, 2007 and 2006, our management identifiedShort-term and Long-term marketable investments are classified as available-for-sale and are reported at their fair values, with unrealized gains and temporary impairments reported in Other comprehensive income (loss), and other-than-temporary impairments reported as Gain (loss) on investments in the Consolidated Statement of Operations. SFAS No. 115 and SEC Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 59,Accounting for Noncurrent Marketable Equity Securities, provide guidance for determining when certain investments are other-than-temporarily impaired. At December 31, 2007, we determined a deficiency in our internal control over financial reporting which constituted a material weakness. Specifically, the deficiency pertained to our controls which were ineffective and not properly designed to ensure proper accounting and disclosureportion of our deferred income tax benefitauction rate securities were other-than-temporarily impaired, and related income tax asset. We have and are continuing to take steps to address this material weakness, including the recent hiringwe recorded a loss on investments of a senior tax director and implementing a more rigorous review process involving appropriate internal accounting staff and an external accounting firm. Additional review, evaluation and oversight were undertaken in order to ensure our consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and, as a result, we concluded that the consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-K fairly present, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows$2.2 million for the periods presented.2007.

 

Restructuring

 

In 2007, we sold our directory and mobile services businesses and, as a result, we committed to a plan to make operational changes to our business, which included a reduction in our workforce and, as part of the workforce reduction, consolidation of our facilities. In 2006, as a result of being informed by one of our carrier partners that it intended to develop direct relationships for mobile ringtone content with the major record labels beginning in 2007, we committed to a plan to make operational changes to our business, which included a reduction in our workforce and, as part of the workforce reduction, consolidation of our facilities. Charges associated with thisthese restructuring planplans are accounted for in accordance with SFAS No. 146,Accounting for Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities. SFAS No. 146 requires that a liability for a cost associated with an exit or disposal activity be recognized when the liability is incurred. In determining the restructuring charges that we recorded in 2007 and 2006, we relied on certain assumptions, including planned employee separation dates and estimated income for facilities that we plan to sublease. Changing business conditions may affect the assumptions related to the timing and extent of restructuring activities. We will review the status of these activities on a quarterly basis and, if appropriate, record changes based on updated estimates.

Accounting for Goodwill and Certain Other Intangible Assets

 

SFAS No. 142,Goodwill and Other Intangible Assets, requires that goodwill and intangible assets with indefinite lives be tested for impairment on an annual basis and between annual tests in certain circumstances. Certain circumstancecircumstances, and requires an allocation of goodwill to the portions of a reporting unit when a portion of that reporting unit is disposed. In addition, certain circumstances may includerequire testing for impairment in conjunction with restructuring in accordance with SFAS No. 144,Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets.On. On a quarterly basis, we assess whether business conditions indicate that our goodwill and other intangible assets may not be recoverable, and, as a result of the restructuring plan we committed to in 2006, we tested our goodwill and certain other intangible assets for impairment.recoverable.

 

Goodwill is tested for impairment at theWhen a portion of a reporting unit level (operating segment or one level below an operating segment.) Applicationis disposed, goodwill is allocated to the disposed and retained portions based on the relative fair values of the respective businesses. Allocating goodwill impairment testto portions of a reporting unit requires judgment, including the identification of reporting units,unit portions, assigning assets and liabilities to reporting units,the portions, assigning goodwill to reporting units,the portions, and determining the fair value of each portion. The goodwill associated with the disposed portion is included in the portion’s carrying amount in determining the gain or loss on disposal. In 2007, we sold our directory business, which was combined with our search business in our online reporting unit. Based upon our analysis, we allocated $60.5 million of goodwill to our directory business, which was used in determining the gain on its sale to Idearc Inc.

At December 31, 2007, we no longer operated separate reporting units. Significant judgments required to estimate the fair value of reporting unitsgoodwill include estimating future cash flows, determining appropriate discount rates and other assumptions. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the determination of fair value for each reporting unit.goodwill. As of November 30, 2007 we performed our annual impairment analysis of the goodwill on our balance sheet, and we determined that there was no impairment. At December 31, 2007, we had $43.9 million of goodwill on our balance sheet.

 

Other intangible assets arewere tested for impairment by comparing their carrying amounts to their fair values. We measuremeasured the fair value of such assets by estimating the future undiscounted cash flows attributable to them, and recognizerecognized an impairment if their carrying amounts exceeded the estimated fair values. Such evaluations rely on various assumptions, including the timing of future events and market conditions.

During 2006, based upon our analysis, we recorded impairments for goodwill of $31.9 million and intangible assets of $12.6 million associated with changes in our Mobile business and our 2006 restructuring plan. As of At December 31, 20062007, we have $104.4 million of goodwill and $19.6 million ofno longer held material other intangible assets on our balance sheet.

Business Combinations

Business combinations accounted for under the purchase method of accounting require management to estimate the fair value of the assets and liabilities acquired. The allocation of the purchase price based on the estimated fair value of assets and liabilities acquired may be subject to adjustments during the year following the date of acquisition.assets.

 

Allowances for Sales and Doubtful Accounts

 

Our management must make estimates of potential future sales allowances related to current period revenues for our products and services. We analyze historical adjustments, current economic trends and changes in customer demand and acceptance of our products when evaluating the adequacy of the sales allowances. Estimates must be made and used in connection with establishing the sales allowance in any accounting period.

 

The allowance for doubtful accounts is a management estimate that considers actual facts and circumstances of individual customers and other debtors, such as financial condition and historical payment trends. We evaluate the adequacy of the allowance utilizing a combination of specific identification of potentially problematic accounts and identification of accounts that have exceeded payment terms.

 

Stock-Based Compensation

 

On January 1, 2006, we adopted SFAS No. 123(R),Stock-Based Compensation, which requires companies to record stock compensation expense for equity-based awards granted, including stock options and restricted stock unit grants, for which expense will be recognized over the service period of the equity-based award based on the fair value of the award at the date of grant. During 2007 and 2006, we recognized $16.9$34.1 million and $11.3 million of stockstock-based compensation expense.expense, respectively.

 

Calculating stock-based compensation expense relies upon certain assumptions, including the expected term of the stock-based awards, stock price volatility, expected interest rate, number and types of stock-based awards,

and the pre-vesting forfeiture rate. If we use different assumptions due to changes in our business or other factors, our stock-based compensation expense could materially vary in the future.

 

Through December 31, 2005, we accounted for stock-based compensation under the intrinsic value method in accordance with Accounting Principles Board Opinion No. 25,Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees. Under the intrinsic value method, we did not record any expenses when we granted stock options because they were priced at the fair market value of our stock at the date of grant.

On December 14, 2005, we accelerated vesting of certain unvested and “out-of-the-money” stock options with exercise prices equal to or greater than $34.00 per share that were previously awarded under our equity compensation plans to our employees. These options were accelerated to avoid recording future compensation expense with respect to such options. We believe that because such options had exercise prices in excess of the current market value of our stock, the options were not achieving their original objective. The acceleration of vesting was effective for stock options outstanding as of December 14, 2005. Options to purchase 2.4 million shares of common stock were subject to the acceleration and the weighted average exercise price of the options subject to the acceleration was $40.51. Due to this acceleration, an additional $29.3 million is included in the pro forma stock-based compensation expense for the year ended December 31, 2005.

 

Contingencies

 

We are subject to various legal proceedings and claims and tax matters, the outcomes of which are subject to significant uncertainty. SFAS No. 5,Accounting for Contingencies, requires that an estimated loss from a loss contingency should be accrued by a charge to income if it is probable that an asset has been impaired or a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. Disclosure of a contingency is

required if there is at least a reasonable possibility that a loss has been incurred. We evaluate, among other factors, the degree of probability of an unfavorable outcome and the ability to make a reasonable estimate of the amount of loss. Changes in these factors could materially impact our financial position or our results of operations. See Item 8 of Part II of this Report, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data—Data – Note 7:6: Commitments and Contingencies to our Consolidated Financial Statements, for further information regarding contingencies.

 

Historical Results of Operations

 

For the year endingended December 31, 2006,2007, our net lossincome totaled $15.1$14.6 million, which includes restructuring expense of $62.3$9.6 million related to our plan to make operational changes.changes, a loss from continuing operations of $90.7 million, and a gain of $130.6 million, net of income taxes from the sale of discontinued operations. While we achieved profitability for each of the quarters sincefrom the third quarter of 2003 withto the exception of the thirdsecond quarter of 2006 and for the years ended December 31, 2004fourth quarters of 2006 and 2005,2007, prior to that we had incurred losses since our inception, and as of December 31, 2006,2007, we had an accumulated deficit of $1.0 billion.

The operating results of the directory and mobile businesses have been presented as discontinued operations in our consolidated financial statements for all periods presented. The process used to separately present continuing and discontinued operations relied on certain estimates and assumptions, and the historical results of operations presented in our consolidated financial statements do not necessarily reflect the results of operations that would have existed had we provided our online search services as a standalone business throughout the periods presented. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of our business, overall market conditions and the process used to separately present continuing and discontinued operations, we believe that period-to-period comparisons of our revenues and operating results are not necessarily meaningful, and you should not rely upon them as indications of future performance.

 

In light of the rapidly evolving nature of our business and overall market conditions, we believe that period-to-period comparisons of our revenues and operating results are not necessarily meaningful, and you should not necessarily rely solely upon them as indications of future performance.

The following table sets forth the historical results of our operations (in thousands and as percent of revenues).

 

  Years Ended December 31, Years Ended December 31,   Years ended December 31,  Years ended December 31, 
      2006         2005          2004         2006         2005         2004       2007 2006 2005      2007         2006         2005     
  (in thousands) (as a percent of revenue)   (in thousands)  (as a percent of revenue) 

Revenues

  $371,737  $339,968  $249,354  100.0% 100.0% 100.0%  $140,537  $153,800  $144,003  100.0% 100.0% 100.0%

Operating expenses

                

Content and distribution

   178,327   145,351   92,688  48.0  42.7  37.1    61,765   62,346   59,897  43.9  40.5  41.6 

Systems and network operations

   31,222   21,375   14,220  8.4  6.3  5.7    9,800   11,494   7,592  7.0  7.5  5.3 

Product development

   46,340   31,203   23,142  12.4  9.2  9.3    9,921   6,814   6,640  7.1  4.4  4.6 

Sales and marketing

   46,518   31,062   23,486  12.5  9.1  9.4    29,259   15,935   15,809  20.8  10.4  11.0 

General and administrative

   51,725   40,234   36,348  13.9  11.8  14.6    105,083   34,507   27,344  74.8  22.4  19.0 

Depreciation

   16,083   9,061   6,974  4.3  2.7  2.8    5,542   5,044   3,334  3.9  3.3  2.3 

Amortization of intangible assets

   12,213   15,265   9,920  3.3  4.5  4.0 

Restructuring

   62,316   —     222  16.8  —    0.1    9,590   62,316   —    6.8  40.5  0.0 

Other, net

   —     —     (3,203) —    —    (1.3)   (3,248)  —     —    (2.3) 0.0  0.0 
                                      

Total operating expenses

   444,744   293,551   203,797  119.6  86.3  81.7    227,712   198,456   120,616  162.0  129.0  83.8 
                                      

Operating income (loss)

   (73,007)  46,417   45,557  (19.6) 13.7  18.3    (87,175)  (44,656)  23,387  (62.0) (29.0) 16.2 

Gain on investments

   —     154   425  —    0.0  0.1 

Gain (loss) on investments

   (2,117)  —     154  (1.6) 0.0  0.1 

Other income, net

   19,381   89,322   4,991  5.2  26.3  2.0    18,226   19,581   89,418  13.0  12.7  62.1 
                                      

Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes

   (53,626)  135,893   50,973  (14.4) 40.0  20.4    (71,066)  (25,075)  112,959  (50.6) (16.3) 78.4 

Income tax benefit

   38,538   23,475   29  10.4  6.9  0.1 

Income tax benefit (expense)

   (19,671)  29,060   24,154  (14.0) 18.9  16.8 
                                      

Income (loss) from continuing operations

   (15,088)  159,368   51,002  (4.0) 46.9  20.5    (90,737)  3,985   137,113  (64.6) 2.6  95.2 

Income from discontinued operations, net of taxes

   —     —     2,277  —    —    0.9 

Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of taxes

   (25,306)  (19,073)  22,255  (18.0) (12.4) 15.5 

Gain on sale of discontinued operations, net of taxes

   —     —     29,122  —    —    11.6    130,622   —     —    93.0  0.0  0.0 
                                      

Net income (loss)

  $(15,088) $159,368  $82,401  (4.0)% 46.9% 33.0%  $14,579  $(15,088) $159,368  10.4% (9.8)% 110.7%
                                      

 

Results of Operations for the Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005

 

Revenues.    Revenues are derived from deploying our search services and products to customers via the Internet and mobile phones.Internet. Under many of our agreements, we earn revenues from a combination of our products and services delivered to customers. Revenues for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005 are presented below (in thousands):

 

   2006  

Percentage

of Total

  

Change

from 2005

  2005  

Percentage

of Total

  

Change

from 2004

  2004  

Percentage

of Total

 

Online

  $186,901  50.3% $4,345  $182,556  53.7% $25,717  $156,839  62.9%

Mobile

   184,836  49.7   27,424   157,412  46.3   64,897   92,515  37.1 
                              

Total

  $371,737  100.0% $31,769  $339,968  100.0% $90,614  $249,354  100.0%
                              
   2007  Change  2006  Change  2005

Revenue

  $140,537  $(13,263) $153,800  $9,797  $144,003

 

Online RevenueThe decrease in revenue for 2007 as compared to 2006 was primarily due to a decrease in revenue from search results delivered through certain of our distribution partners, and partially due to decreased paid click volume on our owned properties. In 2007, 58% of our search revenues came from searches conducted by end users on the Web properties of our search distribution partners.

 

The increase in revenue for Onlineour search products and services forfrom 2005 to 2006 as compared to 2005 was primarily due to the growth in our online search services, in particular, better monetization for paid searches and, to a lesser extent, directory revenues related to a contract we entered into in June 2005. These increases were partially offset by a decline in revenue due to one offrom our top customers, Verizon, not renewing certain key provisions of our subscription agreement for yellow pages listings in June 2005.own branded Web sites. In 2006, approximately 60% of our search revenues came from searches conducted by end users on the Web properties of our search distribution partners.

The absolute dollar increase in Online revenue from 2004 to 2005 was primarily due to growth in our paid search services from both our search and directory businesses, in particular, paid searches from our distribution partners’ Web properties and greater revenue per paid search, and directory revenues related to our acquisition of an online directory business in June 2004. In 2005, search revenues from distribution partners were over 60% of total search revenues.

We expect that search revenue from searches conducted by end users on sites of our distribution partners will continue to be a significant share of our search revenues.

Mobile Revenue

The increase in revenue for our Mobile products and services for 2006 as compared to 2005 was primarily due to increased revenues from the sales of our media download products, primarily sales of our labeltone or true tone (MP3-like quality) ringtones. Partially offsetting the increase in revenue for Mobile products and services was the loss of a service agreement at the end of 2005. We expect that there will be a decline in our Mobile revenue in 2007 due to one of our carrier partners developing direct licensing relationships with the major record labels and as result of our plan to substantially reduce, through various initiatives, our mobile media content product offerings by mid-2007, focusing instead on our core Mobile services, which generated approximately $37 million in revenues in 2006.

The absolute dollar increase in Mobile revenue from 2004 to 2005 was primarily due to an increase in sales of our media download products, including our labeltones or MP3-like quality ringtones and, to a lesser extent, graphics and games.

 

Content and Distribution Expenses.    Content and distribution expenses consist principally of costs related to royalty and license fees related to our Mobile products for items such as ringtones, graphics and games, and other content or data licenses, and revenue sharing arrangements with our Onlinecontent and distribution partners, as well as online content and data licenses. Content and distribution expenses in total dollars (in thousands) and as a percent of revenue for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005 are presented below:

 

   2006  Change  2005  Change  2004 

Content and Distribution Expenses

      

Online

  $66,672  $(1,337) $68,009  $10,017  $57,992 

Percent of Online Revenue

   35.7%  (1.6)%  37.3%  0.3%  37.0%

Mobile

   111,655   34,313   77,342   42,646   34,696 
                     

Percent of Mobile Revenue

   60.4%  11.3%  49.1%  11.6%  37.5%

Total

  $178,327  $32,976  $145,351  $52,663  $92,688 
                     

Percent of Total Revenues

   48.0%  5.3%  42.7%  5.6%  37.1%
   2007  Change  2006  Change  2005 

Content and Distribution Expenses

  $61,765  $(581) $62,346  $2,449  $59,897 

Percent of Revenue

   43.9%  3.4%  40.5%  (1.1)%  41.6%

 

Content and distribution expenses increaseddecreased by $33.0 million$581,000 to $178.3$61.8 million in 20062007 as compared to $145.4$62.3 million in 2005.2006. The cost as a percent of revenues decreaseincrease for Online content and distribution expense was primarily due to better monetization ofincreases in our paid searches, primarily from our own branded Web sites.revenue sharing rates in addition to minimum contractual payments made to distribution partners. We anticipate that our Online content and distribution costs will continue to increase in absolute dollars if revenues increase through growth from existing arrangements with our Online distribution partners or we add new Online distribution partners. If Online revenue generated from our distribution partners increases at a greater rate than revenues generated from our own branded Web sites, content and distribution costs as a percent of revenue will increase.

 

Content and distribution expenses increased by $2.4 million to $62.3 million in 2006 as compared to $59.9 million in 2005. The absolute dollar and cost as a percent of revenues increasedecrease for Mobile content and distribution expense was primarily attributabledue to revenue growth from salesbetter monetization of our content and media products topaid searches from our Mobile customers, in particular, sales of our labeltone or true tone (MP3-like quality) ringtones, for which our costs as a percentage of revenues were greater than our other media download products. We expect that there will be a

decline in our content and distribution costs related to our Mobile business in 2007 due to the loss of revenue from one of our carrier partners developing direct licensing relationships with the major record labels and our substantially reducing our mobile media content product offerings.

Content and distribution expenses increased by $52.7 million to $145.4 million in 2005 as compared to $92.7 million in 2004.own branded Web sites. The absolute dollar and percent of revenue increase was attributableprimarily due to the growth from sales ofincreases in our content and media download products to our mobile customers, including our higher cost labeltones or MP3-like quality ringtones, which require licensing and royalty payments to third parties and, to a lesser extent, revenue growth from our online search and directory distribution partners in which we have revenue sharing arrangements where we private label our search products for our partnersrates to offer on their own Web properties.distribution partners.

 

Systems and Network Operations Expenses.Systems and network operations consists of expenses associated with the delivery, maintenance and support of our products, services and infrastructure, including personnel expenses, which include salaries, benefits and other employee related costs, stock-based compensation expense, and temporary help and contractors to augment our staffing, communication costs, equipment repair and maintenance, and professional service fees. Systems and network operations expenses in total dollars (in thousands) and as a percent of revenue for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005 are presented below:

 

  2006 Change 2005 Change 2004   2007 Change 2006 Change 2005 

Systems and Network Operations Expenses

  $31,222  $9,847  $21,375  $7,155  $14,220   $9,800  $(1,694) $11,494  $3,902  $7,592 

Percent of Revenue

   8.4%  2.1%  6.3%  0.6%  5.7%   7.0%  (0.5)%  7.5%  2.2%  5.3%

Systems and network operations expenses decreased by $1.7 million to $9.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2007 as compared to $11.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2006. The absolute dollar decrease for 2007 as compared to 2006 was primarily attributable to a decrease of $1.7 million in personnel expenses, and a $705,000 decrease in professional services fees. Partially offsetting these decreases were employee expenses of $668,000 related to the cash distributions to shareholders.

 

Systems and network operations expenses increased by $9.8$3.9 million to $31.2$11.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2006 as compared to $21.4$7.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2005. The absolute dollar increase for 2006 as compared to 2005 was primarily attributable to an increase in facilities, software, equipment expense, and communication costs of $4.1 million related to increased costs of operating the East Coast data center and our new Puget Sound data center, an increase of $3.6 million in personnel expenses and contractors to augment our staffing, stock-based compensation expense of $1.6 million, and a $1.0 million increase in professional service fees related to growth in our business.

Systems and network operations expenses increased by $7.2 million to $21.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2005 as compared to $14.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2004. The increase in absolute dollars was primarily attributable to an increase of $6.0$2.0 million in personnel expenses, including employee salaries and benefits and temporary help and contractors to augment our staffing, stock-based compensation expense of $1.2 million, and also related to our acquisitions of an online directory business and three mobile gaming companies. Additionally, there was ana $487,000 increase of over $1.0 million in facilities, software and equipment expenses to support the additional headcount and the operation of our East Coast data center. Partially offsetting these increases was a decrease in communications costs of $514,000professional services fees related to the renegotiationgrowth of certain contracts.our business.

 

Product Development Expenses.    Product development expenses consist principally of personnel expenses, which include salaries, benefits and other employee related costs, stock-based compensation expense, and

temporary help and contractors to augment our staffing, for research, development, support and ongoing enhancements of our products and services. Product development expenses in total dollars (in thousands) and as a percent of revenue for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005 are presented below:

 

  2006 Change 2005 Change 2004   2007 Change 2006 Change 2005 

Product Development Expenses

  $46,340  $15,137  $31,203  $8,061  $23,142   $9,921  $3,107  $6,814  $174  $6,640 

Percent of Revenue

   12.4%  3.2%  9.2%  (0.1)%  9.3%   7.1%  2.7%  4.4%  (0.2)%  4.6%

 

Product development expenses increased by $15.1$3.1 million to $46.3$9.9 million in 2007 as compared to $6.8 million in 2006. The absolute dollar increase from the prior year was primarily attributable to employee expenses of $1.5 million related to the cash distributions to shareholders, an increase of $1.4 million in stock-based compensation expense and an increase in professional services fees of $877,000. These increases were partially offset by a decrease of $535,000 in expenses for temporary employees as a result of the restructuring of our operations that we implemented in 2006.

Product development expenses increased by $174,000 to $6.8 million in 2006 as compared to $31.2$6.6 million in 2005. The absolute dollar increase from the prior year was primarily attributable to an increase of

$13.0 million $960,000 in personnel related expenses and contractors to augment our staffing, as we continued to invest in the development and enhancement of our products and services, and stock-based compensation expense which was partially offset by a decrease of $2.7 million.

Product development$432,000 in expenses increased by $8.1 million to $31.2 million in 2005 as compared to $23.1 million in 2004. The increase in absolute dollars was primarily due to an increase of $7.5 million in personnel expenses, including employee salaries and benefitsfor contractors and temporary help and contractors to augment our staffing, as we continued to invest in the development and enhancement of our products and services and also as a result of additional headcount related to our acquisitions of an online directory business and three mobile gaming companies.employees.

 

Product development costs may not be consistent with changes in revenues as they represent key costs to develop and enhance our product and service offerings. We believe that investments in technology are necessary to remain competitive, and we anticipate that we will continue to invest in our products and services.

 

Sales and Marketing Expenses.    Sales and marketing expenses consist principally of personnel costs, which include salaries, benefits and other employee related costs, stock-based compensation andexpense, temporary help and contractors to augment our staffing, and advertising, market research and promotion expenses. Sales and marketing expenses in total dollars (in thousands) and as a percent of revenue for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005 are presented below:

 

  2006 Change 2005 Change 2004   2007 Change 2006 Change 2005 

Sales and Marketing Expenses

  $46,518  $15,456  $31,062  $7,576  $23,486   $29,259  $13,324  $15,935  $126  $15,809 

Percent of Revenue

   12.5%  3.4%  9.1%  (0.3)%  9.4%   20.8%  10.4%  10.4%  (0.6)%  11.0%

 

Sales and marketing expenses increased by $15.5$13.3 million to $46.5$29.3 million in 20062007 as compared to $31.1$15.9 million in 2005.2006. The absolute dollar increase was primarily attributable employee expenses of $6.8 million related to the cash distributions to shareholders, an increase in stock-based compensation expense of $5.5 million, an increase in personnel expenses totaling $7.3$2.0 million, an increase in professional services fees of $3.8 million$596,000, and an increase in marketing and promotional expense due to our new products and services initiatives, growth in content and new distribution channels, as well as $4.8 millionemployee-related expenses of stock-based compensation.$324,000. These increases were partially offset by a decrease in professional service feesmarketing and promotional expense of $563,000.$2.1 million.

 

Sales and marketing expenses increased by $7.6 million$126,000 to $31.1$15.9 million in 20052006 as compared to $23.5$15.8 million in 2004.2005. The increase in absolute dollars was primarily attributable to an increase of $4.1$2.4 million in advertising and promotionstock-based compensation expense and ana $1.3 million increase in communications. These increases were offset by $2.4 million of $3.4 millionsavings in personnel expenses, including salaries$662,000 decrease in marketing and benefitspromotional expense, and temporary help and contractors to augment our staffing, as we continued to grow our business, and also as a result of our acquisitions of an online directory business and three mobile gaming companies.$444,000 decrease in professional services fees.

 

We willexpect to continue to invest in marketing initiatives sales promotions, and new distribution channels, while we expect that sales and marketing expenses will decline in 2007 due to promote search services on our suspension of investment in our Mobile media products and services.branded Web sites.

 

General and Administrative Expenses.    General and administrative expenses consist primarily of personnel expenses, which include salaries, benefits and other employee related costs, stock-based compensation expense, professional service fees, which include legal fees, audit fees, SEC compliance costs, which include costs related

to compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, legal settlements, occupancy and general office expenses, and general business development and management expenses. General and administrative expenses in total dollars (in thousands) and as a percent of revenue for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005 are presented below:

 

  2006 Change 2005 Change 2004   2007 Change 2006 Change 2005 

General and Administrative Expenses

  $51,725  $11,491  $40,234  $3,886  $36,348   $105,083  $70,576  $34,507  $7,163  $27,344 

Percent of Revenue

   13.9%  2.1%  11.8%  (2.8)%  14.6%   74.8%  52.4%  22.4%  3.4%  19.0%

General and administrative expenses increased by $11.5$70.6 million to $51.7$105.1 million in 20062007 as compared to $40.2$34.5 million in 2005.2006. The absolute dollar increase was primarily attributable to employee expenses of $47.3 million related to the cash distributions to shareholders, an increase in stock-based compensation expense of $7.8$15.9 million, $2.2 million related to certain arbitration and litigation settlements, an increaseincreases in facilitiespersonnel expenses totaling $1.5$3.2 million, a contract termination charge of $2.3 million, an increase in personnel related expenses totaling $1.2software licensing fees of $2.0 million, and an increase in professional services fees of $1.1$1.0 million. These increases were partially offset by reductionsdecreases in business taxesfacilities costs of $2.6 million due to changes in existing tax laws.$1.5 million.

