Message-ID: <26431533.1075861165977.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 06:28:58 -0800 (PST) From: morning26@alerts.equityalert.com To: alewis@ect.enron.com Subject: Your News Alert for YHOO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-From: "Equity Alert Center" @ENRON X-To: Andrew Lewis X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ALEWIS (Non-Privileged)\Lewis, Andrew H.\Deleted Items X-Origin: Lewis-A X-FileName: ALEWIS (Non-Privileged).pst =09[IMAGE]=09 =09[IMAGE]=09[IMAGE]=09 [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Upgrades [IMAGE] DownGrades= [IMAGE] Coverage Initiated [IMAGE] Stock Splits [IMAGE] Buybacks [IMAG= E] Pos Pre-Announce [IMAGE] Neg Pre-Announce [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAG= E] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] Unsubscribe [IMAGE] Update my Membership / Profile [= IMAGE] Forgot Username / Password [IMAGE] Add / Edit Alerts [IMAGE] View = My Alerts [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [= IMAGE] [IMAGE] =09 As requested, your News Alert for YHOO follows from Eq= uityAlert.com. Yahoo! Shopping Expects Day After Thanksgiving Sales to = Increase More Than 60 Percent Over Last Year=1DVideogame Consoles, Digital = Cameras and Harry Potter Merchandise Are Among the Hottest Selling Items On= Yahoo! Shopping SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 23, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo= ! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) announced that as of noon (PST) today, sales on Yahoo!= (R) Shopping (http://shopping.yahoo.com) were on pace to be more than 60 pe= rcent higher than sales levels from the same day last year. Preliminary Bla= ck Friday results for Yahoo! Shopping, recently ranked the Web's No. 1 port= al shopping destination (Nielsen//NetRatings, August 2001), show a strong s= tart to the beginning of the holiday shopping season. "Despite the soften= ing economy, Yahoo! Shopping has had a very strong year and sales for today= far outpace the projected industry estimates for holiday growth," said Rob= Solomon, vice president and general manager of Yahoo! Shopping. "Today's g= rowth in sales point to the fact that consumers are becoming increasingly c= omfortable with shopping on the Internet and that online shopping continues= to be a compelling option for holiday shopping." With more than 18 milli= on unique visitors a month and millions of products from more than 10,000 b= rand name and specialty merchants, Yahoo! Shopping has the unique ability t= o identify consumer trends early in the shopping season. Currently, the mos= t popular categories and products on Yahoo! Shopping based on sales and sea= rch data are: -------------- -------------- --------------- -------= -------- Top No. 1 Most No. 2 Most No. 3 Most Cat= egories Searched for Searched for Searched for = Product Product Product -------------- -----------= --- --------------- --------------- 1. Videogame X-box G= ame Cube PlayStation 2 consoles -------------- -------------- = --------------- --------------- 2. Electronics Olympus Canon= PowerShot Nikon Coolpix -- digital C-3000 Zoom S100 Digital = 995 cameras ELPH -------------- -----------= --- --------------- --------------- 3. Toys Harry Potter B= arbie Lego Bionicles merchandise merchandi= se -------------- -------------- --------------- --------------- 4. C= omputers Sony Vio Dell Dimension Toshiba PC= G- 4300 Satellite R505TS = Pro 4600 -------------- -------------- ------------= --- --------------- 5. Apparel Gucci branded Shoes L= ingerie (women) merchandise -------------- -------------- ----= ----------- --------------- 6. Apparel Michael Jordan Shoes = Outerwear (men) branded merchandise ----= ---------- -------------- --------------- --------------- 7. Jewelry = and Men's Omega Women's Rolex Diamond Rings Watches Wat= ches Watches -------------- -------------- --------------- -= -------------- Yahoo! Shopping provides consumers with convenient and usef= ul tools for the holiday shopping season such as: For Bargain Hunters = Post Thanksgiving Day Sales: Yahoo! Shopping provides links to the hot= test holiday sales from its brand name retail partners all in one place= . Merchants like JCPenny.com, Eddie Bauer and Dell and great deals like= "20 percent off everything" and "save up to 75 percent" make it even m= ore compelling to shop online. Yahoo! Shopping will feature special sal= es from brand name retailers throughout the holiday season. Free Sh= ipping Center: Free shipping offers are abundant on Yahoo! Shopping and= the Free Shipping Center makes it easy to find all of the free shippin= g offers available at any time. For Great Gift Ideas The Gift Cente= r: The Gift Center highlights the hottest gifts, making it easy to buy = the perfect gift by occasion, price, interests, age, or gender. Gif= t Wizard: Consumers can talk to the Wizard to get gift recommendations = for anyone on their list. Easily downloadable from the front page of Ya= hoo! (www.yahoo.com), the Gift Wizard Instant Messenger is a fun intera= ctive way to shop this holiday season. The Gift Wizard uses the new Yah= oo! IMVironments, the first interactive multimedia experience within an= instant messaging window. For Convenience Yahoo! Wallet: Enter= your billing, shipping and credit card information only once in your f= ree wallet and shop at more than 10,000 stores without having to reente= r your information. Order History: Don't worry about printing out all y= our online receipts and confirmation codes, Order History keeps track o= f all of your orders, delivery tracking numbers and customer service = contacts. About The New Yahoo! Shopping The New Yahoo! Shopping is t= he only place consumers need to go to research, compare and buy almost anyt= hing online. Consumers will find the popular brand-name retailers and buyin= g information they want, as well as millions of products from thousands of = merchants and individual sellers, in more than 20 retail categories. The Ne= w Yahoo! Shopping enables consumers to use a universal search, which allows= them to easily shop across: Shopping, Warehouse, Auctions, and Classifieds= . The New Yahoo! Shopping also has convenient features, such as Yahoo! Wall= et and Express Checkout, which make online shopping fast and easy. Addition= ally, Yahoo!'s audience has been ranked the most valuable shopping audience= online according to Forrester Research. About Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo! Inc. i= s a leading global Internet communications, commerce and media company that= offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 218 millio= n individuals each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide = to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the leading guide in terms of traffic, adverti= sing, household and business user reach. Yahoo! is the No. 1 Internet brand= globally and reaches the largest audience worldwide. The company also prov= ides online business and enterprise services designed to enhance the produc= tivity and Web presence of Yahoo!'s clients. These services include Corpora= te 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. Headquartere= d in Sunnyvale, Yahoo! has offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Australi= a, Canada and the United States. Note to Editors: Yahoo! and the Yahoo! l= ogo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Yahoo! inc. All other na= mes are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.= Satellite Feed and B-Roll Available: What: B-roll of Yahoo! Shopping= Web pages, images of hot products, holiday shoppers, visuals and s= oundbites from the Yahoo! Gift Wizard and Yahoo! Shopping Bus from = Day After Thanksgiving Marketing event, and sound bite from Jennife= r Dulski, senior brand manager, Yahoo! Shopping discussing online s= hopping numbers. Date: Friday, Nov. 23 - 6 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. (ES= T) Saturday, Nov. 24 - 3:30 - 3:45 p.m. (EST) same coor= dinates Satellite: Galaxy 3R Transponder: 7 Band: C-band Do= wnlink Frequency: 3840 Horizontal Audio: 6.2/6.8 CONTACT: Yah= oo! Inc. 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