Filed
Pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)
File
Number 333-123906
PROSPECTUS
SUPPLEMENT NO. 1
Prospectus
Supplement dated May 11, 2005
To
Prospectus declared
effective
on April 21, 2005
(Registration
No. 333-123906)
GURUNET
CORPORATION
This
Prospectus Supplement No. 1 supplements our Prospectus dated April 21, 2005. The
shares that are the subject of the Prospectus have been registered to permit
their resale to the public by the selling stockholders named in the Prospectus.
We are not selling any shares of common stock in this offering and therefore
will not receive any proceeds from this offering, other than the exercise price,
if any, to be received upon exercise of the warrants and options referred to in
the Prospectus. You should read this Prospectus Supplement No. 1 together with
the Prospectus.
This
Prospectus Supplement includes the following documents, as filed by us with the
Securities and Exchange Commission:
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the
attached Current Report on Form 8-K/A of GuruNet Corporation dated April
29, 2005; |
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the
attached Current Report on Form 8-K of GuruNet Corporation dated May 10,
2005; |
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the
attached Current Report on Form 8-K of GuruNet Corporation dated May 10,
2005; and |
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the
attached Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB of GuruNet Corporation for the
fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2005. |
Our
common stock is listed on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol
“GRU.”
Neither
the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has
approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the accuracy or
adequacy of this Prospectus Supplement. Any representation to the contrary is a
criminal offense.
The
date of this Prospectus Supplement is May 11, 2005.
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
DC 20549
FORM
8-K/A
CURRENT
REPORT
PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of
report (Date of earliest event reported): April 29, 2005
GuruNet
Corporation
(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Delaware
(State or
Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
1-32255 |
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98-0202855 |
(Commission
File Number) |
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(IRS
Employer Identification No.) |
Jerusalem
Technology Park
Building
98
Jerusalem,
Israel 91481
(Address
of Principal Executive Offices)
+972-2-649-5000
(Registrant’s
Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
Not
Applicable
(Former
Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Check the
appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously
satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following
provisions (see
General
Instruction A.2. below):
o |
Written
communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR
230.425) |
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o |
Soliciting
material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.14a-12) |
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o |
Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.14d-2(b)) |
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o |
Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.13e-4(c)) |
Item
1.01 Entry
into a Material Definitive Agreement
On April
29, 2005, GuruNet Corporation (the “Company”) entered into a lease agreement
(the “Lease”) with 35th Street
Associates (the “Landlord”) to lease office space in the building known as 237
West 35th Street
(a portion of the 11th floor
know as suite 1101) in New York, NY (the “Premises”). The space will serve as
the Company’s U.S. headquarters. The term of the Lease shall begin on May 1,
2005 and end on June 30, 2010; however, the Company shall have the right to
cancel the Lease commencing May 1, 2008, upon 90 days prior written notice to
the Landlord, provided it is not in default of any of the terms of the Lease and
it delivers to Landlord an amount representing unamortized free rent
(described below) and commissions due as of the date the Lease is terminated.
The average base rent for the Premises during the first year of the Lease is
approximately $66,000.00 per annum and will increase to approximately $74,000.00
per annum during the final year of the Lease. In addition to the base rent, the
Company will be responsible for certain costs and charges specified in the
Lease, including real estate taxes and utility charges.
In
connection with the execution of the Lease, the Company made a security deposit
in the amount of $18,668.24. The Company shall forfeith its security deposit in
the event it elects to cancel the Lease as discussed above. The Lease also
provides that during the months of May and June 2005, the Company shall not pay
base rent.
The
foregoing is a summary description of certain terms of the Lease. It is
qualified in its entirety by the text of the Lease attached as Exhibit 10.1 to
this current report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by
reference.
Item
2.03 Creation
of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet
Arrangement of a Registrant.
The
information set forth above in Item 1.01 of this current report on Form 8-K
regarding the Lease is hereby incorporated into this Item 2.03 by
reference.
Item
9.01 Financial
Statements and Exhibits
Exhibit
No. |
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Description |
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10.1 |
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Lease
Agreement between GuruNet Corporation and 35th
Street Associates dated April 29, 2005. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements 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 hereunto duly authorized.
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GURUNET
CORPORATION |
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Dated: May 6, 2005 |
By: |
/s/ Steven
Steinberg |
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Steven Steinberg |
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Chief Financial
Officer |
EXHIBIT
INDEX
Exhibit
No. |
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Description |
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10.1 |
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Lease
Agreement between GuruNet Corporation and 35th
Street Associates dated April 29, 2005. |
Additional
Rider attached to and made a part of Lease dated April __, 2005, between
35th STREET
ASSOCIATES, as Owner, and GURUNET CORPORATION, as Tenant, covering Suite 1101 in
the building at 237 West 35th Street,
New York, New York (“Additional Rider”).
1. |
In
the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the printed form of the
Lease (and the Rider thereto) to which this Additional Rider is attached,
the provisions of this Additional Rider shall
govern. |
2. |
Permitted
Use.
Article 2 of the printed portion of the Lease is revised to read as
follows: “Tenant shall use and occupy the demised premises for executive
and general office purposes provided, however, that such permitted use
shall not include use of the leased premises for manufacturing, check
cashing or the sale of precious jewelry.” |
3. |
Initial
Tenant Work.
Owner approves the following initial tenant work (“Initial Tenant Work”)
to be performed by Tenant: |
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(i) |
expansion
of existing reception area; |
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(ii) |
installation
of walls/dividers to separate reception area from balance of space to
provide more privacy; |
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(iii) |
installation
of conference room behind the expanded reception area;
and |
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(iv) |
installation
of water cooler, coffee machine, refrigerator and microwave oven in
pantry/kitchen. |
In the
event that any of the Initial Tenant Work shall involve permanent changes or
alterations to the ceiling or building systems, such changes shall be subject to
Owner’s consent which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed. Owner
hereby approves Empire State Contracting Corp. as the contractor for the Initial
Tenant Work. If Tenant selects another licensed contractor to perform the
Initial Tenant Work, such contractor shall be subject to Owner’s consent, not to
be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
Subject
to Owner’s consent which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, Tenant
shall have the right, at its expense, to extend water service to the pantry
kitchen of the demised premises and install a kitchen sink and dishwasher in the
pantry kitchen (“Supplemental Kitchen Improvement Work”).
Tenant
shall not be required to remove any of the Initial Tenant Work and/or the
Supplemental Kitchen Improvement Work upon the expiration or termination of the
Lease.
Article
47(E) is deleted in its entirety.
Article
47(F) is amended by changing $10,000.00 to $50,000.00.
Except
for the Initial Tenant Work hereby approved by Owner and non-structural
alterations permitted under Article 47(F), all other alterations or improvements
to the demised premises which Tenant desires to make shall be subject to Owner’s
consent which shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed.
4. |
Maintenance/Cleaning.
Owner approves Tenant hiring any of the existing contractors servicing
tenants in the building for cleaning and rubbish removal. The lien waiver
requirement in Article 44(A) of the Lease is
omitted. |
5. |
Interruption
of Services.
In the event that the building services are interrupted such that Tenant
is unable to use and occupy the demised premises for the intended purpose
and such interruption continues for more than five (5) consecutive
business days, all rent shall be fully abated until such time as the
building services are restored such that Tenant can resume use and
occupancy of the demised premises. |
6. |
ADA.
Owner shall be responsible, at its cost, for complying with the Americans
With Disabilities Act (“ADA”)
with
respect to all of the common/public areas of the building including,
without limitation, all corridors and
lavatories. |
7. |
Damage/Destruction.
In the event that the building or a portion thereof is damaged or
destroyed such that Tenant shall be unable to use and occupy the entire
demised premises and the estimated restoration period is more than 4
months from the date of the casualty (or if the actual restoration work is
not completed within such 4 months), Tenant shall have the right to
terminate the Lease upon written notice to
Owner. |
8. |
Assignment
and Subletting.
If Tenant is a public company, the transfer of shares or interests in
Tenant shall not be deemed an assignment of the Lease requiring Owner’s
consent. |
The first
sentence of Article 76 A 1A reading “The proposed assignee or subtenant is of
comparable character or financial worth with respect to the overtenant;” shall
be deleted.
In the
event Tenant desires to assign the Lease or sublease the demised premises or a
portion thereof, Tenant shall have the right to market same directly without the
assistance of a broker. In the event Tenant desires to retain a broker to assist
in any such assignment or subletting transaction, Tenant agrees to retain the
building’s managing agent, Kaufman/Adler Realty Co., as exclusive broker upon
mutually acceptable terms for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days after
which Tenant shall have the right, at its option, to retain another broker on an
exclusive basis.
Owner
agrees that it will not unreasonably withhold or delay its consent to any
proposed assignment of the Lease or sublease of the demised premises or a
portion thereof.
Article
76(A)(7) is modified to provide that the maximum aggregate fees or charges to be
imposed with respect to any assignment or sublease transaction shall be
$750.00.
Article
76(B) is revised to provide that Owner shall only have the right to terminate
the Lease if Tenant subleases more than fifty (50%) percent of the rentable area
at the Demised premises.
9. |
Electricity.
Except for the provision of the Electric Rider obligating Tenant to pay
Owner the sum of $9,000.00 per annum, payable in monthly installments of
$750.00 in respect of the consumption of electricity, the balance of the
Electric Rider is omitted. In the event Tenant desires to make alterations
or improvements to the demised premises to increase the electrical
capacity serving the demised premises, Owner shall have the right, as a
condition to granting its approval thereto (which approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed), to require that the electrical
consumption at the demised premises be surveyed in order to determine a
revised electric charge for the demised premises to reflect Tenant’s
actual electric consumption. |
10. |
Owner
Access.
Any access by Owner to the demised premises shall only be during
reasonable business hours upon reasonable prior notice to Tenant (except
in the case of an emergency). Such access shall be conducted in a manner
that minimizes disruption of Tenant’s use and occupancy of the demised
premises. |
11. |
Default.
Article 53(C) of the Lease is omitted. |
Tenant’s
failure to occupy the Demised premises shall not be deemed a default provided
that it is paying rent and otherwise complying with the terms of the
Lease.
12. |
Building
Services.
Owner represents that as of the Commencement Date, all building systems
including, without limitation, the heating, ventilation and air
conditioning system, the plumbing system, the electrical system and the
elevator system will be in good working order. Tenant is leasing the
Demised premises in its “As Is” condition except for latent defects;
provided that Owner shall be responsible for installing, prior to the
Commencement Date, the radiator missing in one of the offices and radiator
covers on all radiators in the demised
premises. |
Owner
represents that the building is wired for telephone and internet service and
that Tenant shall have the right to connect into the building’s telephone and
internet service utilities at a panel box located in the corridor on the
11th floor of
the building. Tenant shall be responsible, at its expense, for the cost of
extending telephone/internet wiring from the 11th floor
corridor panel box to the demised premises and shall not be required to remove
any such wiring at the expiration or termination of the Lease. Tenant shall have
the right to select its own telephone and internet service providers; it being
understood and agreed that Tenant can access the existing telephone and internet
utilities without being obligated to use a designated service
provider.
13. |
Possession.
Article 24 is omitted. |
14. |
Notices.
Any notice given by facsimile shall require a printed confirmation sheet
evidencing the transmission and a copy of any such facsimile notice shall
also be sent by reputable overnight courier service with next business day
delivery specified. |
Notices
to Tenant shall be sent to Tenant at the demised premises, Attention: Jeff
Cutler, with duplicate copies sent to:
Guru Net
Corporation
Jerusalem
Technology Park
Building
98
Jerusalem
91481 Israel
Attention:
Caleb Chill, Esq.
Facsimile
No.: 011 972 2 649 5001
and
to
Sills
Cummis Epstein & Gross P.C.
30
Rockefeller Center
New York,
New York 10112
Attention:
Edwin Weinberg, Esq.
Facsimile
No.: (212) 643-6550
Tenant
shall have the right to change any of the foregoing notice parties by giving
notice thereof to Owner. Tenant’s attorneys shall have the right to give notices
on behalf of Tenant.
15. |
Sprinklers.
Tenant shall not be responsible for upgrading or altering sprinkler
service unless such upgrade or alteration results solely from alterations
or improvements made to the demised premises by Tenant (other than the
Initial Tenant Work). |
16. |
Building
Access.
Tenant shall have access to the demised premises (including elevator
service) twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week. Owner agrees
that the demised premises is served by a building wide heating system that
functions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the understanding that the
temperature setting during non-business hours is reduced but not
eliminated. |
17. |
Security
Deposit.
Owner agrees that the security deposit shall be refunded within ten (10)
business days following the expiration or termination of the Lease. If
Owner sells the building, then Owner shall be released from its obligation
with respect to the security deposit provided that it actually delivers
the security deposit to the new owner and the new owner assumes, in
writing, the obligation to comply with the provisions of the
Lease. |
18. |
Plate
Glass.
Tenant shall only be responsible for replacing plate glass if it is
damaged or broken by Tenant or its employees or
agents. |
19. |
Estoppel
Certificate.
The estoppel provisions in Articles 38 and 56 shall be mutual as to both
Owner and Tenant. |
20. |
Building
Director/Signs.
Owner hereby consents to Tenant installing the name of Tenant and any
affiliated companies and their respective logos on the entry door to the
demised premises. Owner agrees that Tenant shall have the right to five
(5) listings on the building’s directory without
charge. |
21. |
Locks.
Tenant shall have the right to install new locks on the entry doors to the
demised premises. |
22. |
Freight
Elevator.
Owner agrees that freight elevator service is available without charge
during the building’s operating hours. Tenant shall have the right to move
into the demised premises during the building’s operating hours without
any freight elevator charge being imposed. |
23. |
Real
Estate Taxes.
Owner represents that the building is fully assessed and does not benefit
from any tax abatement or similar program. Tenant shall only be required
to contribute to Owner’s cost of contesting real estate taxes to the
extent that Owner is successful; provided that the amount of such
contribution by Tenant shall not exceed the actual benefit received by
Tenant. |
24. |
Brokers.
In the 5th
line of Article 46, after the word “agent”, insert “who has dealt with
Tenant (other than Owner/Kaufman Adler Realty Co.)”. Owner agrees that it
shall pay any commission owing to Kaufman/Adler Realty Co. with respect to
this Lease. |
25. |
Late
Charge.
Article 52(A) is revised to reduce the late charge to four (4%)
percent. |
26. |
Holdover.
Article 55 is revised to reduce the per diem holdover rent to 150% of the
per diem rent and additional rent payable under the Lease for the last
year of the term. |
27. |
Indemnification.
Articles 62 and 67 are revised to exclude consequential damages from
Tenant’s indemnity. The references to “counsel fees” in Article 62 shall
be revised to read “reasonable counsel fees”. On the tenth (10th)
line of Article 62 after the words “demised premises” insert the words “by
the Tenant”. |
28. |
Local
Laws,
Owner agrees that Tenant’s maximum contribution obligation under
Article 66 during the Lease term shall be $2,500.00 provided that
Tenant shall have no obligation to contribute to any expenses relating to
ADA with respect to public/common areas of the
building. |
29. |
Air
Conditioning.