 

General and administrative expenses increased by $3.9$7.2 million to $40.2$34.5 million in 20052006 as compared to $36.3$27.3 million in 2004.2005. The increase in absolute dollars was primarily attributable to $6.7 million of stock-based compensation expense, $2.2 million related to certain arbitration and litigation settlement charges, an increase of $1.2 million in professional services fees, and an increase in facilities costs of $2.4 million$699,000 to expand facilities and build our East Coast data center, an increase of $1.2 million in personnel costs and temporary help and contractors, to augment our staffing, as a result of our acquisitions of an online directory business and three gaming companies, and growth in operations, and an increase of $1.4 million in professional services fees, which include tax and consulting fees.facilities. Partially offsetting these increases were reductions in business taxes of $2.5 million, legal fees of $1.9 million$668,000, insurance of $378,000, and insurance costsdecreases in advertising and marketing expenses of $929,000.$378,000.

 

Restructuring:Restructuring.    Restructuring charges reflect actual and estimated costs associated with the reductions in workforce and costs associated with the consolidation and closures of certain of our facilities. Restructuring charges for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005 are presented below (in thousands):

 

  2006  2005  2004   2007  2006  2005

Restructuring charges:

            

Impairment of goodwill and intangible assets

  $44,526  $—    $—     $—    $44,526  $—  

Employee separation costs

   8,687   —     (31)   7,963   8,687   —  

Stock-based compensation expense

   824   —     —      670   824   —  

Losses on contractual commitments

   5,671   —     —      831   5,671   —  

Estimated future lease losses

   1,667   —     253    —     1,667   —  

Impairment of leasehold improvements and fixed assets

   941   —     —      126   941   —  
                   
  $62,316  $    —    $222   $9,590  $62,316  $—  
                   

 

In September 2006,2007, we announced that one ofsold our carrier partners plans to develop direct licensing relationships with the major record labels beginning in 2007. We anticipated that such direct relationships between the carrierdirectory and content providers would havemobile services businesses and, as a material negative impact on our revenues and operating results. As a result, during September 2006, we committed to a plan to make operational changes to our business, to align operational focus and costs with expected future revenues. The planwhich included a reduction in our workforce and, as part of the workforce reduction, consolidation of our facilities. We also suspended investmentrecorded $7.4 million of expense related to that plan in mobile media content initiatives2007, and accordingly intend to substantially reduce, through various initiatives, our mobile media content product offerings by mid-2007. The restructuring plan is expected to be completed by mid-2007. Also during September 2006, we initiated a plan to close our office in Hamburg, Germany. In future periods,$2.2 million of adjustments and additions are expectedin 2007 relating to be madeour restructuring plan committed to the amounts recordedin 2006, as of December 31, 2006. Salaries and other costs are expected to decline in the futuredescribed below.

In 2006, as a result of being informed by one of our carrier partners that it intended to develop direct relationships for mobile ringtone content with the major record labels beginning in 2007, we committed to a plan to substantially reduce our mobile content offerings and make operational changes to our business, which included a reduction in our workforce.workforce and, as part of the workforce reduction, consolidation of our facilities.

 

We recorded no restructuring charges in 2005.

 

TheWe expect to incur additional restructuring chargecharges in 2004 was attributable to an adjustment2008 of our estimated reserves for the restructuring in 2003 primarilyless than $1 million related to the payment of lease termination costs.initiatives identified to date.

Depreciation.Depreciation of property and equipment includes depreciation of network servers and data center equipment, computers, software, office equipment and fixtures, and leasehold improvements. Depreciation expenses for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005 are presented below (in thousands):

 

   2006  Change  2005  Change  2004

Depreciation Expenses

  $16,083  $7,022  $9,061  $2,087  $6,974
   2007  Change  2006  Change  2005

Depreciation Expenses

  $5,542  $498  $5,044  $1,710  $3,334

The $7.0$498,000 increase from 2006 to 2007 was primarily a result of depreciation of $1.1 million for property and equipment recently placed in service related to our data centers and increases in depreciation of $349,000 for our internally developed software. These increases were partially offset by reductions in depreciation of $876,000 related to leasehold improvements.

The $1.7 million increase from 2005 to 2006 was primarily a result of increased depreciation of $1.1 million for property and equipment recently placed in service related to our East Coastdata centers and Puget Sound data centers. The $2.1 million increase from 2004 to 2005 was primarily a result of property and equipment recently placedincreases in servicedepreciation related to our East Coast data center and those acquired with our acquisitionsleasehold improvements of an online directory business and the three mobile gaming companies, partially offset by a decrease in depreciation expenses of older property and equipment reaching the end of their depreciable lives.

Amortization of Other Intangible Assets.    Amortization of definite-lived intangible assets includes amortization of core technology, customer and content relationships, customer lists and other intangible assets. Definite-lived intangible assets are amortized over their estimated life, ranging from one to five years. Amortization of other intangible assets is presented below for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004 (in thousands):

   2006  Change  2005  Change  2004

Amortization of Other Intangible Assets

  $12,213  $(3,052) $15,265  $5,345  $9,920

The $3.1 million absolute dollar decrease from 2005 to 2006 was primarily attributable to the impairment $12.6 million of definite-lived intangible assets related to our Mobile business.

The $5.3 million absolute dollar increase from 2004 to 2005 was primarily attributable to intangible assets that were acquired in the acquisitions of an online directory business and the three mobile gaming companies.

Assuming we do not acquire businesses or intangible assets in the future, the amortization of intangible assets will be $4.0 million in 2007.$374,000.

 

Other, Net.    Other, net consists of costs, charges, refunds or gains that are not directly associated with other revenue or operating expense classifications. Other, net of $3.2 million in 2007 consisted of gains on the sale of non-core assets.

Gain (Loss) on Investments.    Gain (loss) on investments, net is comprised of the following for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004 is presented below2005 (in thousands):

 

   2006  2005  2004 

Other, net:

      

Litigation settlement

  $—    $—    $(3,906)

Tax refunds and credits

   —     —     (266)

Executive severance and stock-based compensation

   —     —     1,225 

Miscellaneous

   —     —     (256)
             
  $—    $—    $(3,203)
             

During 2004, we recorded other charges, net for a gain of $3.2 million. We settled a litigation matter concerning promissory notes due from a former officer, resulting in a gain of $3.9 million. Additionally, we recorded a charge of $1.2 million related to the separation of a former executive officer, and we received a final assessment from the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) for a payroll tax settlement regarding certain aspects of our payroll tax returns for the year 2000 that included penalties and estimated interest, and, accordingly, we paid the IRS. The interest charges were less than originally estimated and, as a result, we reversed previously recognized interest charges of $266,000 upon our payment of the final assessment.

   2007  2006  2005

Other-than-temporary available-for-sale investment impairments

  $(2,182) $—    $—  

Increase in fair value of warrants

   65   —     154
            
  $(2,117) $—    $154
            

 

Gain (loss) on Equity Investments.    Gain on equity investments consists of the other-than-temporary impairment of available-for-sale investments and gains from changes in the fair value of derivative instruments held by us and the other-than-temporary impairment of equity investments. Gain on equity investments is comprised of the following for the years endedus. At December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004 (in thousands):

   2006  2005  2004 

Other-than-temporary investment impairments

  $—    $—    $(916)

Increase in fair value of warrants

   —     154   1,341 
             
  $—    $154  $425 
             

Other-than-temporary investment impairment:    We have equity investments in privately-held companies and periodically evaluate whether the decline in fair value2007, we determined a portion of an investment is other-than-temporary. During 2004,our auction rate securities, which we concluded that there had been an other-than-temporary impairment of certain equity investmentsclassify as long-term available-for-sale securities, were other-than-temporarily impaired, and we recorded an impairment charge related to those specific investments.

Gains in fair valuea loss on investments of warrants:$2.2 million for 2007. In accordance with SFAS No. 133,Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, we adjust our derivative instruments to fair value and recognize the change in the recorded fair value in earnings. We hold warrants to purchase stock in other companies, which qualify as derivatives, and therefore gains or losses are based on the fair value. In 2004, a company in which we held warrants to purchase shares of stock announced that it was being acquired and that any outstanding warrants to purchase shares of the company would also be purchased. We recognized a gain and proceeds of $1.4 million in 2004 based on the estimated fair value of the warrant. The warrant was subsequently purchased for $1.5 million and we received the final payment and recorded a gain of $154,000 in 2005.

 

Other Income, Net.    Other income, net, primarily consists of interest income, litigation settlements and foreign currency gain (loss).

 

  2006 2005 2004   2007 2006 2005 

Interest income

  $19,628  $11,250  $4,698   $18,194  $19,681  $11,177 

Gain on certain litigation settlements

   —     79,297   —      —     —     79,297 

Foreign currency exchange gain (loss)

   (42)  (1,131)  540 

Foreign currency exchange loss

   (131)  (42)  (1,131)

Other items, net

   (205)  (94)  (247)   163   (58)  75 
                    
  $19,381  $89,322  $4,991   $18,226  $19,581  $89,418 
                    

 

Interest income increaseddecreased primarily due to less available cash and marketable investments on hand to invest in 2007 as compared to 2006. Interest income nearly doubled primarily due to increased interest rates in 2006 compared to 2005. Interest income more than doubled primarily due to increased interest rates in 2005 compared to 2004. In 2005, we received proceeds of $83.2 million from the settlement of several outstanding litigation matters. We recognized a gain of $79.3 million comprised of the settlement proceeds and interest, less $3.9

$3.9 million in legal fees.

In 2005, we acquired elkware GmbH, a mobile gaming company, at a cost of 20.0 million euros in cash. The purchase price in U.S dollars was $26.4 million plus acquisition costs. In December 2004, due to the significant fluctuations in the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar to the euro, we entered intosettled a forward exchange contract that we entered into to mitigate our foreign currency exposure. At December 31, 2004, the exchange rateexposure relating to our purchase of the U.S. dollar had declined relative to the euroa German mobile games company, and recorded a $456,000 gain on the forward exchange contract was recorded in 2004. Subsequently, in January 2005 when the acquisition was consummated, the U.S. dollar had strengthened against the euro and a $934,000 loss was recorded in 2005 at the settlement of that foreign exchange contract.$934,000.

 

Income Tax Benefit.Expense (Benefit). During the year ended December 31, 2007, we recorded an income tax expense on continuing operations of $19.7 million. During the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005, and 2004, we have recorded an income tax benefit on continuing operations of $38.5 million, $23.5$29.1 million and $29,000,$24.2 million, respectively. The 2007 income tax expense of $19.7 million is primarily attributable to a $22.3 million tax expense for increasing the valuation allowance against the deferred tax assets, a $22.3 million tax expense for non-deductible compensation paid to certain executives, and a $24.9 million tax benefit from current year operations, partially offset by tax expense for federal alternative minimum and foreign taxes. The 2006 income tax benefit of $38.5$29.1 million is primarily dueattributable to a $28.6 million benefit fromreduction in the realization ofvaluation allowance against deferred tax assets of $28.6 million related to an additional portion of our net operating loss carryforwardslosses, an $8.2 million tax expense from the non-deductible impairment of certain intangible assets, and a net tax benefit of $10.2$8.8 million from current year operations, partially offset by tax expense for federal alternative minimum state and international taxes, as more fully discussed below.taxes. The 2005 income tax benefit of $23.5$24.2 million is primarily dueattributable to a $25.0 million benefit fromreduction in the realization ofvaluation allowance against deferred tax assets related to a portion of our net operating loss carryforwards,$25.0 million, partially offset by tax expense for federal alternative minimum, state and international taxes.minimum.

 

At December 31, 2006, our net deferred tax assets are $104.0 million out of total2007, we have gross deferred tax assets of $441.4$327.1 million, primarily comprised of $381.2$290.2 million of accumulated net operating loss carryforwards, net of a $337.4 million valuation allowance. In 2006,carryforwards. During 2007, we determined that it was not more likely than not that an additional portion ofwe would realize our operatingdeferred tax assets would be realizable in the foreseeable future. Accordingly, we reduced the valuation allowance related to our operating deferred tax assets and recognizedrecorded a $28.6 million deferred tax benefit. As of December 31, 2006, we continue to have a $337.4 million valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets

primarily related to net operating loss carryforwards. Due to the size of our net operating loss carryforwards, their expiration beginning in 2020, which previously did not have a valuation allowance and our recent level of annualized profitability, we believe that sufficient uncertainty exists regarding the realizability of the remaining balance of ourrecognized a $22.3 million deferred tax assets.expense. If in the future, we determine that the realization of any portion of the remaining deferred tax assets is more likely than not to be realized, we will record a benefit to the income statement or make an adjustment to additional paid-in-capital.

To the extent we are profitable and we record a tax expense, the actual payment may be offset against the accumulated net operating loss carryforwardspaid-in-capital, as appropriate.

 

Income from Discontinued Operations and Gain on Sale of Discontinued Operation.Operations.    In 2004,2007, we completed the sale of our Payment Solutions businessdirectory and mobile businesses and have reflected income (loss) from Payment Solutions asthose businessesas income (loss) from discontinued operations. For 2004,2007, we recorded a gain on the sale of Payment Solutionsthe directory business of $29.1$57.3 million and a gain on the sale of the mobile services business of $73.4 million. Revenue, income net ofbefore taxes, income tax expense, and income (loss) from the operating results of Payment Solutions of $2.3 milliondiscontinued operations for the yearyears ended December 31, 2004. Income from discontinued operations includes previously unallocated depreciation, amortization, corporate expenses,2007, 2006 and income taxes that were attributed to Payment Solutions.2005 are presented below (in thousands):

Directory

  2007  2006  2005 

Revenue from discontinued operations

  $28,882  $33,103  $38,553 
             

Income from discontinued operations before taxes

   11,349   14,748   17,730 

Income tax expense

   (4,213)  (5,191)  —   
             

Income from discontinued operations, net of taxes

  $7,136  $9,557  $17,730 
             

Mobile

  2007  2006  2005 

Revenue from discontinued operations

  $103,488  $184,834  $157,412 
             

Income (loss) from discontinued operations before taxes

   (50,100)  (43,299)  5,204 

Income tax benefit (expense)

   17,658   14,669   (679)
             

Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of taxes

  $(32,442) $(28,630) $4,525 
             

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

Our principal source of liquidity is our cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments and long-term investments, initially generated from proceeds from private placements and our initial and follow-on public offerings. In addition, more recently we have generated cash from operations.operations in certain periods. In 2007, we

received proceeds of $225.0 million from the sale of our directory business, $135.0 million from the sale of our mobile business, and in 2005, we received proceeds of $83.2 million from the settlement of certain litigation matters and, in 2004,matters. In 2007, we received proceedspaid a special dividend to our shareholders of $82.0 million from the sale of our Payment Solutions business unit.$208.2 million.

 

As of December 31, 2006,2007, we had cash and marketable investments of $401.9$574.8 million, consisting of cash and cash equivalents of $163.5$498.3 million, and short-term investments available-for-sale of $238.4$39.0 million, and long-term investments available-for-sale of $37.5 million. In November 2007, our board of directors also declared a $299.3 million special dividend that we paid in January 2008, which further reduced our cash and cash equivalents balance. In addition, in the first quarter of 2008, we expect to pay approximately $60 million in employee expenses related to the $299.3 million special dividend paid in January 2008, employee separation payments and fees related to completing the sales of the mobile and directory businesses.

We invest our excess cash in high quality marketable investments. These investments include securities issued by U.S. government agencies, certificates of deposit, money market funds, corporate bonds, auction rate securities and taxable municipal bonds.

 

Commitments and Pledged Funds

 

The following are our contractual commitments associated with our operating lease obligations (in thousands):

 

  2007 2008  2009  2010  2011  Thereafter  Total   2008 2009  2010  2011  2012  Thereafter  Total 

Minimum lease payments required

  $7,623  $5,254  $6,888  $6,753  $5,706  $5,466  $37,690   $1,611  $1,917  $1,996  $2,079  $2,158  $367  $10,128 

Less sublease income

   (112)  —     —     —     —     —     (112)   (242)  —     —     —     —     —     (242)
                                            

Net lease payments required

  $7,511  $5,254  $6,888  $6,753  $5,706  $5,466  $37,578   $1,369  $1,917  $1,996  $2,079  $2,158  $367  $9,886 
                                            

 

We have no significant purchase commitments at December 31, 2006.2007. We have pledged a portion of our cash as collateral for standby letters of credit and bank guaranties for certain of our property leases and banking arrangements. At December 31, 2006,2007, the total amount of collateral pledged under these agreements was $4.4$5.9 million.

During 2007, for certain revenue share agreements with our search distribution partners we were required to make guaranteed minimum revenues share payments to those partners over the term of the respective agreements. As of December 31, 2007 we have no material commitments because they have expired or were terminated. As a result of a contract termination, we have recorded a $2.3 million charge in the year ended December 31, 2007.

The above table does not reflect unrecognized tax benefits of $718,000, the timing of which is uncertain. For additional discussion on unrecognized tax benefits see Item 8 of Part II of this Report, “Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 7: Income Taxes to our Consolidated Financial Statements.”

 

Cash Flows

 

Net cash provided (used) by operating activities consists of net income (loss) offset by certain adjustments not affecting current-period cash flows and the effect of changes in our operating assets and liabilities. Adjustments to net income (loss) to determine cash flow from operations include certainthe income (loss) from discontinued operations, the gain on sale of discontinued operations, restructuring charges, depreciation, and amortization, stock-based compensation expense, realized loss on long-term investments, net gain on sale of certain assets, deferred taxes and deferred taxes.excess tax benefits from stock-based award activity. Net cash used by investing activities consists of net cash used to acquire businesses, transactions related to our investments, purchases of property and equipment, loan to equity investee, reclassification of certain other long-term assets and proceeds from the sale of certain assets. Net cash provided (used) by financing activities consists

of a special dividend paid to our shareholders, proceeds from the issuance

of stock through the exercise of stock options or warrants and our employee stock purchase plan, and cash used to repurchase outstanding stock.stock, and excess tax benefits from stock-based award activity. Net cash provided (used) by operating activities for each of 2007, 2006 and 2005 reflects cash flows from continuing operations only, and does not reflect net cash provided (used) by discontinued operations. The process used to separately present continuing and discontinued operations relied on certain estimates and assumptions, and the historical results of operations presented in our consolidated financial statements do not necessarily reflect the results of operations that would have existed had we provided our online search services as a standalone business throughout the periods presented. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of our business, overall market conditions and the process used to separately present continuing and discontinued operations, we believe that period-to-period comparisons of our cash flows are not necessarily meaningful, and you should not rely upon them as indications of future performance.

Net cash provided (used) by discontinued operations consists of proceeds from the sale of discontinued operations, net cash used to acquire businesses now classified as discontinued operations, income (loss) from discontinued operations, net changes in assets and liabilities of discontinued operations, and purchases of property and equipment classified as discontinued operations.

 

Our net cash flows are comprised of the following for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005 (in thousands):

 

   Years Ended December 31, 
   2006  2005  2004 

Net cash provided by operating activities

  $43,540  $157,587  $51,109 

Net cash used by investing activities

   (38,480)  (33,552)  (109,519)

Net cash provided (used) by financing activities

   5,432   (56,267)  32,747 
             

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

  $10,492  $67,768  $(25,663)
             
   2007  2006  2005 

Net cash provided (used) by operating activities

  $(33,378) $60,797  $131,188 

Net cash provided (used) by investing activities

   156,181   (22,950)  4,089 

Net cash provided (used) by financing activities

   (162,391)  5,432   (56,267)

Net cash provided (used) by discontinued operations

   375,527   (32,572)  (9,269)
             

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents

  $335,939  $10,707  $69,741 
             

Net cash used by operating activities was $33.4 million in 2007, consisting of our net income of $14.6 million, cash provided by changes in our operating assets and liabilities of $35.4 million, consisting of decreases in prepaid expenses and other current assets and increases in accrued expenses and other liabilities, and adjustments not affecting cash flows provided by operating activities of $96.5 million, primarily consisting of stock-based compensation, the loss from discontinued operations, decreases in deferred taxes, restructuring, depreciation, and the loss on long-term investments. Offsetting the increase are changes in our operating assets and liabilities of $14.9 million, primarily consisting of increases in notes and other receivables, accounts receivable, and other long-term assets and a decrease in accounts payable, and adjustments not affecting cash flows provided by operating activities of $164.9 million, primarily consisting of the gain on the sale of discontinued operations, reclassification of the tax benefit from stock-based award activity to financing activities, and the gain on sale of assets.

 

Net cash provided by operating activities was $43.5$60.8 million in 2006, consisting of our net loss of $15.1 million, cash provided by changes in our operating assets and liabilities of $5.8$10.5 million, consisting of decreases in other receivablesaccounts receivable and prepaid expenses and other current assets and increases in deferred revenue and accounts payable, and adjustments not affecting cash flows provided by operating activities of $107.7$97.7 million, primarily consisting of restructuring, depreciationthe loss from discontinued operations, stock-based compensation, and amortization and stock-based compensation.depreciation. Partially offsetting the increase are changes in our operating assets and liabilities of $15.9$7.3 million, primarily consisting of increases in our accounts receivable and other long-term assets and a decreasedecreases in our accrued expenses and other currentliabilities and increases in our notes and other receivables and other long-term liabilities,assets, and adjustments not affecting cash flows provided by operating activities of $38.8$25.0 million, primarily consisting of increases in our deferred tax assets.

 

Net cash provided by operating activities was $157.6$131.2 million in 2005, consisting of our net income from of $159.4 million, cash provided by changes in our operating assets and liabilities of $25.0$24.2 million, consisting of a decreasedecreases in accounts receivable and notes and other receivables an increaseand increases in accrued expenses and accounts payable, and

adjustments not affecting cash flows provided by operating activities of $24.8$3.3 million, primarily consisting of depreciation and amortization.depreciation. Partially offsetting the increase are changes in our operating assets and liabilities of $24.7$8.2 million, primarily consisting of increases in our accounts receivable, prepaid expenses and other current assets and other long-term assets and a decreasedecreases in our deferred revenue,accrued expenses and other liabilities, and adjustments not affecting cash flows provided by operating activities of $26.9$47.5 million, primarily consisting of the benefit from the reversal of the deferred tax asset valuation allowance.allowance and income from discontinued operations.

 

Net cash provided by operatinginvesting activities was $51.1$156.2 million in 2004,2007, consisting of proceeds from the sale or maturity of our net incomemarketable investments of $82.4$294.4 million and proceeds from the sale of assets of $2.8 million. Partially offsetting cash provided by changesinvesting activities was the purchase of $135.4 million of marketable investments, the purchase of $3.7 million in our operating assetsproperty and liabilities of $17.6 million, consisting of an increase in our accrued expenses, deferred revenuesequipment, and a decrease in prepaid expenses and adjustments not affecting cash flows provided by operating activities of $18.4$2.0 million primarily consisting of depreciation and amortization, stock-based compensation and bad debt expense, and non-cash restructuring charges. Partially offsetting the increase are cash used by changes in our operating assets and liabilities of $35.0 million, primarily consisting of increases in our accounts receivable, notes and other receivables, other long-term assets and a decrease in our accounts payable, and adjustments not affecting cash flows provided by operating activities of $32.3 million, primarily consisting of income and the gain on sale of our Payment Solutions business of $31.4 million, accounted for as a discontinued operation, and gains from ourloan to an equity investments.investee.

 

Net cash used by investing activities was $38.5$23.0 million in 2006, primarily from the purchase of $313.9 million of marketable investments $22.6 million of property and equipment purchases, and the purchase of $320,000 of intangible assets. Partially offsetting cash used in investing activities were proceeds from the sale or maturity of our marketable investments of $298.3 million and proceeds of $35,000 from the sale of assets.

Net cash used by investing activities was $33.6 million in 2005, primarily from the purchase of $189.0 million of marketable investments, the use of $26.4 million for business acquisitions, net of cash acquired, increase of long-term assets of $4.5 million and $17.0 million of property and equipment purchases. Partially

offsetting cash used in investing activities were proceeds from the sale or maturity of our marketable investments of $202.9 million, proceeds of $139,000 from the sale of assets and proceeds of $154,000 upon the final settlement of warrants sold in 2004.

Net cash used by investing activities was $109.5 million in 2004, primarily from the purchase of $499.2 million of marketable investments, the use of $130.6 million for business acquisitions, net of cash acquired, and $10.4$7.4 million of property and equipment purchases. Partially offsetting cash used in investing activities were proceeds from the sale or maturity of our marketable investments of $446.4$298.3 million.

Net cash provided by investing activities was $4.1 million in 2005, primarily from proceeds from the sale or maturity of $82.0our marketable investments of $202.9 million. Partially offsetting cash provided by investing activities was the purchase of $189.0 million of marketable investments, the increase of long-term assets of $4.5 million, and $5.7 million of property and equipment purchases.

Net cash used by financing activities in 2007 was $162.4 million, primarily from the special dividend of $208.2 million paid in May 2007. Partially offsetting cash used in financing activities were tax benefits generated by stock-based award activity of $30.7 million, $15.1 million from the exercise of stock options and warrants and from the sale of shares through our Payment Solutions business, and proceeds of $2.3 million from the sale of equity investments and our non-core services.employee stock purchase plan.

 

Net cash provided by financing activities in 2006 was $5.4 million, which resulted from the exercise of stock options and from the sale of shares through our employee stock purchase plan.

 

Net cash used by financing activities in 2005 was $56.3 million, primarily from the repurchase of 2.6 million shares of common stock for $70.4 million, including commissions. Partially offsetting cash used in financing activities were proceeds of $14.1 million from the exercise of stock options and from the sale of shares through our employee stock purchase plan.

 

Net cash provided by financingdiscontinued operations activities in 20042007 was $32.7$375.5 million which resulted from the exerciseprimarily consisting of stock options andproceeds from the sale of shares through our employee stock purchase plan.discontinued operations of $359.1 million. Net cash used by discontinued operations activities in 2006 and 2005 was $32.6 million and $9.3 million, respectively.

