Yahoo! Unveils BackWeb Channel Guide

SAN JOSE, Calif., (February 10, 1997) -- Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), the leading navigational guide to the Internet, and BackWeb Technologies, a leading provider of Internet push broadcasting software, today launched a beta version of the Yahoo! BackWeb Channel Guide. The new guide is available through the BackWeb service and on the Web at bwguide.yahoo.com/bwguide/start.html. The Yahoo! BackWeb Channel Guide is similar to a television guide for BackWeb channels, offering information about BackWeb programs for subscribers. Through Yahoo!'s Channel Guide, users will receive Yahoo! InfoFlashes, providing them with periodic "news" updates about new BackWeb channels, Yahoo!'s program picks and special broadcasts and programs.

The beta version of Yahoo!'s Channel Guide lists the 40+ current BackWeb channels and describes the kinds of content that each delivers to subscribers. User can download the BackWeb client and subscribe to channels directly from the Channel Guide. Yahoo! will continue to add new channels to the Guide as they become available.

"The value of Yahoo!'s navigational services is recognized by users across different delivery mechanisms, as evidenced by the popularity of both the main Yahoo! guide as well as the MY Yahoo! News Ticker," said Jeff Mallett, senior vice president of business operations at Yahoo!. "Partnering with industry leaders such as BackWeb, Yahoo! is ideally positioned to continue to be the place users go to find relevant and entertaining information and content."

"We're thrilled to be working closely with Yahoo! -- they are one of the Internet's most important resources, telling the world what to look for and where to go on the web," said Eli Barkat, CEO of BackWeb. "Their reviews of BackWeb channels will be the ultimate insider's guide to a whole new experience on the Internet."

The Channel Guide was created by Yahoo! in cooperation with BackWeb. Yahoo! maintains strict editorial independence over the content of the Guide.

About Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. offers a globally-branded Internet navigational service to information and entertainment on the Web. As the first online guide to the Web, Yahoo! is one of the most visible and recognizable names associated with the Internet. Yahoo! provides a context-based directory structure for Internet resources, as well as integrated AltaVista Web-wide search capabilities. The Company is continuing to develop a global family of Yahoo!-branded media properties for targeted geographic (Yahoo! Japan, UK, France, Germany, Canada, San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, Austin); shared-interest (Yahoo! Internet Life magazine and website and MTV/Yahoo!'s online music guide); and demographic audiences (Yahooligans!, a Web guide for kids, and Beatrice's Web Guide for women). Yahoo! can be found on the web at www.yahoo.com. Yahoo! Inc. headquarters are in Santa Clara, California.

About BackWeb Technologies
BackWeb Technologies is a leading offline Web software company. BackWeb extends the value of technology investments by offering mobile and remote employees offline access to portals, intranets and other Web-based applications and content. The company's products reduce network costs and improve the productivity of an increasingly mobile workforce. At the core of BackWeb's products is its patented Polite® synchronization technology that can distribute large amounts of data even over narrow bandwidth connections. BackWeb® customers include market leaders such as Boehringer Ingelheim, Centocor, Eastman Kodak, GE Healthcare, Guidant, HP, KLA Tencor, Lam Research, Pfizer and more than one hundred other companies. BackWeb also has strategic reseller alliances with software industry leaders: Plumtree, SAP and IBM. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel. For more information, visit www.backweb.com or call (800) 863-0100.

Statements in this news release, which are not purely historical, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Securities laws, including statements of beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Examples of these statements include, but are not limited to, the ability of BackWeb software to allow customers to gain mobile, disconnected use of their portals and help increase field sales and field service productivity, the integration of BackWeb software with BEA products will help developers extend portal applications for offline use without changing the way they work, and the ability of the resulting applications to help field sales and service organizations realize maximum productivity, cost savings, and process acceleration gains while disconnected from the network. Actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include unforeseen technological issues related to use of the BackWeb software, deployment issues related to implementation, unforeseen software errors, competitive factors and business and expense factors that may affect the perceived efficiencies from use of BackWeb's products, and the risks and uncertainties detailed from time to time in BackWeb's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. BackWeb assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements contained in this press release.