Owner represents that the demised premises has a new air conditioning unit
serving only the demised premises which can be controlled solely by the
Tenant. Owner shall be responsible for the maintenance and repair of the
air conditioning unit during the first year of the Lease term. Thereafter,
Tenant shall obtain and maintain the service contract provided for in
Article 68(b). Provided that Tenant obtains and maintains the air
conditioning service contract referenced above, Owner will be responsible
for any replacement of the air conditioning unit should such unit
fail. |
30. |
Tenant
Stipulation.
Article 73(3) of the Lease shall be omitted. The notice provided for in
Article 73(2) of the Lease shall be sent to the parties set forth in
Paragraph 14 of this Additional Rider. |
31. |
Owner
Insurance.
Article 79 of the Lease shall be omitted. |
32. |
Access
Cards.
Owner shall provide Tenant with five (5) key access cards without
charge. |
33. |
Right
to Cancel.
Article 82 is revised to provide that Tenant shall have the right to
cancel the Lease at any time during the last two (2) years of the Lease
term (i.e.: commencing May 1, 2008) upon ninety (90) days prior
written notice by Tenant to Owner. The parties agree that the unamortized
amount of free rent and leasing commissions if the Lease is terminated
effective May 1, 2008 is $9,616.13; provided, however, that this amount
shall reduce by the monthly amount of $400.67 for each and every month
following May 1, 2008. To illustrate, in the event that the Lease is
terminated effective May 1, 2009, the amount of unamortized free rent and
leasing commissions payable to Owner shall be $4,808.07. In addition, in
the event Tenant exercises its right to terminate the Lease pursuant to
Article 82, Tenant agrees to forfeit its security deposit paid to Owner in
the amount of $18,668.24. |
34. |
Asbestos.
Owner represents and warrants to Tenant that the demised premises is free
of asbestos. Within sixty (60) days of the date hereof, Owner will deliver
to Tenant a Form ACP-5 confirming the
foregoing. |
35TH STREET
ASSOCIATES
By:
Name:
Title:
GURUNET
CORPORATION
By:
Name:
Title:
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
DC 20549
FORM
8-K
CURRENT
REPORT
PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Date of
report (Date of earliest event reported): May 10, 2005
GuruNet
Corporation
(Exact
Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Delaware
(State or
Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
1-32255 |
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98-0202855 |
(Commission
File Number) |
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(IRS
Employer Identification No.) |
Jerusalem
Technology Park
Building
98
Jerusalem,
Israel 91481
(Address
of Principal Executive Offices)
+972-2-649-5000
(Registrant’s
Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
Not
Applicable
(Former
Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Check the
appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously
satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following
provisions (see
General
Instruction A.2. below):
o Written
communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR
230.425)
o Soliciting
material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.14a-12)
o Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.14d-2(b))
o Pre-commencement
communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR
240.13e-4(c))
Item
2.02. Results
of Operations and Financial Condition
The
following information, including Exhibit 99.1 attached hereto, is being
furnished pursuant to this Item 2.02 and shall not be deemed “filed” for
purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, nor
shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific
reference in such filing.
On May
10, 2005, GuruNet Corporation, a Delaware corporation (“GuruNet”),
issued a press release discussing its financial results for its first quarter of
2005. A copy of the press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this
report.
Item
5.02 Departure
of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of
Principal Officers
On May
10, 2005, Michael Eisenberg - a director of GuruNet - voluntarily resigned from
the Board of Directors of GuruNet (“Board”) for
personal reasons. Following his resignation, Mr. Eisenberg also departs from
GuruNet’s Compensation Committee, which remains comprised of two Board
members.
In
connection with Mr. Eisenberg's departure, the Board voted unanimously
to accelerate the vesting of options to purchase 7,100 shares of GuruNet's
common stock held by Mr. Eisenberg, representing approximately 25% of the
options previously granted to him by the Board (which were
originally scheduled to vest on June 23, 2005, the first
anniversary of the date of grant), so that such options would become fully
vested on May 10, 2005 and immediately exercisable.
On May
10, 2005, the Board, pursuant to its unanimous written consent, elected Larry
Kramer a director of GuruNet to serve until the next annual meeting of the
stockholders of GuruNet and/or until his successor has been duly elected and
qualified.
A copy of
the press release covering the foregoing changes in the Board’s composition is
attached hereto as Exhibit 99.2
Item
9.01 Financial
Statements and Exhibits
Exhibit
No. |
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Description |
99.1 |
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Press
Release dated May 10, 2005. |
99.2 |
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Press
Release dated May 10, 2005. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements 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 hereunto duly authorized.
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GURUNET
CORPORATION |
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By: |
/s/ Steven
Steinberg |
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Steven Steinberg |
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Chief Financial
Officer |
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Dated: May 10, 2005 |
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EXHIBIT
INDEX
Exhibit
No. |
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Description |
99.1 |
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Press
Release dated May 10, 2005. |
99.2 |
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Press
Release dated May 10, 2005. |
For
Immediate Release
GuruNet
Announces First Quarter 2005 Financial Results
GuruNet
to Hold Investor Conference Call Today, May 10, 2005 at 1:00 PM
EDT
New York,
NY, May 10, 2005 -- GuruNet Corporation (AMEX: GRU), a leading reference search
engine, today announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2005, the
first quarter since the Company changed its business model and released
Answers.com, on January 3, 2005. The Company, through its Answers.com site,
generates fees primarily from ads placed alongside its topic entries. Prior to
the launch of Answers.com, the Company’s primary means of generating revenue was
from the subscription fees it charged for the use of its GuruNet premium
product.
“We’re
pleased with our progress this year putting our company and flagship product,
Answers.com, on the map,” said Bob Rosenschein, GuruNet’s founder and CEO. “We
started by building up end-user traffic. In March, we implemented Google
AdSense, and have begun to see ad revenues from these ads.”
Revenues
for the first quarter of 2005 were $175,633, compared to $19,631, for the same
period in 2004, and compared to $76,245, in the fourth quarter of 2004. The net
loss in the first quarter of 2005 was $1,504,924, compared to a net loss of
$1,692,712, for the same period in 2004, and compared to a net loss in the
fourth quarter of 2004 of $855,131. Net cash used in operations in the first
quarter of 2005, and for the same period in 2004, was $964,401 and $806,551,
respectively. The primary reasons for the difference between the net loss and
the net cash used in operations in the first quarter of 2005 is that $386,000 of
operating expenses were the result of a non-cash charge for stock-based
compensation expense, and various changes in our operating assets and
liabilities.
Revenues
in the first quarter of 2005 resulted from advertising revenues of approximately
$107,000, recognition of subscription license revenue (from subscriptions
initiated prior to 2005) of approximately $50,000, revenue from partners with
whom we market co-branded products of approximately $14,000 and other revenue of
$5,000. Prior to January 3, 2005, our primary source of revenue was selling
subscriptions to the GuruNet product, the forerunner to Answers.com. “The launch
of Answers.com, from a revenue perspective, was a multi-tiered process,” said
Steven Steinberg, GuruNet’s CFO. “From launch date until the middle of January,
we ran public service announcements on Answers.com and did not display any paid
advertising. In the middle of January we began using and testing various
advertising network providers. We reached an important milestone on February 28,
2005, when we began using Google's contextual AdSense advertising on our
Answers.com information pages, as well as integrating Google search, with paid
search advertising, into Answers.com. As a result of the
multi-tiered launch, our January and February 2005 advertising revenue was
approximately $16,000, while March 2005 advertising revenue was approximately
$91,000.”
In the
first quarter of 2005, the Company also increased its liquidity and capital
resources by entering into an agreement with certain holders of warrants that
were issued by the Company in 2004, in connection with a bridge financing,
pursuant to which such holders exercised an aggregate of 1,871,783 Bridge
Warrants. As a result, the Company raised approximately $12,225,000, net of
costs relating to the exercise. Further, the Company raised additional amounts,
in excess of $1 million, from other exercises of options and warrants during the
quarter.
GuruNet
will host a conference call today, Tuesday, May 10th, 2005,
at 1:00 PM EDT, to
discuss the results of its first quarter ended March 31, 2005, as well as to
provide insight into Q2 trends to date, elaborate on recent events/announcements
and company progress and highlight next steps.
Bob
Rosenschein and Steven Steinberg, will be making the presentation, which will be
followed by a question and answer session.
Investors will have the opportunity to listen to the conference call and the
replay over the Internet through GuruNet's Website, within its Investor
Relations page at http://www.gurunet.com/ir. To listen
to the live call via webcast, please go to our Website at least 10 minutes early
to connect and register. To dial in to listen and/or submit a question, please
dial 800-938-0653 and
request the GuruNet call. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, a
replay will be available on the site shortly after the call, and will remain
available on the site for a period of three weeks following the
call.
About
GuruNet
GuruNet
Corporation (AMEX: GRU)
operates Answers.com, a leading reference engine, www.answers.com. Founded
in 1999 by Bob Rosenschein, GuruNet Corporation (www.gurunet.com)
provides patented technology and software tools to access concise information on
demand. For additional information, visit www.gurunet.com.
Cautionary Statement
Some of
the statements included in this press release are forward-looking statements
that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. For those statements, we claim
the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Important factors may
cause our actual results to differ materially, including our inability to
increase the number of persons who use our products and the number of partners
who will generate increase traffic to our sites, and other risk factors
identified from time to time in our SEC reports, including, but not limited to,
our registration statement on Form SB-2 filed in April 2005. Any forward-looking
statements set forth in this news release speak only as of the date of this news
release. We do not intend to update any of these forward-looking statements to
reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date hereof. This press
release and prior releases are available at www.gurunet.com. The information in
GuruNet’s website is not incorporated by reference into this press release and
is included as an inactive textual reference only.
(Tables
to follow)
Press
Contact:
Jay
Bailey
Director,
Communications
GuruNet
Corporation
866-576-0352
ir@gurunet.com
Selected
Consolidated Financial Data (Unaudited)
Statements
of Operations:
|
|
Three
months ended March 31 |
|
|
|
2005 |
|
2004 |
|
|
|
$,
Except share data |
|
$,
Except share data |
|
|
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
Revenue |
|
|
175,633
|
|
|
19,631
|
|
Cost
of revenues |
|
|
208,543
|
|
|
156,527
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gross
margin |
|
|
(32,910 |
) |
|
(136,896 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating
expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Research
and development |
|
|
330,469
|
|
|
263,788
|
|
Sales
and marketing (1) |
|
|
361,460
|
|
|
318,929
|
|
General
and administrative (2) |
|
|
851,615
|
|
|
212,407
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
operating expenses |
|
|
1,543,544 |
|
|
795,124
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating
loss |
|
|
(1,576,454 |
) |
|
(932,020 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest
income (expense), net |
|
|
85,907
|
|
|
(737,034 |
) |
Other
income (expense), net |
|
|
282
|
|
|
4,322
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loss
before income taxes |
|
|
(1,490,265 |
) |
|
(1,664,732 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income
taxes |
|
|
(14,659 |
) |
|
(27,980 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
loss |
|
|
(1,504,924 |
) |
|
(1,692,712 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic
and diluted net loss per common share |
|
|
(0.25 |
) |
|
(1.33 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted
average shares used in computing basic and diluted net loss per common
share |
|
|
6,043,796
|
|
|
1,271,075
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1)
Includes $107,255 and $5,236 of stock based compensation in 2005 and 2004,
respectively
(2)
Includes $277,366 and $11,522 of stock based compensation in 2005 and 2004,
respectively
Balance
Sheets:
The
following table summarizes our balance sheet data:
|
|
March
31,
2005 |
|
December
31,
2004 |
|
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
(Audited) |
|
Cash
and Investments |
|
$ |
19,900,760
|
|
$ |
7,415,415 |
|
Working
capital |
|
$ |
19,538,974 |
|
$ |
6,688,721 |
|
Total
assets |
|
$ |
21,947,010 |
|
$ |
8,907,183 |
|
Long-term
liabilities |
|
$ |
1,103,694 |
|
$ |
1,078,548 |
|
Total
stockholders’ equity |
|
$ |
19,689,771 |
|
$ |
6,824,122 |
|
For
Immediate Release
Larry
Kramer Joins GuruNet Board
Former
MarketWatch CEO Adds Content Monetization Expertise
New
York, NY - May 10, 2005 -
GuruNet Corporation (AMEX: GRU),
creator of the Answers.com reference-based search engine, announced today the
appointment of Larry Kramer to its board of directors. Mr. Kramer serves as
president of CBS Digital Media, overseeing content and sales of the network’s
disparate Web properties, including CBS.com, CBSNews.com, SportsLine.com and
UPN.com. Formerly, Mr. Kramer was the founder, Chairman and CEO of MarketWatch,
Inc. (NASDAQ: MKTW), which was recently acquired by Dow Jones & Company
(NYSE: DJ).
“We are
delighted to have someone of Larry’s caliber joining our board,” said Bob
Rosenschein, founder and CEO of GuruNet. “His contributions to digital content
speak for themselves, and his success creating monetization strategies will be a
real asset to our team as we focus on revenue growth.”
“Answers.com
has impressed the industry with its novel approach to supplying immediate
answers and giving the kind of context that traditional search engines can’t
provide,” explained Kramer. “Watching their rapid growth, I’ve been intrigued by
the tremendous potential and excited to be part of their
development.”
Mr.
Kramer proposed the creation of a joint venture between Data Broadcasting Corp.
and CBS and led CBS MarketWatch through its launch in October 1997. He also
managed the company through its successful IPO in January 1999, three
acquisitions and the ultimate sale of the company to Dow Jones in January, 2005
for approximately $520 million in cash.
Mr.
Kramer spent more than 20 years in journalism as a reporter and editor. In 2000,
he appeared on the list of the 100 most influential business journalists of the
20th century. In 2004 he was awarded the Editor & Publisher Magazine annual
lifetime “EPPY” award for “Outstanding Individual Achievement.” Mr. Kramer was a
founding board member of the Online Publishers Association in 2001. He was
elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of OPA in 2004 and re-elected for a
second one-year term for 2005.
Larry
Kramer replaces Michael Eisenberg, of Israel Seed Partners, who is voluntarily
stepping down from the board for personal reasons. Mr. Eisenberg’s resignation
and departure from the board and its Compensation Committee, became effective
today,
About
GuruNet
GuruNet
Corporation (AMEX: GRU)
operates Answers.com (www.answers.com), a
leading reference engine. Founded in 1999 by Bob Rosenschein, GuruNet
Corporation (www.gurunet.com)
provides patented technology and software tools to access concise information on
demand. For additional information, visit www.gurunet.com.