 

We plan to use a portion of our cash to pay a $299.3 million special dividend announced in November 2007 and approximately $60 million to employees related to that special dividend, employee separation payments and fees related to completing the sales of the mobile and directory businesses. Additionally, we plan to use our cash to fund operations, develop technology, advertise, market and distribute our products and services, and continue the enhancement of our network infrastructure. We may use a portion of our cash for acquisitions, to pay special dividends, or for common stock repurchases.

 

We believe that existing cash balances, cash equivalents, short term investments and cash generated from operations will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for working capital and capital expenditures for at least the next 12 months. However, the underlying assumed levels of revenues and expenses may not prove to be accurate. Our anticipated cash needs exclude any payments for pending or future litigation matters. In addition, we evaluate acquisitions of businesses, products or technologies that complement our business from time to time. Any such transactions, if consummated,completed, may use a significant portion of our cash balances and marketable

investments. We may seek additional funding through public or private financings or other arrangements prior to such time. Adequate funds may not be available when needed or may not be available on favorable terms. If we raise additional funds by issuing equity securities, dilution to existing stockholders will result. If we are unable to liquidate our auction rate securities when we need such liquidity for business purposes, we may need to change or postpone such business purposes or find alternative financing for such business purposes, if available. If funding is insufficient at any time in the future, we may be unable to develop or enhance our products or services, take advantage of business opportunities or respond to competitive pressures, any of which could harm our business.

 

Market Sensitive Derivatives and Financial InstrumentsDispositions

On October 31, 2007, we completed the sale of our directory business to Idearc Inc. for $225 million in cash.

 

On December 15, 2004,28, 2007, we entered into a definitive agreementcompleted the sale of our mobile services business to acquire the outstanding stock of elkware GmbH, a German mobile games company. The purchase price was denominated in euros in the amount of 20.0 million euros. Due to significant changes in the exchange rate and the continued devaluation of the U.S. dollar to the euro, on December 22, 2004 we entered into a forward exchange contract to minimize any further exposure of the U.S. dollar weakening relative to the euro, which locked the exchange rate at 1.3416Motricity, Inc. for each dollar per euro. The acquisition was completed on January 7, 2005 and the forward contract was settled.

Acquisitions

Summary of Our Acquisitions

Company or Assets

  Date Closed  Total Value of
Transaction
(in thousands)

elkware GmbH

  01/07/2005  $26,400

IOMO Limited

  12/01/2004  $15,400

Atlas Mobile, Inc.

  07/01/2004  $6,300

Switchboard Incorporated

  06/03/2004  $159,400

elkware GmbH.    On January 7, 2005, we acquired elkware GmbH, a German mobile games company, for 20.0 million euros, which approximated $26.4$135 million in cash, excluding acquisition costs and liabilities assumed. In addition, the purchase agreement required that 5.0 million euros of the purchase price be placed in escrow to provide security for certain indemnification obligations set forth in the purchase agreement. The operations were combined with our United Kingdom games operations and the office in Germany was closed in 2006.

IOMO Limited.    In December 2004, we acquired the outstanding stock of IOMO Limited, a designer and publisher of mobile games, for 8.0 million British pounds, which approximated $15.4 million in cash, excluding acquisition costs and liabilities assumed. In addition, the purchase agreement required that 1.1 million British pounds of the purchase price be placed in escrow to provide security for certain indemnification obligations set forth in the purchase agreement.

Atlas Mobile, Inc.    In July 2004, we acquired the assets of Atlas Mobile, a provider of mobile multi-player tournament games, for $6.3 million. We sold these assets in January 2007 for $1.5 million.

Switchboard Incorporated.    In June 2004, we acquired the outstanding stock of Switchboard Incorporated, a provider of local online advertising and Internet based yellow pages, for $159.4 million in cash, which excludes transaction fees of $6.0 million and liabilities assumed. As of the acquisition date, Switchboard had $56.4 million in cash.

 

Stock Repurchase Program

 

On June 8, 2007, our board of directors authorized the repurchase of up to $100 million of our outstanding common stock over the succeeding twelve months. On May 30, 2006, our Boardboard of Directors approveddirectors authorized a stock repurchase plan whereby we arewere authorized to purchase up to $100 million of our common stock during the succeeding twelve month period.which expired on May 29, 2007. Repurchased shares will be retired and resume the status of authorized but unissued shares of common stock. We did not purchase any shares during the yearyears ended December 31, 2007 or 2006. Under a previous repurchase plan authorized on May 13, 2005, which expired May 12, 2006, we purchased 2,633,002 shares in open-market transactions during 2005 at a total cost, exclusive of purchase and administrative costs, of $70.2 million, at an average price of $26.66 per share.

Quarterly Results of Operations (Unaudited)

 

The following table presents a summary of our unaudited consolidated results of operations for the eight quarters ended December 31, 2006.2007. The information for each of these quarters has been prepared on a basis consistent with our audited consolidated financial statements. In 2007, we sold our mobile and directory businesses to unaffiliated third parties, and our mobile and directory businesses have been presented as discontinued operations for all periods presented, and the remaining search business’s operating results are partly based on identifying and assigning costs to our search business that were initially shared by those three businesses. The process used to separately present continuing and discontinued operations relied on certain estimates and assumptions, and the historical results of operations presented in our selected financial data do not necessarily reflect the results of operations that would have existed had we provided our search services as a standalone business. You should read this information in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The operating results for any quarter are not necessarily indicative of results for any future period.

  

March 31,

2005

  

June 30,

2005

  September 30,
2005
 December 31,
2005
 

March 31,

2006

  

June 30,

2006

  September 30,
2006
  December 31,
2006
 
  (in thousands except per share data) 

Revenues

 $87,022  $83,181  $83,225 $86,540 $90,274  $95,846  $96,298  $89,319 

Operating expenses:

        

Content and distribution

  34,830   34,864   37,704  37,953  41,612   46,121   47,704   42,890 

Systems and network operations

  4,413   4,899   5,492  6,571  7,108   7,880   8,391   7,843 

Product development

  7,371   7,596   7,840  8,396  9,308   12,467   12,099   12,466 

Sales and marketing

  7,872   7,030   8,519  7,641  9,563   12,567   12,946   11,442 

General and administrative

  10,605   9,729   9,671  10,229  14,086   12,547   13,498   11,594 

Depreciation

  1,774   1,941   2,454  2,892  3,317   3,457   4,635   4,674 

Amortization of other intangible assets

  4,083   3,763   3,709  3,710  3,708   3,611   3,046   1,848 

Restructuring

  —     —     —    —    —     —     57,789   4,527 
                              

Total operating expenses

  70,948   69,822   75,389  77,392  88,702   98,650   160,108   97,284 
                              

Operating income (loss)

  16,074   13,359   7,836  9,148  1,572   (2,804)  (63,810)  (7,965)

Gain on investments

  —     154   —    —    —     —     —     —   

Other income, net

  80,154   2,838   2,974  3,356  3,872   4,723   5,405   5,381 
                              

Income (loss) before income taxes

  96,228   16,351   10,810  12,504  5,444   1,919   (58,405)  (2,584)

Income tax benefit (expense)

  (2,329)  (65)  451  25,418  (2,439)  (900)  11,676   30,201 
                              

Net income (loss)

 $93,899  $16,286  $11,261 $37,922 $3,005  $1,019  $(46,729) $27,617 
                              

Net income (loss) per share—Basic

 $2.84  $0.49  $0.35 $1.22 $0.10  $0.03  $(1.49) $0.88 
                              

Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing basic net income (loss) per share

  33,054   33,108   31,958  31,042  31,083   31,239   31,316   31,376 
                              

Net income (loss) per share—Diluted

 $2.52  $0.44  $0.32 $1.13 $0.09  $0.03  $(1.49) $0.83 
                              

Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing diluted net income (loss) per share

  37,327   36,720   34,830  33,612  32,917   32,931   31,316   33,097 
                              

 

March 31,

2005

 

June 30,

2005

 September 30,
2005
 December 31,
2005
 

March 31,

2006

 

June 30,

2006

 September 30,
2006
 December 31,
2006
  March 31,
2006
 June 30,
2006
 September 30,
2006
 December 31,
2006
 March 31,
2007
 June 30,
2007
 September 30,
2007
 December 31,
2007
 
 (as a percent of revenue)  (in thousands except per share data) 

Revenues

 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% $37,407  $41,726  $40,614  $34,053  $35,864  $31,763  $33,852  $39,058 

Operating expenses:

                

Content and distribution

 40.0  41.9  45.3  43.9  46.1  48.1  49.5  48.0   15,380   16,887   17,155   12,924   14,948   12,597   15,274   18,946 

Systems and network operations

 5.1  5.9  6.6  7.6  7.9  8.2  8.7  8.8   2,086   3,012   3,463   2,933   2,279   2,406   2,295   2,820 

Product development

 8.5  9.1  9.4  9.7  10.3  13.0  12.6  13.9   2,030   1,493   1,593   1,698   2,279   2,484   2,086   3,072 

Sales and marketing

 9.0  8.5  10.2  8.8  10.6  13.1  13.5  12.8   3,869   3,515   3,901   4,650   4,825   6,665   5,518   12,251 

General and administrative

 12.2  11.7  11.6  11.8  15.6  13.1  14.0  13.0   9,440   7,871   9,364   7,832   9,642   29,557   12,694   53,190 

Depreciation

 2.0  2.3  3.0  3.3  3.7  3.6  4.8  5.2   1,164   1,239   1,151   1,490   1,383   1,273   1,443   1,443 

Amortization of other intangible assets

 4.7  4.5  4.5  4.3  4.1  3.8  3.2  2.1 

Restructuring

 —    —    —    —    —    —    60.0  5.1   —     —     57,789   4,527   433   378   558   8,221 

Other, net

  —     —     —     —     (1,266)  (2,047)  65   —   
                                                

Total operating expenses

 81.5  83.9  90.6  89.4  98.3  102.9  166.3  108.9   33,969   34,017   94,416   36,054   34,523   53,313   39,933   99,943 
                                                

Operating income (loss)

 18.5  16.1  9.4  10.6  1.7  (2.9) (66.3) (8.9)  3,438   7,709   (53,802)  (2,001)  1,341   (21,550)  (6,081)  (60,885)

Gain on investments

 —    0.2  —    —    —    —    —    —   

Gain (loss) on investments

  —     —     —     —     —     65   —     (2,182)

Other income, net

 92.1  3.4  3.6  3.8  4.3  4.9  5.6  6.0   3,877   4,729   5,453   5,522   5,325   4,360   2,804   5,737 
                                                

Income (loss) before income taxes

 110.6  19.7  13.0  14.4  6.0  2.0  (60.7) (2.9)

Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes

  7,315   12,438   (48,349)  3,521   6,666   (17,125)  (3,277)  (57,330)

Income tax benefit (expense)

 (2.7) (0.1) 0.5  29.4  (2.7) (0.9) 12.1  33.8   (2,701)  (4,138)  8,651   27,248   (3,075)  (3,894)  (3,355)  (9,347)
                        

Income (loss) from continuing operations

  4,614   8,300   (39,698)  30,769   3,591   (21,019)  (6,632)  (66,677)

Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of taxes

  (1,609)  (7,281)  (7,031)  (3,152)  (4,131)  (7,111)  (5,625)  (8,439)

Gain on sale of discontinued operations, net of taxes

  —     —     —     —     —     —     —     130,622 
                                                

Net income (loss)

 107.9% 19.6% 13.5% 43.8% 3.3% 1.1% (48.6)% 30.9% $3,005  $1,019  $(46,729) $27,617  $(540) $(28,130) $(12,257) $55,506 
                                                

Net income (loss) per share—Basic

        

Income (loss) from continuing operations

 $0.15  $0.27  $(1.27) $0.98  $0.11  $(0.64) $(0.20) $(2.00)

Loss from discontinued operations

  (0.05)  (0.24)  (0.22)  (0.10)  (0.13)  (0.22)  (0.17)  (0.25)

Gain on sale of discontinued operations

  —     —     —     —     —     —     —     3.92 
                        

Net income (loss) per share—Basic

 $0.10  $0.03  $(1.49) $0.88  $(0.02) $(0.86) $(0.37) $1.67 
                        

Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing basic income (loss) per share

  31,083   31,239   31,316   31,376   31,461   32,626   33,158   33,291 
                        

Net income (loss) per share—Diluted

        

Income (loss) from continuing operations

 $0.14  $0.25  $(1.27) $0.93  $0.11  $(0.64) $(0.20) $(2.00)

Loss from discontinued operations

  (0.05)  (0.22)  (0.22)  (0.10)  (0.13)  (0.22)  (0.17)  (0.25)

Gain on sale of discontinued operations

  —     —     —     —     —     —     —     3.92 
                        

Net income (loss) per share—Diluted

 $0.09  $0.03  $(1.49) $0.83  $(0.02) $(0.86) $(0.37) $1.67 
                        

Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing diluted income (loss) per share

  32,917   32,931   31,316   33,097   33,644   32,626   33,158   33,291 
                        

  March 31,
2006
  June 30,
2006
  September 30,
2006
  December 31,
2006
  March 31,
2007
  June 30,
2007
  September 30,
2007
  December 31,
2007
 
  (as a percent of revenue) 

Revenues

 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%

Operating expenses:

        

Content and distribution

 41.1  40.5  42.2  37.9  41.7  39.6  45.1  48.5 

Systems and network operations

 5.6  7.2  8.5  8.6  6.3  7.6  6.8  7.2 

Product development

 5.4  3.6  3.9  5.0  6.3  7.8  6.2  7.9 

Sales and marketing

 10.3  8.4  9.6  13.7  13.5  21.0  16.3  31.4 

General and administrative

 25.2  18.9  23.2  23.0  26.9  93.0  37.5  136.2 

Depreciation

 3.1  2.9  2.8  4.4  3.9  4.0  4.3  3.7 

Restructuring

 0.0  0.0  142.3  13.3  1.2  1.2  1.6  21.0 

Other, net

 0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  (3.5) (6.4) 0.2  0.0 
                        

Total operating expenses

 90.8  81.5  232.5  105.9  96.3  167.8  118.0  255.9 
                        

Operating income (loss)

 9.2  18.5  (132.5) (5.9) 3.7  (67.8) (18.0) (155.9)

Gain (loss) on investments

 0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.2  0.0  (5.6)

Other income, net

 10.4  11.3  13.5  16.2  14.9  13.7  8.3  14.7 
                        

Income (loss) before income taxes

 19.6  29.8  (119.0) 10.3  18.6  (53.9) (9.7) (146.8)

Income tax benefit (expense)

 (7.3) (9.9) 21.3  80.1  (8.6) (12.3) (9.9) (23.9)
                        

Income (loss) from continuing operations

 12.3  19.9  (97.7) 90.4  10.0  (66.2) (19.6) (170.7)

Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of taxes

 (4.3) (17.5) (17.4) (9.3) (11.5) (22.4) (16.6) (21.6)

Gain on sale of discontinued operations, net of taxes

 0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  0.0  334.4 
                        

Net income (loss)

 8.0% 2.4% (115.1)% 81.1% (1.5)% (88.6)% (36.2)% 142.1%
                        

 

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

In June 2006,December 2007, the Financial Accounting StandardStandards Board (“FASB”) issued InterpretationSFAS No. 141 (revised 2007), Business Combinations (“FIN”)SFAS No. 48,141(R)”)Accounting. In SFAS No. 141(R), the FASB retained the fundamental requirements of SFAS No. 141 to account for Uncertainty in Income Taxes. FIN No. 48 prescribes a recognition thresholdall business combinations using the acquisition method and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expectedan acquiring entity to be takenidentified in all business combinations. However, the revised standard requires the acquiring entity in a tax return. FINbusiness combination to recognize all the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the transaction; establishes the acquisition-date fair value as the measurement objective for all assets acquired and liabilities assumed; and requires the acquirer to immediately expense costs related to the acquisition. SFAS No. 48 also provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure, and transition. FIN No. 48141(R) is effective for our first fiscal yearannual periods beginning on or after December 15, 2008. Accordingly, any business combinations we engage in will be recorded and disclosed according to the provisions of SFAS No. 141 until January 1, 2009. The impact that SFAS No. 141(R) will have on our consolidated financial statements when effective will depend upon the nature, terms and size of the acquisitions we complete after the effective date.

In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159,The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities—including an amendment to SFAS No. 115, Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities. SFAS No. 159 permits entities to measure certain financial assets and financial liabilities at fair value. SFAS No. 159 requires prospective application and is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. We are currently evaluating the provisions of FINSFAS No. 48159 to determine what effect its adoption on January 1, 2008 will have on our financial position, cash flows, and results of operations, however we do not believe that there will be any material effect of adoption of FIN No. 48.

In September 2006, the SEC issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 108,Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements. SAB No. 108 provides interpretive guidance on how the effects of prior-year uncorrected misstatements should be considered when quantifying misstatements in the current year financial statements. SAB No. 108 requires registrants to quantify misstatements using both an income statement (“rollover”) and balance sheet (“iron curtain”) approach and evaluate whether either approach results in a misstatement that, when all relevant quantitative and qualitative factors are considered, is material. SAB No. 108 was effective for 2006. The application of SAB No. 108 did not have an effect on our financial position, cash flows, or results of operations.

In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157,Fair Value Measurements. SFAS No. 157 defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosure of fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 applies under other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements and accordingly, does not require any new fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. On February 12, 2008, the FASB issued Staff Position No. FAS 157-2,Effective Date of FASB Statement No. 157, which delayed the effective date of SFAS No. 157 for nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities to fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2008. We are currently evaluating the provisions of SFAS No. 157 to determine what effect its adoption on January 1, 2008 for financial assets and financial liabilities, and January 1, 2009 for nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities, will have on our financial position, cash flows, and results of operations.

ITEM 7A.    Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

 

We are exposed to financial market risks, including changes in interest rates, foreign currency fluctuations, and changes in the market values of our investments.

 

Interest Rate Risk.    We invest our available cash in investment-grade debt instruments of corporate issuers and in debt instruments of the U.S. Government and its agencies. By policy, we limit our credit exposure to any one issuer. We do not have any derivative instruments in our investment portfolio. We protect and preserve invested funds by limiting default, market and reinvestment risk. Investments in both fixed-rate and floating-rate interest earning instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk. Fixed-rate securities may have their fair market value adversely impacted due to a rise in interest rates, while floating-rate securities may produce less income than expected if interest rates fall. Due in part to these factors, our future investment income may fall short of expectations due to changes in interest rates or we may suffer losses in principal if we are forced to sell securities which have declined in market value due to changes in interest rates. At December 31, 2006,2007, our short-term investment balances were $238.4$39.0 million and our long-term investment balances were $37.5 million.

 

The following table provides information about our cash equivalent and marketable fixed-income securities, including principal cash flows for 20062007 and the related weighted average interest rates. Amounts are presented in U.S. dollar equivalents, which is our reporting currency.

 

Principal amounts by expected year of maturity in U.S. dollars as of December 31, 20062007 are as follows (in thousands, except percentages):

 

  2007 Fair Value  2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 Thereafter Total Fair Value

Corporate bonds

  $11,922  $11,928  $18,091  $—    $—    $—    $—    $—    $18,091  $18,109

Weighted average interest rate

   5.44%    5.2%  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  5.2% 

U.S. government securities

   140,616   140,636   251,173   —     —     —     —     —     251,173   251,225

Weighted average interest rate

   5.33%    3.6%  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  3.6% 

Auction Rate securities

   85,880   85,880   —     —     —     —     —     40,430   40,430   37,472
                        

Weighted average interest rate

   5.33%    0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  0.0%  7.0%  7.0% 

Commercial Paper

   130,032   130,048

Weighted average interest rate

   4.86% 
      

Cash equivalents and marketable fixed-income securities

  $368,450  $368,492  $269,264  $—    $—    $—    $—    $40,430  $309,694  $306,806
                              

 

Foreign Currency Risk:    Our earnings and cash flows are subject to fluctuations due to changes in the exchange rates of the principal currency of countries that we operate in (Canada(countries in Europe, and countries in Europe)India) versus the U.S. dollar. We are exposed to these exchange rate fluctuations as the financial results of our non-U.S. based subsidiaries are translated into U.S. dollars in consolidation. As exchange rates vary, those results, when translated, may vary from expectations and adversely impact our results. The cumulative translation effects for subsidiaries using functional currencies other than the U.S. dollar are included in accumulated other comprehensive income in stockholders’ equity. We do not currently use derivative instruments to manage our exposure to changes in foreign currency exchange rates as this exposure has had an immaterial impact on our past financial results.

Financial Market Risk:    We do not invest in financial instruments or their derivatives for trading or speculative purposes. Included within our investment portfolio at December 31, 2007 were auction rate securities that we purchased for $40.4 million. These investments failed to trade at recent auctions due to insufficient bids from buyers. While we now earn a premium interest rate on the auction rate securities that failed to settle in the auction process, the investments cannot be quickly converted into cash and were considered illiquid as of December 31, 2007. We determined that the fair value of those auction rate securities was $37.5 million at

December 31, 2007, and we recorded an other-than- temporary impairment of $2.2 million related to a portion of the auction rate securities, recorded as Gain (loss) on investments in the Consolidated Statement of Operation. If the issuers are unable to successfully close future auctions and their credit ratings deteriorate, the fair value of those auction rate securities may continue to decline and we may record further other-than-temporary impairment charges.

Based on our ability to access our cash and short-term investments, our expected operating cash flows, and our other sources of cash, we do not anticipate that the lack of liquidity of these investments will affect our ability to operate our businesses in the ordinary course.

ITEM 8.Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

ITEM 8.    Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

 

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

INFOSPACE, Inc.

  Page

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

  51

Consolidated Balance Sheets

  52

Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss)

  53

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity

  54

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

  55

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

  56

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of

InfoSpace, Inc.

Bellevue, Washington

 

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of InfoSpace, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 20062007 and 2005,2006, and the related consolidated statements of operations, and comprehensive income (loss), changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2006.2007. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of InfoSpace, Inc. and subsidiaries as of December 31, 20062007 and 2005,2006, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2006,2007, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

As discussed in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company changed its method of accounting for stock-based compensation upon adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123(R),Share-Based Payment, effective January 1, 2006.

 

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006,2007, based on the criteria established inInternal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated February 21, 20072008 expressed an unqualified opinion on management’s assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting and an adverse opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting because of a material weakness.reporting.

 

/s/ DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

 

Seattle, Washington

February 21, 20072008

INFOSPACE, INC.

 

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(amounts in thousands, except share data)

 

  December 31,   December 31, 
  2006 2005   2007 2006 
ASSETS      

Current assets:

      

Cash and cash equivalents

  $163,505  $153,013   $498,326  $162,387 

Short-term investments, available-for-sale

   238,444   222,360    39,019   238,444 

Accounts receivable, net of allowance of $1,240 and $1,507

   78,742   71,661 

Accounts receivable, net of allowance of $202 and $186

   17,081   13,342 

Notes and other receivables

   3,402   3,972    7,104   2,290 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

   14,753   12,639    1,902   5,621 

Assets of discontinued operations

   4,730   200,998 
              

Total current assets

   498,846   463,645    568,162   623,082 

Property and equipment, net

   33,212   26,889    10,945   10,187 

Goodwill

   104,424   176,979 

Other intangible assets, net

   19,565   44,080 

Long-term investments, available-for-sale

   37,472   —   

Goodwill and other intangible assets, net

   44,123   44,123 

Deferred tax assets, net

   101,571   25,000    —     81,587 

Other long-term assets

   8,221   6,786    10,722   6,860 
              

Total assets

  $765,839  $743,379   $671,424  $765,839 
              
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY      

Current liabilities:

      

Accounts payable

  $13,031  $11,585   $5,148  $8,388 

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

   61,156   51,917    78,703   29,235 

Short-term deferred revenue

   6,708   2,474 

Special dividend payable

   299,296   —   

Liabilities of discontinued operations

   21,753   49,017 
              

Total current liabilities

   80,895   65,976    404,900   86,640 

Long-term liabilities:

   

Other liabilities and long-term deferred revenue

   877   2,011 

Deferred tax liabilities

   5,502   10,421 
       

Total long-term liabilities

   6,379   12,432 

Long-term liabilities

   634   634 
              

Total liabilities

   87,274   78,408    405,534   87,274 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 7)

   —     —   

Commitments and contingencies (Note 6)

   —     —   

Stockholders’ equity:

      

Common stock, par value $.0001—authorized, 900,000,000 shares; issued and outstanding, 31,392,862 and 31,018,795 shares

   3   3 

Common stock, par value $.0001—authorized, 900,000,000 shares; issued and outstanding, 34,321,954 and 31,392,862 shares

   3   3 

Additional paid-in capital

   1,712,897   1,684,974    1,286,219   1,712,897 

Accumulated deficit

   (1,035,613)  (1,020,525)   (1,021,034)  (1,035,613)

Accumulated other comprehensive income

   1,278   519    702   1,278 
              

Total stockholders’ equity

   678,565   664,971    265,890   678,565 
              

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

  $765,839  $743,379   $671,424  $765,839 
              

 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

INFOSPACE, INC.

