LONDON, - May 29, 1998 - Football fans, both armchair enthusiasts and diehard supporters travelling to France can score big online. Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), the leading navigational guide to the Internet, today unveiled international news and full coverage of the 1998 World Cup (www.yahoo.co.uk/wc98). The new offering gives users quick and easy access to in-depth information about events leading up to and taking place in France this summer.

Yahoo! coverage of the World Cup brings together in one location a wealth of information including news, up-to-the-minute coverage on all tournament games including immediate goal flashes, targeted Web resources, and other football-related offerings. Through this extensive coverage, enthusiasts can follow the events as they are played out in France, from the warm-up friendlies to the World Cup Final.

World Cup Warm-ups

From now through June 9, 1998, Yahoo! coverage of the World Cup will provide users with a preview of the tournament, which kicks off on June 10 with a match between defending champions Brazil and Scotland. The site features a dynamic front page with up-to-the-minute information including the main football stories of the day, Web resources, event groupings, and travel and weather information. Agence France Presse, Reuters International, Sports Informations Dienst, and SportsTicker(r) deliver news headlines and breaking stories on the players, teams, and managers. In addition, users can obtain World Cup rankings and full historical details on the winners of each of the past World Cups since 1930. Yahoo! coverage of the World Cup also offers a detailed schedule for fans to track teams from the opening games to the final. In addition, the site provides chats and message boards, so fans can interact live with other users around the world to discuss teams, players, future matches, rivalries and events of France'98.

In the run up to the tournament, Yahoo!'s coverage will enable football enthusiasts to check out current team news, photos, study player biographies, follow the countdown to the final team selections, and evaluate the competitiveness of each group on each of the participating 32 countries' pages.

Kicking Off on June 10: World Cup Tournament Coverage

In addition to the news and information offered in the days leading up to the World Cup, Yahoo! coverage of the tournament will deliver game previews and details of matches, the latest scores, statistics, photos, reviews and group standings, beginning June 10 and continuing through the World Cup Final on July 12.

Yahoo!'s coverage of the 1998 World Cup is available through the 13 World Yahoo!s and is offered in 11 different languages: English, Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.

Going to the World Cup?

Cultural and tourist information is available through Yahoo! and Michelin, on each of the ten French host cities. Fans can access full details of the event programme in each city including which match is at which stadium, and where to find local football clubs and World Cup merchandise retail outlets. Michelin's cartography expertise also covers: a road map; an itinerary calculation service which incorporates a route planner and journey timings from the main European cities; and a map of the stadium surroundings to enable not only drivers, but also pedestrians to easily access the venues. Web users can discover the 10 French World Cup cities with Yahoo! and Michelin in six sections detailing where to go to eat, relax, have fun and discover the main tourist sites and attractions. A guide for museums, restaurants, bars, cinemas, shops and gastronomic specialties of the region comes from a selection of the Michelin Green Guide and the Michelin Red Guide. All the information is available in French, English, German, Spanish, and Italian on the Yahoo! World Cup sites.

As with all of Yahoo! services, all the World Cup content and services are free.

"Yahoo!'s World Cup service gives users all the news and all the facts, at high speed, in an intuitive format," says Colin Simpson, Producer, Yahoo! UK & Ireland. "When the tournament starts, football fans all over the world will be seeking up-to-the-minute information. Yahoo! is uniquely placed to deliver in-depth content quickly, on a global platform."

Hewlett-Packard is the official global sponsor of Yahoo!'s coverage of the World Cup and the official information-technology hardware and maintenance supplier to the 1998 World Cup.

About Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) is a global Internet media company that offers a network of branded Web programming that serves millions of users daily. As the first online navigational guide to the Web, www.yahoo.com is the single largest guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach, and is one of the most recognised brands associated with the Internet. Yahoo! Inc. provides the targeted Internet resources and communications services for a broad range of audiences based on demographic, key-subject and geographic interests. Yahoo! is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and has European offices in London, Paris, Munich, Stockholm and Milan.

Press Contacts:

Yahoo! UK & Ireland
Kate Rider,
0171 664 0428,
kater@uk.yahoo-inc.com