GuruNet
Contact:
Jay
Bailey
Director
of Communications
866-576-0352
ir@gurunet.com
GuruNet
Investor Relations:
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Financial Marketing
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On May
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99.1 |
Script
of conference call held on May 10, 2005, reporting financial results for
the quarter ended March 31, 2005. |
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registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
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GURUNET
CORPORATION |
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By: |
/s/ Steven
Steinberg |
|
Steven Steinberg |
|
Chief Financial
Officer |
Dated: May 10, 2005 |
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the quarter ended March 31, 2005 |
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GuruNet Corporation 1st
Quarter 2005 Conference Call -
GuruNet
Corporation
1st
Quarter 2005 Conference Call
1:01PM
EDT, May 10, 2005
Opening
(Communiqué Operator)
Welcome
to the GuruNet 1st quarter conference call. Introducing the call will be Landon
Barretto, from the investor relations firm Barretto-Pacific. Landon, you may
begin.
Landon
Barretto
Good
afternoon my name is Landon Barretto, and I’ll be the moderator for today’s
presentation, which is also being broadcast over the web and can be accessed
from the Investor Center page at www.gurunet.com. A
replay of this presentation will be available at the site for the next three
weeks.
Thank you
for your interest in GuruNet Corporation. With me today is the Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of GuruNet, Bob Rosenschein, and the Chief Financial
Officer Steve Steinberg. At the conclusion of their prepared remarks, we’ll open
the conference for questions.
We would
like to remind you that during the course of this conference call GuruNet’s
management will make forward-looking statements, including predictions and
estimates that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual results may
differ materially from any future performance suggested in the Company’s
forward-looking statements. We refer you to the Company’s SEC filings, including
its annual report on Form 10-KSB and its most recent registration statement on
Form SB-2 for important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those contained in any forward looking statement.
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Quarter 2005 Conference Call -
Forward-looking
statements made during today’s call are only made as of the date of this
conference call and the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update such
forward-looking statements to reflect subsequent events or
circumstances.
Throughout
this call GuruNet will be referring to its GAAP financial results as well as
non-GAAP measures. These non-GAAP measures are not in accordance with, or an
alternative to, GAAP financial measures and may be different from pro forma
measures used by other companies.
And now,
I’d like to turn the call over to Bob Rosenschein. Bob…
Bob
Rosenschein
Thank
you, Landon.
Welcome
to GuruNet’s 1st Quarter
conference call, and thank you for joining us. I’m very pleased today to update
you on our progress in Q1… and also share some Q2 trends to date.
The
agenda for our call today will be:
· |
First,
introductory remarks on our progress. |
· |
Second,
our CFO, Steve Steinberg will present some financial highlights. Also see
our press release, sent out before the call and posted on our
site. |
· |
Third,
we have a significant announcement for you about our board of
directors. |
· |
Fourth,
we’ll take a deeper look into our business, including some of our metrics
and Q2 progress to date. We’ll also be discussing deals, marketing, our NY
office, press, Mobile Answers, etc. |
· |
Last,
we’ll end the call with a Q&A session, starting with some of the
questions we’ve received in advance. |
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Quarter 2005 Conference Call -
We’re
obviously proud about putting Answers.com on the map. In just four months since
launching it and our new business model, we’ve been fortunate to enjoy some
positive press and partnerships and—more importantly—significant traffic
growth.
We’re
putting the foundation in place to make GuruNet a long-lasting, profitable
enterprise. We
offer a highly differentiated service that taps a large marketplace opportunity;
we established a large and growing user base; we embedded a monetization engine
for generating revenue; and we are implementing a strategy that we think will
help us exploit the full economic potential of our service.
The past
four months represent an exciting landmark period for GuruNet:
1. |
It
surpassed our own expectations to already be winning awards, as in PC
Magazine and Forbes, and mentioned regularly with Google, Yahoo, Ask
Jeeves, MSN and other industry leaders in print and on the Web, TV and
radio. |
2. |
It
was a nice bonus to be called the “Answer Engine Leader” recently in the
NY Times, and singled out in the Motley Fool and several times on CBS
MarketWatch. |
3. |
We
were particularly proud recently to reach an average of 2 million queries
per weekday— and to have bloggers and reporters embrace the site so
quickly. |
So we are
very pleased where we are in terms of traffic and PR. Now we are working hard on
building up GuruNet’s monetization potential. In March, we first released our
initial Google AdSense implementation. We are analyzing its progress and
adjusting the design elements on the site, to steadily improve its performance:
both in terms of user satisfaction and on the financial front.
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Users do
appear to be “getting
it”, and I
think that few people who try the product need to be convinced of our simple
value proposition to Internet users. For GuruNet, the road map is
straightforward: first
traffic, then revenues, then profits.
The first
rule of marketing is to be different; I would add, of course, useful and
different. But
there’s something that our investors need to grasp: we are not a traditional
search engine. That is at once our promise and differentiation, but at the same
time also our challenge. It is convenient for us to participate in this exciting
search space. Who doesn’t like to be mentioned in Fortune as possibly the next
Google?
However…
what we do is not what a
search engine does. Our very promise to end users—more relevant information,
with less noise, in fewer clicks—makes it a different monetization animal. That
means that you should not assume
that we plaster our results pages with the exact same format ads as search
engines do. Nor should you assume that click-through rates will be comparable.
We are betting that enough users will prefer the streamlined approach that we
offer to provide the volumes and revenues we need to compete and
succeed.
Let me
now introduce Steve Steinberg, our CFO. After his remarks, I’ll return to talk
about specific recent developments and some interesting news.
Steve
Steinberg
Thank
you, Bob. My objective for this portion of the call is to provide you with
highlights of our financial performance for the first quarter of 2005. For a
more detailed review of our financial performance during the quarter, please
review our financial statements and MD&A, which will be included in our SEC
FORM 10-QSB, which will be filed no later than next Monday, May 16th.
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Quarter 2005 Conference Call -
As most
of you know, on January 3, 2005 we announced the release of Answers.com. Our
primary revenue model for Answers.com is advertising revenue. When a user
searches sponsored keywords, a link to an advertiser’s Website is displayed in a
premium position and identified as a sponsored result to the search. The key
business metrics that will drive Answers.com’s revenues will be the volume of
traffic we receive and how well we monetize that traffic.
In
contrast, prior to January 2005, we were primarily in the business of selling
subscriptions. A desire to gain more expansive, ubiquitous growth led to the
launch of our free-to-consumer product, Answers.com, in January 2005. As we
discuss our Q-1 2005 results, in comparison to our Q-1 2004 results, please bear
in mind the change in our business model that transpired in January
2005.
Let’s
begin with our Consolidated Statement of Operations
Revenues
in the first quarter of 2005 were $176,000 compared to $20,000 during the same
period in 2004, an increase of $156,000. Revenues in the first quarter of 2005
resulted from advertising revenues of $107,000, recognition of subscription
license revenue of $50,000, revenue from partners with whom we market co-branded
products of $14,000 and other revenue of approximately $5,000. In contrast,
revenues in the first quarter of 2004 resulted from recognition of subscription
license revenue of $14,000, maintenance contracts on our corporate enterprise
software of approximately $5,000 and advertising revenue
of $500.
The
launch of Answers.com, from a revenue perspective, was a multi-tiered process.
From launch date until the middle of January, we ran public service
announcements on Answers.com and did not display any advertising. In the middle
of January, we began testing various advertising network providers. We reached
an important milestone on February 28, when we began using Google’s contextual
AdSense advertising on our Answers.com information pages, as well as integrating
Google search, with
paid search advertising, into
Answers.com. As a result of the multi-tiered launch, our January and February
2005 advertising revenues were approximately $16,000, while our March 2005
advertising revenue jumped to approximately $91,000.
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Quarter 2005 Conference Call -
The
public’s reception of Answers.com, has, in our opinion, been impressive, and
we’re pleased with the growth in traffic since our launch. Nonetheless, we are
certainly still in the initial stages of executing on our monetization plan.
Based on our preliminary revenue reports, we expect that our average daily ad
revenue in April 2005 will approximate our average daily ad revenue in March
2005. Later in the call, Bob will discuss some of the initial positive signs
we’ve seen regarding May 2005, to date.
Now…
let’s move on to Operating Costs. The
salaries, benefits and overhead costs of personnel, and other operating costs
relating to research and development, sales and marketing, and general and
administrative activities comprise our operating expenses. Operating expenses in
the first quarter of 2005 were $1,544,000, an increase of $749,000 over the same
period in 2004. The increase in operating expenses stems from a number of
factors, including:
· |
Compensation-related
increases due to personnel expansion to develop our newest products and to
begin building a public company infrastructure, and due to salary
increases. |
· |
Other
increases - mostly - directly or indirectly - due to building a public
company infrastructure. For example, our legal and accounting costs
increased by approximately $185,000, due to a number of factors, including
the numerous SEC filings that were necessitated, for example the
registration statement on Form SB-2 we recently filed to register the
shares underlying the new warrants we issued in February 2005. Expenses
also rose due to increases in director fees and expenses of approximately
$40,000; and increases in our insurance costs of approximately $30,000. We
also recorded, in this quarter, a $250,000 charge relating to investment
banking fees - $225,000 of such amount, in the form of non-cash
stock-based compensation. |
-
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Quarter 2005 Conference Call -
Let’s
move down to the Net Loss. The net
loss in the first quarter of 2005 was $1,505,000, compared to a net loss of
$1,693,000, for the same period in 2004. However, net cash used in operations in
the first quarter of 2005, and for the same period in 2004, was $964,000 and
$807,000, respectively. The primary reason for the difference between the
net
loss and the
net
cash used in
operations in the first quarter of 2005 is that approximately $386,000 of our
operating expenses, in the first quarter of 2005, were the result of non-cash,
stock-based compensation.
Now,
let’s review some summary balance sheet data
As of
March 31, 2005, we had $21.9 million of assets including $19.9 million in cash
and cash equivalents and investment securities. Our working capital was $19.5
million, and we had shareholder equity of $19.7 million.
Bottom
line - as a
result of the IPO and our fundraising activities in Q-1 2005, we now have
sufficient resources to permit us to meet our current planned operating needs
and move Answers.com forward.
Thank you
for your time. And now…back to you, Bob…
Bob
Rosenschein
Thanks,
Steve. I'd like to open this part of the conference call by sharing some very
good news about GuruNet’s board of directors. I couldn’t be more pleased to
announce that Larry Kramer is joining our board. Larry founded and ran
MarketWatch, which was sold recently to Dow Jones for a over $500M dollars. He
also just joined the Viacom family and now is President of CBS Digital Media,
which oversees content and sales of the network’s disparate Web properties,
including CBS.com, CBSNews.com, SportsLine.com and UPN.com.
-
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Quarter 2005 Conference Call -
We're
obviously proud to be associated with him, but over and above prestige and
connections, the major benefit Larry Kramer brings to GuruNet is his knowledge
of the industry and how to monetize effectively.
Larry
replaces Michael Eisenberg, of Israel Seed Partners, who is stepping down for
personal reasons. Let me take this opportunity to personally thank Michael for
his outstanding effort and contribution to GuruNet.
Now I’d
like to cover some other topics.
We
certainly are fortunate to own the domain Answers.com; it really has helped us
get across the value proposition of answers,
not links. Aside
from name recognition, the most useful benefit of all the press we’ve been
receiving has been that it helps us understand how
people see us - which
parts of our offering resonate, what brings people back to our site, and how
Answers.com fills a gap that people have come to recognize.
For
newcomers on the call, I’ll briefly review GuruNet’s mission, which is —
to
deliver concise information in one click on anything,
anywhere.
We
provide
the real information you’re searching for, in
contrast to the long lists of links to Web pages provided by search engines,
which may or may not contain the information you’re seeking. Answers.com gives
you quick explanations smartly integrated from more than 100 different reference
resources. We offer a
very broad range of topics, from
people, places and things to health topics to information on companies to
products and services, and much, much more.
-
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Quarter 2005 Conference Call -
And, on
Windows and Macintosh, you
can also access Answers.com while
using any
computer program, using
our patented 1-Click Answers tool, (for example in a Word document or in an
email) and now even on the go (using our new Mobile Answers
platform).
If any of
you hasn’t tried our product yet, please try it at www.answers.com. It’s
always been easier to demonstrate than to explain on the phone. But try looking
up a public company, like Apple Computer; or a celebrity, such as Warren Buffett
or Jimmy Buffett, for that matter; or maybe just your hometown, and notice the
difference between answers and
searches.
Let’s
turn now to our business model which, like our service, is straightforward yet
powerful. It has two components:
· |
First,
our service is now free to users. As
Mark Cuban mentioned in a recent edition of Barron’s, the subscription
service was not producing enough for us, and we did make the right move
shifting away from it in January. We have increased our user base in
several ways, including public relations, word of mouth, our 1-Click
Answers tool, Search Engine Optimization, and through relationships with
search engines (such as Google) and others
sites. |
· |
Second,
we earn revenue primarily when users click on relevant sponsored links
that we place along our information content.
Additional future revenue sources may include sponsorship of Answers.com
categories and commerce commissions on goods, services and even premium
content. |
Those are
the basics — now on to our growth strategy for the future:
-
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Quarter 2005 Conference Call -
1. |
Our
first priority is the continuous improvement of our service.
We
are not standing still on our core technology in content aggregation,
processing, and presentation. The dual goals are both improving the user
experience and, importantly, raising competitive barriers. Since
we announced our Answers.com offering in January, we have added a mobile
offering, Mobile Answers. We have enhanced the stickiness of Answers.com
through more prominent branding and a recently added taxonomy that
showcases our wide content range. And we have improved our 1-Click Answers
product, adding Firefox functionality for that growing
market. |
2. |
The
second goal is the continued expansion of our user base. We
have achieved what we consider an impressive mass of users through success
to date with PR efforts; word of mouth; through significant traffic sent
to us from search engines, primarily Google, and other sites; and through
repeat usage. I’ll provide more detail on our progress during Q2 in a few
minutes. We continue to work on pipeline distribution deals. And we are
also evaluating new initiatives designed to bring our differentiated and
concise information even
more readily to
users across the Web. |
3. |
The
third growth engine is monetization of user visits. We
have put into place our primary monetization mechanism in March, which is
positioning relevant sponsored links alongside content in our Web
offering. Even if we don’t have information on your topic, we save you a
step and show you Google results on the spot - with monetized ads there as
well. Our ongoing task is to analyze the performance of these ads and
improve their revenue potential. |
4. |
The
fourth critical prong, which we are just beginning to rev up , is to
expand Answers.com’s category range. Under
the direction of our new Chief Revenue Officer, Jeff Cutler, we are
embarking on an aggressive program to add new, highly
commercially-oriented categories of information to Answers.com. We will be
providing “concise information in one click” in a range of new areas which
we believe have relatively high click-through rates to sponsored links and
relatively high associated CPC’s or cost per clicks. We will encourage
users to try out these categories by promoting them actively on our
service. Last, we’ll be looking to add revenue driving content that sits
not alongside the text, but is integrated into it for a more direct push
to the user. Our new Shopping.com partnership is an excellent example of
that, and we’ll talk about that in a moment.
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On May 1,
we rolled out a modified design for Answers.com that features more prominent
branding and that showcases the breadth of our content offering on every page.