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

(amounts in thousands, except per share data)

 

  Years Ended December 31,   Years ended December 31, 
  2006 2005 2004   2007 2006 2005 

Revenues

  $371,737  $339,968  $249,354   $140,537  $153,800  $144,003 

Operating expenses:

        

Content and distribution

   178,327   145,351   92,688    61,765   62,346   59,897 

Systems and network operations

   31,222   21,375   14,220    9,800   11,494   7,592 

Product development

   46,340   31,203   23,142    9,921   6,814   6,640 

Sales and marketing

   46,518   31,062   23,486    29,259   15,935   15,809 

General and administrative

   51,725   40,234   36,348    105,083   34,507   27,344 

Depreciation

   16,083   9,061   6,974    5,542   5,044   3,334 

Amortization of other intangible assets

   12,213   15,265   9,920 

Restructuring

   62,316   —     222    9,590   62,316   —   

Other, net

   —     —     (3,203)   (3,248)  —     —   
                    

Total operating expenses

   444,744   293,551   203,797    227,712   198,456   120,616 
                    

Operating income (loss)

   (73,007)  46,417   45,557    (87,175)  (44,656)  23,387 

Gain on investments, net

   —     154   425 

Gain (loss) on investments, net

   (2,117)  —     154 

Other income, net

   19,381   89,322   4,991    18,226   19,581   89,418 
                    

Income (loss) from continuing operations before income tax benefit

   (53,626)  135,893   50,973 

Income tax benefit

   38,538   23,475   29 

Income (loss) from continuing operations before income tax benefit (expense)

   (71,066)  (25,075)  112,959 

Income tax benefit (expense)

   (19,671)  29,060   24,154 
                    

Income (loss) from continuing operations

   (15,088)  159,368   51,002    (90,737)  3,985   137,113 

Discontinued operations:

        

Income from discontinued operations, net of taxes

   —     —     2,277 

Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of taxes

   (25,306)  (19,073)  22,255 

Gain on sale of discontinued operations, net of taxes

   —     —     29,122    130,622   —     —   
                    

Net income (loss)

  $(15,088) $159,368  $82,401   $14,579  $(15,088) $159,368 
                    

Earnings (loss) per share—Basic:

        

Income (loss) from continuing operations

  $(0.48) $4.94  $1.59   $(2.78) $0.13  $4.25 

Income from discontinued operations

  $—    $—    $0.98 

Income (loss) from discontinued operations

   (0.77)  (0.61)  0.69 

Gain on sale of discontinued operations

   4.00   —     —   
                    

Basic net income (loss) per share

  $(0.48) $4.94  $2.57   $0.45  $(0.48) $4.94 
                    

Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing basic net income (loss) per share

   31,254   32,284   32,109 

Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing basic income (loss) per share

   32,640   31,254   32,284 

Earnings (loss) per share—Diluted:

        

Income (loss) from continuing operations

  $(0.48) $4.47  $1.40   $(2.78) $0.12  $3.85 

Income from discontinued operations

  $—    $—    $0.86 

Income (loss) from discontinued operations

   (0.77)  (0.58)  0.62 

Gain on sale of discontinued operations

   4.00   —     —   
                    

Diluted net income (loss) per share

  $(0.48) $4.47  $2.26   $0.45  $(0.46) $4.47 
                    

Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing diluted net income (loss) per share

   31,254   35,616   36,541 

Weighted average shares outstanding used in computing diluted income (loss) per share

   32,640   33,042   35,616 

Other comprehensive income (loss):

        

Net income (loss)

  $(15,088) $159,368  $82,401   $14,579  $(15,088) $159,368 

Foreign currency translation adjustment

   456   (745)  526    297   456   (745)

Unrealized gain (loss) on investments, available-for-sale

   489   219   (687)

Unrealized gain on investments, available-for-sale

   1,438   489   219 

Cumulative tax effect on unrealized gain on investments, available-for-sale

   (186)  —     —      —     (186)  —   
                    

Comprehensive income (loss)

  $(14,329) $158,842  $82,240   $16,314  $(14,329) $158,842 
                    

 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

INFOSPACE, INC.

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005

(in thousands)

 

  Common Stock  

Paid-In

Capital

  

Accumulated

deficit

  

Accumulated

other

comprehensive
income

  Total  Common stock Paid-in
capital
  Accumulated
deficit
  Accumulated
other
comprehensive
income
  Total 
  Shares Amount   

Balance, December 31, 2003

  31,470  $3  $1,707,617  $(1,262,294) $1,206  $446,532 

Common stock issued for stock options

  1,386   —     31,601   —     —     31,601 

Common stock issued for employee stock purchase plan

  59   —     1,146   —     —     1,146 

Common stock repurchased and/or retired

  (21)  —     (698)  —     —     (698)

Stock-based compensation

  —     —     1,575   —     —     1,575 

Unrealized loss on available-for-sale investments

  —     —     —     —     (687)  (687)

Foreign currency translation adjustment

  —     —     —     —     526   526 

Net income

  —     —     —     82,401   —     82,401 
                    Shares Amount Paid-in
capital
  Accumulated
deficit
  Accumulated
other
comprehensive
income
  Total 

Balance, December 31, 2004

  32,894   3   1,741,241   (1,179,893)  1,045   562,396  32,894  $3 

Common stock issued for stock options

  703   —     12,614   —     —     12,614  703   —    12,614   —     —     12,614 

Common stock issued for employee stock purchase plan

  60   —     1,512   —     —     1,512  60   —    1,512   —     —     1,512 

Common stock repurchased and/or retired

  (2,638)  —     (70,393)  —     —     (70,393) (2,638)  —    (70,393)  —     —     (70,393)

Unrealized gain on available-for-sale investments

  —     —     —     —     219   219  —     —    —     —     219   219 

Foreign currency translation adjustment

  —     —     —     —     (745)  (745) —     —    —     —     (745)  (745)

Net income

  —     —     —     159,368   —     159,368  —     —    —     159,368   —     159,368 
                                    

Balance, December 31, 2005

  31,019   3   1,684,974   (1,020,525)  519   664,971  31,019   3  1,684,974   (1,020,525)  519   664,971 

Common stock issued for stock options

  280   —     3,599   —     —     3,599  280   —    3,599   —     —     3,599 

Common stock issued for employee stock purchase plan

  94   —     1,833   —     —     1,833  94   —    1,833   —     —     1,833 

Unrealized gain on available-for-sale investments

  —     —     —     —     489   489  —     —    —     —     489   489 

Excess tax benefits

  —     —     4,563   —     (186)  4,377  —     —    4,563   —     (186)  4,377 

Foreign currency translation adjustment

  —     —     —     —     456   456  —     —    —     —     456   456 

Stock-based compensation

  —     —     17,928   —     —     17,928  —     —    17,928   —     —     17,928 

Net loss

  —     —     —     (15,088)  —     (15,088) —     —    —     (15,088)  —     (15,088)
                                    

Balance, December 31, 2006

  31,393  $3  $1,712,897  $(1,035,613) $1,278  $678,565  31,393   3  1,712,897   (1,035,613)  1,278   678,565 

Common stock issued for stock options and restricted stock units

 1,701   —    9,949   —     —     9,949 

Common stock issued for employee stock purchase plan

 77   —    1,382   —     —     1,382 

Common stock issued for warrants

 1,151   —    3,787   —     —     3,787 

Unrealized loss on available-for-sale investments

 —     —    —     —     (744)  (744)

Foreign currency translation adjustment

 —     —    —     —     168   168 

Excess tax benefits

 —     —    21,772   —     —     21,772 

Stock-based compensation

 —     —    50,283   —     —     50,283 

Taxes paid on stock issued for equity awards

 —     —    (6,238)  —     —     (6,238)

Common stock repurchased

 —     —    (114)  —     —     (114)

Special dividends

 —     —    (507,499)  —     —     (507,499)

Net income

 —     —    —     14,579   —     14,579 
                                    

Balance, December 31, 2007

 34,322  $3 $1,286,219  $(1,021,034) $702  $265,890 
                 

 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

INFOSPACE, INC.

 

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(in thousands)

 

  Years Ended December 31,   Years ended December 31, 
  2006 2005 2004   2007 2006 2005 

Operating Activities:

        

Net income (loss)

  $(15,088) $159,368  $82,401   $14,579  $(15,088) $159,368 

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by operating activities:

    

Income from discontinued operations

   —     —     (31,399)

Restructuring

   62,316   —     222 

Depreciation and amortization

   28,296   24,326   16,894 

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided (used) by operating activities:

    

Loss (income) from discontinued operations

   25,306   19,073   (22,255)

Gain on sale of discontinued operations

   (130,622)  —     —   

Stock-based compensation

   16,863   —     981    34,058   11,269   —   

Deferred income taxes

   (39,001)  (26,931)  —      19,810   (24,870)  (25,000)

Restructuring

   9,590   62,316   —   

Depreciation

   5,542   5,044   3,334 

Loss (gain) on investments

   2,182   —     (154)

Excess tax benefits from stock-based award activity

   (30,694)  —     —   

Net gain on sale of assets

   (3,409)  (150)  —   

Other

   248   464   (620)   (196)  (28)  (126)

Cash provided (used) by changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of assets acquired in business combinations:

        

Accounts receivable

   (7,180)  (13,585)  (29,800)   (3,657)  4,598   3,388 

Notes and other receivables

   570   16,853   (2,914)   (3,941)  (517)  18,258 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

   315   (8,535)  967    1,499   2,704   (4,073)

Other long-term assets

   (1,435)  (1,190)  (543)   (1,862)  (402)  (1,038)

Accounts payable

   1,842   2,244   (1,749)   (5,445)  3,184   2,598 

Accrued expenses and other current and long-term liabilities

   (7,243)  5,913   14,806    33,882   (6,336)  (3,112)

Deferred revenue

   3,037   (1,340)  1,863 
                    

Net cash provided by operating activities

   43,540   157,587   51,109 

Net cash provided (used) by operating activities

   (33,378)  60,797   131,188 

Investing Activities:

        

Other long-term assets

   —     —     (4,495)

Purchases of property and equipment

   (22,600)  (16,969)  (10,410)   (3,684)  (7,355)  (5,692)

Purchase of intangible assets

   (320)  —     —   

Business acquisitions, net of cash acquired

   —     (26,364)  (130,607)

Other long-term assets

   —     (4,495)  —   

Proceeds from sale of discontinued operations

   —     —     82,000 

Proceeds from sale of assets and equity investments

   35   293   2,339 

Proceeds from sale of assets

   2,838   —     293 

Loan to equity investee

   (2,000)  —     —   

Proceeds from sales and maturities of investments

   298,288   202,947   446,363    294,381   298,288   202,947 

Purchases of investments

   (313,883)  (188,964)  (499,204)   (135,354)  (313,883)  (188,964)
                    

Net cash used by investing activities

   (38,480)  (33,552)  (109,519)

Net cash provided (used) by investing activities

   156,181   (22,950)  4,089 

Financing Activities:

        

Special dividend paid

   (208,203)  —     —   

Common stock repurchases

   —     (70,393)  —      —     —     (70,393)

Proceeds from exercise of stock options

   3,599   12,614   31,601 

Proceeds from stock option and warrant exercises

   13,736   3,599   12,614 

Proceeds from issuance of stock through employee stock purchase plan

   1,833   1,512   1,146    1,382   1,833   1,512 

Excess tax benefits from stock-based award activity

   30,694   —     —   
                    

Net cash provided (used) by financing activities

   5,432   (56,267)  32,747    (162,391)  5,432   (56,267)

Discontinued operations:

    

Operating activities

   33,760   (17,569)  28,421 

Investing activities

   341,767   (15,003)  (37,690)
                    

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

   10,492   67,768   (25,663)

Net cash provided (used) by discontinued operations

   375,527   (32,572)  (9,269)
          

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents

   335,939   10,707   69,741 

Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period

   153,013   85,245   110,908    162,387   151,680   81,939 
                    

Cash and cash equivalents, end of period

  $163,505  $153,013  $85,245   $498,326  $162,387  $151,680 
                    

Cash paid for income taxes:

  $782  $3,644  $943 

Supplemental disclosure of non-cash financing activities:

    

Special dividend payable at year end

  $299,296   —     —   

Cash paid for:

    

Income taxes for continuing operations

  $—    $185  $2,674 

 

See notes to consolidated financial statements.

INFOSPACE, INC.

 

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005

 

Note 1:    Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

Description of the business:    InfoSpace, Inc. (the “Company” or “InfoSpace”) uses its technology, including metasearch, to power its branded Web sites and provide private-label online search and directory services to its distribution partners. The Company also is a provider and publisher of mobile content, products and services assisting consumers with finding information, personalization and entertainment on the mobile phone.

 

Principles of consolidation:    The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.

 

Basis of presentation:    On MarchOctober 31, 2004,2007, the Company completed the sale of its Payment Solutionsdirectory business to Lightbridge,Idearc Inc., for $82.0$225.0 million in cash. On December 28, 2007, the Company completed the sale of its mobile business to Motricity, Inc., for $135.0 million in cash. The operating results of the Payment Solutions businessdirectory and mobile businesses have been presented as a discontinued operationoperations in the Consolidated Statements of Operations for all years presented.

 

Business combinations:    Business combinations accounted for under the purchase method of accounting include the results of operations of the acquired business from the date of acquisition. Net assets of the business acquired are recorded at their fair value at the date of acquisition.

 

Cash and cash equivalents:    The Company considers all highly liquid debt instruments with an original maturity of 90ninety days or less to be Cash equivalents. Cash and cash equivalents are carried at cost, which approximates market value.

 

Short-term and long-term investments:    The Company principally invests its available cash in investment-grade debt instruments of corporate issuers and in debt instruments of the U.S. Government and its agencies. Auction Rate Securities and allAll debt instruments with original maturities greater than three monthsninety days up to one year from the balance sheet date are considered Short-term investments. Other investments maturing after one year from the balance sheet date are generally considered Long-term investments. The Company accounts for investments in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (“SFAS”) No. 115,Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities. SFAS No. 115 and Securities and Exchange Commission’s Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”) No. 59,Accounting for Noncurrent Marketable Equity Securities, provide guidance for determining when certain investments are other-than-temporarily impaired. The Company periodically evaluates whether the declines in fair value of its available-for-sale investments are other than temporary. As of December 31, 20062007 and 2005,2006, the Company’s Short-term and Long-term investments are classified as available-for-sale and are reported at their fair market value, with changes in fair valueunrealized gains and temporary impairments reported in Other comprehensive income (loss)., and other-than-temporary impairments reported as Gains (losses) on investments in the Consolidated Statement of Operations.

 

Property and equipment:    Property and equipment are stated at cost. Depreciation is computed under the straight-line method over the following estimated useful lives:

 

Computer equipment and software

  

3 years

Data center servers

  

3 years

Internally developed software

  3 years

15 – 36 months

Office equipment

  

7 years

Office furniture

  

7 years

Leasehold improvements

  

Shorter of lease term or economic life

INFOSPACE, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006 and 2005

 

The Company has capitalized certain internal use software development costs in accordance with Statement of Position 98-1,Accounting for the Costs of Computer Software Developed or Obtained for Internal Use. Costs capitalized primarily consist of employee salaries and benefits allocated on a project or product basis. The Company capitalized $2.3$1.5 million, $2.8$1.1 million, and $1.9 million$15,000 of internal-use software costs in the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005, and 2004, respectively.

INFOSPACE, INC.

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004

 

Valuation of goodwill and intangible assets:    In accordance with SFAS No. 142,Goodwill and Intangible Assets, the Company evaluates Goodwill and Other intangible assets at least annually to determine whether there has been any impairment of the value of these assets and evaluates impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the Company’s assets might not be recoverable. The Company also accounts for definite-lived intangible assets in accordance with SFAS No. 144,Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets.

The following table provides information about activity in Goodwill for the period from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2007 (in thousands):

   Goodwill 

Balance as of January 1, 2006

  $176,979 

Adjustments for deferred taxes associated with reduction of valuation allowance

   (35,622)

Adjustments for deferred taxes associated with acquisitions

   (5,030)

Reclassification to discontinued operations

   (60,484)

Restructuring impairment

   (31,903)
     

Balance as of December 31, 2007 and 2006

  $43,940 
     

Other intangible assets consisted of the following (in thousands):

   December 31, 2007 and 2006
   Gross
carrying

amount
  Accumulated
amortization
  Other
intangible
assets,
net

Definite-lived intangible assets:

     

Core technology

  $800  $(800) $—  

Other

   6,667   (6,667)  —  
            

Total definite-lived intangible assets

   7,467   (7,467)  —  

Indefinite-lived intangible assets

   183   —     183
            

Total

  $7,650  $(7,467) $183
            

Assuming the Company does not acquire businesses or intangible assets in the future, no amortization of definite-lived intangible assets is expected in 2008.

Impairment and Allocation Analyses:    In the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005, the Company conducted its annual impairment analysis for goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets as of November 30, 2007, 2006, and 2005 and determined that the carrying value of its goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets, other than in connection with its 2006 restructuring, was not impaired. The annual impairment analysis is based on a valuation of the Company’s reporting units using a combination of the Company’s quoted stock price and projections of future discounted cash flows for each reporting unit.

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In the year ended December 31, 2007, related to the sale of its directory business, the Company allocated $60.5 million of goodwill to discontinued operations from its former Online segment based on an analysis using a combination of the revenues, direct contribution to profit and cash flows of the directory and search businesses, and the Company’s quoted stock price.

In the year ended December 31, 2006, impairmentsas part of otherits restructuring, the Company evaluated its intangible assets and recorded an impairment charge of $12.6 million related to certain definite-lived intangible assets acquired in acquisitions and, goodwillaccordingly, the Company determined that an impairment occurred and, in addition, as part of the restructuring, Goodwill was evaluated and an impairment charge of $31.9 million werewas recorded. These impairments are recorded in Restructuring.

 

Other investments:    The Company has invested in equity investments of privately-held companies for business and strategic purposes. As of December 31, 2006 and 2005, the Company has an investment with a carrying value of $2.1 million in a privately-held company, which also includes a warrant to purchase shares in such company. Investments in companies whose securities are not publicly traded are recorded at cost. Realized gains are recorded based on the identified specific cost of the investment sold. Warrants held by the Company to purchase equity securities are included in the Consolidated Balance Sheets at their fair value with changes in fair value recorded as Gains or losses on investments in the Consolidated StatementStatements of Operations. Realized gains are recorded based on the identified specific cost of the investment sold. The Company does not exercise significant influence over the operating or financial policies of any of the non-public companies in which it has invested and therefore accounts for such investments under the cost method and records the investment in Other long-term assets. The Company accounts for these investments in equity instruments in accordance with SFAS No. 115Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities and the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Staff Accounting Bulletin (“SAB”)SAB No. 59,Accounting for Noncurrent Marketable Equity Securities, which provide guidance on determining when an investment is other-than-temporarily impaired. The Company periodically evaluates whether the declines in fair value of its equity investments are other-than-temporary.other-than-temporary, and reports other-than-temporary impairments as Gains (losses) on investments in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Revenues:    The Company generates revenues from its search services. Revenues are generated when an end user of its services clicks on a paid search link displayed on one of the Company’s owned and operated Web sites or through a distribution partner’s Web property, in which the Company offers its private-label online search products and services for distribution partners to offer on its Web properties.

Search revenue is recorded on a gross basis in accordance with Emerging Issues Task Force Issue 99-19,Reporting Revenue Gross as a Principal versus Net as an Agent. The Company is the primary obligor in the revenue-generating relationships with its search engine customers; it separately negotiates each revenue or unit pricing contract independent of any revenue sharing arrangements and assumes the credit risk for amounts invoiced to such customers. Revenues are recognized in the period in which a paid search occurs and are based on the amounts earned and remitted to the Company. The Company, through its meta-search technology, determines the paid search results, content and information directed to its owned and operated Web sites and its distribution partners’ Web properties. The Company earns revenue from its search engine customers by providing paid search results generated from its distribution partners’ Web properties based on separately negotiated and agreed-upon terms with each distribution partner.

Content and distribution expenses:    Content and distribution expenses consist principally of costs related to revenue sharing arrangements with distribution partners in connection with the search services for Web properties of the Company’s distribution partners and other content or data licenses.

System and network operation expenses:    System and network operation expenses are costs associated with the delivery, maintenance and support of the Company’s products, services and infrastructure and principally consists of personnel costs, which include salaries, benefits and other employee related costs, stock-based

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compensation, and temporary help and contractors to augment staffing needs, communication costs, such as high-speed Internet access and hosting, equipment maintenance and repair, and professional service fees.

Product development expenses:    Product development expenses consist principally of personnel costs, which include salaries, benefits and other employee related costs, stock-based compensation, and temporary help and contractors to augment staffing needs, for research, development, support and ongoing enhancements of the Company’s products and services.

Sales and marketing expenses:    Sales and marketing expenses consist principally of personnel costs, which include salaries, benefits and other employee related costs, stock-based compensation, and temporary help and contractors to augment staffing needs, and public relations, advertising, market research and promotion expenses. Costs for advertising are recorded as expense when the advertisement appears or electronic impressions are recorded. Advertising expense totaled $4.3 million, $4.1 million, and $6.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005, respectively.

General and administrative expenses:    General and administrative expenses consist principally of personnel costs, stock-based compensation, professional service fees, which include legal, audit, and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance fees, occupancy and general office expenses, and general business development and management expenses.

 

Stock-based compensation:    On January 1, 2006, the Company adopted SFAS No. 123(R),Share-Based Payment, which requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expense for all share-based payment awards made to employees and directors including stock option grants and purchases of stock made pursuant to the Company’s 1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “ESPP”) based on estimated fair values. SFAS No. 123(R) supersedes the Company’s previous accounting under Accounting Principles Board Opinion (“APB”) No. 25,Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees. The Company adopted SFAS No. 123(R) using the modified prospective transition method, which requires the application of the accounting standard as of January 1, 2006. In accordance with the modified prospective transition method, the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements for the yearsyear ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 havehas not been restated to reflect, and dodoes not include, the impact of SFAS No. 123(R). Expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the requisite vesting period for each separately vesting portion of the award.

 

SFAS No. 123(R) requires companies to estimate the fair value of share-based payment awards on the date of grant using an option-pricing model. The value of the award’s portion that is ultimately expected to vest is recognized as expense over the requisite service periods in the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements for the yearyears ended December 31, 2007 and 2006. Prior to the adoption of SFAS No. 123(R), the Company accounted for share-based awards to employees and directors using the intrinsic value method in accordance with APB No. 25 as allowed under SFAS No. 123,Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation. Under the intrinsic value method, share-based compensation expense was only recognized by the Company if the exercise price of the grant was less than the fair market value of the underlying stock at the date of grant.

 

In November 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards BoardFASB issued Staff Position No. FAS 123(R)-3,Transition Election Related to Accounting for the Tax Effects of Share-Based Payment Awards, (“FSP No. 123(R)-3”). The Company has elected to adopt the alternative transition method provided in FSP No. 123(R)-3 for calculating the tax effects of stock-based compensation under SFAS No. 123(R). The

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alternative transition method includes simplified methods to establish the beginning balance of the additional paid in capital pool (“APIC pool”) related to the tax effects of stock-based compensation, and for determining the subsequent impact on the APIC pool and

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Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows of the tax effects of stock-based compensation awards that are outstanding upon adoption of SFAS No. 123(R).

 

Revenues:Employee Benefit Plan:    

Online revenue:    The Company generates revenues fromhas a 401(k) savings plan covering its online search, yellow page and white page services. Revenues are generated when an end user of its services generates a paid search on oneU.S. based employees. Eligible employees may contribute through payroll deductions. The Company may match the employees’ 401(k) contributions at the discretion of the Company’s ownedBoard of Directors. During 2007, 2006, and operated Web sites or through a distribution partner’s Web property, in which the Company offers its private label online search and directory products and services for distribution partners to offer on its Web properties. Revenues are recognized in the period in which a paid search occurs and are based on the amounts earned and remitted to the Company.

Certain of2005, the Company’s agreements contain maximum thresholds for paid searches for which a customer will pay during a specific periodBoard of time. In such circumstances, the Company recognizes revenue at the lesser of the amount that would be recorded based on the amount due per paid search, or the amount that would be recognized if the maximum amount due from the customer over the specified time provided in the agreement were recognized ratably over that period.

For distribution partner arrangements, whereby the Company sharesDirectors elected to match a portion of the revenues earned through a distribution partner’s Web property, revenue is recorded on a gross basis in accordance with Emerging Issues Task Force Issue 99-19 (“EITF 99-19”),Reporting Revenue Gross as a Principal versus Net as an Agent.401(k) contributions made by employees of the Company. The Company recognizes the cost of revenue share payments to the distribution partners in Content and distribution expense. Typically, revenue share expenses are based on a contracted rate per paid search or as a percent of gross revenue earnedamount contributed by the Company.

Mobile revenue:    The Company earns revenue, typically from its agreements with mobile operators, from its content delivery services, which include both product downloads and subscriber usage, hosting and maintenance services and professional services and from salesis equal to a maximum of its media download products.

Subscriber usage fee revenue is generated based on the end users usage50% of the Company’s messaging or browsing services. Revenue from professional services is recognized in the period in which the work is completed and accepted by the customer. Professional services are typically contracted at hourly rates, which are consistently applied, although differ by geographic region. Revenue for hosting services and maintenanceemployee contributions up to a maximum of such services is recognized in the period in which the service is provided. The Company has entered into certain contracts that include set-up or integration fees and/or development fees, which are invoiced at the commencement3% of the agreement. Although these fees are sometimes paid to the Company at the commencement of the agreement, they are recognized ratably over the term of the agreement.

The Company’s revenue from product downloads is generated when end users purchase media download products, such as ringtones, graphics or games, via their mobile phones. The agreements with the mobile operators provide that the mobile operators are responsible for billing and collecting from the end users, and remitting fees to the Company, for the purchase of the product download that the Company licenses or as a service fee for delivering a media download product that the mobile operator licenses directly. In accordance with EITF 99-19, the Company recognizes revenue, and a corresponding expense, for transactions in which the Company acts as a principal and directly licenses content from the license holder(s). The Company records revenue on a net basis for transactions in which the Company acts as an agent and delivers content that the mobile operator licenses directly from the license holder(s).

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Content and distribution expenses:    Content and distribution expenses consist principally of costs related to licensing and royalty fee arrangements in connection with its mobile media download products for items such as ringtones, graphics and games, revenue sharing arrangements with distribution partners in connection with the search and directory services for Web properties of the Company’s distribution partners and other content or data licenses.

employee’s salary. For licensing and royalty agreements to secure the content for media download products, the Company records licensing and royalty expense in Content and distribution expense in the period in which the content or product is delivered. Certain agreements are based on a flat fee for a contracted period of time and these content expenses are recorded ratably over the contract period.

System and network operation expenses:    System and network operation expenses are costs associated with the delivery, maintenance and support of the Company’s products, services and infrastructure and principally consists of personnel costs, which include salaries, benefits and other employee related costs, and temporary help and contractors to augment staffing needs, communication costs, such as high-speed Internet access and hosting, equipment maintenance and repair, and professional service fees.

Product development expenses:    Product development expenses consist principally of personnel costs, which include salaries, benefits and other employee related costs, and temporary help and contractors to augment staffing needs, for research, development, support and ongoing enhancements of the Company’s products and services.

Sales and marketing expenses:    Sales and marketing expenses consist principally of personnel costs, which include salaries, benefits and other employee related costs, and temporary help and contractors to augment staffing needs, and public relations, advertising, market research and promotion expenses.

