Yahoo! Signs New Global Customers for Corporate Yahoo! Enterprise Information Portal Solution.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 2001

Yahoo! Surpasses 800,000 Licensed Seats with 11 New Customers,

Including McDonald's, Bayer and Seagate

Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company, today announced separate enterprise services agreements with McDonald's Corporation, Bayer AG, Janus Capital Corporation, Seagate Technology, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Reuters (Nasdaq:RTRSY), Corio (Nasdaq:CRIO), Hall Kinion & Associates, Health Net Inc., Government Securities Clearing Corporation and JLT Services to license Corporate Yahoo!(TM) (http://corporate.yahoo.com) for various enterprise portal solutions. With these agreements, Yahoo! now has 18 customers licensed to make Corporate Yahoo! available to more than 800,000(1) of their employees, customers & business partners.

In separate announcements today, Yahoo! unveiled Yahoo! PortalBuilder 2.0 software enabling wireless access, as well as several new Corporate Yahoo! partnerships.

"We continue to build strong momentum for Yahoo!'s enterprise services initiative, as additional Global 1000 companies including McDonald's, Bayer and Seagate have chosen Yahoo! to help them aggregate, personalize, and deliver relevant content and services to their employees, customers, and business partners on a global basis," said Jeff Mallett, Yahoo!'s president and chief operating officer. "With Yahoo!'s leading reach in the workplace, an enterprise technology platform developed with TIBCO, and a growing list of best-of-breed partnerships, we believe Corporate Yahoo! is the most comprehensive, personalized, and global portal solution for the enterprise market."

Corporate Yahoo! Part of Strategy to Web-Enable McDonald's Corporation

McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is deploying an enterprise-wide portal to enhance internal communications and collaboration among its corporate employees and franchisees.

"At McDonald's Corporation, we have made a commitment to Web-enable our business worldwide, and as a part of that commitment, we are deploying Corporate Yahoo! as our next generation intranet solution to assist our employees and franchisees to find and get connected to the information they need," said Dave Weick, chief information officer of McDonald's Corporation. "Corporate Yahoo! will help us provide our people with the additional resources they need to get their jobs done more productively."

Additional customer applications include the following:

-- Bayer AG is Yahoo!'s first European Corporate Yahoo! customer. Bayer AG will
use the Corporate Yahoo! solution to create its employee portal across its
European operations, beginning in the first quarter of 2001.

-- Hall Kinion & Associates (Nasdaq:HAKI), a specialized technology
professional recruiting firm, will deploy Corporate Yahoo! for an intranet for
its employees based in 41 offices and in 25 major technology centers in the
United States and England.

-- Health Net, Inc. (NYSE:HNT), one of the nation's largest managed health care
companies, as part of its ongoing commitment to Web-enable its business, is
launching an enterprise-wide employee portal to support more than 12,000
employees from coast-to-coast and its nationwide network of subsidiaries.
Corporate Yahoo! will be an integral part of the company's portal, supplying a
wide range of customized and personalized content directly to employees'
desktops.

-- Government Securities Clearing Corporation (GSCC), the leading provider of
trade comparison, netting, risk management and settlement services for the
government securities marketplace, will deploy an employee intranet as well as
an extranet that will serve as the interface between GSCC and its participant
network of brokers and dealers, in order to clear government securities
totaling close to $1 trillion dollars per day.

-- In Sweden, My Yahoo! for Physicians, an extranet portal using the Corporate
Yahoo! platform, was launched with the pharmaceutical company Merck Sharp &
Dohme.

-- JLT Services is licensing Corporate Yahoo! for its own employee portal, and
will also offer a version of Corporate Yahoo! to affinity groups and
personalized portal pages for their members.

About Corporate Yahoo!

Corporate Yahoo! is a customized enterprise information portal solution based on the widely used My Yahoo! (http://my.yahoo.com) interface. Enterprise customers licensing Corporate Yahoo! can easily integrate proprietary corporate content and applications with access to Yahoo!'s personalized Internet content and services behind existing firewalls. Corporate Yahoo! is a global solution that leverages Yahoo!'s position as the No. 1 most visited property at work, according to Nielsen//NetRatings' latest rankings, as well as an existing platform across 24 world properties and 13 languages.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is a global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 166 million individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the most recognized and valuable Internet brand globally, and is ranked No. 38 among all consumer brands in the world. The company also provides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the productivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients, including Corporate Yahoo!, a popular customized enterprise portal solution; audio and video streaming; store hosting and management; and Web site tools and services. The company's global Web network includes 24 World properties. Yahoo! has offices in Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Canada and the United States, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif.

Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995

This news release contains forward-looking statements or predictions. These statements represent our judgment as of this date and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those expressed in such forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, those associated with economic conditions, government regulations and delays or other problems with product development. In addition, references to licensed seats represent seats that Customers are authorized to deploy, but Customers may not actually deploy those seats due to changes in their business plans, economic conditions, or for other reasons. These and other factors are discussed in more depth in Yahoo!'s and other referenced companies' filings with the SEC, copies of which may be accessed through the SEC's World WideWeb site at http://www.sec.gov.

Note to Editors: Yahoo!, Corporate Yahoo!, My Yahoo! and the Yahoo! logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Yahoo! Inc. All other names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

(1) 800,000 represents seats licensed for private intranet and extranet applications. This number does not include additional seats licensed for public Internet applications.