We tested it on a portion of our users, to see what works best. This is commonly
referred to as A/B testing, and it is very useful to tune sites for performance,
based on monitoring empirical user behavior. You test, choose the winner and
repeat.
Now let’s
talk about some of our metrics and statistics, including data from the first
part of Q2.
· |
Traffic
— our average daily query counts in January through April were January -
220,000. February - 1,150,000, March - 1,550,000, April - 1,790,000. April
was 2.0M on weekdays and 1.79M, if you include Saturdays and Sundays, when
usage is usually lower. Now, if you just look at May through yesterday,
that average actually rose to 2.1M on weekdays. These are unaudited
internal indicators. It goes without saying that any number of factors can
also impact these metrics in the future. Also, we’ve seen our changes
sometimes come in spurts; it’s not always
linear. |
· |
Revenues
- based on the new design that we A/B tested and which you can now see on
our site, I am pleased to share with you that May average daily ad revenue
has shown over a 20% increase over March average daily ad revenue. And
this improvement includes the A/B test period, when some users were seeing
the old version. |
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These
metrics are our goalposts in the coming months, as we work to improve the
performance with each one.
On to
deals. Jeff Cutler, our newly hired Chief Revenue Officer, has been coming up to
speed. Between the deals in progress that he’s taken the lead on since his
arrival, and the new ones he is developing with his own Rolodex, he’s moving
forward. We’re glad to share with you that we are in the contract stage with a
number of parties.
As you
may have seen earlier today, we have just signed a partnership agreement with
Shopping.com, which allows us to offer Answers.com users integrated product
information and price comparisons. Whether site visitors are seeking information
on clothing, electronics, jewelry, tools, books, or items in many other consumer
product categories, the new arrangement enables them to identify, research,
compare, and purchase products as part of their quest for answers.
There are
two things that are exciting about this deal. First, it helps us broaden our
scope, supplementing our reference-based content. As users realize that they can
find answers about products as well as encyclopedic facts, it will encourage
them to use us as a one-stop shop.
In
addition, the Shopping.com content will become tightly integrated with the
central content of the page, as opposed to the side columns that may not be as
prominent. We’re excited by the scope of reviews and comparison shopping we will
be including, as well as the substantial list of products that will now become
Answers.com topics. This should be up and running sometime this
summer.
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What else
is in the pipeline? We are currently in talks at various stages with media
sites, search engines, mobile device manufacturers, as well as advertising and
content companies. As I said earlier, we look forward to sharing some of these
with you in the coming weeks.
In
addition, Jeff is setting up our New York office on W. 35th Street,
and interviewing candidates for a team to assist him in driving business
development.
I also
want to update you about Accoona.com, the deal we signed in mid-March. Like the
Google definitions link that points to us, Accoona is a search engine, that will
be sending us definition-based traffic when it’s users prefer a short
explanation to links. Implementation is moving forward, and we’re excited about
the way they will be offering Answers.com’s content to their users. We hope to
see the live implementation by the summer and hope for a healthy boost in
traffic and revenues from that arrangement.
The
Education sector. Gauging by our fan mail, we seem to be generating considerable
excitement in the education sector, a fantastic sector for Answers.com.
Teachers, parents and students see the value, and are often quick to share it
with the people around them. We’re going to be pursuing this area in a number of
ways. First, we will be attending NECC, the National Education and Computing
Conference in June in Philadelphia. The conference brings together thousands of
tech-oriented educators, looking for new, innovative tools to bring back to
their school systems.
Second,
our PR agency had begun targeting publications that focus on education as well
as college newspapers, in an effort to get the word out in print. We’ve also
begun marketing directly to students, giving away T-shirts at Rutgers University
a few weeks back. Once we study the effect of this activity, we may broaden it
to other campuses.
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Last, I’m
pleased to be speaking at four outstanding conferences in the next two weeks:
Thomas Weisel Partners, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and the NY Society of Security
Analysts. For details and web-cast, please visit our web site. The audiences
will be analysts and institutional investors, and I look forward to sharing our
excitement and progress with them as I have with you today.
I’d like
to sum it up. As promised, we concentrated first on launching Answers.com and
building traffic. That effort will continue. Now we are focusing on enhancing
our monetizable content and revenues, based on that traffic and those
“eyeballs”.
We have a
product that is simple, great for kids and students - of all ages - and saves
real people time and frustration. And is being recognized widely as such. We are
not a search
engine. Answers.com is a new kind of information tool that enhances the Internet
and Web experience. And it is that growth that we hope returns long-term
shareholder value. Thank you.
I’d like
to add that we work hard to be responsive to investors. Please see our corporate
Website, www.gurunet.com, and you
can communicate with us at ir@gurunet.com.
I would
like to call your attention to a slight error in the preliminary remarks made by
Landon Barretto. In this presentation, GuruNet DID NOT refer to non-GAAP
measures.
That ends
our remarks. We’ll be very pleased now to answer some questions.
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Before we
take the live calls, I’d like to answer a few questions that some of you have
sent in, in advance:
1) |
Can
you give some concrete guidance for the remainder of
Q2? |
As I hope
we’ve made clear, we continue to test design elements and analyze our users’
behavior to determine which elements to add, remove, or change. We’ll act on
those results and test again. It would be irresponsible for me to predict what’s
going to happen in tomorrow’s experiments, or what numbers we exactly will
reach.
Q: What’s
your current expense rate and do you expect it to grow?
In Q-1
2005 we incurred $1,752,000 in expenses (meaning cost of revenues and operating
expenses as appear on the Q-1 2005 Statement of Operations). This amounts to
approximately $585,000 per month. Approximately $375,000 of the Q-1 expenses are
non-cash, stock based compensation to our investment banker, IR firm and a
strategic marketing consultant. Excluding those amounts, our average monthly
expenses would have been $460,000 in Q1. We do expect our expense rate to rise
in the course of 2005.
Q: Are
you generating revenues from Mobile Answers?
Mobile
Answers (mobile.answers.com) does not directly feed revenues at this initial
stage, rather, it is currently being used as a marketing tool, for branding
purposes. We recognize that wireless-based advertising is in its infancy; you
can't integrate contextual link ads into the Mobile version because they will
mostly point to non-mobile-friendly sites. That said, we are looking into
revenue opportunities for this platform.
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Q: Are
you considering moving to NASDAQ?
We are
taking the question seriously, and it is being considered at the board
level.
UNITED
STATES
SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON,
D.C. 20549
FORM
10-QSB
x QUARTERLY REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE
SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
FOR THE
QUARTERLY PERIOD ENDED MARCH 31, 2005
o TRANSITION REPORT UNDER SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF
THE
SECURITIES
EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
COMMISSION
FILE NUMBER 001-32255
GURUNET
CORPORATION
(EXACT
NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)
DELAWARE |
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98-0202855 |
(STATE OR OTHER JURISDICTION
OF |
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(I.R.S. EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION
NO.) |
INCORPORATION OR
ORGANIZATION) |
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Jerusalem
Technology Park
Building
98
Jerusalem
91481 Israel
(ADDRESS
INCLUDING ZIP CODE OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICES)
+972-2-649-5123
(REGISTRANT'S
TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE)
Indicate
by an (X) 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 o NO x
Indicate
by an (X) whether the registrant is an accelerated filer (as defined in Rule
12b-2 of the Exchange Act). Yeso NO x
As of May
10, 2005, the registrant had outstanding 6,945,292 shares of Common Stock,
$0.001 par value per share.
PART I.
FINANCIAL INFORMATION2
Item
1. Financial Statements |
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Consolidated
Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2005 (unaudited) and December 31,
2004. |
2 |
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Consolidated
Statements of Operations (unaudited) for the three months ended March 31,
2005 and 2004 and cumulative from December 22, 1998 (inception) through
March 31, 2005 |
4 |
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Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited) for the three months ended March 31,
2005 and 2004 and
cumulative from December 22, 1998 (inception) through March 31,
2005 |
5 |
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Notes
to unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements |
7 |
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Item
2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition or Plan of
Operation |
14 |
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Item
3. Controls and Procedures |
21 |
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PART
II. OTHER INFORMATION |
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Item
1. Legal Proceedings |
21 |
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Item
2. Changes in Securities |
21 |
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Item
3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities |
21 |
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Item
4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders |
21 |
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Item
5. Other Information |
22 |
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Item
6. Exhibits |
22 |
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SIGNATURES |
22 |
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Cautionary
Note regarding Forward-Looking Statements
In addition to historical information, this Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB
contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of
the Securities Act and Section 21E of the Exchange Act. Forward-looking
statements are those that predict or describe future events or trends and that
do not relate solely to historical matters. You can generally identify
forward-looking statements as statements containing the words “believe,”
“expect,” “will,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate,” “project,” “assume” or
other similar expressions, although not all forward-looking statements contain
these identifying words. All statements in this report regarding our future
strategy, future operations, projected financial position, estimated future
revenues, projected costs, future prospects, and results that might be obtained
by pursuing management’s current plans and objectives are forward-looking
statements. You should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking
statements because the matters they describe are subject to known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other unpredictable factors, many of which are beyond
our control. Our forward-looking statements are based on the information
currently available to us and speak only as of the date on which this report was
filed with the SEC. We expressly disclaim any obligation to issue any updates or
revisions to our forward-looking statements, even if subsequent events cause our
expectations to change regarding the matters discussed in those statements. Over
time, our actual results, performance or achievements will likely differ from
the anticipated results, performance or achievements that are expressed or
implied by our forward-looking statements, and such difference might be
significant and materially adverse to our stockholders. Many important factors
that could cause such a difference are described in our most recent registration
statement on Form SB-2 under the captions “Competition,” “Proprietary
Rights” and “Risk Factors,” all of which you should review carefully. Please
consider our forward-looking statements in light of those risks as you read this
report.
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Consolidated
Financial Statements as of March 31, 2005
Contents |
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Page |
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Consolidated
Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2005 (unaudited) and December 31,
2004 |
2 |
|
|
Consolidated
Statements of Operations (unaudited) for the three months ended March 31,
2005 and 2004, and for the cumulative period from inception through
March 31, 2005 |
4 |
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Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited) for the three months ended March 31,
2005 and 2004, and for the cumulative period from inception through
March 31, 2005 |
5 |
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Notes
to the unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements |
7 |
|
|
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Consolidated
Balance Sheets
|
|
|
March
31 |
|
|
December
31 |
|
|
|
|
2005 |
|
|
2004 |
|
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
|
(Audited) |
|
Assets |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Current
assets: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash
and cash equivalents |
|
|
3,050,760
|
|
|
1,565,415
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Investment
securities |
|
|
16,850,000
|
|
|
5,850,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Receivables |
|
|
143,642
|
|
|
18,145
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Prepaid
expenses |
|
|
648,117
|
|
|
259,674
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
current assets |
|
|
20,692,519
|
|
|
7,693,234
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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Long-term
deposits (restricted) |
|
|
192,493
|
|
|
167,304
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deposits
in respect of employee severance obligations |
|
|
482,621
|
|
|
462,735
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Property
and equipment, net |
|
|
322,691
|
|
|
305,804
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Other
assets: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Intangible
assets, net |
|
|
103,982
|
|
|
111,289
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Prepaid
expenses, long-term |
|
|
134,670
|
|
|
147,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred
tax asset, long-term |
|
|
18,034
|
|
|
19,817
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
other assets |
|
|
256,686
|
|
|
278,106
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
assets |
|
|
21,947,010
|
|
|
8,907,183
|
|
See
accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial
statements.
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Consolidated
Balance Sheets
|
|
|
March
31 |
|
|
December
31 |
|
|
|
|
2005 |
|
|
2004 |
|
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
|
(Audited) |
Liabilities
and stockholders' equity |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Current
liabilities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accounts
payable |
|
|
359,266
|
|
|
172,029
|
|
Accrued
expenses |
|
|
433,815
|
|
|
422,465
|
|
Accrued
compensation |
|
|
246,805
|
|
|
259,872
|
|
Deferred
revenues, short-term |
|
|
113,659
|
|
|
150,147
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
current liabilities |
|
|
1,153,545
|
|
|
1,004,513
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Long-term
liabilities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Liability
in respect of employee severance obligations |
|
|
560,651
|
|
|
531,224
|
|
Deferred
tax liability, long-term |
|
|
104,666
|
|
|
94,965
|
|
Deferred
revenues, long-term |
|
|
438,377
|
|
|
452,359
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
long-term liabilities |
|
|
1,103,694
|
|
|
1,078,548 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Commitments
and contingencies |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stockholders'
equity: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Preferred
stock: $0.01 par value; 1,000,000 shares authorized and 0 shares issued as
of March
31, 2005 and December 31, 2004 |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common
stock; $0.001 par value; 30,000,000 shares authorized as of March 31, 2005
and December
31, 2004; 6,945,292 and 4,920,551 shares issued and outstanding as
of March
31, 2005 and December 31, 2004, respectively |
|
|
6,946
|
|
|
4,921
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Additional
paid-in capital |
|
|
61,988,788
|
|
|
47,488,072
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deferred
compensation |
|
|
(177,504 |
) |
|
(45,146 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accumulated
other comprehensive loss |
|
|
(27,418 |
) |
|
(27,608 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Deficit
accumulated during development stage |
|
|
(42,101,041 |
) |
|
(40,596,117 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
stockholders' equity |
|
|
19,689,771
|
|
|
6,824,122
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
liabilities and stockholders' equity |
|
|
21,947,010
|
|
|
8,907,183
|
|
See
accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial
statements.
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Consolidated
Statements of Operations
|
|
|
|
Cumulative
from |
|
|
|
|
|
December
22, 1998 |
|
|
|
Three
months ended March 31 |
|
(inception)
through |
|
|
|
2005 |
|
2004 |
|
March
31, 2005 |
|
|
|
|
$, except
share data |
|
|
$,
except share data |
|
|
$,
except share data |
|
|
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
Revenue |
|
|
175,633
|
|
|
19,631
|
|
|
1,597,430
|
|
Cost
of revenues |
|
|
208,543
|
|
|
156,527
|
|
|
3,760,311
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gross
margin |
|
|
(32,910 |
) |
|
(136,896 |
) |
|
(2,162,881 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating
expenses |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Research
and development |
|
|
330,469
|
|
|
263,788
|
|
|
18,909,579
|
|
Sales
and marketing (1) |
|
|
361,460
|
|
|
318,929
|
|
|
9,942,502
|
|
General
and administrative (2) |
|
|
851,615
|
|
|
212,407
|
|
|
8,366,400
|
|
Loss
in connection with shut-down of operations |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
1,048,446
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
operating expenses |
|
|
1,543,544
|
|
|
795,124
|
|
|
38,266,927
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Operating
loss |
|
|
(1,576,454 |
) |
|
(932,020 |
) |
|
(40,429,808 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Interest
income (expense), net |
|
|
85,907
|
|
|
(737,034 |
) |
|
(2,488,958 |
) |
Gain
on extinguishment of debt |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
1,493,445
|
|
Other
income (expense), net |
|
|
282
|
|
|
4,322
|
|
|
(585,913 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loss
before income taxes |
|
|
(1,490,265 |
) |
|
(1,664,732 |
) |
|
(42,011,234 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income
taxes |
|
|
(14,659 |
) |
|
(27,980 |
) |
|
(89,807 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
loss |
|
|
(1,504,924 |
) |
|
(1,692,712 |
) |
|
(42,101,041 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Basic
and diluted net loss per common share |
|
|
(0.25 |
) |
|
(1.33 |
) |
|
(25.35 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Weighted
average shares used in computing basic
and diluted net loss per common share |
|
|
6,043,796
|
|
|
1,271,075
|
|
|
1,661,035
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1)
Includes $107,255 and $5,236 of stock based compensation in the three months
ended March 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
(2)
Includes $277,366 and $11,522 of stock based compensation in the three months
ended March 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
See
accompanying notes to the unaudited consolidated financial
statements.
