1-32255
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98-0202855
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(Commission
File Number)
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(IRS
Employer Identification No.)
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Exhibit
No.
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Description
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99.1
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Press
release of Answers Corporation dated November 3, 2005.
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99.2
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Script
of conference call held on November 3, 2005, reporting financial
results
of Answers Corporation for the quarter ended September 30,
2005
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ANSWERS CORPORATION | ||
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Dated: November 3, 2005 | By: | /s/ Steven Steinberg |
Steven Steinberg | ||
Chief Financial Officer |
Exhibit
No.
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Description
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99.1
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Press
release of Answers Corporation dated November 3, 2005.
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99.2
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Script
of conference call held on November 3, 2005, reporting financial
results
of Answers Corporation for the quarter ended September 30,
2005
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Three
months ended September 30
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Nine
months ended September
30
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2005
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2004
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2005
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2004
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$
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$
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$
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$
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||||||||||
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(Unaudited
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) |
(Unaudited
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)
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(Unaudited
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)
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(Unaudited
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)
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Revenue
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563,576
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53,163
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1,163,761
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117,038
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Costs
and expenses (1):
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Cost
of revenue
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251,254
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157,854
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711,051
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433,612
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Research
and development
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335,650
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271,489
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1,063,972
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789,962
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Sales
and marketing
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512,707
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159,564
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1,325,137
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700,049
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General
and administrative
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691,311
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221,805
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2,602,048
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636,335
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Total
costs and expenses
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1,790,922
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810,712
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5,702,208
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2,559,958
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Operating
loss
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(1,227,346
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(757,549
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(4,538,447
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(2,442,920
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)
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Interest
income (expense), net
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156,536
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(1,397,322
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)
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387,130
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(3,247,774
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)
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Other
expense, net
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(14,641
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)
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(6,646
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(35,369
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)
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(10,671
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)
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Loss
before income taxes
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(1,085,451
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)
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(2,161,517
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)
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(4,186,686
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(5,701,365
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)
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Income
tax expenses
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(4,904
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)
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(7,010
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)
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(10,579
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(34,023
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)
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Net
loss
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(1,090,355
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)
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(2,168,527
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)
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(4,197,265
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)
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(5,735,388
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)
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Basic
and diluted net loss per
common
share
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(0.15
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)
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(1.26
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)
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(0.63
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(3.64
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)
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Weighted
average shares used in
computing
basic and diluted
net
loss per common share
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7,069,553
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1,727,373
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6,703,989
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1,574,923
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(1)
Includes stock based compensation and costs as
follows:
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Research
and development
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944
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944 |
31,207
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2,832 | |||||||||
Sales
and marketing
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354
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354
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214,310
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10,991
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General
and administrative
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103,875
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2,435
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789,449
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23,877
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105,173
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3,733
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1,034,966
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37,700
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September
30, 2005
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December
31, 2004
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(Unaudited)
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(Audited)
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Cash
and investment securities
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$
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18,885,071
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$
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7,415,415
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Working
capital
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$
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18,204,075
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$
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6,688,721
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Total
assets
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$
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21,055,014
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$
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8,907,183
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Long-term
liabilities
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$
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1,094,963
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$
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1,078,548
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Total
stockholders’ equity
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$
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18,709,095
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$
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6,824,122
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1. |
How
do we view the critical components of our business model, namely
traffic
and monetization?
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2. |
How
will we grow Answers.com traffic?
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3. |
How
will we increase page monetization?
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· |
Compensation-related
expenses increased by approximately $110,000, due to personnel
expansion.
We had a net increase of nine employees during Q3 - three in
marketing and
bus dev; three in R&D; two in production operations and customer
support, to support our increased traffic, and one in administration.
Since most of the new employees started working in the second
half of the
quarter, the full quarterly impact of these hires of approximately
$240,000 will be felt in Q-4. This brings our headcount to 45:
38 in
Israel and 7 in New York. We plan to add two new employees in
Q4.
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Secondly,
non-cash, stock-based compensation and costs decreased by approximately
$440,000 to $105,000. We expect our non-cash charge for stock
based
compensation to be approximately $30,000 in Q4. We will also
be adopting
FASB 123R for expensing employee stock options in 2006. We are
evaluating
the requirements under FASB 123R and the impact its adoption
will have on
our P&L.
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Third,
we increased our advertising and PR spend by about $120,000.
We believe
that we are starting to see the fruits of that investment in
our
traffic.
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Last,
we reduced some of the line items in our expenses, as compared
to the
previous quarter. For example, our legal costs declined approximately
$125,000 and we spent less on financial printers, filing and
registration
fees. These reductions are, in part, due to the fact that in
Q-2 we
incurred significant costs relating to the preparation and filing
of our
registration statement on Form SB-2, a proxy statement and other
filings.
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