General and administrative expenses:    General and administrative expenses consist principally of personnel costs, professional service fees, which include legal, audit, and Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance fees, occupancy and general office expenses, and general business development and management expenses.

Advertising costs:    Costs for advertising are recorded as expense when the advertisement appears or electronic impressions are recorded. Advertising expense totaled $10.2 million, $7.6 million, and $5.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005, the Company contributed $315,000, $420,000, and 2004, respectively.$492,000, respectively, for employees of continuing operations.

 

Restructuring chargescharges::    Restructuring charges reflect actual and estimated costs associated with the reductions in workforce and costs associated with the closures of certain Company facilities. DuringIn 2007, the Company sold its directory and mobile service businesses and, as a result, committed to a plan to make operational changes to its business, which included a reduction in workforce and, as part of the workforce reduction, consolidation of facilities. In 2006, as a result of being informed by one of its carrier partners that it intended to develop direct relationships for mobile ringtone content with the major record labels beginning in 2007, the Company committed to a plan to make operational changes, which included a reduction in workforce and, as part of the workforce reduction, consolidation of facilities. Charges associated with thisthese restructuring planplans are accounted for in accordance with SFAS No. 146,Accounting for Costs Associated with Exit or Disposal Activities. SFAS No. 146 requires that a liability for a cost associated with an exit or disposal activity be recognized when the liability is incurred. Changing business conditions may affect the assumptions related to the timing and extent of restructuring activities. The Company will review the status of these activities on a quarterly basis and, if appropriate, record changes based on updated estimates. Included in Restructuring for 2006 are costs related to the impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets, employee separation costs, losses on contractual commitments, estimated future lease losses, and impairments of leasehold improvements and fixed assets.

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Other, net:    Other, net consists of costs and/or charges that are not directly associated with other revenues or operating expense classifications. Other, net during the year ended December 31, 2007 of $3.2 million primarily consisted of the gain on sale of non-core assets. There were no Other, net charges in the years ended December 31, 2006 and 2005. Other, net in the year ended December 31, 2004, of $3.2 million, primarily consists of the settlement of a litigation matter concerning promissory notes due from a former officer of the Company, resulting in a gain of $3.9 million, which was partially offset by a charge of $1.2 million related to the separation of a former executive officer.

Gain on equity investments:    Gain on equity investments consists of gains from changes in the fair values of derivative instruments held by the Company and the other-than-temporary impairment of equity instruments. The Company recorded impairment charges totaling $0, $0, and $916,000 for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004, respectively. The impairment charges are reflected in Gain on investments in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

The Company periodically holds warrants in publicly-held and privately-held companies, initially acquired for business or strategic purposes. In 2004, a company in which the Company held warrants to purchase shares of stock announced that it was being acquired and that any outstanding warrants to purchase shares of the company would also be purchased. The Company recognized a gain and proceeds of $1.4 million in 2004 based on the estimated fair value of the warrant. The warrant was subsequently sold for $1.5 million and the Company recorded a gain of $154,000 in 2005.

Gain on investments, net is comprised of the following for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004 (in thousands):

   Years Ended December 31, 
   2006  2005  2004 

Other-than-temporary investment impairments

  $ —    $—    $(916)

Increase in fair value of warrants

   —     154   1,341 
             
  $—    $154  $425 
             

 

Other income, net:    Other income, net for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004,2005, consists of the following (in thousands):

 

  Years Ended December 31,   Years ended December 31, 
  2006 2005 2004   2007 2006 2005 

Interest income

  $19,628  $11,250  $4,698   $18,194  $19,681  $11,177 

Gain on litigation settlement

   —     79,297   —      —     —     79,297 

Foreign currency exchange gain (loss)

   (42)  (1,131)  456 

Foreign currency exchange loss

   (131)  (42)  (1,131)

Other items, net

   (205)  (94)  (163)   163   (58)  75 
                    

Other income, net

  $19,381  $89,322  $4,991   $18,226  $19,581  $89,418 
                    

 

On March 25,In 2005, the Company received proceeds of $83.2 million from the settlement of several outstanding litigation matters. The Company recognized a gain of $79.3 million, comprised of the settlement proceeds and interest, less $3.9 million in legal fees. In January 2005, the Company recognized a foreign exchange loss of $934,000 in connection with anthe acquisition of elkware GmbH, a German mobile gaming company.

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Business combinations:    No business combinations were entered into during the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006. On January 7, 2005, the Company acquired elkware GmbH, a German mobile gaming company, at a cost of 20.0 million euros in cash, which approximated $26.4 million, excluding acquisition costs and liabilities assumed. The operations were combined with the Company’s United Kingdom games operations and the office in Germany was closed in 2006. The Company’s United Kingdom games operations were closed in 2007 as a result of the suspension of the Company’s investment in mobile media content initiatives, and a substantial reduction of its mobile media content product offerings.

Income from discontinued operations and gain on sale of discontinued operations:    In 2007, the Company completed the sale of its directory and mobile businesses and has reflected the results of operations from these businesses as discontinued operations for all periods presented.

For the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005, the Company recorded income from the operating results of its directory and mobile businesses and also recorded a gain on each sale in the year ended December 31, 2007 as follows (in thousands):

Directory

  Years ended December 31,
  2007  2006  2005

Revenue from discontinued operations

  $28,882  $33,103  $38,553

Income from discontinued operations before taxes

   11,349   14,748   17,730

Income tax expense

   (4,213)  (5,191)  —  
            

Income from discontinued operations, net of taxes

  $7,136  $9,557  $17,730
            

Gain on sale of discontinued operations, net of taxes

  $57,272  $—    $—  
            

Mobile

  Years ended December 31, 
  2007  2006  2005 

Revenue from discontinued operations

  $103,488  $184,834  $157,412 

Income (loss) from discontinued operations before taxes

   (50,100)  (43,299)  5,204 

Income tax benefit (expense)

   17,658   14,669   (679)
             

Income (loss) from discontinued operations, net of taxes

  $(32,442) $(28,630) $4,525 
             

Gain on sale of discontinued operations, net of taxes

  $73,350  $—    $—   
             

In 2007, the Company recorded employee expenses related to the cash distributions to shareholders related to discontinued operations of $460,000 for the directory business and $11.6 million for the mobile business.

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Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006 2005, and 20042005

 

IncomeAssets and liabilities from discontinued operations and gain on sale of discontinued operations:    In 2004, the Company completed the sale of its Payment Solutions business and has reflected the results of operations from its Payment Solutions business as discontinued operations for all periods presented. For the year endedat December 31, 2004,2007 and 2006 consist of the Company recorded income from the operating results of Payment Solutions of $2.3 million and the Company recorded a gain on the sale of Payment Solutions of $29.1 million.following (in thousands):

Directory

  December 31,
2007
  December 31,
2006

Accounts receivable

  $  —    $10,791

Prepaid and other current assets

   —     2,026

Property and equipment, net

   —     2,664

Goodwill

   —     60,484

Indefinite-lived intangible assets

   —     15,400

Definite-lived intangible assets

   —     973

Deferred tax assets, net

   —     781

Other assets

   —     1,226
        

Assets of discontinued operations

  $—    $94,345
        

Accounts payable

   —     577

Accrued expenses

   —     1,234

Deferred revenue

   —     2,010

Deferred tax liabilities, net

   —     5,390
        

Liabilities of discontinued operations

  $—    $9,211
        

Mobile

  December 31,
2007
  December 31,
2006

Cash

  $—    $1,118

Accounts receivable

   4,730   54,610

Notes and other receivables

   —     1,090

Prepaid and other current assets

   —     7,128

Property and equipment, net

   —     20,360

Indefinite-lived intangible assets

   —     3,009

Deferred tax assets, net

   —     19,203

Other long-term assets

   —     135
        

Assets of discontinued operations

  $4,730  $106,653
        

Accounts payable

   3,214   4,066

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

   18,539   28,705

Deferred revenue

   —     6,923

Deferred tax liabilities, net

   —     112
        

Liabilities of discontinued operations

  $21,753  $39,806
        

Total discontinued operations

  December 31,
2007
  December 31,
2006

Assets of discontinued operations

  $4,730  $200,998
        

Liabilities of discontinued operations

  $21,753  $49,017
        

 

Net income (loss) per shareshare::    Basic net income (loss) per share is computed using the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net income (loss) per share is computed using

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the weighted average number of common and potentially dilutive shares outstanding during the period. Potentially dilutive shares consist of the incremental common shares issuable upon conversion of the exercise of stock options and warrants, and upon employees’ vesting in restricted stock grants, using the treasury stock method. Potentially dilutive shares are excluded from the computation of earnings per share if their effect is antidilutive.

 

The treasury stock method calculates the dilutive effect only for those stock options and warrants whose exercise price is less than the average stock price during the period presented.

 

  Years Ended December 31,  Years ended December 31,
  2006  2005  2004

In thousands

  2007  2006  2005

Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic

  31,254,357  32,284,100  32,108,577  32,640  31,254  32,284

Dilutive stock options and warrants

  —    3,331,830  4,432,258  —    —    3,332
                  

Weighted average common shares outstanding, diluted

  31,254,357  35,615,930  36,540,835  32,640  31,254  35,616
                  

Stock options and warrants excluded as antidilutive

  6,323,071  3,051,342  1,818,887  5,283  6,323  3,051

 

Other Comprehensive Income:    Comprehensive income includes Net income (loss), plus items that are recorded directly to stockholders’ equity, including foreign currency translation adjustments and the net change in unrealized gains and losses on short-term and long-term investments. Included in the net change in unrealized gains and losses are realized gains or losses included in the determination of Net income (loss) in the period realized. For the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005, the Company recorded a loss of $2.3 million, $42,000, and $1.1 million, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2004, the Company recorded a gain of $540,000. Components of OtherAccumulated other comprehensive income included on the Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 20062007 and 20052006 consist of the following (in thousands):

 

  December 31,   December 31, 
  2006 2005   2007 2006 

Unrealized gain on foreign currency translation

  $1,423  $967   $1,591  $1,423 

Unrealized gain (loss) on available-for-sale investments

   41   (448)   (703)  41 

Cumulative tax effect on unrealized gain on available-for-sale investments

   (186)  —      (186)  (186)
              
  $1,278  $519   $702  $1,278 
              

 

Foreign currencies:    Foreign subsidiary financial statements are denominated in foreign currencies and are translated at the exchange rate on the balance sheet date. Translation adjustments resulting from this process are charged or credited to other comprehensive income. Revenue and expenses are translated at average rates of exchange prevailing during the period. Realized gains and losses on foreign currency transactions are included in Other income, net.

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Concentration of credit risk:    Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist primarily of cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments and trade receivables. These instruments are generally unsecured and uninsured. The Company places its cash equivalents and investments with major financial institutions. Accounts receivable are typically unsecured and are derived from revenues earned from customers primarily located in the United States operating in a variety of industries and geographic areas. The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers and maintains allowances for potential credit losses.

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Revenue concentration:    The Company derives a significant portion of its revenues from a small number of customers. Revenues from the top tentwo customers of the Company represent 94%, 90%, and 89%represented 95% or more of total revenues in each of the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005, and 2004, respectively. The number ofThese customers thateach accounted for more than 10% of total revenues in the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004 were three, three, and four, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2006, two customers of the Online business unit accounted for approximately 27% and 14% of total Company revenues and one customer of the Mobile business unit accounted approximately 35% of total Company revenues. For the year ended December 31, 2005, two customers of the Online business unit accounted for approximately 25% and 16% of total Company revenues and one customer of the Mobile business unit accounted approximately 28% of total Company revenues. For the year ended December 31, 2004, two customers of the Online business unit accounted for approximately 26% and 19% of total Company revenues and one customer of the Mobile business unit accounted for approximately 18% of total Company revenues, and one customer of both the Online and Mobile business units accounted for approximately 12% of total Company revenues.2005. At December 31, 20062007 and 2005,2006, two customers each accounted for more than 10% of the accounts receivable balance.

Geographic revenue information, as determined by the location of the customer, is presented below (in thousands):

   Years ended December 31,
   2007  2006  2005

United States

  $136,537  $150,795  $138,083

International

   4,000   3,005   5,920
            

Total

  $140,537  $153,800  $144,003
            

 

Fair value of financial instruments:    Financial instruments consist primarily of Cash and cash equivalents, Investments, Notes and other receivables, Prepaid expenses and other assets, Accounts payable, Accrued expenses and other current liabilities, Deferred revenues and warrants in other entities. The carrying amount of financial instruments not recorded at fair value on the Consolidated Balance Sheets approximates the fair value of such instruments.

 

Derivative instruments:    The Company follows SFAS No. 133,Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities, as amended and interpreted, which requires that all derivatives be recorded on the balance sheet at fair value. The Company accounts for all derivatives by recognizing the changes in their fair values as gains or losses on the Company’s Consolidated StatementStatements of Operations.

 

Income taxes:    The Company accounts for income taxes under the asset and liability method, under which Deferreddeferred tax assets, including net operating loss carryforwards, and liabilities are determined based on temporary differences between the book and tax basis of assets and liabilities. The Company evaluates the Deferreddeferred tax assets for future realization and reducereduces them by a valuation allowance to the extent management of the Company believes a portionmore likely than not will not be realized. Management considers many factors when assessing the likelihood of future realization of our Deferredthe Company’s deferred tax assets including recent cumulative earnings experience by taxing jurisdiction, expectations of future taxable income, the carryforward periods available to for tax reporting purposes, and other relevant factors. Due to the size of the net operating loss carryforwards, their expiration beginning in 2020, and the Company’s recent level of annualized profitability, management has determined that sufficient uncertainty exists regarding the realizability of all of the Deferreddeferred tax assets and has provided a partialfull valuation allowance. The Company will continue to evaluate the likelihood of the realization of the Deferreddeferred tax assets. Significant judgment is required in making this assessment, and it is very difficult to predict when, if ever, the assessmentCompany may conclude that the remainingany portion of the Deferreddeferred tax assets are more likely than not realizable.

At December 31, 2007, the Company had recorded a valuation allowance of $22.3 million on its deferred tax assets related to net operating loss carryforwards and other temporary differences. At December 31, 2006 and 2005, the Company had released $68.8 million and $25.0 million of the valuation allowance, respectively, based on its determination that a portion of its deferred tax assets would be realizable. In 2007, the Company realized the majority of the net operating loss carryforwards that it considered more likely than not to be realizable at

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realizable. At December 31, 2006 and 2005,2006. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had released $68.8 millionevaluated the realizability of its remaining deferred tax assets. That evaluation considered, among other factors, the reduced future revenue levels due to the sale of its directory and $25.0 millionmobile businesses and the Company’s ability to estimate the future net income of the remaining search business. Based on that evaluation, the Company determined the net deferred tax assets were not more likely than not realizable and recorded an increase to the valuation allowance respectively.of $22.3 million through tax expense. In 2006, the reduction in the valuation allowance was allocated $35.6 million to goodwill related to goodwill,pre-acquisition attributes, $28.6 million to tax benefit related to net operating loss carryforwards, and $4.6 million related to equity.equity relating to stock-based compensation. In 2005, the entirereduction in the valuation allowance released of $25.0 million was allocated to tax benefit as it related to non-equity net operating loss carryforwards.carryforwards and other deferred tax assets.

 

Reclassification:    Certain reclassifications of prior period balances have been made tofor consistent presentation with the balances in the accompanying consolidated financial statements to conform to the 2006 presentation. The reclassificationscurrent period. These changes consisted of aggregating certain currently immaterial captionsreclassifications to separate discontinued operations from continuing operations on the Company’s Statements of Operations, Statements of Cash Flows, and reclassifications to the Company’s segment reporting due to operational changes.Balance Sheets. Those reclassifications did not impact previously reported Revenues, Total operating expenses, Operating income (loss), Net income (loss), Total assets, Total liabilities, or Stockholders’ equity.

 

Use of estimates:    The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Estimates are used for impairment of goodwill and other intangible assets, useful lives of other intangible assets, purchase accounting, other-than-temporary impairment of investments, revenue recognition, the estimated allowance for sales returns and doubtful accounts, restructuring-related liabilities, accrued contingencies and valuation allowance for deferred tax assets. Actual amounts may differ from estimates.

 

Note 2:    Balance Sheet Components

 

Short-term and long-term investments classified as available-for-sale at December 31, 20062007 and 20052006 consist of the following, stated at fair market value (in thousands):

 

   December 31,
   2006  2005

Corporate notes and bonds

  $11,928  $21,008

U.S. Government securities

   140,636   100,367

Auction rate securities

   85,880   100,985
        
  $238,444  $222,360
        

Maturity information is as follows for investments classified as available-for-sale at December 31, 2006 (in thousands):

   Amortized
Cost
  Gross
Unrealized
Gains
  Gross
Unrealized
Losses
  Fair
Value

Within one year

  $152,538  $52  $(26) $152,564

Auction Rate Securities

   85,880   —     —     85,880
                

Total

  $238,418  $52  $(26) $238,444
                
   December 31,
   2007  2006

Corporate notes and bonds

  $18,109  $11,928

U.S. Government securities

   20,910   140,636

Auction rate securities classified as short-term investments

   —     85,880
        

Short-term investments

   39,019   238,444

Auction rate securities classified as long-term investments

   37,472   —  
        

Total investments available-for-sale

  $76,491  $238,444
        

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Maturity information is as follows for investments classified as available-for-sale at December 31, 2007 (in thousands):

   Amortized
Cost
  Gross
Unrealized
Gains
  Gross
Unrealized
Losses
  Fair
Value

Within one year

  $38,961  $65  $(7) $39,019

Auction rate securities

   38,248   —     (776)  37,472
                

Total

  $77,209  $65  $(783) $76,491
                

 

At December 31, 2005,2006, there were no gross unrealized gains of $52,000 and gross unrealized losses were $472,000.of $26,000.

 

  December 31,   December 31, 
  2006 2005   2007 2006 
  (in thousands)   (in thousands) 

Property and equipment

      

Computer equipment and data center

  $52,709  $41,580   $28,113  $25,750 

Purchased software

   21,134   19,238    4,983   9,419 

Internally developed software

   8,259   6,448    3,615   1,854 

Office equipment

   2,836   2,679    2,265   2,061 

Office furniture

   3,804   3,463    2,684   2,313 

Leasehold improvements and other

   7,943   6,170    7,355   4,713 
              
   96,685   79,578    49,015   46,110 

Accumulated depreciation

   (67,020)  (52,897)   (38,664)  (38,250)
              
   29,665   26,681    10,351   7,860 

Capital projects in progress

   3,547   208    594   2,327 
              
  $33,212  $26,889   $10,945  $10,187 
              

Accrued expenses and other current liabilities

     

Accrued distribution partner obligations

  $33,731  $36,919   $14,132  $8,281 

Accrued restructuring

   10,222   —      7,628   10,222 

Salaries and related expenses

   5,884   6,613    4,247   2,542 

Accrued payments to employees related to cash distribution made to shareholders

   37,365   —   

Customer deposits

   4,329   2,729    4,421   2,293 

Accrued legal and other consulting expenses

   1,804   1,753    3,713   1,785 

Other

   5,186   3,903    7,197   4,112 
              
  $61,156  $51,917   $78,703  $29,235 
              

Note 3:    Gain (Loss) on Investments

Available-for-sale investments:    In 2007, the auctions for certain auction rate securities failed due to insufficient bids from buyers. At December 31, 2007, the Company held auction rate securities associated with failed auctions that the Company purchased for $40.4 million. The Company has reclassified these investments as long-term. Based on a discounted cash flow model that relied upon certain estimates including the term to settle and the discount rates applied to future cash flows, the Company determined that the fair value of its auction rate securities was $37.5 million at December 31, 2007. Based on an analysis of other-than-temporary

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impairment factors, the Company recorded an other-than- temporary impairment loss of $2.2 million related to a portion of the auction rate securities, recorded as loss on investments in the Consolidated Statement of Operations and a temporary impairment within Accumulated other comprehensive income of $776,000 for the remaining balance of auction rate securities in the year ended December 31, 2007.

Equity investments:    As of December 31, 2007 and 2006, the Company has an investment with a carrying value of $2.2 million and $2.1 million, respectively, in a privately-held company, which also includes warrants to purchase shares in such company. Gains on equity investments consist of gains from changes in the fair values of derivative instruments held by the Company. The Company did not record any equity investment impairment charges for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005.

Gain (loss) on investments, net is comprised of the following for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005 (in thousands):

   2007  2006  2005

Other-than-temporary available-for-sale investment impairments

  $(2,182) $—    $—  

Increase in fair value of warrants

   65   —     154
            
  $(2,117) $—    $154
            

 

Note 3:4:    Stockholders’ Equity

 

Stock Incentive Plans

 

The Company’s stock incentive plans generally provide employees, officers, directors, independent contractors and consultants of the Company an opportunity to purchase shares of stock pursuant to options which are not described in Section 422 of Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (nonqualified stock options). The plans also provide for the sale or bonus of stock to eligible individuals in connection with the performance of service for the Company. Finally, the plans authorize the grant of stock appreciation rights, either separately or in tandem with stock options, which entitle holders to cash compensation measured by appreciation in the value of the stock. The stock incentive plans are administered by the Compensation Committee, which is composed of non-employee directors.

 

1996 Plan:    The Company primarily has one stock plan that was used for grants during 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004.2005. On December 5, 2006, the 1996 Plan was amended to permit grants of restricted stock units (“RSUs”). RSUs granted under the 1996 Plan in 2007 typically are scheduled to vest over three years or less with a one-year cliff and ratably thereafter on a semi-annual basis. RSUs granted in 2006 are scheduled to vest over two years with 50% vesting at the end of the first year and 50% vesting at the end of the two-year period. Options granted in 2007 and 2006 under the Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Program (the “1996 Plan”) vest over two ora period of up to four years, with either 100%, 50%, 33 1/3%, or 25% vesting one year from the date of grant and ratably thereafter on a semi-annual basis, and expire seven years from the date of grant. Options granted prior to 2006 under the 1996 Plan typically vest over four years, either 25% one year from the date of grant and ratably thereafter on a monthly basis or 25% one year from the date of grant and ratably thereafter on a semi-annual basis, and expire

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seven or ten years from the date of grant. Shares underlying options available under the 1996 Plan increase annually on the first day of January by an amount equal to the lesser of (A) five percent of the Company’s outstanding shares at the end of the Company’s preceding fiscal year, or (B) a lesser amount determined by the Board of Directors. The 1996 Plan limits the number of shares of common stock that may be granted to any one individual pursuant to stock options in any fiscal year of the Company to 800,000 shares, plus

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an additional 800,000 shares in connection with his or her initial employment with the Company, which grant shall not count against the limit. If an option is surrendered or for any other reason ceases to be exercisable in whole or in part, the shares which were subject to the option but on which the option has not been exercised shall continue to be available under the 1996 Plan. On December 5, 2006, the 1996 Plan was amended to permit grants of restricted stock units (“RSUs”). RSUs granted under the 1996 Plan in 2006 are scheduled to vest over two years with 50% vesting at the end of the first year and 50% vesting at the end of the two-year period.

 

2001 Plan:    In February 2001, the Company implemented the 2001 Nonstatutory Stock Option Plan (the “2001 Plan”), under which nonqualified stock options to purchase common stock or shares of restricted stock may be granted to employees. Under the 2001 Plan, 2.5 million shares of common stock are authorized for grant of options or issuance of restricted stock. Options granted in 2006 under the 2001 Plan expire seven years from the date of the grant and vest over three years, with 33% vesting one year from the date of grant and ratably thereafter on a semi-annual basis. Options granted prior to 2006 under the 2001 Plan expire ten years from the date of the grant and vest over two years, with 50% vesting ratably on a monthly basis for the first 24 months and the remaining 50% balance vesting at the end of the two-year period.

 

Plans assumed through acquisition:    In addition to the plans described above, the Company has five option plans assumed through acquisitions by InfoSpace and Go2Net, Inc.acquisitions. Options granted under these plans typically vest over a four-year period, 25% one year from the date of grant and ratably thereafter on a quarterly basis and expire six years from the date of grant.

 

A summary of the general terms of options to purchase common stock and RSUs previously granted under these plans, including options outstanding and available for grant at December 31, 2006,2007, is as follows:

 

  1996 Plan  2001 Plan  Switchboard Plan  Other Plans  1996 Plan  2001 Plan  Switchboard Plan  Other Plans

Requisite service period in years

  4 or less  3 or less  4  4  4 or less  3 or less  4  4

Life in years

  7 or 10  7 or 10  6  6 or 10  7 or 10  7 or 10  6  6 or 10

Options and RSUs outstanding at December 31, 2006

  9,164,450  963,824  294,050  864

Options and RSUs available for grant at December 31, 2006

  1,930,941  842,732  162,901  —  

Options and RSUs outstanding at December 31, 2007

  6,503,012  556,054  64,250  1,558

Options and RSUs available for grant at December 31, 2007

  2,292,487  1,233,214  392,701  —  

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Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006 2005, and 20042005

 

Options:    Activity and pricing information regarding all options, excluding the InfoSpace, Inc. and Saraide Inc. 2000 Stock Plan (the “Tandem Plan”), are summarized as follows:

 

  Option 

Weighted

Average

Exercise

Price

Outstanding December 31, 2003

  7,327,963  $24.46

Granted

  2,179,525   38.56

Cancelled

  (1,094,932)  39.86

Exercised

  (1,396,154)  22.79
       Options Weighted
average
exercise
price

Outstanding December 31, 2004

  7,016,402   26.76  7,016,402  $26.76

Granted

  3,308,050   34.56  3,308,050   34.56

Cancelled

  (1,587,838)  34.06  (1,587,838)  34.06

Exercised

  (702,539)  17.65  (702,539)  17.65
          

Outstanding December 31, 2005

  8,034,075   29.33  8,034,075   29.33

Granted

  3,536,650   24.06  3,536,650   24.06

Cancelled

  (2,223,243)  29.66  (2,223,243)  29.66

Exercised

  (279,664)  12.90  (279,664)  12.90
          

Outstanding December 31, 2006

  9,067,818  $27.70  9,067,818   27.70

Granted

  100,500   23.98

Cancelled

  (2,135,982)  30.89

Exercised

  (608,961)  16.33
          

Options exercisable, December 31, 2006

  5,531,799  $30.06

Outstanding December 31, 2007

  6,423,375  $27.66
          

Options exercisable, December 31, 2007

  6,132,190  $27.83
     

 

All grants in 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005 were made at an exercise price equal to the market price at the date of grant. Additional information regarding options outstanding for all plans, excluding the Tandem Plan, as of December 31, 2006,2007, is as follows:

 

   Options Outstanding  Options Exercisable

Range of Exercise Prices

  Number
Outstanding
  

Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual

Life (yrs.)

