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IRVINE, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/08/07 -- Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading
local search engine, today announced that it has terminated its Letter of
Intent dated January 22, 2007, to acquire soUno Directional Media
Solutions, LLC.
The Letter of Intent was not binding and any potential acquisition was
subject to the completion of due diligence, negotiation and execution of a
definitive agreement, approval by Local.com shareholders, as well as
customary closing conditions.
"Local.com has made great progress in the past two months, signing deals
with three major media and technology companies. Each of these is a
significant achievement for Local.com, and we expect to announce more deals
in due course," said Heath Clarke, Local.com CEO.
Local.com launched its first local ad product, LocalPromote, in October
2006 and reported over 350 advertisers by the end of the quarter.
"With limited test marketing we have acquired over 600 local advertisers
to-date. We are encouraged by the progress we have made during our testing
phase, and are positioning ourselves for a significant launch of our local
ad products during the second quarter," said Clarke.
Local.com will focus resources and capital in the near-term to develop the
company's organic growth capabilities, as well as develop partnership and
business relationships with other leading media companies.
"We are continually refining our ad products, ad delivery systems, search
engine marketing and advertiser acquisition strategies," Clarke added.
"Based on thorough due diligence and analysis, it became clear to us that
at this time it is in the best interests of our company and shareholders to
invest our capital into our own advertiser acquisition capabilities."
Local.com intends to work with soUno in order to capitalize on areas of
mutual benefit and continues to look for acquisition opportunities.
There are no breakup fees associated with the termination.
About Local.com
Local.com (NASDAQ: LOCM) is a Top 100 website attracting approximately 10
million visitors each month seeking information on local businesses,
products, services, people and jobs. Powered by the company's
patent-pending Keyword DNA® and local web indexing technologies,
Local.com provides users with targeted, relevant local search results,
including special offers from local businesses, user reviews, local
businesses' website links, maps, driving directions and more. Businesses
can advertise on Local.com with subscription, pay per click, banner and pay
per call ad products.
Forward-Looking Statements
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document regarding our anticipated financial position, business strategy
and plans and objectives of our management for future operations, are
forward-looking statements. When used in this report, words such as
"anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "plans," "expect," "intend" and
similar expressions, as they relate to Local.com or our management,
identify forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statements are
based on the beliefs of our management as well as assumptions made by and
information currently available to our management. Actual results could
differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements
as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited to, our ability
to monetize the Local.com domain, incorporate our local-search
technologies, market the Local.com domain as a destination for consumers
seeking local-search results, grow our business by enhancing our
local-search services, expand our Advertiser and Distribution Networks,
expand internationally, integrate and effectively utilize our acquisitions'
technologies, develop our products and sales, marketing, finance and
administrative functions and successfully integrate our expanded
infrastructure, as well as our dependence on major advertisers, competitive
factors and pricing pressures, changes in legal and regulatory
requirements, and general economic conditions. Any forward-looking
statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are
subject to these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions relating to
our operations, results of operations, growth strategy and liquidity. All
subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us
or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety
by this paragraph.
Our Annual Report on Form 10-KSB, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form
10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange
Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as other important
risk factors that could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect
our business, results of operations and financial condition. The
forward-looking statements in this release speak only as of the date they
are made. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any
forward-looking statement for any reason.