U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 4
STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
[_] Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5
obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).
(Print or Type Responses)
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
SOFTBANK Holdings Inc. (1)
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(Last) (First) (Middle)
10 Langley Road, Suite 403
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(Street)
Newton MA 02159
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(City) (State) (Zip)
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2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)
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3. I.R.S. Identification Number of Reporting Person, if an Entity (Voluntary)
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4. Statement for Month/Year
October 1998
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5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Year)
December 23, 1998(2)
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6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
[_] Director [X] 10% Owner
[_] Officer (give title below) [_] Other (specify below)
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7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
[_] Form filed by One Reporting Person
[X] Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
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Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of,
or Beneficially Owned
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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Amount of Owner- Nature of
Securities Acquired (A) or Securities ship Indirect
Disposed of (D) Beneficially Form: Beneficial
Transaction (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) Owned at End Direct Ownership
Code -------------------------- Of Month (D) or (Instr. 4)
Transaction (Instr. 8) (A) Instr. 3 Indirect
Title of Security Date ------------ Amount or Price and 4 (I)
(Instr. 3) (month/day/year) Code V (D) (Instr. 4)
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Common Stock 29,632,564 D
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Common Stock 10/20/98 J(3) 9,858(3) A (3) 9,858 I (3)
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially
owned directly or indirectly.
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction
4(b)(v).
(Over)
SEC 1474 (7-97)
FORM 4 (continued)
Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially
Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
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10.
9. Owner-
Number ship
of Form
2. Deriv- of
Conver- 5. 7. ative Deriv- 11.
sion Number of Title and Amount Secur- ative Nature
or Derivative 6. of Underlying 8. ities Secur- of
Exer- 4. Securities Date Securities Price Bene- ity: In-
cise 3. Trans- Acquired (A) Exercisable and (Instr. 3 and 4) of ficially Direct direct
Price Trans- action or Disposed Expiration Date ---------------- Deriv- Owned (D) or Bene-
1. of action Code of (D) (Month/Day/Year) Amount ative at End In- ficial
Title of Deriv- Date (Instr. (Instr. 3, ---------------- or Secur- of direct Owner-
Derivative ative (Month/ 8) 4 and 5) Date Expira- Number ity Month (I) ship
Security Secur- Day/ ------ ------------ Exer- tion of (Instr. (Instr. (Instr. (Instr.
(Instr. 3) ity Year) Code V (A) (D) cisable Date Title Shares 5) 4) 4) 4)
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Warrant $0.31 10/20/98 J(3) A 11/6/97 9/30/07 Common Stk 1,508(3) (3) 1,508 I (3)
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Explanation of Responses:
(1) SOFTBANK Holdings Inc. ("SBH") is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SOFTBANK
Corp. ("SBC"), whose address is 24-1 Nihonbashi-Hakozakicho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
103 Japan. Masayoshi Son is the President and Chief Executive Officer of
SBC and owns an approximately 43.3% interest in SBC. Accordingly,
securities owned by SBH may be regarded as being beneficially owned by
SBC, and securities owned by SBC may be regarded as being beneficially
owned by Mr. Son.
(2) SBC and SBH are amending their Form 4 filed on December 23, 1998 to
reflect their pecuniary interest in securities held by SOFTBANK Ventures,
Inc. ("SVI").
(3) On October 20, 1998, SVI received 45,751 shares of common stock and
warrants to purchase 6,999 shares in connection with the merger of
Yoyodyne Entertainment, Inc. into Yahoo! Inc. On that date, the reported
market prices for Yahoo! Inc. common stock were $121 1/4 high, $115 3/8
low, closing $115 1/2. SVI was the operating principal under a "silent
partnership agreement" (a tokumei kumiai keiyaku) under Japanese law and
had no pecuniary interest in the securities it received on that date. SBC
had an indirect pecuniary interest in 9,858 of the shares and 1,508 of the
warrants received by SVI on that date.
SOFTBANK HOLDINGS INC.
/s/ Stephen A. Grant, Secretary
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**Signature of Reporting Person
Date March 10, 1999
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SOFTBANK CORP.
/s/ Stephen A. Grant, Attorney-in-fact
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**Signature of Reporting Person
Date March 10, 1999
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MASAYOSHI SON
/s/ Stephen A. Grant, Attorney-in-fact
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**Signature of Reporting Person
Date March 10, 1999
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** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal
Criminal Violations.
See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.