  

Weighted

Average

Exercise

Price

  Number
Exercisable
  

Weighted
Average
Exercise

Price

$  1.22 –     14.99

  1,804,441  4.54  $11.72  1,700,049  $11.60

$15.00 –     17.99

  92,046  3.54  $15.56  68,983  $15.56

$18.00 –     19.99

  89,402  3.90  $19.42  56,804  $19.45

$20.00 –     21.99

  554,514  6.42  $21.61  45,514  $21.76

$22.00 –     24.99

  2,991,400  5.72  $24.08  835,788  $23.99

$25.00 –     29.99

  742,338  5.97  $26.74  115,671  $26.19

$30.00 –     33.99

  260,876  4.90  $31.84  176,189  $31.63

$34.00 –   675.00

  2,532,801  4.20  $45.30  2,532,801  $45.30
                 

Total

  9,067,818  5.06  $27.70  5,531,799  $30.06
                 
   Options outstanding  Options exercisable

Range of exercise prices

  Number
outstanding
  Weighted
average
remaining
contractual

life (yrs.)
  Weighted
average
exercise
price
  Number
exercisable
  Weighted
average
exercise
price

$   1.22 –     8.99

  12,816  4.5  $5.89  12,816  $5.89

$   9.00 –   14.99

  1,475,422  3.6   12.14  1,475,341   12.14

$ 15.00 –   19.99

  159,321  2.6   17.25  157,071   17.22

$ 20.00 –   24.99

  2,293,482  4.8   23.88  2,048,064   23.92

$ 25.00 –   29.99

  557,992  5.1   26.83  527,181   26.92

$ 30.00 –   33.99

  170,625  3.8   31.70  158,000   31.60

$ 34.00 – 675.00

  1,753,717  3.2   46.64  1,753,717   46.64
            

Total

  6,423,375  4.0  $27.66  6,132,190  $27.83
            

 

On December 14, 2005, the Company accelerated vesting of certain unvested and “out-of-the-money” stock options with exercise prices equal to or greater than $34.00 per share that were previously awarded under the Company’s equity compensation plans to its employees. These options were accelerated to avoid recording future compensation expense with respect to such options. The Company’s management believes that because such options had exercise prices in excess of the current market value of the Company’s stock, the options were not

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achieving their original objective. The acceleration of vesting was effective for stock options outstanding as of December 14, 2005. Options to purchase 2.4 million shares of common stock were subject to the acceleration and the weighted average exercise price of the options subject to the acceleration was $40.51. Due to this acceleration, an additional $29.3 million is included in the pro forma stock-based compensation expense for the year ended December 31, 2005.

 

Restricted Stock Units:    Activity and weighted average grant date fair value information regarding all restricted stock unit grants are summarized as follows:

 

  

Restricted

Stock

 Weighted Average
Grant Date Fair
Value
   Restricted
stock
 Weighted average
grant date fair
value

Outstanding December 31, 2005

  —    $—     —    $—  

Granted

  1,355,970   20.38   1,355,970   20.38

Cancelled

  (600)  (20.38)

Exercised

  —     —   

Forfeited

  (600)  20.38
             

Outstanding December 31, 2006

  1,355,370  $20.38   1,355,370  $20.38

Granted

  2,110,965   21.43

Forfeited

  (1,057,311)  20.91

Released

  (1,708,525)  21.09
             

Outstanding December 31, 2007

  700,499  $21.02
      

 

Tandem Plan:    On April 17, 2000, the Company initiated the Tandem Plan, a tandem plan under which incentive options and nonqualified stock options to purchase common stock may be granted to employees of Saraide, Inc. (“Saraide”), a subsidiary of the Company. Under the Tandem Plan, Saraide employees receiving the grant received an option to purchase Saraide stock or stock of the Company. At the time of exercise, the employee chooses the option to exercise the Saraide option or the InfoSpace option. Upon exercise of one option, rights in the option of the other company are cancelled. Under the Tandem Plan, options to purchase 1,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock were reserved for grants. Options under the Tandem Plan expire ten years from the date of the grant. Options under this plan generally vest over four years, 25% one year from date of grant and ratably thereafter on a monthly basis. As of December 31, 2006,2007, no shares of InfoSpace common stock remain available for grant of options under the Tandem Plan.

Activity and pricing information regarding the Tandem Plan is summarized as follows:

   Options  Weighted
average
exercise
price

Outstanding December 31, 2004

  9,267  $454.38

Cancelled

  (8,000)  454.38
     

Outstanding December 31, 2005

  1,267   454.38

Cancelled

  (267)  454.38
     

Outstanding December 31, 2006

  1,000   454.38

Outstanding December 31, 2007

  1,000  $454.38
     

Options exercisable, December 31, 2007

  1,000  $454.38
     

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Activity and pricing information regarding the Tandem Plan is summarized as follows:

   Option  

Weighted

Average

Exercise

Price

Outstanding December 31, 2003

  9,267  $454.38

Granted

  —     —  

Cancelled

  —     —  

Exercised

  —     —  
     

Outstanding December 31, 2004

  9,267   454.38

Granted

  —     —  

Cancelled

  (8,000)  454.38

Exercised

  —     —  
     

Outstanding December 31, 2005

  1,267   454.38

Granted

  —     —  

Cancelled

  (267)  454.38

Exercised

  —     —  
     

Outstanding December 31, 2006

  1,000  $454.38
     

Options exercisable, December 31, 2006

  1,000  $ 454.38
     

 

Warrants:    The Company also has outstanding warrants to purchase 1,837,109445,721 shares of common stock issued in connection with the Company’s 1998 private placement offerings and agreements to provide white pages directory and classified information services. These warrants can be exercised at any time until their expirations dates, which are between May and August 2008. In May 2007, 1,150,761 shares were issued due to the exercise of warrants. Of these shares, 749,720 shares were issued for an aggregate price of $3.8 million, an average exercise price of $5.05 per share and 401,041 shares were issued pursuant to the net exercise provision of 641,678 warrants. For the years ended December 31, 2006 2005, and 2004,2005 no warrants were exercised, and atexercised. At December 31, 20062007 the warrants outstanding have exercise prices as follows:

 

Range of Exercise Prices

  

Number

Outstanding

$5.00

  742,211

$7.50

  324,718

$12.50

  324,718

$15.00

  445,462
   

Total Warrants Outstanding

  1,837,109
   

Range of exercise prices

  Number
outstanding

Up to $12.50

  250

$15.00

  445,471
   

Total Warrants Outstanding

  445,721
   

 

Other Plans:

 

1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan:    The Company adopted the ESPP in August 1998. The ESPP is intended to qualify under Section 423 of the Code and permits eligible employees of the Company and its subsidiaries to purchase common stock through payroll deductions of up to 15% of their compensation. Under the ESPP, no employee may purchase common stock worth more than $25,000 in any calendar year, valued as of the first day of each offering period. In addition, owners of 5% or more of the Company or one of its subsidiary’s common stock may not participate in the ESPP. An aggregate of 1,360,000 shares of common stock are authorized for issuance under the ESPP. The ESPP was implemented with six-month offering periods that begin on each February 1 and August 1. The price of common stock purchased under the ESPP is the lesser of 85% of

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Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004

the fair market value on the first day of an offering period and 85% of the fair market value on the last day of an offering period. The ESPP does not have a fixed expiration date, but may be terminated by the Company’s Board of Directors at any time. There were 76,772, 94,404, 60,058, and 58,69460,058 shares issued for the ESPP periods that ended in 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004,2005, respectively. During the year ended December 31, 2006,2007, financing cash generated for the purchase of shares through the ESPP amounted to $1.8$1.4 million. The Company issues new shares upon purchase through the ESPP.

 

Stock Repurchase Plan:    On June 8, 2007, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $100 million of the Company’s outstanding common stock over the succeeding twelve months. On May 30, 2006, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a stock repurchase plan whereby the Company may purchase up to $100 million of its common stock in open-market transactions during the succeeding twelve month period. Repurchased shares will be retired and resume the status of authorized but unissued shares of common stock. Under the repurchase plan, during 2007 and 2006, the Company did not repurchase any shares.

 

On May 13, 2005, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a stock repurchase plan whereby the Company may purchase up to $100 million of its common stock in open-market transactions during the succeeding twelve month period. Repurchased shares will be retired and resume the status of authorized but unissued shares of common stock. Under the repurchase plan, during 2005, the Company purchased 2,633,002 shares in open-market transactions at a total cost, exclusive of purchase and administrative costs, of $70.2 million, at an average price of $26.66 per share.

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Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006 and 2005

Dividends:

On May 2, 2007, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a special cash distribution by means of a dividend on the Company’s common stock of $6.30 per share. The special dividend was paid on May 28, 2007 with respect to all shares of common stock outstanding at the close of business on May 18, 2007. On May 18, 2007, there were 33.1 million shares outstanding and, based on those shares, the total amount of the cash distribution was $208.2 million.

Additionally, on May 2, 2007, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a plan to compensate employees and directors that hold in-the-money options to purchase shares of common stock and RSUs for the reduction in value of these awards due to any special cash distribution. The compensation was a combination of $18.9 million in cash and issuance of an additional 368,000 RSUs for employees of continuing operations and the amount was based on, among other factors, the average trading price of the Company’s stock before and after the ex-dividend date and the in-the-money amount for options to purchase shares of common stock. The vesting schedules for RSUs granted under this plan are the same as the existing awards for which they are granted.

On November 14, 2007, the Company’s Board of Directors declared a special cash distribution by means of a dividend on the Company’s common stock of $9.00 per share. The special dividend was paid on January 8, 2008 with respect to all shares of common stock outstanding at the close of business on December 10, 2007. On December 10, 2007, there were 33.3 million shares outstanding. Based on those shares, the total amount of the cash distribution of $299.3 million was recorded as a liability as of December 31, 2007.

Additionally, on November 14, 2007, the Company’s Board of Directors approved a plan to compensate employees and directors that hold in-the-money options to purchase shares of common stock and RSUs for the reduction in value of these awards due to any special cash distribution. The compensation was a combination of cash and issuance of additional RSUs and the amount was based on, among other factors, the average trading price of the Company’s stock before and after the ex-dividend date and the in-the-money amount for options to purchase shares of common stock. The vesting schedules for RSUs granted under this plan are the same as the existing awards for which they are granted. The compensation to employees of continuing operations was paid in January 2008, and consisted of $37.4 million in cash payments and 622,000 RSUs.

 

Note 4:5:    Stock-based Compensation Expense

 

For the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004,2005, the Company recognized compensation expense related to stock options and RSUs of $16.9$34.1 million, $0,$11.3 million, and $1.6 million,$0, respectively. To estimate compensation expense which would have been recognized under SFAS No. 123 for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 and the compensation cost that was recognized under SFAS No. 123(R) for the yearyears ended December 31, 2007 and 2006, the Company used the Black-ScholesBlack-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model with the following weighted-average assumptions for equity awards granted:

 

  Employee Stock Option Plans  Employee Stock Purchase Plan  Employee Stock Option Plans  Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  Years Ended December 31,  Years Ended December 31,  Years ended December 31,  Years ended December 31,
  2006  2005  2004  2006  2005  2004  2007  2006  2005  2007  2006  2005

Risk-free interest rate

  4.38% - 5.07%  3.85% - 4.39%  2.99% - 3.72%  4.13% - 4.84%  2.77% - 3.73%  1.01% - 1.78%  4.59% - 5.02%  4.38% - 5.07%  3.85% - 4.39%  5.07% - 5.12%  4.13% - 4.84%  2.77% - 3.73%

Expected dividend yield

  0%  0%  0%  0%  0%  0%  0%  0%  0%  0%  0%  0%

Volatility

  52% - 88%  63% -69%  64% -67%  30% -35%  58% -79%  63% - 78%  48% - 67%  52% - 88%  63% - 69%  41% - 52%  30% - 35%  58% - 79%

Expected life

  2.8 years  3.3 years  3.4 years  6 months  6 months  6 months  2.5 years  2.8 years  3.3 years  6 months  6 months  6 months

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Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006 and 2005

 

The risk-free interest rate is based on the implied yield available on U.S. Treasury issues with an equivalent remaining term. The Company has not paid a special dividend in 2007 and declared another dividend that was paid in January 2008, and may pay special dividends in the past andfuture, but does not planexpect to pay any dividends in the future.recurring dividends. The expected volatility is based on historical volatility of the Company’s stock for the related expected life of the option. The expected life of the equity award is based on historical experience.

 

As of December 31, 2006,2007, total unrecognized stock-based compensation cost related to unvested stock options and unvested RSUs associated with continuing operations was $63.3$26.2 million. The balance at December 31, 2007 is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 14 months. Total unrecognized stock-based compensation cost related to unvested stock options was $12.0 million, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 1314 months. Total unrecognized stock-based compensation cost related to unvested stock optionsRSU grants was $36.0$14.2 million, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 1315 months. Total unrecognized stock-based compensation cost related to unvested RSU grants was $27.3 million, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 18 months.

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Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004

 

The Company has included the following amounts for stock-based compensation cost, including the cost related to the ESPP, in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Operations for the yearyears ended December 31, 2007 and 2006 (amounts in thousands)thousands, except per share data):

 

  Year ended
December 31,
  Year Ended
December 31, 2006
  2007  2006

Systems and network operations

  $1,646  $1,091  $1,194

Product development

   2,662   2,383   960

Sales and marketing

   4,772   7,948   2,400

General and administrative

   7,783   22,636   6,715
         

Total

  $16,863  $34,058  $11,269
         

Basic and diluted pre-tax earnings per share impact

  $0.54

Basic pre-tax earnings per share impact

  $1.04  $0.36

Diluted pre-tax earnings per share impact

  $1.04  $0.34

 

ExcludedFinancing cash flow generated by tax benefits from the amounts above is $824,000 ofstock-based award activity in 2007 was $30.7 million and no tax expense included in Restructuring, resulting from options held by terminated employees and $242,000 that was capitalized as part of internally developed software.recognized related to stock-based compensation. The total tax expense recognized related to stock-based compensation for 2006 was $139,000 and no Financing cash flow was generated. Excluded from the amounts for the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006 are the following amounts included in Restructuring, resulting from options held by terminated employees, amounts that were capitalized as part of internally developed software, and amounts that were reclassified as discontinued operations (amounts in thousands):

   Year ended
December 31,
   2007  2006

Restructuring

  $670  $824

Internally developed software

   466   241

Discontinued operations – directory business

   1,630   728

Discontinued operations – mobile services business

   13,459   4,866
        

Total

  $16,225  $6,659
        

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Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006 and 2005

 

Stock-based compensation expense recognized during the yearyears ended December 31, 2007 and 2006 includes (1) compensation expense for awards granted prior to, but not yet fully vested as of, January 1, 2006, and (2) compensation expense for the share-based payment awards granted subsequent to December 31, 2005, based on the grant date fair values estimated in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 123 and SFAS No. 123(R), respectively. The Company has historically disclosed and currently recognizes stock-based compensation expense over the vesting period for each separately vesting portion of a share-based award as if they were, in substance, a multiple share-based award. SFAS No. 123(R) requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. In the Company’s pro forma disclosures required under SFAS No. 123 for the periods prior to 2006, the Company accounted for forfeitures as they occurred. The Company has historically and continues to estimate the fair value of share-based awards using the Black-Scholes-Merton (“Black-Scholes”) option-pricing model.

 

Had compensation expense for the plans been determined based on the fair value of the options at the grant dates for awards under the plans consistent with SFAS No. 123, the Company’s net income for the yearsyear ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 would have been as follows (amounts in thousands, except per share data):

 

   Years Ended December 31, 
         2005              2004       

Net income as reported

  $159,368  $82,401 

Stock-based compensation, as reported

   —     1,575 

Total stock-based compensation determined under fair value based method for all awards

   (60,180)  (36,314)
         

Pro forma income

  $99,188  $47,662 
         

Basic net income per share, as reported

  $4.94  $2.57 

Diluted net income per share, as reported

  $4.47  $2.26 

Pro forma basic net income per share, SFAS No. 123

  $3.07  $1.48 

Pro forma diluted net income per share, SFAS No. 123

  $2.85  $1.35 

INFOSPACE, INC.

   Year ended
December 31,
2005
 

Net income as reported

  $159,368 

Stock-based compensation, as reported

   —   

Total stock-based compensation determined under fair value based method for all awards

   (60,180)
     

Pro forma net income

  $99,188 
     

Basic net income per share, as reported

  $4.94 

Diluted net income per share, as reported

  $4.47 

Pro forma basic net income per share, SFAS No. 123

  $3.07 

Pro forma diluted net income per share, SFAS No. 123

  $2.85 

 

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(Continued)

Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004

WeightedThe weighted average fair value for options granted in the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005 was $8.34, $10.40, and 2004 was $10.40, $16.65 and $18.30 per share, respectively. The Company issues new shares upon exercise of options to purchase common stock and vesting of restricted stock units.

 

Total intrinsic value of options exercised to purchase common stock in the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005 and 2004 was $5.2 million, $6.7 million, and $12.4 million, and $31.8 million, respectively. The total intrinsic value of the 9,068,818 optionsAwards outstanding at December 31, 2006 was $16.52007 have the following total intrinsic value and weighted average remaining contractual terms:

   Outstanding at
December 31, 2007
  Intrinsic value
(in thousands)
  Weighted average
remaining contractual
term (in years)

Options outstanding

  6,424,375  $10,280  3.5

Options exercisable and outstanding

  6,133,190   10,280  3.5

Restricted stock units outstanding

  700,499   13,169  1.2

Awards outstanding at December 31, 2007 expected to vest in the future, based on the Company’s estimate of its pre-vesting forfeiture rate, have an intrinsic value of $8.2 million and the options outstanding have a weighted average remaining contractual term of 5.11.2 years. The totalOn January 8, 2008, a $9-per-share special dividend was paid to the Company’s shareholders, which reduced the intrinsic value of options outstanding to $410,000, reduced the intrinsic value of the 1,355,370 restricted stock unitsRSUs outstanding at December 31, 2006 was $27.8to $6.9 million, and reduced the restricted stock units outstanding have a weighted average remaining contractual term of 1.5 years. The total intrinsic value of the 5,532,799 options exercisable at December 31, 2006 was $15.5 million and the options exercisable have a weighted average remaining contractual term of 4.5 years.RSUs expected to vest to $4.3 million. Cash generated from the exercise of stock options amounted to $3.6$9.9 million for the year ending December 31, 2006.

Note 5:    Business Combinations

The following presents information regarding the Company’s business combinations for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004, including information about the allocation of purchase price from these transactions.

Fiscal Year 2006

No business combinations were entered into during the year ended December 31, 2006.

Fiscal Year 2005

elkware GmbH.    On January 7, 2005, the Company acquired elkware GmbH, a mobile gaming company, at a cost of 20.0 million euros in cash. The purchase price was allocated to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as follows:

   (in thousands) 

Tangible assets acquired

  $2,157 

Liabilities assumed

   (1,919)
     

Fair value of tangible net assets acquired

   238 

Fair value adjustments to intangible assets

   13,164 
     

Total fair value of net assets acquired

  $13,402 
     

Purchase price:

  

Cash

  $26,354 

Acquisition costs

   1,027 

Deferred tax liability

   4,607 

Less fair value of net assets acquired

   (13,402)
     

Excess of purchase price over net assets acquired, allocated to Goodwill

  $18,586 
     

In December 2004, due to the significant fluctuations in the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar to the euro, the Company entered into a forward exchange contract to mitigate its foreign currency exposure. At December 31,2007.

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Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006 2005, and 20042005

2004, the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar had declined relative to the euro and a $456,000 gain on the forward exchange contract was recorded in 2004. Subsequently, in January 2005 when the acquisition was consummated, the U.S. dollar had strengthened against the euro and a $934,000 loss as a result of the settlement of that foreign exchange contract was recorded in 2005.

Fiscal Year 2004

IOMO Limited.    On December 1, 2004, the Company acquired all of the outstanding stock of IOMO Limited, a mobile games company, for 8.0 million British pounds in cash, plus acquisition costs. The purchase price was allocated to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as follows:

   (in thousands) 

Tangible assets acquired

  $2,254 

Liabilities assumed

   (919)
     

Fair value of tangible net assets acquired

   1,335 

Fair value adjustments to intangible assets

   7,850 
     

Total fair value of net assets acquired

  $9,185 
     

Purchase price:

  

Cash

  $15,384 

Acquisition costs

   247 

Deferred tax liability

   2,355 

Less fair value of net assets acquired

   (9,185)
     

Excess of purchase price over net assets acquired, allocated to Goodwill

  $8,801 
     

Atlas Mobile, Inc.    On July 1, 2004, the Company acquired the assets of Atlas Mobile, Inc., a provider of mobile multi-player tournament games, for $6.3 million in cash, plus acquisition costs. The purchase price was allocated to the assets acquired based on their estimated fair values as follows:

   (in thousands) 

Purchase price:

  

Cash

  $6,349 

Less fair value of net assets acquired

   (5,000)
     

Excess of purchase price over net assets acquired, allocated to Goodwill

  $1,349 
     

On January 22, 2007, the Company sold the assets acquired from Atlas Mobile for $1.5 million.

Switchboard Incorporated.    On June 3, 2004, the Company acquired Switchboard Incorporated (“Switchboard”), a provider of local online advertising and Internet based yellow pages. The Company acquired all of the outstanding stock of Switchboard for $7.75 per share in cash totaling $159.4 million, plus transaction fees of $6.0 million, for an aggregate purchase price of $165.4 million. The Company acquired Switchboard to further expand its presence in the online directory industry, because of Switchboard’s brand name and trade recognition and existing traffic base, among other items. At the acquisition date, Switchboard had $56.4 million in cash and marketable securities and no debt.

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Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004

The purchase price was allocated to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their estimated fair values as follows:

   (in thousands) 

Tangible assets acquired

  $59,565 

Liabilities assumed

   (2,927)
     

Fair value of tangible net assets acquired

   56,638 

Fair value adjustments to intangible assets

   22,925 
     

Total fair value of net assets acquired

  $79,563 
     

Purchase price:

  

Cash

  $159,392 

Acquisition costs

   6,031 

Deferred tax liability

   5,390 

Less fair value of net assets acquired

   (79,563)
     

Excess of purchase price over net assets acquired, allocated to Goodwill

  $91,250 
     

The tangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed were recorded at their fair values, which approximated their carrying amounts at the acquisition date. The Company evaluates the carrying value of its intangible assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate the carrying amount of an intangible asset may not be recoverable. The goodwill acquired will be tested for impairment at least annually, with the Company’s other indefinite-lived intangible assets.

Note 6:    Goodwill and Intangible Assets

The following table provides information about activity in Goodwill by reporting unit for the period from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2006 (in thousands):

   Mobile  Online  Total 

Goodwill as of January 1, 2005

  $18,611  $140,199  $158,810 

Goodwill associated with elkware acquisition

   18,586   —     18,586 

Goodwill adjustments associated with Switchboard acquisition

   —     (153)  (153)

Goodwill adjustments associated with IOMO acquisition

   (264)  —     (264)
             

Goodwill as of December 31, 2005

  $36,933  $140,046  $176,979 

Adjustments for deferred taxes associated with acquisitions

   (5,030)  —     (5,030)

Adjustments for deferred taxes associated with reduction of valuation allowance

   —     (35,622)  (35,622)

Goodwill impairment

   (31,903)  —     (31,903)
             

Goodwill as of December 31, 2006

  $—    $104,424  $104,424 
             

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Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004

Other intangible assets consisted of the following (in thousands):

   December 31, 2006  December 31, 2005
   

Gross

carrying

Amount

  Accumulated
amortization
  Impairment  Other
intangible
assets, net
  Gross
carrying
amount
  Accumulated
amortization
  Other
intangible
assets, net

Definite-lived intangible assets:

           

Core technology

  $13,465  $(10,775) $(1,839) $851  $17,062  $(11,067) $5,995

Customer relationships

   22,697   (9,615)  (10,258)  2,824   39,947   (20,089)  19,858

Other

   7,587   (6,754)  (526)  307   13,617   (10,973)  2,644
                            

Total definite-lived intangible assets

   43,749   (27,144)  (12,623)  3,982   70,626   (42,129)  28,497

Indefinite-lived intangible assets

   15,583   —     —     15,583   15,583   —     15,583
                            

Total

  $59,332  $(27,144) $(12,623) $19,565  $86,209  $(42,129) $44,080
                            

Assuming the Company does not acquire businesses or intangible assets in the future, Amortization of definite-lived intangible assets is expected to be $4.0 million in 2007, which will completely amortize all definite-lived intangible assets recorded at December 31, 2006.

Impairment Analysis

In the year ended December 31, 2006, as part of its restructuring, the Company evaluated its intangible assets and recorded an impairment charge of $12.6 million related certain definite-lived intangible assets acquired in acquisitions and, accordingly, the Company determined that an impairment occurred and, in addition, as part of the restructuring, Goodwill was evaluated and an impairment charge of $31.9 million was recorded. These impairments are recorded in Restructuring.

In the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004, the Company conducted its annual impairment analysis for goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets as of November 30, 2006, 2005, and 2004 and determined that the carrying value of its goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets, other than in connection with its 2006 restructuring, was not impaired. The annual impairment analysis is based on a valuation of the Company’s reporting units using a combination of the Company’s quoted stock price and projections of future discounted cash flows for each reporting unit.

 

Note 7:6:    Commitments and Contingencies

 

The Company has noncancellable operating leases for its corporate facilities. The leases expire through 2013. Rent expense under operating leases totaled $6.1$2.7 million, $5.4$2.0 million, and $3.6$1.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005, and 2004, respectively.