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows
|
|
|
|
Cumulative
from December 22, 1998 |
|
|
|
|
|
(inception)
through |
|
|
|
Three
months ended March 31 |
|
March
31, |
|
|
|
|
2005 |
|
|
2004 |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
Cash
flows from operating activities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
loss |
|
|
(1,504,924 |
) |
|
(1,692,712 |
) |
|
(42,101,041 |
) |
Adjustments
to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating
activities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Depreciation
and amortization |
|
|
40,559
|
|
|
37,916
|
|
|
2,252,614
|
|
Loss
on sale and write off of property and equipment in connection with
shut-down of operations |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
780,475
|
|
Other
loss on sale and write off of property and equipment |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
549,802
|
|
Settlement
of obligations for other than cash |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
225,589
|
|
Increase
(decrease) in liability in respect of employee severance obligations,
net |
|
|
9,541
|
|
|
(7,121 |
) |
|
78,030
|
|
Deferred
income taxes |
|
|
11,484
|
|
|
27,980
|
|
|
86,632
|
|
Stock
issued for domain name |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
1,500
|
|
Issuance
of common stock, stock options and warrants to non-employees for services
rendered |
|
|
375,901
|
|
|
9,087
|
|
|
598,505
|
|
Revaluation
of options issued to non-employees for services rendered |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
(42,789 |
) |
Amortization
of deferred compensation |
|
|
9,994
|
|
|
8,780
|
|
|
125,203
|
|
Accrued
interest on promissory notes |
|
|
—
|
|
|
65,155
|
|
|
—
|
|
Amortization
of deferred charges relating to convertible promissory
notes |
|
|
—
|
|
|
126,958
|
|
|
889,983
|
|
Amortization
of discounts on promissory notes |
|
|
—
|
|
|
547,502
|
|
|
1,577,373
|
|
Exchange
rate differences |
|
|
78
|
|
|
(7,324 |
) |
|
11,824
|
|
Changes
in operating assets and liabilities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Increase
in accounts receivable and other current assets |
|
|
(54,414 |
) |
|
(111,054 |
) |
|
(330,677 |
) |
Decrease
(increase) in long-term prepaid expenses |
|
|
12,330
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
(134,670 |
) |
Increase
in accounts payable |
|
|
187,237
|
|
|
126,845
|
|
|
359,266
|
|
(Decrease)
increase in accrued expenses and other current liabilities |
|
|
(1,717 |
) |
|
31,884
|
|
|
692,304
|
|
(Decrease)
increase in short-term deferred revenues |
|
|
(36,488 |
) |
|
29,553
|
|
|
113,659
|
|
(Decrease)
increase in long-term deferred revenues |
|
|
(13,982 |
) |
|
—
|
|
|
438,377
|
|
Net
cash used in operating activities |
|
|
(964,401 |
) |
|
(806,551 |
) |
|
(33,828,041 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash
flows from investing activities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Capital
expenditures |
|
|
(50,139 |
) |
|
(2,736 |
) |
|
(4,163,040 |
) |
Proceeds
from sales of property and equipment |
|
|
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
54,415
|
|
Purchase
of intangible assets |
|
|
—
|
|
|
(80,200 |
) |
|
(119,936 |
) |
Decrease
(increase) in long-term deposits |
|
|
(25,189 |
) |
|
3,415
|
|
|
(185,626 |
) |
Purchases
of investment securities |
|
|
(13,250,000 |
) |
|
—
|
|
|
(19,100,000 |
) |
Proceeds
from sales of investment securities |
|
|
2,250,000
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
2,250,000 |
|
Other |
|
|
190
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
Net
cash used in investing activities |
|
|
(11,075,138 |
) |
|
(79,521 |
) |
|
(21,264,187 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash
flows from financing activities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Repayment
of loan |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
(20,000 |
) |
Proceeds
from loan |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
6,500
|
|
Proceeds
from issuance of convertible preferred stock, net of $130,697 issuance
costs |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
32,669,303
|
|
Proceeds
from issuance of common stock, net of issuance costs |
|
|
—
|
|
|
(290,732 |
) |
|
10,843,790
|
|
Proceeds
from issuance of promissory notes, net of issuance costs |
|
|
—
|
|
|
4,278,490
|
|
|
4,323,373
|
|
Repayment
of convertible promissory notes |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
(3,160,000 |
) |
Exercise
of common stock options and warrants, net of $338,162 issuance
costs |
|
|
13,524,962
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
13,525,962
|
|
Net
cash provided by financing activities |
|
|
13,524,962
|
|
|
3,987,758
|
|
|
58,188,928
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Effect
of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
(78 |
) |
|
7,324
|
|
|
(45,940 |
) |
Net
increase in cash and cash equivalents |
|
|
1,485,345
|
|
|
3,109,010
|
|
|
3,050,760
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash
and cash equivalents at beginning of period |
|
|
1,565,415
|
|
|
123,752
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cash
and cash equivalents at end of period |
|
|
3,050,760
|
|
|
3,232,762
|
|
|
3,050,760
|
|
See
accompanying notes to the (unaudited)
consolidated
financial statements.
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Consolidated
Statements of Cash Flows (cont’d)
|
|
|
|
Cumulative
from December 22, 1998 |
|
|
|
|
|
(inception)
through |
|
|
|
Three
months ended March 31 |
|
March
31, |
|
|
|
|
2005 |
|
|
2004 |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
|
(Unaudited) |
Supplemental
disclosures of cash flow information: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Income
taxes paid |
|
|
3,175
|
|
|
1,804
|
|
|
94,766
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Non-cash
investing and financing activities: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stock
issued for domain name |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
1,500
|
|
Issuance
of common stock in lieu of loan repayments |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
6,500
|
|
Common
stock issued in exchange for notes receivable |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
1,842,900
|
|
Repurchase
of stockholders’ common stock and cancellation of notes
receivable
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
(1,842,900 |
) |
Amortization
of deferred charges relating to warrants |
|
|
—
|
|
|
147,080
|
|
|
147,080
|
|
Discount
on convertible promissory notes |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
1,577,373
|
|
Conversion
of convertible promissory notes into common stock |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
1,840,000
|
|
Issuance
costs related to the converted promissory notes |
|
|
—
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
134,255
|
|
See
accompanying notes to the (unaudited)
consolidated
financial statements.
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Notes to the Unaudited Consolidated Financial
Statements as of March 31, 2005
Note
1
- Business
GuruNet
Corporation (“the Parent”), formerly Atomica Corporation (a Development Stage
Enterprise), was founded as a Texas
corporation on December 22, 1998, and reorganized as a Delaware corporation in
April 1999. On
December 27, 1998 the Parent formed a subsidiary (“the Subsidiary”) based in
Israel, primarily for the purpose of providing research and development services
to the Parent. GuruNet Corporation and the Subsidiary are collectively referred
to as “the Company”. The
Company develops, markets and sells technology that intelligently and
automatically integrates and retrieves information from disparate sources and
delivers the result in a single consolidated view.
Prior to
2003, the Company focused primarily on enterprise systems for corporate
customers and large organizations. Beginning in 2003, the Company’s primary
product has been its consumer product, which, in 2003 and 2004, was sold to
subscribers who paid the Company on a lifetime or annual basis. In January 2005,
the Company introduced a free-to-customer product, containing practically all
the content that it used to sell via subscriptions and ceased selling
subscriptions to individual consumers. The Company plans to generate advertising
revenue from the free-to-customer product. Notwithstanding, customers who
purchased subscriptions prior to January 2005 will continue to be fully
supported through the subscription periods.
As the
Company has not yet earned significant revenue from its operations, it considers
itself a development stage enterprise, as defined under Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards No. 7, “Accounting
and Reporting by Development Stage Enterprises”.
The
accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements were prepared in
accordance with the instructions for Form 10-QSB and, therefore, do not include
all disclosures necessary for a complete presentation of financial condition,
results of operations, and cash flows in conformity with generally accepted
accounting principles. All adjustments that are, in the opinion of management,
of a normal recurring nature and are necessary for a fair presentation of the
financial statements have been included. Nevertheless, these financial
statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial
statements and related notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form
10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2004. The
results of operations for the period ended March 31, 2005 are not necessarily
indicative of the results that may be expected for the entire fiscal year or any
other period
Note
2 - Revenue Recognition
The
Company generates advertising revenues through pay-per-click keyword
advertising. When a user searches sponsored keywords, an advertiser’s Website is
displayed in a premium position and identified as a sponsored result to the
search. Generally, the Company does not contract directly with advertisers, but
rather, obtains those advertisers through the efforts of a third party that
locates advertisers seeking to display sponsored links in our product. The third
party is obligated to pay the Company a portion of the revenue it receives from
advertisers, as compensation for the Company’s sale of promotional space on its
Internet properties. Amounts received from such third parties are reflected as
revenue on the accompanying statement of operations in the period in which such
advertising services were provided.
The
Company continues to recognize revenues generated from subscriptions that were
sold in prior years since such subscribers will continue to be fully supported
through the subscription periods (see Note 1).
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Notes to the Unaudited Consolidated Financial
Statements as of March 31, 2005
Note
3 - Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation
As
allowed by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 123,
“Accounting
for Stock-based Compensation” (SFAS
No. 123), the Company utilizes the intrinsic-value method of accounting
prescribed by the Accounting Principles Board (APB) Opinion No. 25, “Accounting
for Stock Issued to Employees” (“APB
25”), and related interpretations, to account for stock option plans for
employees and directors. Compensation
cost for stock options, if any, would be measured as the excess of the estimated
market price of the Company’s stock at the date of grant over the amount an
employee must pay to acquire the stock.
The fair
value of options and warrants granted to non-employees, is measured according to
the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following weighted average
assumptions: no dividend yield; risk-free interest rates of 1.69% to 3.85%;
volatility between 46.54% and 74.75%; and an expected life between one and ten
years.
The
Company has adopted the disclosure requirements of SFAS No. 123 and SFAS No.
148, “Accounting
for Stock-Based Compensation—Transition and Disclosure”, for
awards to its directors and employees. For
disclosure purposes only, the fair value of options granted to employees and
directors prior to May 12, 2004, the date of the Company’s first filing with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, in connection with its initial public
offering (the “IPO”), was estimated on the date of grant using the minimum-value
method with the following weighted average assumptions: no dividend yield;
risk-free interest rates of 2.18% to 6.59%; and an expected life of three to
five years. The fair value of options granted to employees and directors
subsequent to May 12, 2004, are measured, for disclosure purposes only,
according to the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following weighted
average assumptions: no dividend yield; risk-free interest rates of 3.29% to
4.18%; volatility between 53.66% and 66.76%; and an expected life of four
years.
The
following illustrates the effect on net loss and net loss per share, if the
Company had applied the fair value methods of SFAS No.
123 for
accounting purposes:
|
|
Three
months ended March 31 |
|
Cumulative
from inception through March 31, |
|
|
|
|
2005 |
|
|
2004 |
|
|
2005 |
|
|
|
|
$ |
|
|
$ |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
|
(Unaudited) |
|
Net
loss, as reported |
|
|
(1,504,924 |
) |
|
(1,692,712 |
) |
|
(42,101,041 |
) |
Add: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stock-based
compensation expense to employees and directors included
in reported net loss, net of related tax effects |
|
|
9,918
|
|
|
8,704
|
|
|
50,295
|
|
Deduct: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stock-based
compensation expense to employees and directors determined
under fair value based method for all awards, net of related tax
effects |
|
|
(72,886 |
) |
|
(12,855 |
) |
|
(298,603 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pro-forma
net loss |
|
|
(1,567,892 |
) |
|
(1,696,863 |
) |
|
(42,349,349 |
) |
Net
loss per common share, basic and diluted: |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
As
reported |
|
|
(0.25 |
) |
|
(1.33 |
) |
|
(25.35 |
) |
Pro-forma |
|
|
(0.26 |
) |
|
(1.33 |
) |
|
(25.50 |
) |
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Notes to the Unaudited Consolidated Financial
Statements as of March 31, 2005
Note
3 - Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation (cont’d)
In
December 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued SFAS No. 123
(revised 2004), “Share-Based Payment” (SFAS No. 123R). This Statement is a
revision of SFAS No. 123, and it establishes standards for the accounting for
transactions in which an entity exchanges its equity instruments for goods or
services. This Statement eliminates the option to use APB 25’s intrinsic value
method of accounting that was provided in SFAS No. 123 as originally issued and
it instead requires a public entity to measure the cost of employee services
received in exchange for an award of equity instruments based on the grant-date
fair value of the award. That cost will be recognized over the period during
which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the award,
which is usually the vesting period. No compensation cost is recognized for
equity instruments for which employees do not render the requisite service.
Pursuant to SFAS No. 123R, the Company will apply its provisions beginning the
first quarter of 2006. SFAS 123R provides two alternative adoption methods. The
first method is a modified prospective method whereby a company would recognize
share-based employee costs from the beginning of the fiscal period in which the
recognition provisions are first applied as if the fair-value-based accounting
method had been used to account for all employee awards granted, modified, or
settled after the effective date and to any awards that were not fully vested as
of the effective date. Measurement and attribution of compensation cost for
awards that are unvested as of the effective date of SFAS 123R would be based on
the same estimate of the grant-date fair value and the same attribution method
used previously under SFAS No. 123. The second adoption method is a modified
retrospective transition method whereby a company would recognize employee
compensation cost for periods presented prior to the adoption of SFAS 123R in
accordance with the original provisions of SFAS 123, that is, an entity would
recognize employee compensation costs in the amounts reported in the pro forma
disclosures provided in accordance with SFAS 123. A company would not be
permitted to make any changes to those amounts upon adoption of SFAS 123R unless
those changes represent a correction of an error. The Company is currently
considering which of the two methods it will adopt, and the effect that the
adoption of SFAS 123R will have on its financial statements.
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Notes to the Unaudited Consolidated Financial
Statements as of March 31, 2005
Note
4 - Stockholders’ Equity
(a) Common
Stock
On March
13, 2005, the Company issued 7,800 shares of common stock to an investor
relations firm, pursuant to a one-year agreement that began on December 13,
2004. The fair value of the shares, of $151,086, will be amortized to general
and administrative expenses over the life of the service period.
