Yahoo! Unveils Advanced Recruitment Advertising Solutions That Redefine the Job Board and Bankrate Survey Finds Americans not Prepared for Retirement

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City of Industry, CA --(www.USEquityNews.com)-- 06/23/2008 - Internet Information Provider industry alert provided by U.S. Equity News. Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) HotJobs (http://hotjobs.yahoo.com), a leading online recruitment destination, today introduced two innovative advertising solutions that help recruitment advertisers meet their hiring and branding objectives by delivering more relevant job listings to candidates. The first, Yahoo! HotJobs Smart Ads, is a platform that transforms job listings into highly relevant display ads that are tailored to active and passive job seekers across the Yahoo! Network, and the second, Premium Company Profiles, showcases company employment brands using rich media and company-specific content from the Yahoo! Network.


Hotwire(R) (NASDAQ: EXPE), a leading discount travel site, today announced Trip Watcher, the newest addition to the Hotwire family of cost- and time-saving travel planning tools. Trip Watcher gives customers better control, value and flexibility when booking trips by allowing them to "watch" specific itineraries, through both email alerts and a personal "My Account" page on Hotwire.com(R). Trip Watcher acts as a user's own travel agent. It takes into consideration dates, destination, and (if flying) possible airports and compares them with Hotwire itineraries. If there's a way to save money by moving the trip a day, or using another airport, Hotwire notifies the customer through an email and by updating their "My Account" page.

A new study released by Bankrate, Inc. (NASDAQ: RATE) shows that more and more Americans are concerned about their retirement prospects. The poll, conducted by GfK Roper as part of Bankrate's Financial Literacy series on retirement, reveals that retirement is a growing concern amid tumultuous financial times for Americans. To view Bankrate's Financial Literacy 2008 -- Guide to Building Personal Wealth, go to http://www.bankrate.com/financialliteracy. Not all Americans are finding themselves in despair when figuring out how they'll be able to retire, however. In spite of economic concerns, 16 percent of those polled opted to raise their contributions to their retirement fund. The vast majority of those polled have continued to see the value in a retirement fund, with only 8 percent opting to stop contributions altogether.

Elysium Internet, Inc. (OTCBB: USBF) (Pending name change), an emerging direct navigation Internet media Company, recently announced that as a result of its domain redirect strategy and domain acquisition program its targeted professional directories are now showing up on page one of all three major search engines, and in some instances they are the first site in the organic, non-paid section of the search results for important search keywords. Elysium Internet CEO Scott Gallagher commented, "Direct navigation or natural traffic is the most sought after type of traffic in the Internet advertising space. Our directories are becoming highly ranked for key search terms very quickly due to the success of our overall strategy.

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