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Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004

 

Future minimum rental payments required under noncancellable operating leases are as follows for the years ending December 31 (in thousands):

 

  2007 2008  2009  2010  2011  Thereafter  Total   2008 2009  2010  2011  2012  Thereafter  Total 

Minimum lease payments required

  $7,623  $5,254  $6,888  $6,753  $5,706  $5,466  $37,690   $1,611  $1,917  $1,996  $2,079  $2,158  $367  $10,128 

Less sublease income

   (112)  —     —     —     —     —     (112)   (242)  —     —     —     —     —     (242)
                                            

Net lease payments required

  $7,511  $5,254  $6,888  $6,753  $5,706  $5,466  $37,578   $1,369  $1,917  $1,996  $2,079  $2,158  $367  $9,886 
                                            

 

As of December 31, 2006,2007, the Company has pledged $4.4$5.9 million as collateral for standby letters of credit and bank guaranties for certain of its property leases, which is included in Other long-term assets.assets

During 2007, for certain revenue share agreements with search distribution partners the Company is required to make guaranteed minimum revenues share payments to those partners over the term of the respective agreements. As of December 31, 2007 the Company has no material commitments because they have expired or were terminated. As a result of contract termination, the Company recorded a $2.3 million charge in the year ended December 31, 2007.

 

Litigation

On June 6, 2003, a complaint entitled Enger v. Richards, filed in the Superior Court of the State of Washington (King County), was amended to add the Company and Naveen Jain, its former chairman and chief executive officer, as defendants. The action alleged various statutory and common law claims in connection with the sale of Yellow Pages on the Internet, LLC to the Company in May 1997. In December 2003, the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed the Company from this action. In January 2004, defendant John Richards, a former Company employee, asserted a third-party claim for indemnification against the Company, which purports to seek reimbursement for his legal fees as well as any judgment. In January 2005, the plaintiff, Jain and the Company settled all of their respective claims including Jain’s claim for indemnification against the Company and any potential claims that Enger could bring against the Company. The settlement was paid entirely by the Company’s insurance. Richards’ claim for indemnification was not a part of the settlement agreement. On March 16, 2005, the trial court entered a judgment in Richards’ favor of less than $500. Enger appealed that judgment to the Washington Court of Appeals, which rejected Enger’s appeal. Enger is seeking review in the Washington Supreme Court. The Company believes it has meritorious defenses to Richards’ claim for indemnification, but litigation is inherently uncertain and the Company may not prevail in this matter.

On March 26, 2004, a complaint entitled Alexander Hutton Capital, L.L.C. v. John Richards, Naveen Jain, et al., was filed in the Superior Court of the State of Washington (King County). Plaintiff did not name the Company as a defendant. As in the Enger v. Richards case (above) to which it is related, this action alleges various statutory and common law claims in connection with the sale of Yellow Pages on the Internet, LLC to the Company in May 1997. In July 2004, Richards asserted a third party claim for indemnification against the Company, which purports to seek reimbursement for his legal fees as well as any judgment. The Court dismissed on summary judgment certain of plaintiff’s claims and theories of recovery and issued rulings limiting plaintiff’s damages. In February 2005, the plaintiff, the Jains and the Company settled their respective claims, including the Jains’ claim for indemnification against the Company and any potential claim that Hutton could bring against the Company. The settlement was paid entirely by the Company’s insurance. On July 22, 2005, the Court granted Richards’ motion to dismiss his claim for indemnification without prejudice. Hutton prevailed against Richards at trial and judgment was entered against Richards for approximately $3 million. Richards appealed and then dismissed his appeal on February 2, 2007.

 

On January 11, 2007, EMI Entertainment World, Inc. (“EMI”) and its associated music publishers filed a lawsuit against the Company and several alleged subsidiaries or predecessors-in-interest in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs chargeinitially charged that the Company breached two ringtone license agreements by underpaying royalties, fraudulently reported the amount of royalties owed, and infringed the plaintiffs’ copyrights by making unlicensed use of the plaintiffs’ works. The plaintiffs claimclaimed in excess of $10 million in damages for the alleged breaches of contract, unspecified compensatory and punitive damages for the

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Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004

alleged fraud, and in excess of $100 million in statutory damages for alleged copyright infringement. The lawsuit is at its initial stagesAfter a hearing on a proposed motion to dismiss, EMI filed an amended complaint striking the fraud claim and the Companycorrelated requests for compensatory and punitive damages, and altering the copyright infringement statutory damages claim from in excess of $100 million to “many millions” of dollars. The Company’s factual investigation of this matter is conducting its factual investigation.continuing, and the parties are in the midst of discovery. No date for a trial has yet been set. In December 2007, the parties agreed to a two month stay of proceedings in the matter in order to discuss the possibility of a negotiated resolution, which stay was to expire on February 20, 2008, but which, at the request of the parties, was extended until further ordered by the Court for the parties to enter into mediation, with such mediation to take place prior to April 30, 2008. The parties must report to the Court by no later than May 7, 2008. No resolution has been reached. Based on its knowledge to date, the Company believes that the plaintiffs’ claims are without merit and that it has meritorious defenses to them and intends to vigorously defend the suit, however, litigation is inherently uncertain and the Company may not prevail in this matter. The Company has filed a motion to dismiss several claims and several entities from the suit. That motion has not yet been set for hearing.

 

Other

 

From time to time the Company is subject to various other legal proceedings or claims that arise in the ordinary course of business. Additionally, the Company is subject to income taxes in the U.S. and several foreign jurisdictions and, in the ordinary course of business, there are transactions and calculations where the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. Although the Company cannot predict the outcome of these matters with certainty,

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the Company’s management does not believe that the disposition of these ordinary course matters will have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

 

In the ordinary course of business, the Company may provide indemnifications of varying scope and terms to customers, vendors, partners and other parties. The Company has agreed to hold certain parties harmless against losses arising from a breach of representations or covenants, or other claims made against certain parties. It is not possible to determine the maximum potential amount under these indemnification agreements due to the conditional nature of the Company’s obligations and the unique facts and circumstances involved in each particular agreement. Accordingly, the Company has not recorded a liability related to indemnification provisions.

 

The Company periodically enters into agreements that require minimum performance commitments. The Company’s management believes that the likelihood is remote that any such arrangements will have a significant adverse effect on its financial position or liquidity. Accordingly, the Company has not recorded a liability related to these contingencies.

 

Note 8:7:    Income Taxes

 

Income tax benefitexpense (benefit) from continuing operations consists of the following for the years ending December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 20042005 (in thousands):

 

   Years Ended December 31, 
   2006  2005  2004 

Current

    

U.S. federal

  $309  $2,522  $(4)

State

   282   1,006   —   

International

   (128)  (72)  (25)
             

Total current expense (benefit)

  $463  $3,456  $(29)
             

Deferred

    

U.S. federal

  $(38,367) $(25,000) $—   

State

   (634)  —     —   

International

   —     (1,931)  —   
             

Total deferred benefit

   (39,001)  (26,931)  —   
             

Benefit for income taxes, net, relating to continuing operations

  $(38,538) $(23,475) $(29)
             
   Years ended December 31, 
   2007  2006  2005 

Current

    

U.S. federal

  $(146) $841  $2,299 

Foreign

   7   —     —   
             

Total current expense (benefit)

  $(139) $841  $2,299 
             

Deferred

    

U.S. federal

  $19,810  $(29,901) $(26,453)
             

Total deferred expense (benefit)

   19,810   (29,901) $(26,453)
             

Income tax expense (benefit), net, relating to continuing operations

  $19,671  $(29,060) $(24,154)
             

Income tax expense recognized during the year ended December 31, 2007 was primarily attributable to the effect of the increase in the valuation allowance of $22.3 million and the tax effects from current year operations offset by non-deductible compensation, federal alternative minimum tax, and foreign taxes.

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Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006 2005, and 20042005

Income tax benefit recognized during the year ended December 31, 2006 was primarily due to the effect of the reduction in the valuation allowance of $28.6 million, related to its net operating losses, a tax benefit for current operations partially offset by a tax expense for Federal alternative minimum, state and international taxes.

 

The Income tax benefitexpense (benefit) from continuing operations differs from the amount computed by applying the statutory federal income tax rate for the years ending December 31, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 20042005 as follows (in thousands):

 

   Years Ended December 31, 
   2006  2005  2004 

Income tax provision (benefit) at federal statutory rate of 35%

  $(18,769) $47,563  $28,830 

International

   —     —     1,743 

State, net of federal benefit

   183   679   —   

Nondeductible goodwill

   8,210   —     18,122 

Change in valuation allowance—current operations

   —     (45,933)  (47,630)

Decrease in beginning of year valuation allowance balance

   (28,643)  (25,000)  —   

Other

   481   (784)  (1,094)
             

Benefit for income taxes, net

  $(38,538) $(23,475) $(29)
             
   Years ended December 31, 
   2007  2006  2005 

Income tax expense (benefit) at federal statutory rate of 35%

  $(24,873) $(8,777) $39,536 

Foreign

   7   —     —   

Nondeductible goodwill

   —     8,210   —   

Nondeductible compensation

   22,316   —     —   

Change in valuation allowance balance

   —     —     (37,871)

Increase (decrease) in beginning of year valuation allowance balance

   22,278   (28,643)  (25,000)

Other

   (57)  150   (819)
             

Expense (benefit) for income taxes, net

  $19,671  $(29,060) $(24,154)
             

 

The tax effect of temporary differences and net operating loss carry forwards from continuing operations that give rise to the Company’s deferred tax assets and liabilities as of December 31, 20062007 and 20052006 are as follows (in thousands):

 

  December 31,   December 31, 
  2006 2005   2007 2006 

Deferred tax assets:

      

Current

  $2,429  $860   $3,752  $2,272 

Non-current:

      

Net operating loss carryforwards

   381,187   379,714    290,175   380,643 

Tax credit carryforwards

   3,223   2,913    7,668   3,223 

Depreciation and amortization

   32,883   23,643    17,550   14,130 

Capital loss carryforwards

   16,136   17,917    —     16,136 

Other, net

   5,580   746    7,921   4,350 
              

Total non-current

   439,009   424,933    323,314   418,482 
              

Total gross deferred tax assets

   441,438   425,793    327,066   420,754 
              

Valuation allowance

   (337,438)  (400,793)   (327,066)  (336,895)
              

Net deferred tax assets

  $104,000  $25,000   $—    $83,859 
              

Deferred tax liabilities (non-current):

   

Intangible assets

   (5,390)  (10,421)

Other

   (112)  —   
       

Total gross deferred liabilities

   (5,502)  (10,421)
       

Net deferred tax assets

  $98,498  $14,579 
       

 

At December 31, 20062007 and 2005,2006, the Company provided a valuation allowance for a portion of its net deferred tax assets for which significant uncertainty exists regarding the ultimate realization. The Company evaluates its deferred

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tax assets for future realization and reduces it by a valuation allowance to the extent significant uncertainty exists.that realization is not more likely than not. Many factors are considered when assessing the likelihood of future realization of deferred tax assets including recent cumulative earnings experience by taxing jurisdiction, expectations of future taxable income, the carryforward periods available for tax reporting purposes, and other relevant factors. In the last quarter of 2007, the Company divested a significant portion of its business operations. At December 31, 2007, the Company reassessed the realizability of its remaining net deferred tax assets and concluded that, based on available evidence, that realizability was not more likely than not. Accordingly, the Company recorded a full valuation allowance on its net deferred tax assets and recognized an income tax expense of $22.3 million. At December 31, 2006, the Company determinedconcluded, based on available evidence, that it was more

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likely than not that a portion of the operating assets would be realizable in the foreseeable future. Accordingly, the Company has reduced its valuation allowance related to its operating loss deferred tax assets and recognized an income tax benefit of $28.6 million. The net change in the valuation allowance during the years ended December 31, 2007 and 2006 and 2005 was $63.4 million and $77.3 million, respectively.are shown below (in thousands):

   Valuation allowance 
   2007  2006 

Balance at beginning of year

  $336,895  $395,883 

Valuation allowance recorded to income tax expense

   22,278   —   

Reversal of valuation allowance recorded to income tax benefit

   —     (28,643)

Credited to goodwill

   —     (35,622)

Credited to stockholders’ equity

   (24,562)  (4,563)

Net changes to deferred tax assets

   (7,545)  9,840 
         

Balance at end of year

  $327,066  $336,895 
         

Net change during the year

  $(9,829) $(58,988)
         

 

As of December 31, 2006,2007, the Company’s U.S. federal net operating loss carryforward for income tax purposes was approximately $1 billion,$789 million, all of which $877 million pertainsrelates to certain net operating loss carryforwards related to stock-based tax deductions in excess of amounts recognized for financial reporting purposes.stock-based compensation. When the net operating loss carryforwards related to excess stock-based tax deductionscompensation are recognized, the income tax benefit of those losses is accounted for as a credit to Stockholders’stockholders’ equity on the Consolidated Balance Sheets rather than the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

 

If not utilized, the Company’s federal net operating loss carryforwards will expire between 2020 and 2024. Additionally, changes in ownership, as defined by Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code, may limit the amount of net operating loss carryforwards used in any one year.

 

Note 9:    RestructuringIn July 2006, the FASB issued Interpretation No. (“FIN”) 48,Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes. FIN 48 prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. FIN 48 also provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure, and transition. The Company adopted FIN 48 on January 1, 2007. As a result of the adoption, the Company did not recognize a change in the liability for unrecognized tax benefits.

 

Restructuring charges were $62.3 million, $0,A reconciliation of the beginning and $222,000 for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004, respectively.ending amount of unrecognized tax benefits is as follows (in thousands):

 

In 2006, the Company announced that one of its carrier partners plans to develop direct licensing relationships with the major record labels beginning in 2007. The Company expects that these direct relationships will have a material negative impact on its revenues and operating results. As a result, during 2006, the Company committed to a plan to make operational changes to its business to align costs with expected future revenues, which included a reduction of its workforce and consolidation of its facilities. The Company recorded charges for severance, facilities, probable losses for contractual minimum royalties or fees for licensed mobile content, and a charge for certain fixed assets, including leasehold improvements and internally developed software, which were abandoned in 2006. Internally developed software impairment charges were $562,000. Restructuring also includes the costs associated with the closing of its office in Hamburg, Germany announced by the Company during September 2006. As a result, the Company recorded an aggregate charge of $62.3 million in Restructuring in 2006.

During 2004, the Company recorded an adjustment to its reserves related to a restructuring charge in 2003, to adjust its estimated reserves for its future excess facilities costs.

   Unrecognized
tax benefits

Balance at January 1, 2007

  $18,830

Gross increases for tax positions of prior years

   —  

Gross decreases for tax positions of prior years

   —  

Gross increases for tax positions of current year

   —  

Gross decreases for tax positions of current year

   —  

Settlements

   —  

Lapse of statute of limitations

   —  
    

Balance at December 31, 2007

  $18,830
    

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Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006 2005, and 2005

Total amount of unrecognized tax benefits that would affect the Company’s effective tax rate if recognized was $634,000 as of December 31, 2007 and $634,000 as of January 1, 2007. The Company does not believe there will be any material changes in its unrecognized tax benefits over the next twelve months.

The Company and certain of its subsidiaries file income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction and various state and foreign jurisdictions. With few exceptions, the Company is no longer subject to U.S. federal, state and local, or non-U.S. income tax examinations by tax authorities for years before 2004, although net operating loss carryforwards and tax credit carryforwards from any year are subject to examination and adjustment for at least three years following the year in which they are fully utilized. As of December 31, 2007, no significant adjustments have been proposed relative to the Company’s tax positions.

The Company recognizes interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions in interest expense and general and administrative expenses, respectively. As of December 31, 2007 and January 1, 2007, the Company had $84,000 and $0 of accrued interest related to uncertain tax positions, respectively.

Note 8:    Restructuring

 

Restructuring charges were $9.6 million, $62.3 million, and $0 for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005, respectively.

In 2007, the Company sold its directory and 2004mobile services businesses and, as a result, committed to a plan to make operational changes to its business, which included a reduction in its workforce and, as part of the workforce reduction, consolidation of its facilities. The Company recorded $7.4 million of expense related to that plan in 2007, and $2.2 million of adjustments and additions in 2007 relating to the restructuring plan committed to in 2006, as described below.

In 2006, as a result of being informed by one of its carrier partners that it intended to develop direct relationships for mobile ringtone content with the major record labels beginning in 2007, the Company committed to a plan to substantially reduce its mobile content offerings and make operational changes to its business, which included a reduction in its workforce and, as part of the workforce reduction, consolidation of its facilities.

Restructuring charges for the years ended December 31, 2007, 2006, and 2005 consists of the following (in thousands):

 

   Years Ended December 31, 

Type

      2006          2005          2004     

Impairment of goodwill

  $31,903  $—    $—   

Impairment of other intangible assets

   12,623   —     —   

Employee separation costs

   8,687   —     (31)

Stock-based compensation

   824   —     —   

Losses on contractual commitments

   5,671   —     —   

Estimated future lease losses

   1,667   —     253 

Impairment of leasehold improvements and fixed assets

   941   —     —   
             
  $62,316  $—    $222 
             

At December 31, 2006, the accrued liability associated with the restructuring related charges was $10.2 million and consisted of the following (in thousands):

   

Employee

separation

  

Contractual

commitments

  

Facility

abandonment

  Total 

Reserve balance at December 31, 2004

  $—    $—    $226  $226 

Adjustments

   —     —     (152)  (152)

Payments in 2005

   —     —     (74)  (74)
                 

Reserve balance at December 31, 2005

   —     —     —     —   

Accrued restructuring charges

   8,687   3,673   1,657   14,017 

Payments in 2006

   (2,753)  (835)  (207)  (3,795)
                 

Reserve balance at December 31, 2006

  $5,934  $2,838  $1,450  $10,222 
                 

Note 10:    Business Unit Disclosures

SFAS No. 131,Disclosures about Segments of an Enterprise and Related Information, establishes standards for the way that companies report information about operating business units in annual financial statements. It also establishes standards for related disclosures about products and services, geographic areas, and major customers.

In January 2006, the Company realigned its operations to a functional organization structure and combined the functional operations of its two separate business units, Mobile and Search & Directory, to leverage its search and directory technology to its mobile products, services and distribution channels. This resulted in a change in the way it presents financial information to its chief operating decision maker, reflecting how management measures operating performance. The Company presents revenues consistent with the historical presentation, Online (formerly referred to as Search & Directory) and Mobile and, additionally, presents segment Content and distribution costs and segment gross profit, which is equal to Revenues less Content and distribution costs for each of the two segments. Content and distribution costs consist principally of revenue sharing arrangements with the Company’s Online distribution partners as well as certain content and data licenses and costs related to royalty and license fees related to the Company’s Mobile products for items such as ringtones, graphics and games, and other content or data licenses. Additionally, the Company does not allocate Systems and network operations expenses,

   Years ended December 31,

Type

  2007  2006  2005

Impairment of goodwill

  $—    $31,903  $—  

Impairment of other intangible assets

   —     12,623   —  

Employee separation costs

   7,963   8,687   —  

Stock-based compensation

   670   824   —  

Losses on contractual commitments

   831   5,671   —  

Estimated future lease losses

   —     1,667   —  

Impairment of leasehold improvements and fixed assets

   126   941   —  
            
  $9,590  $62,316  $—  
            

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Years Ended December 31, 2007, 2006 2005, and 20042005

 

Product development expenses, SalesAt December 31, 2007, the accrued liability associated with the restructuring related charges was $7.6 million and marketing expenses, General and administrative expenses, Depreciation, Amortizationconsisted of intangible assets, Income taxes or Other income to the reportable segments.following (in thousands):

 

For each segment, the historical financial results for 2005 and 2004 are presented in a manner consistent with the Company’s new measures for reportable segments information. The revised financial information for the new segment reporting is not indicative of how the Company operated or managed its business in the past and is different than the segment results previously presented.

   Employee
separation
  Contractual
commitments
  Facility
abandonment
  Total 

Reserve balance at December 31, 2005

  $—    $—    $—    $—   

Provision for restructuring

   8,687   3,673   1,657   14,017 

Payments in 2006

   (2,753)  (835)  (207)  (3,795)
                 

Reserve balance at December 31, 2006

   5,934   2,838   1,450   10,222 

Provision for restructuring

   8,855   47   883   9,785 

Adjustments

   (775)  (1,201)  (398)  (2,374)

Payments in 2007

   (6,725)  (1,454)  (1,826)  (10,005)
                 

Reserve balance at December 31, 2007

  $7,289  $230  $109  $7,628 
                 

 

The Company recently committedexpects to a planincur additional restructuring charges in 2008 of less than $1 million related to make operational changesinitiatives identified to its business to align costs with expected future revenues. The effectdate that have not yet been recognized in the Consolidated Statements of this realignment on the Company’s segments, if any, is currently being evaluated.Operations.

Information on reportable segments currently presented to the Company’s chief operating decision maker and a reconciliation to consolidated net income (loss) for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004 are presented below (in thousands). The Company does not account for, and does not report to management, its assets or capital expenditures by segment.

   Years Ended December 31, 
   2006  2005  2004 

Online

    

Revenue

  $186,901  $182,556  $156,839 

Content and distribution costs

   66,672   68,009   57,992 
             

Gross profit

   120,229   114,547   98,847 

Gross profit margin

   64.3%  62.7%  63.0%

Mobile

    

Revenue

   184,836   157,412   92,515 

Content and distribution costs

   111,655   77,342   34,696 
             

Gross profit

   73,181   80,070   57,819 

Gross profit margin

   39.6%  50.9%  62.5%

Total

    

Total segment revenue

   371,737   339,968   249,354 

Total content and distribution costs

   178,327   145,351   92,688 
             

Total segment gross profit

   193,410   194,617   156,666 

Total segment gross profit margin

   52.0%  57.2%  62.8%

Corporate

    

Operating expenses

  $158,942  $123,874  $97,196 

Restructuring

   62,316   —     222 

Stock-based compensation

   16,863   —     —   

Depreciation

   16,083   9,061   6,974 

Amortization of intangible assets

   12,213   15,265   9,920 

Other, net

   —     —     (3,203)

Gain on investments, net

   —     (154)  (425)

Other income, net

   (19,381)  (89,322)  (4,991)

Income tax benefit

   (38,538)  (23,475)  (29)

Income from discontinued operations

   —     —     (31,399)
             
   208,498   35,249   74,265 
             

Total Consolidated Net Income (Loss)

  $(15,088) $159,368  $82,401 
             

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Years Ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004

Geographic revenue information, as determined by the location of the customer, is presented below (in thousands):

   Years Ended December 31,
   2006  2005  2004

United States

  $355,078  $316,068  $232,436

International

   16,659   23,900   16,918
            

Total

  $371,737  $339,968  $249,354
            

Note 11:    Employee Benefit Plan

The Company has a 401(k) savings plan covering its U.S. based employees. Eligible employees may contribute through payroll deductions. The Company may match the employees’ 401(k) contributions at the discretion of the Company’s Board of Directors. During 2006, 2005, and 2004, the Company’s Board of Directors elected to match a portion of the 401(k) contributions made by employees of the Company. The amount contributed by the Company is equal to a maximum of 50% of employee contributions up to a maximum of 3% of an employee’s salary. For the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004, the Company contributed $976,000, $851,000, and $745,000, respectively.

 

Note 12:9:    Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

In June 2006,December 2007, the Financial Accounting Standard BoardFASB issued SFAS No. 141 (revised 2007), Business Combinations (“FASB”) issued Interpretation (“FIN”)SFAS No. 48,141(R)”)Accounting. In SFAS No. 141(R), the FASB retained the fundamental requirements of SFAS No. 141 to account for Uncertainty in Income Taxes. FIN No. 48 prescribes a recognition thresholdall business combinations using the acquisition method and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expectedan acquiring entity to be takenidentified in all business combinations. However, the revised standard requires the acquiring entity in a tax return. FINbusiness combination to recognize all the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the transaction; establishes the acquisition-date fair value as the measurement objective for all assets acquired and liabilities assumed; and requires the acquirer to immediately expense costs related to the acquisition. SFAS No. 48 also provides guidance on derecognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure, and transition. FIN No. 48141(R) is effective for our first fiscal yearannual periods beginning on or after December 15, 2006.2008. Accordingly, any business combinations the Company engages in will be recorded and disclosed according to the provisions of SFAS No. 141 until January 1, 2009. The impact that SFAS No. 141(R) will have on the Company’s consolidated financial statements when effective will depend upon the nature, terms and size of the acquisitions completed after the effective date.

In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 159,The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities – including an amendment to SFAS No. 115, Accounting for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities. SFAS No. 159 permits entities to measure certain financial assets and financial liabilities at fair value. SFAS No. 159 requires prospective application and is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. The Company is currently evaluating the provisions of FINSFAS No. 48159 to determine what effect its adoption on January 1, 20072008 will have on the Company’s financial position, cash flows, and results of operations, however management does not believe that there will be any material effect of adoption of FIN No. 48.

In September 2006, the SEC issued SAB No. 108,Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements. SAB No. 108 provides interpretive guidance on how the effects of prior-year uncorrected misstatements should be considered when quantifying misstatements in the current year financial statements. SAB No. 108 requires registrants to quantify misstatements using both an income statement (“rollover”) and balance sheet (“iron curtain”) approach and evaluate whether either approach results in a misstatement that, when all relevant quantitative and qualitative factors are considered, is material. SAB No. 108 was effective for 2006. The application of SAB No. 108 did not have an effect on the Company’s financial position, cash flows, or results of operations.

 

In September 2006, the FASB issued SFAS No. 157,Fair Value Measurements. SFAS No. 157 defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosure of fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 applies under other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements and accordingly, does not require any new fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. On February 12, 2008, the FASB issued Staff Position No. FAS 157-2,Effective Date of FASB Statement No. 157, which delayed the effective date of SFAS No. 157 for nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities to fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2008. The Company is currently evaluating the provisions of SFAS No. 157 to determine what effect its adoption on January 1, 2008 for financial assets and financial liabilities, and January 1, 2009 for nonfinancial assets and nonfinancial liabilities, will have on the Company’sits financial position, cash flows, and results of operations.

ITEM 9.    Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure

 

Not applicable with respect to the current reporting period.

 

ITEM 9A.    Controls and Procedures

ITEM 9A.    Controlsand Procedures

 

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

Our management evaluated, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that as of December 31, 2006, our disclosure controls and procedures were notare effective due to a material weaknessensure that information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure, and that such information is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission rules and forms.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

Other than the change described below, related to our internal controls with respect to theincome tax accounting, and disclosure for deferred income taxes discussed below in Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Additional review, evaluation and oversightthere were undertaken on the part of management in order to ensure our consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and, as a result, management has concluded that the consolidated financial statements in this Form 10-K fairly present, in all material respects, our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented.