(b) Stock
Warrants
During
2004, in connection with the issuance of Convertible Promissory Notes in January
and February of 2004, the Company issued warrants to acquire an aggregate of
2,067,316 shares of Common Stock (the “Bridge Warrants”), at an exercise price
of $7.20 per share, with the exception of 265,837 bridge warrants exercisable at
$3.75 per share.
During
the first quarter of 2005, 69,432 of the Bridge Warrants were exercised. As a
result, the Company issued an aggregate of 69,432 shares of its common stock,
$0.001 par value, for a total consideration of approximately $500,000.
Additionally,
on February 4, 2005 the Company entered into an agreement (the "Warrants
Agreement"), with certain holders of Bridge Warrants, pursuant to which such
holders exercised an aggregate of 1,871,783 Bridge Warrants at the stated
exercise price thereof. As a result, the Company issued an aggregate of
1,871,783 shares of its common stock, for aggregate gross consideration of
$12,559,700. Under the terms of the Warrants Agreement, in order to provide
incentive to the warrant holders to exercise their Bridge Warrants, for every
share of common stock purchased by the holders through the exercise of Bridge
Warrants, the Company issued to the warrant holders new warrants, dated February
4, 2005, to purchase such number of shares of common stock equal to 55% of the
number of shares of common stock underlying their respective Bridge Warrants
(the "New Warrants"). As a result, the Company issued 1,029,488 of New Warrants
at an exercise price of $17.27 per share. The New Warrants are immediately
exercisable and expire on February 4, 2010.
On
January 20, 2005, the Company entered into an agreement with an investment
banking firm, which was also one of the underwriters of the Company’s IPO, to
provide general financial advisory and investment banking services for $5,000
per month, and for a minimum term of six months. Further, upon signing of the
contract, the underwriter received fully vested warrants to acquire 100,000
shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $11.00. The fair value of the
warrants, of $577,440, will be amortized to general and administrative expenses
over the life of the minimum service period.
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Notes to the Unaudited Consolidated Financial
Statements as of March 31, 2005
Note
4 - Stockholders’ Equity (cont’d)
(c) Stock
Options
During
the first quarter of 2005, 75,726 of the Company’s outstanding stock options
were exercised, for a total consideration of approximately $804,000. As a
result, the Company issued an aggregate of 75,726 shares of its common
stock.
On March
5, 2005, the Company entered into an agreement with a consulting firm for the
provision of strategic planning services. In connection therewith, the Company
granted 20,000 stock options of which 3,333 stock options were fully vested,
with the remaining 16,667 stock options vesting in equal monthly installments
over the ten month period of the agreement. As a result, the Company recorded
$106,901 of marketing expenses, which represents the fair value of the vested
stock options as of March 31, 2005. The fair value of the unvested portion as of
March 31, 2005, amounts to approximately $183,000 and will be revalued during
the subsequent reporting periods. The agreement also provides for ten monthly
payments of $5,000 and may be terminated by either party upon thirty days
notice. In the case of termination by the Company, the greater of (i) one-half
of all options which are unvested at the end of the 30-day notice period, or
(ii) 5,000 options, will vest immediately upon the end of the notice period,
however, monthly payments will cease.
On March
15, 2005, the Company granted 200,000 stock options to one of its officers. The
options will vest 25% upon the first anniversary date of the option grant, with
the remainder vesting in equal monthly installments over the 36 months
thereafter. In the event of a change of control, as defined in the officer’s
employment agreement, these options will be forfeited and the officer shall
receive 50,000 shares of the Company’s common stock.
All stock
options that were granted in the first quarter of 2005, were granted under the
Company’s 2004 Stock Option Plan.
(d) Other
Comprehensive Income (Loss)
In
January 2005, the Company reversed previously recorded unrealized loss on
securities.
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Notes to the Unaudited Consolidated Financial
Statements as of March 31, 2005
Note
5 - Commitments and Contingencies
(a) Future
minimum lease payments under non-cancelable operating leases for office space
and cars, as of March 31, 2005 are as follows:
|
|
|
$ |
|
Year
ending December 31 |
|
|
|
|
2005 |
|
|
202,166
|
|
2006 |
|
|
78,578
|
|
2007 |
|
|
42,153
|
|
2008 |
|
|
773
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
323,670
|
|
Rental
expense for operating leases for the three month ended March 31, 2005 and 2004
was approximately $60,000 and $38,000, respectively.
(b) As
security for future rental commitments the Subsidiary provided a bank guarantee
in the amount of approximately $113,000.
(c) All of
the Subsidiary’s obligations to its bank, including the bank guarantee that such
bank made to the Subsidiary’s landlord, are secured by a lien on all of the
Subsidiary’s deposits at such bank. As of March 31, 2005, deposits at such bank
amounted to $383,494, including a long-term deposit of $126,720.
(d) In the
ordinary course of business, the Company enters into various arrangements with
vendors and other business partners, principally for content, web-hosting,
marketing and investor relations arrangements. During
the first quarter of 2005, the
Company entered into agreements with three consulting firms for the provision of
services in the areas of public relations, strategic planning and investment
banking. The agreements, which are for periods between six months and one year,
are for an aggregate cash amount of $210,000. In connection with the aforesaid
agreements, the Company also agreed to grant warrants
to acquire 100,000 shares of common stock and
20,000 stock options (see Note 4).
(e) In
December 2002, the Company implemented a reorganization (the "December 2002
Reorganization") which substantially reduced the Company’s expenditures. The
December 2002 Reorganization included staff reductions of fifteen persons,
or approximately 52% of the Company's work force, including senior management,
professional services, sales and marketing, research and development and
administrative staff. The December 2002 Reorganization also included the
shutdown of the Company’s California office and resulted in a loss on the
disposal of fixed assets. In total, the Company incurred a loss of approximately
$1,048,000 in connection with the December 2002 Reorganization, of which
$780,000 related to the disposal of fixed assets, and $265,000 related to an
accrual for salaries,
benefits and office and equipment lease obligations that the Company recorded
as of
December 31, 2002. Of the amount accrued, $218,000 was paid during 2003, $22,000
was paid during 2004, $5,000 was paid during the first quarter of 2005 and
$20,000, which relates to a lease obligation for equipment no longer in use,
remains outstanding as of March 31, 2005.
GuruNet
Corporation (Formerly Atomica Corporation)
and
Subsidiary
(A
Development Stage Enterprise)
Notes to the Unaudited Consolidated Financial
Statements as of March 31, 2005
Note
6 - Subsequent Events
(a) |
As
a part of the Warrants Agreement as discussed in Note 4, the Company had
agreed to file a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission (the ”SEC”) by no later than April 6, 2005, to
register for resale the shares of common stock underlying the new warrants
(the "Registration Statement") and to have the Registration Statement
effective by no later than May 5, 2005. On April 6, the Company filed the
Registration Statement with the SEC, which became effective on April 21,
2005. In the Registration Statement, the Company also registered 111,016
shares, warrants and stock options that had previously not been
registered. |
(b)
|
In
April 2005, the Company entered into an operating lease for office space
in New York City. The term of the lease commences on May 1, 2005 and ends
on June 30, 2010. Under the terms of the lease, the Company shall have the
right to cancel the lease commencing May 1, 2008, upon 90 days prior
written notice to the Landlord. The monthly rental due under the lease
begins at $5,500, after a two months free rent period, and steps up at
various stages throughout the lease, up to $6,223. The Company will
recognize the rent expense for this lease on a straight-line basis over
the minimum lease term. In addition to the base rent, the Company will be
responsible for certain costs and charges specified in the lease,
including real estate taxes and utility charges. |
ITEM 2.
MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION OR PLAN OF
OPERATION
The
following discussion of our financial condition and results of operations should
be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the notes to those
statements included elsewhere in this filing. This discussion includes
forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual
results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking
statements.
General
We
possess technology that helps integrate and retrieve online information from
disparate sources and delivers the result in a single consolidated browser view.
Our answer engine delivers snapshot, multi-faceted definitions and explanations
from attributable reference sources about numerous topics in our database. We
seek to differentiate ourselves by providing our users with relevant reference
information that enhances results achieved through traditional search engines.
Most search engines respond to an Internet user’s query with a long list of
links to more Websites that in some way relate to the query term. Our answer
engine automatically displays relevant, narrative responses to a user’s query
without requiring the user to review a list of hyperlinks sequentially. Our
answer engine also directly displays information in various formats such as
charts, graphs and maps.
Our
Business Model
On
January 3, 2005, the Company announced the release of Answers.com, a website
that had been launched in August 2004 in beta version. The Company also released
the "1-Click Answers" software, allowing users to click anywhere on the screen
for instant facts about a word or phrase. 1-Click Answers allows users working
in any application such as e-mail, spreadsheet, word processing, database or
other program or application to “alt-click” on a word or phrase within a
document, access our online library and display information about that word or
phrase in a pop-up window. While Web users enjoy our integrated reference
information, our Web-based product does not provide the “alt-click” command, and
context analysis that we include in our software. Our revenue model for these
products is based on advertising revenue. When a user searches sponsored
keywords, a link to an advertiser’s Website is displayed in a premium position
and identified as a sponsored result to the search. In contrast to GuruNet, the
product we actively marketed prior to January 2005, we do not generate revenues
from selling subscriptions to Answers.com.
Prior to
January 2005, we sold subscriptions to our answer engine product, GuruNet. Prior
to December 2003, we sold lifetime subscriptions to GuruNet, generally for
$40.00. In December 2003, we decided to alter our pricing model and moved to an
annual subscription model, generally, $30.00 per year. In conjunction with
selling subscriptions, we also offered free access to dictionary, thesaurus,
encyclopedia and other basic reference information through our products. Under
our business model during those years, our ability to generate revenues was
dependent upon our ability to increase the number of subscribers and increase
the number of users who used our basic free product. Usage of our basic free
product was our means of encouraging users to upgrade to our subscription
product and increase our subscription revenue. Although we earned some
advertising revenue in 2004, from advertising in our subscription and free
products, such amounts were not significant. Our business model at the time
strongly encouraged subscriptions, and thus we limited the amount of content
available in our free product. This approach did not facilitate the amount of
traffic we needed to earn significant amounts of revenue from advertising.
Further, the aforesaid business model required us to maintain an infrastructure
for billing and subscriptions, and we met resistance from customers to pay for
“information freely accessible on the Internet”. A desire to gain more
expansive, ubiquitous growth led to our current implementation, in January 2005,
of a free-to-customer product, Answers.com and "1-Click Answers" software,
containing practically all the content that we used to sell via subscriptions.
In
conjunction with the release of Answers.com, GuruNet.com began functioning
primarily as a corporate website. We are no longer offering new subscriptions to
GuruNet or offering downloads of GuruNet software to users who do not have
existing subscriptions. Notwithstanding, users who purchased GuruNet
subscriptions prior to January 3, 2005, will continue to be fully supported
through their subscription periods, and can access GuruNet services through
GuruNet software or at GuruNet.com.
Other
Recent Events
In
addition to the change in our business model in the first quarter of 2005 noted
above, the following events have recently transpired:
· |
In
February 2005 we entered into an agreement (the "Warrant Reload
Agreement") with certain holders of warrants that were issued by us in
2004, in connection with a bridge financing, pursuant to which such
holders exercised an aggregate of 1,871,783 Bridge Warrants. As a result,
we raised approximately $12,225,000, net of costs relating to the
exercise. Under the terms of the Warrant Reload Agreement, in order to
provide incentive to the holders to exercise their Bridge Warrants, we
issued 1,029,488 new five year warrants to purchase such number of shares
of common stock (equal to 55% of the number of shares of common stock
underlying their respective bridge warrants) at an exercise price of
$17.27 per share. |
· |
On
February 28, 2005, we began using Google's contextual AdSense advertising
on our Answers.com information pages, as well as integrating monetized
Google search into our Answers.com product. |
· |
In
March 2005, we entered into an agreement to create a co-branded Website,
which will display reference content from Answers.com and search results
and contextual advertising from Accoona Corporation, owners of the Accoona
Search Engine, Accoona.com. We are currently in the implementation phase
of this endeavor. |
· |
In
March 2005, we launched a beta mobile version of our product, accessible
at .
This new version enables users to view Answers.com's quick, concise facts
on their mobile devices, including the TreoTM,
the BlackBerryTM,
Windows-CETM-based devices and browser-based
telephones. |
· |
On
April 29, 2005, we entered into a lease agreement to lease office space in
New York City. The space will serve as our U.S. headquarters. The term of
the lease shall begin on May 1, 2005 and end on June 30, 2010, however, we
are entitled to cancel the lease commencing May 1, 2008. The rent during
the first year of the lease, after the two-month free rent period, is
approximately $66,000 per annum and will increase gradually over the
term. |
· |
In
May 2005, we entered into an
agreement with Shopping.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Shopping.com Ltd. to
offer Answers.com users integrated product information and price
comparisons. Under the agreement, Answers.com will display content from
Shopping.com as a supplement to its content library. The content will
include user reviews and the ability to compare prices from multiple
vendors. Shopping.com will share revenues - earned through click-throughs
to vendors - with Answers.com. |
· |
Average
daily queries for Answers.com and GuruNet, as measured by the company's
internal statistical tools, grew throughout the first quarter of 2005 and
in the subsequent period. Average daily queries during January, February,
March and April of 2005 were approximately 220,000, 1,150,000, 1,550,000
and 1,790,000, respectively. |
Revenues
Revenues
in the first quarter of 2005 were $175,633 compared to $19,631 during the same
period in 2004, an increase of $156,002. Revenues in the first quarter of 2005
resulted from advertising revenues of approximately $107,000, recognition of
previously deferred subscription license revenue of approximately $50,000,
revenue from partners with whom we market co-branded products of approximately
$14,000 and other revenue of $5,000. In contrast, revenues in the first quarter
of 2004 resulted from recognition of subscription license revenue of
approximately $14,000, maintenance contracts on our corporate enterprise
software of approximately $5,000 and advertising revenue of approximately
$500.
As noted
earlier, on January 3, 2005, we announced the release of Answers.com, the
primary revenue model of which is advertising. In contrast, prior to January 3,
2005, our primary source of revenue was selling subscriptions to the GuruNet
product, the forerunner to Answers.com. The launch of Answers.com, from a
revenue perspective, was a multi-tiered process. From launch date until the
middle of January, we ran public service announcements on Answers.com and did
not display any advertising. In the middle of January we began using and testing
various advertising network providers. We reached an important milestone on
February 28, 2005, when we began using Google's contextual AdSense advertising
on our Answers.com information pages, as well as integrating Google search, with
paid search advertising into Answers.com. As a result of the multi-tiered
launch, our January and February 2005 advertising revenues were approximately
$16,000, while March 2005 advertising revenue was approximately
$91,000.
Cost
of Revenues
Cost of
revenues in the first quarter of 2005 was $208,543 compared to $ 156,527 during
the same period in 2004, an increase of $52,016 or 33%. The net increase is
primarily attributable to the addition of staff that manage the production
operations and web-hosting infrastructure that supports the Answers.com website,
and fees we pay to Google for the web search results they provide us within the
Answers.com website.
Cost of
revenues is comprised of fees to third party providers of content, web search
and web hosting services, and production operations and customer support
salaries, benefits and overhead costs.
Gross
Margin
Gross
margin in the first quarter of 2005 was $(32,910) compared to $(136,896) during
the same period in 2004, a decrease in the negative margin of $103,896. The
decrease was due to increased revenues, offset somewhat by increased cost of
revenues, as discussed above.
Research
and Development Expenses
Research
and development expenses in the first quarter of 2005 were $330,469 compared to
$263,788 during the same period in 2004, an increase of $66,681 or 25%. The
increase is due primarily to compensation-related expense increases as our
research and development team grew in order to develop and test newer versions
of our products, and due to raises in salaries. The salaries, benefits and
overhead costs of personnel, conducting research and development of software and
Internet products comprise research and development expenses.
Sales
and Marketing Expenses
Sales and
marketing expenses in the first quarter of 2005 were $361,460 compared to
$318,929 during the same period in 2004, an increase of $42,531 or 13%. The net
increase is due to a number of factors. In the first quarter of 2005, we hired a
strategic consultant who has assisted us in formulating our product and
marketing strategy. In connection therewith, we recorded approximately $27,000
of cash fees and expenses, and $107,000 of stock based compensation. In
contrast, in the first quarter of 2004, we incurred approximately $122,000 in
consulting costs relating to the redesign of our website and marketing strategy.
Our public relations related costs rose by approximately $40,000, in the first
quarter of 2005, as compared to the same quarter in 2004, however, advertising
and promotion expenses of approximately $50,000 in the first quarter of 2005,
were not significantly higher than the first quarter in 2004. The aforementioned
increases were offset to a certain degree, by decreases in employee
compensation, because we did not hire our chief revenue officer until the end of
the first quarter of 2005. In contrast, in the first quarter of 2004, we
employed a V.P. Business Development throughout the quarter.
Salaries,
benefits and overhead costs of personnel, marketing consulting, public relations
services and advertising costs, comprise sales and marketing expenses.
General
and Administrative Expenses
General
and administrative expenses in the first quarter of 2005 were $851,615 compared
to $212,407 during the same period in 2004, an increase of $639,208 or 300%. The
increase is comprised of many individual line expenses, as follows.
On
January 20, 2005, we entered into an agreement with an investment banking firm,
which also acted as one of the underwriters of our IPO, to provide general
financial advisory and investment banking services for $5,000 per month, and for
a minimum term of six months. Further, upon signing of the contract, the
underwriter received fully vested warrants to acquire 100,000 shares of common
stock at an exercise price of $11.00. As a result of this agreement, we recorded
approximately $25,000 of cash compensation and $225,000 in stock compensation,
which represents the amortization of the fair value of the warrants on the date
of their issuance, over the minimum term of the agreement.
In
December 2004, we entered into an agreement with an investor relations firm
pursuant to which they are to receive $100,000 over a one-year period for
providing us with investor relations services. Additionally, pursuant to the
agreement, in March 2005, we issued 7,800 shares of common stock to such firm.
As a result of this agreement, we recorded approximately $24,000 of cash
compensation and $44,000 in stock-based compensation, which represents the
amortization of the fair value of the stock on the date of their issuance, over
the expected life of the agreement, through December 2005.
The
remaining increase stems primarily from increases in legal and accounting costs
of approximately $185,000; increases in the number of personnel, and salaries of
personnel, which resulted in an increase, in aggregate, of approximately
$40,000; increases in director fees and expenses of approximately $40,000; and
increases in our insurance costs of approximately $30,000. The increases in the
line expenses that comprise General and Administrative Expenses, including those
mentioned previously, are mostly related, directly or indirectly, to the
increased costs associated with being a public company.
General
and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries, benefits and overhead
costs for executive and administrative personnel, insurance, fees for
professional services, including investment relations, consulting, legal, and
accounting fees, travel costs, investment banking fees, and other general
corporate expenses. Expenses include cash-based payments and non-cash
stock-based compensation. Overhead costs are comprised primarily by rent,
utilities and depreciation.
Interest
Income (Expense), Net
Interest
income (expense), net in the first quarter of 2005 was $85,907, compared to
($737,034) during the same period in 2004, representing a net increase in
interest income (decrease of expense) of $822,941. Interest income, net, in 2005
is comprised primarily of interest income earned from cash and cash equivalents
and investment securities. Interest expense, net, in the first quarter of 2004
is comprised primarily of $675,000 of amortization of note discounts and
deferred charges relating to convertible promissory notes, which were issued in
January and February of 2004. The remainder consisted of 8% interest on the face
of the those notes, approximating $65,000, less interest income of approximately
$3,000
Other
Income, Net
Other
income, net, in the first quarter of 2005 was $282 as compared to $4,322 during
the same period in 2004, a decrease of $4,040. During the first quarter of 2005,
other income is comprised primarily of foreign currency exchange net gains.
Other income in the first quarter of 2004 was comprised of foreign exchange
gains of approximately $7,000, net of approximately $3,000 relating to the
write-off of withholding taxes that we did not expect to realize.
Income
Tax Expense
Our
effective tax rate differs from the statutory federal rate due to differences
between income and expense recognition prescribed by the United States and
Israeli tax laws and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. We utilize
different methods and useful lives for depreciating property and equipment. The
recording of certain provisions results in expense for financial reporting but
the amount is not deductible for income tax purposes until actually paid. Our
deferred tax assets are mostly offset by a valuation allowance because
realization depends on generating future taxable income, which, in our
estimation, is not more likely to transpire, than to not transpire.
We had
net operating loss carryforwards for federal and state income tax purposes of
approximately $37 million at March 31, 2005 and $27.5 million at March 31, 2004.
The federal net operating losses will expire if not utilized on various dates
from 2019 through 2025. The state net operating losses will expire if not
utilized on various dates from 2009 through 2013. Our Israeli subsidiary has
capital loss carryforwards of approximately $604,000 that can be applied to
future capital gains for an unlimited period of time under current tax rules.
The Tax
Reform Act of 1986 imposed substantial restrictions on the utilization of net
operating losses and tax credits in the event of an ownership change of a
corporation. Thus, in accordance with Internal Revenue Code, Section 382, our
recent Initial Public Offering and other ownership changes that have transpired,
will significantly limit our ability to utilize net operating losses and credit
carryforwards.
Our
subsidiary had income in 2004 and 2003, resulting from its cost plus agreement
with the parent company, whereby it charges us for research and development
services it provides to us, plus 12.5%. However, the subsidiary is an “approved
enterprise” under Israeli law, which means that income arising from the
subsidiary’s approved activities is subject to zero tax under the “alternative
benefit” path for a period of ten years. In the event of distribution by the
subsidiary of a cash dividend out of retained earnings which were tax exempt due
to the “approved enterprise” status, the subsidiary would have to pay a 10%
corporate tax on the amount distributed, and the recipient would have to pay a
15% tax (to be withheld at source) on the amounts of such distribution received.
As of
March 31, 2005, we accrued approximately $87,000, net, to reflect the estimated
taxes that our subsidiary would have to pay if it distributed its accumulated
earnings to us. Should the subsidiary derive income from sources other than the
approved enterprise during the relevant period of benefits, this income will be
taxable at the tax rate in effect at that time (currently 34%, gradually being
reduced to 30% in 2005-2008). Through March 31, 2005, our Israeli subsidiary
received tax benefits of approximately $730,000.
Net
Loss
Our net
loss decreased to $1,504,924 in the first quarter of 2005 from $1,692,712 in the
same period in 2004, a decrease of $187,788, or 11%, as a result of the changes
in our revenues, cost of sales and expenses as described above.
Critical
Accounting Estimates
While our
significant accounting policies are more fully described in the notes to our
audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2004,
we believe the following accounting policies to be the most critical in
understanding the judgments and estimates we use in preparing our consolidated
financial statements.
Revenue
Recognition
In 2003,
we sold lifetime subscriptions to our consumer product and did not recognize
revenue from those sales since the obligation to continue serving such content
had no defined termination date and adequate history to estimate the life of the
customer relationship was not available. Cash received from such lifetime
licenses is reflected as long-term deferred revenues on the accompanying balance
sheets. Beginning December 2003 and throughout 2004, we generally, sold
consumers one-year subscriptions to GuruNet. We recognize the amounts we
received from those subscriptions over the life of the related subscription.
Beginning April 2004, certain users who purchased lifetime subscriptions in 2003
exchanged their lifetime subscriptions for free two-year subscriptions to a
newer, enhanced version of the GuruNet product. The cash previously received
from such users is being recognized as revenues over the new two-year
subscription. Beginning January 2005, we no longer offer subscriptions to our
consumer products and/or websites. Rather, our consumer business model is now an
advertising-only model. Notwithstanding, we have not terminated fixed-term and
lifetime subscriptions to GuruNet that we previously sold. This means that those
users will continue to receive content and will not have to upgrade their
software. The software they downloaded in conjunction with their subscription
will be supported. Our accounting treatment relating to those subscriptions has
not changed, since we continue to honor those subscriptions.
Accounting
for Stock-based Compensation
In
January 2003, the Financial
Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 148, “Accounting
for Stock-Based Compensation — Transition and Disclosure, an amendment of FASB
Statement No. 123” (“SFAS
148”), which provides alternative methods of transition for a voluntary change
to a fair value based method of accounting for stock-based employee
compensation. In addition, SFAS 148 amends the disclosure requirements of
Statement
of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 “Accounting
for Stock-based Compensation” ("SFAS
123"), to
require prominent disclosures in annual financial statements about the method of
accounting for stock-based employee compensation and the effect of the method
used on reported results. We account for stock-based compensation for employees
under APB 25, and elect the disclosure-only alternative under SFAS 123,
providing the enhanced disclosures as required by SFAS 148.
We record
deferred stock-based compensation expense for stock options granted to employees
and directors if the market value of the stock at the date of grant exceeds the
exercise price of the option. We recognize expenses as we amortize the deferred
stock-based compensation amounts over the related vesting periods. The market
value of our stock, so long as we were a private company, was determined by us
based on a number of factors including comparisons to private equity investments
in us. These valuations are inherently highly uncertain and subjective. If we
had made different assumptions, our deferred stock-based compensation amount,
our stock-based compensation expense, our net loss and our net loss per share
could have been significantly different.
The fair
value of stock warrants and stock options granted to non-employees are measured
throughout the vesting period as they are earned, at which time we recognize a
charge to stock-based compensation. The fair value is determined using the
Black-Scholes option-pricing model, which considers the exercise price relative
to the market value of the underlying stock, the expected stock price
volatility, the risk-free interest rate and the dividend yield, and an estimate
of the life of the warrant or option. As discussed above, the market value of
the underlying stock was based on assumptions of matters that are inherently
highly uncertain and subjective. Since, prior to our IPO there had been no
public market for our stock, our assumptions about stock price volatility are
based on the volatility rates of comparable publicly held companies. These rates
may or may not reflect our stock price volatility following the offering. If we
had made different assumptions about the fair value of our stock or stock price
volatility, or our estimate of the time stock warrants and stock options will be
outstanding before they are ultimately exercised, the related stock based
compensation expense, our net loss and our net loss per share amounts could have
been significantly different.
For
example, in the first quarter of 2005, we estimated that the fair value of
100,000 common stock warrants that our investment banker received in connection
with an agreement pursuant to which it provides us with general financial
advisory and investment banking services, to be $577,000. Such amount is being
amortized over the minimum life of the agreement, which is six months. One of
the assumptions driving the fair value of the warrants was the estimate of the
date the warrants will be exercised. As required, we assumed the warrants will
be exercised on the last day before they expire, which is five years after the
date the warrants were issued. If, for example, we had assumed that the warrants
would be exercised one year after their issuance, their value, and the charge,
would have been approximately $146,000, rather than $577,000.
We are
required in the preparation of the disclosures required under SFAS 148 to make
certain estimates when ascribing a value to employee stock options granted
during the year. These estimates include, but are not limited to, an estimate of
the average time option grants will be outstanding before they are ultimately
exercised and converted into common stock. These estimates are integral to the
valuing of these option grants. Any changes in these estimates may have a
material effect on the value ascribed to these option grants. This would in turn
affect the amortization used in the disclosures we make under SFAS 148, which
could be material. For disclosure purposes only, the fair value of options
granted in the past to employees was estimated on the date of grant using the
minimum-value method with the following weighted average assumptions: no
dividend yield; risk-free interest rates of 2.18% to 6.59%; and an expected life
of three to five years. The fair value of options granted to employees
subsequent to May 12, 2004, the date of our first filing with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with our IPO is measured, for
disclosure purposes only, according to the Black-Scholes option-pricing model,
with the
following weighted average assumptions: no dividend yield; risk-free interest
rates of 3.29% to 4.18%; volatility between 53.66% and 66.76%, and an
expected life of four years. If we
had made different assumptions than those noted above, the related disclosures
under SFAS 148 could have been significantly different.
Finally, the
FASB recently enacted Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 123-revised
2004 ("SFAS 123R"), "Share-Based
Payment" which
replaces SFAS 123. The impact of SFAS 123R on future periods is discussed in the
section of this Management’s Discussion & Analysis titled “Recent Accounting
Pronouncements”.
Accounting
For Income Taxes
As part
of the process of preparing our consolidated financial statements, we are
required to estimate our income taxes in each of the jurisdictions in which we
operate. This process involves management estimating our actual current tax
exposure together with assessing temporary differences resulting from differing
treatment of items for tax and accounting purposes. These differences result in
deferred tax assets and liabilities, which are included within our consolidated
balance sheet. We must then assess the likelihood that our deferred tax assets
will be recovered from future taxable income and, to the extent we believe that
recovery is not likely, we must establish a valuation allowance. To the extent
we establish a valuation allowance or increase this allowance in a period, we
must include an expense within the tax item in the statement of operations.
Significant management judgment is required in determining our provision for
income taxes, our deferred tax assets and liabilities and any valuation
allowance recorded against our net deferred tax assets. We have fully offset our
US deferred tax asset with a valuation allowance. Our lack of earnings history
and the uncertainty surrounding our ability to generate taxable income prior to
the expiration of such deferred tax assets were the primary factors considered
by management in establishing the valuation allowance. Deferred tax assets and
liabilities in the financial statements result from the tax amounts that would
result if our Israeli subsidiary distributed its retained earnings to us. This
subsidiary is entitled to a tax holiday, as described above, yet continues to
generate taxable income in respect of services provided to us, and therefore
were the subsidiary to distribute its retained earning to us, we believe that
the deferred tax asset relating to the Israeli subsidiary would be realized. In
the event that our subsidiary’s products would not generate such taxable income,
we would need to write off the deferred tax asset as an expense in the statement
of operations. It should be noted that as the income is derived from us, it is
eliminated upon consolidation.