There was no changechanges in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the three monthsquarter ended December 31, 20062007 that hashave materially affected, or isare reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934).

In Item 9A of the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006, our management reported that they had identified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting which related to the accounting and disclosure for deferred income taxes. During 2007, we completed the following remediation efforts specifically designed to address that material weakness:

We hired a Senior Tax Director to strengthen our accounting and reporting for income taxes;

We implemented a written tax policy; and

We improved the income tax provision rate reconciliation, deferred tax rollforward and related review process.

We have tested the evidence of the effectiveness of those changes, and we believe that material weakness no longer exists as of December 31, 2007.

 

Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

 

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f). Our internal control over financial reporting is designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

 

Under the supervision and with the participation of management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the framework inInternal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of the Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

 

Based on thatour evaluation under the framework inInternal Control—Integrated Framework, our management identified a deficiency in the operation of the Company’s internal controls related to the accounting and disclosure for deferred income taxes, which constituted a material weakness inconcluded that our internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a significant deficiency, as defined in Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Auditing Standard No. 2, or a combination of significant deficiencies, that results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of a company’s annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected by company personnel in the normal course of performing their assigned functions. This deficiency pertained to our controls which were ineffective and not properly designed to ensure proper accounting and disclosure of deferred income taxes which resulted in a material adjustment to the consolidated financial statements and related disclosuresreporting was effective as of December 31, 2006 and for the year then ended.

Our management’s assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006 has been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report which is included herein.2007.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of

InfoSpace, Inc.

Bellevue, Washington

 

We have audited management’s assessment, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Controlinternal control over Financial Reporting, thatfinancial reporting of InfoSpace, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company”) did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, because of the effect of the material weakness identified in management’s assessment2007, based on criteria established inInternal Control—Integrated Frameworkissued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting.reporting, included in the accompanyingManagement’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on management’s assessment and an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit.

 

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, evaluating management’s assessment,assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinions.opinion.

 

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, the company’s principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, and effected by the company’s board of directors, management, and other personnel to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

 

Because of the inherent limitations of internal control over financial reporting, including the possibility of collusion or improper management override of controls, material misstatements due to error or fraud may not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. Also, projections of any evaluation of the effectiveness of the internal control over financial reporting to future periods are subject to the risk that the controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

 

A material weakness is a significant deficiency, or combination of significant deficiencies, that results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected. The following material weakness has been identified and included in management’s assessment: controls were ineffective and not properly designed to ensure proper accounting and disclosure of deferred income taxes, which resulted in a material adjustment to the consolidated financial statements and related disclosures as of December 31, 2006 and for the year then ended. This material weakness was considered in determining the nature, timing, and extent of audit tests applied in our audit of the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2006, of the Company and this report does not affect our report on such financial statements.

In our opinion, management’s assessment that the Company did not maintainmaintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, is fairly stated, in all material respects,2007, based on the criteria established inInternal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Also in our opinion, because of the effect of the material weakness described above on the achievement of the objectives of the control criteria, the Company has not maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, based on the criteria established inInternal Control—Integrated Frameworkissued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

 

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 20062007 of the Company and our report dated February 21, 20072008 expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements and included an explanatory paragraph regarding the change in accounting for stock-based compensation upon adoption of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123(R),Share-Based Payment, effective January 1, 2006.

 

/s/DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

 

Seattle, Washington

February 21, 20072008

ITEM 9B.    Other Information

 

Not applicable with respect to the current reporting period.

PART III

 

We have omitted certain information from this Annual Report on Form 10-K that is required by Part III. We intend to file a definitive proxy statement pursuant to Regulation 14A with the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to our annual meeting of stockholders not later than 120 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by this Report, and such information is incorporated by reference herein.

 

ITEM 10.    Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

 

Certain information concerning our directors required by this Item is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement under the heading “Proposal One—Election of Directors.”

 

Certain information regarding our executive officers is included in Part I of this Report under the caption “Executive Officers and Directors of the Registrant” and is incorporated by reference into this Item.

 

Other information concerning our officers and directors required by this Item is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement under the heading “Additional Information Relating to our Directors and Executive Officers.”

 

ITEM 11.    Executive Compensation

 

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement under the heading “Additional Information Relating to Our Directors and Executive Officers.”

 

ITEM 12.Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters

 

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement under the headings “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” and “Additional Information Relating to Our Directors and Executive Officers—Equity Compensation Plans.”

 

ITEM 13.    Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence

 

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement under the heading “Proposal One—Election of Directors” and “Additional Information Relating to Our Directors and Executive Officers.”

 

ITEM 14.    Principal AccountingAccountant Fees and Services

 

The information required by this item is incorporated by reference to our Proxy Statement under the headings “Fees Paid to Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for 20062007 and 2005”2006” and “Audit Committee Report.”

PART IV

 

ITEM 15.    Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

 

(a)

 

1.    Consolidated Financial Statements.Statements.

 

See Index to Consolidated Financial Statements at Item 8 on page 50 of this Report.

 

2.    Financial Statement Schedules.

2.    FinancialStatement Schedules.

 

All financial statement schedules required by Item 15(a)(2) have been omitted because they are not applicable or the required information is presented in the Consolidated Financial Statements or Notes thereto.

 

3.    ExhibitsExhibits..

 

Number

 

Description

3.1(1) Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
3.2(1)3.2(2) Amended and Restated Bylaws, as amended
4.1(2)4.1(3) Form of Certificate of the Powers, Designations, Preferences and Rights of Series A Preferred Stock
4.2(3)4.2(4) Certificate of the Powers, Designations, Preferences and Rights of Series B Preferred Stock
4.3(4)4.3(5) Preferred Stock Rights Agreement, dated as of July 19, 2002, between the Company and Mellon Investor Services LLC, including the Certificate of Designation, the form of Rights Certificate and the Summary of Rights attached thereto as Exhibits A, B, and C, respectively
10.1(5)10.1(6) Form of Indemnification Agreement between the registrant and each of its directors and executive officers
10.2(6)10.2(7)* Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan
10.3(5)10.3(6)* 1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
10.4(5)10.4(6) Form of Common Stock Warrant, dated as of May 21, 1998, among the registrant and Acorn Ventures-IS, LLC
10.5(7)10.5(8) Lease, dated March 10, 2000, between the registrant and Three Bellevue Center, LLC
10.6(8)10.6(9)* Amended and Restated 2001 Nonstatutory Stock Option Plan
10.7(9)* Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated as of October 5, 2005August 3, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and James F. Voelker
10.8(10)10.8(9)* Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated as of April 2, 2003August 3, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr.R. Bruce Easter
10.9(10)10.9(9)* Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated as of April 2, 2003August 3, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and David RostovSteve Elfman
10.10(10)10.10(9)* Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated as of April 2, 2003August 3, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Allen M. Hsieh
10.11(9)*Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated August 3, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Brian McManus
10.11(11)10.12(10)*Amendment No. 1 to Employment Agreement dated as of December 9, 2004 between InfoSpace, Inc., and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr. to Employment Agreement dated as of April 2, 2003 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr.
10.12*Amendment No. 2 to Employment Agreement dated as of October 3, 2006 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr. to Employment Agreement dated as of April 2, 2003 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr., as previously amended by Amendment No. 1 to Employment Agreement dated as of December 9, 2004

Number

Description

10.13(12)*Employment Agreement dated as of August 3, 2005 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Steve Elfman
10.14(13)*Employment Agreement dated as of November 15, 2005 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Stephen Davis
10.15(14)*Separation Agreement entered into January 17, 2006 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Victor Melfi
10.16* Separation Agreement entered into February 21, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr.
10.17(15)10.13(11)* InfoSpace, Inc. Switchboard Incorporated Stock Incentive Plan
10.18(16)10.14(12)* Form of InfoSpace, Inc. Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan Nonqualified Stock Option Letter Agreement

10.19(17)

Number

Description

10.15(13) Mutual Release and Settlement Agreement dated as of December 22, 2004 between InfoSpace, Inc. and certain current and former directors and officers of InfoSpace, Inc. and a private party shareholder of InfoSpace, Inc.
10.20(17)10.16(13)* Terms of Stock Option Grant program for Nonemployee Directors under the Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan
10.21(17)10.17(13)* Description of Retainer and Meeting Fees Paid to Directors
10.22(18)10.18(14) Sixth Amendment dated September 26, 2005, to that certain Lease dated March 10, 2000, between InfoSpace, Inc. and Three Bellevue Center LLC
10.23(19)10.19(15)* Description of Acceleration of Vesting of Certain Unvested and “Out-of-the-Money” Stock Options
10.24(20)10.20(16)* 20062007 1H InfoSpace Executive Financial Performance Incentive Plan
10.25(20)10.21(17)* 2006Agreement by and between InfoSpace, Executive Vice President, Sales & Business Development Compensation PlanInc. and certain entities affiliated with the Sandell Asset Management Corp., dated April 26, 2007
10.26(21)10.22(18) Work Letter Agreement between InfoSpace, Inc. and Fisher Media Services Company, dated March 28, 2006
10.27(22)*Letter from InfoSpace, Inc. to Allen M. Hsieh, dated April 7, 2006
10.28(23)*Employment Agreement, effective November 1, 2006 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Allen M. Hsieh
10.29(6)10.23(7)* Form of InfoSpace, Inc. Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan Notice of Grant of Restricted Stock Units and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement
10.30(24)10.24(9)*Form of InfoSpace, Inc. Amended and Restated 2001 Nonstatutory Stock Option Plan Notice of Grant of Restricted Stock Units and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement
10.25(9)From of InfoSpace, Inc. Restricted Stock Unit Award Tax Withholding Election Form
10.26(9)*Form of InfoSpace, Inc. Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan Notice of Grant of Restricted Stock Units and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for US-Based Vice President or Above
10.27(19)Asset Purchase Agreement between Idearc Inc. and InfoSpace, Inc., dated as of September 15, 2007
10.28(20)Asset Purchase Agreement between InfoSpace, Inc. and Motricity, Inc., dated as of October 15, 2007
10.29(21)Ninth Amendment to Office Lease, effective as of December 21, 2007, by and between InfoSpace, Inc. and WA—Three Bellevue Center, L.L.C. for office space located at 601 108th Avenue N.E., Bellevue, Washington
10.30(21)*Employment Agreement effective as of January 1, 2008 between InfoSpace, Inc. and David B. Binder
10.31(21)*Employment Agreement effective as of January 1, 2008 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Eric M. Emans
10.32*Employment Agreement effective as of December 19, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Bruce M. Allenbaugh
10.33*Employment Agreement effective as of January 1, 2008 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Sunil Thomas
10.34*Employment Agreement effective as of January 1, 2008 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Alejandro C. Torres
10.35Tenth Amendment to Office Lease, effective as of January 29, 2008, by and between InfoSpace, Inc. and WA—Three Bellevue Center, L.L.C. for office space located at 601 108th Avenue N.E., Bellevue, Washington
21.1Subsidiaries of the registrant

Number

Description

23.1Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
24.1Power of Attorney (contained on the signature page hereto)
31.1Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
31.2Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.1Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.2Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

(1)Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the registrant for the year ended December 31, 2002 filed by the registrant on March 27, 2003.
(2)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on November 20, 2007.
(3)Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-86313) filed by the registrant on September 1, 1999, as amended.
(4)Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-58048) filed by the registrant on March 30, 2001, as amended.
(5)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on July 24, 2002.
(6)Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-62323) filed by the registrant on August 27, 1998, as amended.
(7)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on December 11, 2006.
(8)Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the registrant for the year ended December 31, 1999 filed by the registrant on March 30, 2000.
(9)Incorporated by reference to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June 30, 2007 filed by the registrant on August 9, 2007.
(10)Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 filed by the registrant on February 23, 2007.
(11)Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (333-116641) filed by the registrant on June 18, 2004.
(12)Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed for the year ended December 31, 2005 filed by the registrant on February 23, 2006.
(13)Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004 filed by the registrant on March 3, 2005.
(14)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on September 29, 2005.
(15)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on December 20, 2005.
(16)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on January 19, 2007.
(17)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on May 2, 2007.
(18)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on April 3, 2006.
(19)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on September 19, 2007.
(20)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on October 18, 2007.
(21)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on January 4, 2008.
  *Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.

(b)    Exhibits

See Item 15 (a) above.

(c)    Financial Statements and Schedules.

See Item 15 (a) above.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

INFOSPACE, INC.

By:

/s/    JAMES F. VOELKER        

James F. Voelker

Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and President

Date:

February 21, 2008

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints David B. Binder and Alejandro C. Torres, jointly and severally, his or her attorneys-in-fact, each with the power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities to execute any amendments to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities indicated and on the dates indicated.

Signature

Title

Date

/s/    JAMES F. VOELKER        

James F. Voelker

Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and President

(Principal Executive Officer)

February 21, 2008

/s/    DAVID B. BINDER        

David B. Binder

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial Officer)

February 21, 2008

/s/    ERIC M. EMANS        

Eric M. Emans

Chief Accounting Officer

(Principal Accounting Officer)

February 21, 2008

/s/    JOHN E. CUNNINGHAM, IV        

John E. Cunningham, IV

Director

February 21, 2008

/s/    NICHOLAS F. GRAZIANO        

Nicholas F. Graziano

Director

February 21, 2008

/s/    JULES HAIMOVITZ        

Jules Haimovitz

Director

February 21, 2008

/s/    RICHARD D. HEARNEY        

Richard D. Hearney

Director

February 21, 2008

/s/    WILLIAM J. RUCKELSHAUS        

William J. Ruckelshaus

Director

February 21, 2008

/s/    LEWIS M. TAFFER        

Lewis M. Taffer

Director

February 21, 2008

/s/    George M. Tronsrue III        

George M. Tronsrue III

Director

February 21, 2008

/s/    VANESSA A. WITTMAN        

Vanessa A. Wittman

Director

February 21, 2008

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Number

Description

  3.1(1)Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
  3.2(2)Restated Bylaws, as amended
  4.1(3)Form of Certificate of the Powers, Designations, Preferences and Rights of Series A Preferred Stock
  4.2(4)Certificate of the Powers, Designations, Preferences and Rights of Series B Preferred Stock
  4.3(5)Preferred Stock Rights Agreement, dated as of July 19, 2002, between the Company and Mellon Investor Services LLC, including the Certificate of Designation, the form of Rights Certificate and the Summary of Rights attached thereto as Exhibits A, B, and C, respectively
10.1(6)Form of Indemnification Agreement between the registrant and each of its directors and executive officers
10.2(7)*Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan
10.3(6)*1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
10.4(6)Form of Common Stock Warrant, dated as of May 21, 1998, among the registrant and Acorn Ventures-IS, LLC
10.5(8)Lease, dated March 10, 2000, between the registrant and Three Bellevue Center, LLC
10.6(9)*Amended and Restated 2001 Nonstatutory Stock Option Plan
10.7(9)*Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated August 3, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and James F. Voelker
10.8(9)*Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated August 3, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and R. Bruce Easter
10.9(9)*Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated August 3, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Steve Elfman
10.10(9)*Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated August 3, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Allen M. Hsieh
10.11(9)*Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated August 3, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Brian McManus
10.12(10)*Separation Agreement entered into February 21, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr.
10.13(11)*InfoSpace, Inc. Switchboard Incorporated Stock Incentive Plan
10.14(12)*Form of InfoSpace, Inc. Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan Nonqualified Stock Option Letter Agreement
10.15(13)Mutual Release and Settlement Agreement dated as of December 22, 2004 between InfoSpace, Inc. and certain current and former directors and officers of InfoSpace, Inc. and a private party shareholder of InfoSpace, Inc.
10.16(13)*Terms of Stock Option Grant program for Nonemployee Directors under the Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan
10.17(13)*Description of Retainer and Meeting Fees Paid to Directors
10.18(14)Sixth Amendment dated September 26, 2005, to that certain Lease dated March 10, 2000, between InfoSpace, Inc. and Three Bellevue Center LLC
10.19(15)*Description of Acceleration of Vesting of Certain Unvested and “Out-of-the-Money” Stock Options
10.20(16)* 2007 1H InfoSpace Executive Financial Performance Incentive Plan


Number

Description

10.31(24)10.21(17)*Agreement by and between InfoSpace, Inc. and certain entities affiliated with the Sandell Asset Management Corp., dated April 26, 2007
10.22(18)Work Letter Agreement between InfoSpace, Inc. and Fisher Media Services Company, dated March 28, 2006
10.23(7)*  Form of InfoSpace, Inc. Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan Notice of Grant of Restricted Stock Units and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement
10.24(9)*Form of InfoSpace, Inc. Amended and Restated 2001 Nonstatutory Stock Option Plan Notice of Grant of Restricted Stock Units and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement
10.25(9)From of InfoSpace, Inc. Restricted Stock Unit Award Tax Withholding Election Form
10.26(9)*Form of InfoSpace, Inc. Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan Notice of Grant of Restricted Stock Units and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement for US-Based Vice President or Above
10.27(19)Asset Purchase Agreement between Idearc Inc. and InfoSpace, Inc., dated as of September 15, 2007
10.28(20)Asset Purchase Agreement between InfoSpace, Inc. and Motricity, Inc., dated as of October 15, 2007
10.29(21)Ninth Amendment No. 1 to Office Lease, effective as of December 21, 2007, by and between InfoSpace, Inc. and WA—Three Bellevue Center, L.L.C. for office space located at 601 108th Avenue N.E., Bellevue, Washington
10.30(21)*Employment Agreement effective as of January 1, 2008 between InfoSpace, Inc. and David B. Binder
10.31(21)*Employment Agreement effective as of January 1, 2008 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Eric M. Emans
10.32*Employment Agreement effective as of December 19, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Bruce M. Allenbaugh
10.33*Employment Agreement effective as of January 1, 2008 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Sunil Thomas
10.34*Employment Agreement effective as of January 1, 2008 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Alejandro C. Torres
10.35Tenth Amendment to Office Lease, effective as of January 29, 2008, by and between InfoSpace, Inc. and WA—Three Bellevue Center, L.L.C. for office space located at 601 108th Avenue N.E., Bellevue, Washington
21.1  Subsidiaries of the registrant
23.1  Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
24.1  Power of Attorney (contained on the signature page hereto)
31.1  Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
31.2  Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.1  Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.2  Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

(1) Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the registrant for the year ended December 31, 2002.2002 filed by the registrant on March 27, 2003.

(2)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on November 20, 2007.
(3) Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-86313) filed by the registrant on September 1, 1999, as amended.
(3)(4) Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-58048) filed by the registrant on March 30, 2001, as amended.


(4)(5) Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on July 24, 2002.
(5)(6) Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-62323) filed by the registrant on August 27, 1998, as amended.
(6)(7) Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on December 11, 2006.
(7)(8) Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the registrant for the year ended December 31, 1999.
(8)Incorporated by reference to the Post Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-58422)1999 filed by the registrant on December 11, 2001.March 30, 2000.
(9)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on October 5, 2005.
(10) Incorporated by reference to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended June 30, 2007 filed by the registrant for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2003.on August 9, 2007.
(11)(10) Incorporated by reference to the CurrentAnnual Report on Form 8-K10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006 filed by the registrant on December 10, 2004.February 23, 2007.
(12)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on August 4, 2005.
(13)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on September 27, 2005.
(14)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed by the registrant on January 19, 2006.
(15)(11) Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (333-116641) filed by the registrant on June 18, 2004.
(16)(12) Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the registrant for the year ended December 31, 2005.2005 filed by the registrant on February 23, 2006.
(17)(13) Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the registrant for the year ended December 31, 2004.2004 filed by the registrant on March 3, 2005.
(18)(14) Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on September 29, 2005.
(19)(15) Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on December 20, 2005.
(20)(16) Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on February 22, 2006.January 19, 2007.
(21)(17)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on May 2, 2007.
(18) Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on April 3, 2006.
(22)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on April 7, 2006.
(23)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on October 26, 2006.
(24)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on January 19, 2007.
  *Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.

(b)  Exhibits

See Item 15 (a) above.

(c)  Financial Statements and Schedules.

See Item 15 (a) above.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

INFOSPACE, INC.

By:

/s/    JAMES F. VOELKER        

James F. Voelker,

Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and President

Date:

February 22, 2007

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Allen M. Hsieh and R. Bruce Easter, jointly and severally, his or her attorneys-in-fact, each with the power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities to execute any amendments to this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and to file the same, exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities indicated and on the dates indicated.

Signature

Title

Date

/s/    JAMES F. VOELKER        

James F. Voelker

Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and President

(Principal Executive Officer)

February 22, 2007

/s/    ALLEN M. HSIEH        

Allen M. Hsieh

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer)

February 22, 2007

/s/    JOHN E. CUNNINGHAM, IV        

John E. Cunningham, IV

Director

February 22, 2007

/s/    JULES HAIMOVITZ        

Jules Haimovitz

Director

February 22, 2007

/s/    RICHARD D. HEARNEY        

Richard D. Hearney

Director

February 22, 2007

Lewis M. Taffer

Director

/s/    GEORGE M. TRONSRUE III        

George M. Tronsrue III

Director

February 22, 2007

/s/    VANESSA A. WITTMAN        

Vanessa A. Wittman

Director

February 22, 2007

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

Number

Description

3.1(1)Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
3.2(1)Amended and Restated Bylaws
4.1(2)Form of Certificate of the Powers, Designations, Preferences and Rights of Series A Preferred Stock
4.2(3)Certificate of the Powers, Designations, Preferences and Rights of Series B Preferred Stock
4.3(4)Preferred Stock Rights Agreement, dated as of July 19, 2002, between the Company and Mellon Investor Services LLC, including the Certificate of Designation, the form of Rights Certificate and the Summary of Rights attached thereto as Exhibits A, B, and C, respectively
10.1(5)Form of Indemnification Agreement between the registrant and each of its directors and executive officers
10.2(6)*Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan
10.3(5)*1998 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
10.4(5)Form of Common Stock Warrant, dated as of May 21, 1998, among the registrant and Acorn Ventures-IS, LLC
10.5(7)Lease, dated March 10, 2000, between the registrant and Three Bellevue Center, LLC
10.6(8)*2001 Nonstatutory Stock Option Plan
10.7(9)*Employment Agreement dated as of October 5, 2005 between InfoSpace, Inc. and James F. Voelker
10.8(10)*Employment Agreement dated as of April 2, 2003 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr.
10.9(10)*Employment Agreement dated as of April 2, 2003 between InfoSpace, Inc. and David Rostov
10.10(10)*Employment Agreement dated as of April 2, 2003 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Brian McManus
10.11(11)*Amendment No. 1 to Employment Agreement dated as of December 9, 2004 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr. to Employment Agreement dated as of April 2, 2003 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr.
10.12*Amendment No. 2 to Employment Agreement dated as of October 3, 2006 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr. to Employment Agreement dated as of April 2, 2003 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr., as previously amended by Amendment No. 1 to Employment Agreement dated as of December 9, 2004
10.13(12)*Employment Agreement dated as of August 3, 2005 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Steve Elfman
10.14(13)*Employment Agreement dated as of November 15, 2005 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Stephen Davis
10.15(14)*Separation Agreement entered into January 17, 2006 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Victor Melfi
10.16*Separation Agreement entered into February 21, 2007 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Edmund O. Belsheim, Jr.
10.17(15)*InfoSpace, Inc. Switchboard Incorporated Stock Incentive Plan
10.18(16)*Form of InfoSpace, Inc. Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan Nonqualified Stock Option Letter Agreement
10.19(17)Mutual Release and Settlement Agreement dated as of December 22, 2004 between InfoSpace, Inc. and certain current and former directors and officers of InfoSpace, Inc. and a private party shareholder of InfoSpace, Inc.
10.20(17)*Terms of Stock Option Grant program for Nonemployee Directors under the Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan


Number

Description

10.21(17)*Description of Retainer and Meeting Fees Paid to Directors
10.22(18)Sixth Amendment dated September 26, 2005, to that certain Lease dated March 10, 2000, between InfoSpace, Inc. and Three Bellevue Center LLC
10.23(19)*Description of Acceleration of Vesting of Certain Unvested and “Out-of-the-Money” Stock Options
10.24(20)*2006 InfoSpace Executive Financial Performance Incentive Plan
10.25(20)*2006 InfoSpace Executive Vice President, Sales & Business Development Compensation Plan
10.26(21)Work Letter Agreement between InfoSpace, Inc. and Fisher Media Services Company, dated March 28, 2006
10.27(22)*Letter from InfoSpace, Inc. to Allen M. Hsieh, dated April 7, 2006
10.28(23)*Employment Agreement, effective November 1, 2006 between InfoSpace, Inc. and Allen M. Hsieh
10.29(6)*Form of InfoSpace, Inc. Restated 1996 Flexible Stock Incentive Plan Notice of Grant of Restricted Stock Units and Restricted Stock Unit Agreement
10.30(24)*2007 1H InfoSpace Executive Financial Performance Incentive Plan
10.31(24)*Form of Amendment No. 1 to Employment Agreement
21.1Subsidiaries of the registrant
23.1Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
24.1Power of Attorney (contained on the signature page hereto)
31.1Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
31.2Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.1Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
32.2Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

(1)Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the registrant for the year ended December 31, 2002.
(2)Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-86313) filed by the registrant on September 1, 1999, as amended.
(3)Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-58048) filed by the registrant on March 30, 2001, as amended.
(4)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on July 24, 2002.
(5)Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (No. 333-62323) filed by the registrant on August 27, 1998, as amended.
(6)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on December 11, 2006.
(7)Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the registrant for the year ended December 31, 1999.
(8)Incorporated by reference to the Post Effective Amendment No. 1 to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (No. 333-58422) filed by the registrant on December 11, 2001.
(9)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on October 5, 2005.
(10)Incorporated by reference to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed by the registrant for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2003.
(11)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on December 10, 2004.
(12)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on August 4, 2005.
(13)(19) Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on September 27, 2005.
(14)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed by the registrant on January 19, 2006.


(15)Incorporated by reference to the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (333-116641) filed by the registrant on June 18, 2004.
(16)Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the registrant for the year ended December 31, 2005.
(17)Incorporated by reference to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed by the registrant for the year ended December 31, 2004.
(18)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on September 29, 2005.
(19)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on December 20, 2005.2007.
(20) Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on February 22, 2006.October 18, 2007.
(21) Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on April 3, 2006.January 4, 2008.
(22)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on April 7, 2006.
(23)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on October 26, 2006.
(24)Incorporated by reference to the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by the registrant on January 19, 2007.
* Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.