Foreign
Currency Translation
Beginning
February 2004, our Israeli subsidiary began paying substantially all of its
salaries linked to the U.S. dollar(“USD”), rather than the New Israeli Shekel
(“NIS”). Based on this change, and in conjunction with all other relevant
factors, our management has determined that the subsidiary’s functional
currency, beginning the first quarter of 2004, is the USD. SFAS 52, “Foreign
Currency Translation”, Appendix
A, paragraph 42, cites economic factors that, among others, should be considered
when determining functional currency. We determined that the cash flow, sales
price and expense factors for our subsidiary, which prior to 2004 all indicated
functional currency in foreign currency, have changed in 2004 to indicate the
functional currency is the USD.
Our
subsidiary’s revenue is derived based on a cost plus methodology. Prior to 2004,
salary expense, its primary expense, was determined in the foreign currency
resulting in income and expenses being based on foreign currency. However, in
2004, a triggering event occurred that, in our opinion, warranted a change of
the functional currency of our subsidiary to that of our currency, USD. Salary
expense, the primary expense of our subsidiary, began to be denominated in USD.
This led to a change with respect to the currency of the cash flow, sales price
and expense economic factors and resulted in a determination that our
subsidiary’s functional currency had changed to that of our functional currency.
Had we
determined that our subsidiary’s functional currency was different than what was
actually used, we believe that the effect of such determination would not have
had a material impact on our financial statements.
Recently
Issued Accounting Pronouncements
In March
2004, the Emerging Issues Task Force (“EITF”) reached a consensus on Issue No.
03-01, “The
Meaning of Other-Than-Temporary Impairment and its Application to Certain
Investments” (“EITF
03-1”). EITF 03-1 provides guidance on other-than-temporary impairment models
for marketable debt and equity securities accounted for under SFAS No. 115,
“Accounting
for Certain Investments in Debt and Equity Securities” (“SFAS
No. 115”), and non-marketable equity securities accounted for under the cost
method. The EITF developed a basic three-step model to evaluate whether an
investment is other-than-temporarily impaired. On September 30, 2004, the FASB
issued FSP 03-1-1, “Effective
Date of Paragraphs 10-20 of EITF Issue 03-1, ’The Meaning of
Other-Than-Temporary Impairment and its Application to Certain
Investments’,” delaying
the effective date for the recognition and measurement guidance of EITF 03-1, as
contained in paragraphs 10-20, until certain implementation issues are addressed
and a final FSP providing implementation guidance is issued. Until new guidance
is issued, companies must continue to comply with the disclosure requirements of
EITF 03-1 and all relevant measurement and recognition requirements in other
accounting literature. We do not expect the adoption of EITF 03-1 to have a
material effect on our financial statements.
In
December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS No. 153, "Exchanges
of Nonmonetary Assets - an amendment to APB No. 29". This
Statement amends Opinion No. 29 to eliminate the exception for nonmonetary
exchanges of similar productive assets and replaces it with a general exception
for exchanges of nonmonetary assets that do not have commercial substance. A
nonmonetary exchange has commercial substance if the future cash flows of the
entity are expected to change significantly as a result of the exchange.
Adoption of this statement is not expected to have a material impact on our
results of operations and financial condition.
In
December 2004, the FASB issued SFAS 123R, which requires the measurement of all
employee share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock
options, using a fair-value-based method and the recording of such expense in
our consolidated statements of income. The accounting provisions of SFAS 123R
are effective for us for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2005. We
are required to adopt SFAS 123R in the first quarter of fiscal 2006. The pro
forma disclosures previously permitted under SFAS 123 no longer will be an
alternative to financial statement recognition. See Note 3 in our Notes to the
unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements for the pro forma net loss and net
loss per share amounts, as if we had used a fair-value-based method similar to
the methods required under SFAS 123R to measure compensation expense for
employee stock incentive awards. Although we have not yet determined the method
of adoption and whether the adoption of SFAS 123R will result in amounts that
are similar to the current pro forma disclosures under SFAS 123, we are
evaluating the requirements under SFAS 123R and the impact their adoption will
have on our consolidated statements of operations and net income (loss) per
share.
Liquidity
and Capital Resources
General
From our
inception through March 31, 2005, our operations have been funded almost
entirely through the proceeds we received from issuance of four series of
convertible preferred stock between 1999 and the end of 2001, convertible
promissory notes in the first quarter of 2004 and our IPO in last quarter of
2004. The amounts raised were used primarily to fund research and development,
sales and marketing, business development and general and administrative costs.
In
February 2005 the Company entered into an agreement with certain holders of
warrants that were issued by the Company in 2004 in connection with a bridge
financing, pursuant to which such holders exercised an aggregate of 1,871,783
Bridge Warrants. As a result, the Company raised approximately $12,225,000, net
of costs relating to the exercise. Further, in 2005, to date, we raised
additional amounts, in excess of $1 million, from other exercises of options and
warrants.
As of
March 31, 2005, we had $21,947,010 of assets consisting of $3,050,760 in cash
and cash equivalents, $16,850,000 in investment securities, $791,759 in other
current assets and the remaining balance in property and equipment and other
long-term assets. Total liabilities as of March 31, 2005, reflect current
liabilities of $1,153,545, consisting primary of accounts payable and accrued
expenses and compensation, and long-term liabilities of $1,103,694, which are
comprised primarily of liabilities in respect of employee severance obligations
and deferred revenues, long-term.
Cash
flows for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2004 were as
follows:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
March 31,
2005 |
|
March 31,
2004 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
cash used in operating activities |
|
$ |
(964,401 |
) |
$ |
(806,551 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
cash used in investing activities |
|
$ |
(11,075,138 |
) |
$ |
(79,521 |
) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Net
cash provided by financing activities |
|
$ |
13,524,962 |
|
$ |
3,987,758 |
|
Despite a
net loss of $1,504,924 in the first quarter of 2005, our net cash used in
operations was $964,401. The primary reasons for the large difference is that
$386,000 of our operating expenses were the result of non-cash, stock-based
compensation, and various changes in our operating assets and liabilities. In
the first quarter of 2004, despite a net loss of $1,692,712, our net cash used
in operations was $806,551. This was due to many factors, the most significant
of which is non-cash, amortization of promissory note discounts, of
$547,502.
Cash used
in investing activities of $11,075,138, in the first quarter of 2005 is
attributable primarily to purchases of investment securities of $13,250,000,
less the proceeds, of $2,250,000, from the sale of investment securities.
Investment securities consist of investments in auction rate, investment grade,
corporate and municipal debt instruments, and auction rate preferred shares of
closed-end investment funds that invest in long-term fixed income securities,
with auction reset periods of 28 days, classified as available-for-sale
securities and stated at fair value. Cash used in investing activities of
$79,521 in the first quarter of 2004 is mainly due to the purchase of the
Answers.com domain name for $80,200.
Cash flow
from financing activities during the first quarter of 2005 was comprised of the
net proceeds, of approximately $12,225,000 from the exercise of warrants via the
Warrant Reload Agreement, with the remainder resulting from other exercises of
stock warrants and stock options. Cash flow from financing activities during the
first quarter of 2004 was comprised primarily of the net proceeds relating to
the $5.0 million of bridge notes issued in January and February 2004.
Current
and Future Financing Needs
We have
incurred negative cash flow from operations since our inception. We have spent,
and expect to continue to spend, substantial amounts in connection with
implementing our business strategy. We raised approximately $10,786,000, net of
underwriting fees and offering expenses, through our IPO and the exercise of the
over-allotment option in the last quarter of 2004. After repaying the portion of
the bridge notes that did not convert to common shares, of $3,160,000,
approximately $7.6 million remained. In February 2005 we entered into the
Warrant Reload Agreement with certain holders of warrants that were issued by us
in 2004 in connection with the bridge financing, pursuant to which such holders
exercised an aggregate of 1,871,783 Bridge Warrants. As a result, we raised
approximately $12,225,000, net of costs relating to the exercise. Further, in
the first quarter of 2005, we raised additional amounts, in excess of $1
million, from other exercises of options and warrants. Based on our current
plans, we believe that the net proceeds of the aforementioned IPO and the
exercise of the over-allotment option, and of the Warrant Reload Agreement, will
be sufficient to enable us to meet our planned operating needs for the next
twelve months and to fund possible future acquisitions. Notwithstanding, we may
decide to raise funds in the future, via public or private sales of our shares
or debt and/or other sources, to finance acquisitions and growth.
Off-Balance
Sheet Arrangements
We have
not entered into any transactions with unconsolidated entities in which we have
financial guarantees, subordinated retained interests, derivative instruments or
other contingent arrangements that expose us to material continuing risks,
contingent liabilities or any other obligations under a variable interest in an
unconsolidated entity that provides us with financing, liquidity, market risk or
credit risk support.
ITEM 3.
CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Based on
their evaluations as of the end of the period covered in this report, our
principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that
our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules
13a-15(e) and 15(d)-15(e)) are effective to ensure that information required to
be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Securities
Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time
periods specified in the rules and forms of the SEC.
We
believe that a controls system, no matter how well designed and operated, is
based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events,
and therefore can only provide, reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the
objectives of the controls system are met, and no evaluation of controls can
provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if
any, within a company have been detected.
In
addition, we have reviewed our internal controls over financial reporting and
have made no changes during the quarter ended March 31, 2005, that our
certifying officers concluded materially affected, or are reasonably likely to
materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
PART
II. OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1.
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
We are
not currently involved in any legal proceedings. However, from time to time we
may be subject to legal proceedings and claims in the ordinary course of
business.
ITEM 2.
CHANGES IN SECURITIES
Not
applicable
ITEM 3.
DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
Not
applicable.
ITEM 4.
SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
Not
applicable.
ITEM 5.
OTHER INFORMATION
Not
applicable.
ITEM 6.
EXHIBITS
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31.1 |
Certification
of Principal Executive Officer required under Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule
15d-14(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. |
|
31.2 |
Certification
of Principal Financial Officer required under Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule
15d-14(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. |
|
32.1*
|
Certification
of Principal Executive Officer required under Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule
15d-14(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and 18
U.S.C. Section 1350. |
|
32.2*
|
Certification
of Principal Financial Officer required under Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule
15d-14(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and 18
U.S.C. Section 1350. |
* |
The
certifications attached as Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 accompany this
Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB pursuant to Section 906 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and shall not be deemed "filed" by GuruNet
Corporation for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has
duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto
duly authorized.
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|
GURUNET CORPORATION |
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|
|
Date: May 11, 2005 |
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/s/ Robert S.
Rosenschein |
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|
Robert S. Rosenschein |
|
|
Chief Executive Officer |
|
|
(Principal Executive Officer) |
|
|
|
|
|
/s/
Steven Steinberg |
|
|
Steven Steinberg |
|
|
Chief Financial Officer |
|
|
(Principal Financial and Accounting
Officer) |
EXHIBIT
INDEX
|
31.1 |
Certification
of Principal Executive Officer required under Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule
15d-14(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. |
|
31.2 |
Certification
of Principal Financial Officer required under Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule
15d-14(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. |
|
32.1*
|
Certification
of Principal Executive Officer required under Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule
15d-14(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and 18
U.S.C. Section 1350. |
|
32.2*
|
Certification
of Principal Financial Officer required under Rule 13a-14(a) or Rule
15d-14(a) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and 18
U.S.C. Section 1350. |
* |
The
certifications attached as Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 accompany this
Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB pursuant to Section 906 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and shall not be deemed "filed" by GuruNet
Corporation for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended. |
EXHIBIT
31.1
CERTIFICATION
OF PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER
I, Robert
S. Rosenschein, certify that:
1. |
I
have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB of GuruNet
Corporation; |
2. |
Based
on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the
statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this
report; |
3. |
Based
on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information
included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the
financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the
registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
|
4. |
The
registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for
establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as
defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant
and have: |
|
a) |
Designed
such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure
that material information relating to the registrant, including its
consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those
entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being
prepared; |
|
b) |
[Paragraph
omitted in accordance with SEC transition instructions contained in SEC
Release 34-47986] |
|
c) |
Evaluated
the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures
and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of
the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period
covered by this report based on such evaluation;
and |
|
d) |
Disclosed
in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over
financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent
fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an
annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial
reporting; and |
5. The
registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most
recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the
registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of
directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
|
a) |
All
significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or
operation of internal control over financial reporting which are
reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record,
process, summarize and report financial information;
and |
|
b) |
Any
fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other
employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control
over financial reporting. |
Date: May
11, 2005
|
/s/
Robert S. Rosenschein
Robert
S. Rosenschein
Chief
Executive Officer
(Principal
Executive Officer) |
|
|
EXHIBIT
31.2
CERTIFICATION
OF PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER
I,
Steven Steinberg, certify that:
1. |
I
have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-QSB of GuruNet
Corporation; |
2. |
Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any
untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under
which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period
covered by this report; |
3. |
Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and
other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all
material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash
flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this
report; |
4. |
The
registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for
establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as
defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant
and have; |
a)Designed
such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and
procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material
information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries,
is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the
period in which this report is being prepared;
b)[Paragraph
omitted in accordance with SEC transition instructions contained in SEC Release
34-47986]
c)Evaluated
the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and
presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the
disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this
report based on such evaluation; and
d)Disclosed
in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial
reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the
registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has
materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the
registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5. |
The
registrant’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on
our most recent evaluation, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit
committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing
the equivalent functions): |
a)All
significant deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls which
could adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize
and report financial data and have identified for the such auditors any material
weaknesses in internal controls; and
b)Any
fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who
have a significant role in the registrant’s internal controls.
|
/s/
Steven Steinberg |
Date:
May 11, 2005 |
Steven
Steinberg
Chief
Financial Officer
(Principal
Financial and Accounting Officer) |
EXHIBIT
32.1
CERTIFICATION
PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS
ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION
906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
In
connection with the quarterly report on Form 10-QSB of GuruNet Corporation (the
“Company”) for the period ended March 31, 2005, as filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), the undersigned, Robert
S. Rosenschein, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, hereby certifies,
pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, that:
a. |
the
Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and |
b. |
the
information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material
respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the
Company. |
Date:
May 11, 2005
|
/s/
Robert S. Rosenschein
Robert
S. Rosenschein
Chief
Executive Officer
(Principal
Executive Officer) |
A signed
original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to
the Company and will be retained by the Company and furnished to the Securities
and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.
EXHIBIT
32.2
CERTIFICATION
PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS
ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION
906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
In
connection with the quarterly report on Form 10-QSB of GuruNet Corporation (the
“Company”) for the period ended March 31, 2005, as filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), the undersigned, Steven
Steinberg, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, hereby certifies, pursuant to
18 U.S.C. Section 1350, that:
a. |
the
Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and |
b. |
the
information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material
respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the
Company. |
|
/s/
Steven Steinberg |
Date:
May 11, 2005 |
Steven
Steinberg
Chief
Financial Officer
(Principal
Financial and Accounting Officer) |
A signed
original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to
the Company and will be retained by the Company and furnished to the Securities
and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.