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euro adhoc: ComBOTS AG
quarterly or semiannual financial statement
ComBOTS AG Q3 figures: realignment on schedule

  Disclosure announcement transmitted by euro adhoc. The issuer is responsible
  for the content of this announcement.
9-month report
26.10.2007
Karlsruhe, October 26, 2007. ComBOTS AG (ISIN: DE000CMBT111) today 
published its results for the third quarter of fiscal 2007. The 
realignment decided at the end of September is on schedule and within
the framework of the announcements. As a further step, after the 
discontinuation of the further development of the ComBOTS 
communication service in September, the Supervisory Board and the 
Executive Board decided today to also discontinue the operation of 
the service and to no longer offer the product in future.
The loss on an EBITDA basis including cash effective restructuring 
costs (2.4 million Euro) amounted to 9.1 million Euro during the last
quarter (Q3/2006: 11.3 million Euro). With scheduled depreciations 
and amortizations of 2.0 million Euro and one-off non cash effective 
depreciations in the amount of 7.5 million Euro, the EBIT for Q3 
amounts to -18.6 million Euro. Therefore, the result before tax 
amounted to -17.4 million Euro, including one-off expenses from 
restructuring in a total amount of 9.9 million Euro. The company 
anticipates for Q4/2007 an already significantly reduced cost basis 
and a result before tax and one-off effects of approximately -5 
million Euro.
The shareholding in United Internet AG based on the dual corporate 
strategy again enjoyed a very positive development (Q1-Q3/2007: +79.1
million Euro). With the shareholding in United Internet the company 
had liquid assets (including tradable securities) of 510 million Euro
as at September 30, 2007.
The company plans to complete the restructuring largely in Q4/2007. 
In parallel to this, the company wants to develop and then implement 
realization and continuation concepts for the existing assets and, 
more particularly, for the data center and the real estate. With a 
small team the company plans to evaluate possible new online services
during the first half year 2008 and subsequently to possibly develop 
them. Furthermore, the company will also review during this period in
an open manner to what extent the capital resources and also the 
capital market strategy need to be adjusted overall to the future 
scope of business.
For Q1/2008 the company proceeds on the assumption of total costs 
with within the group of approximately 2.2 million Euro, income still
being negligible. These include material costs of approximately 0.9 
million Euro (Q3/2007 without one-off effects: 4.3 million Euro), 
personnel expenses of 0.9 million Euro (Q3/2007 without one-off 
effects: 2.4 million Euro) as well as depreciations and amortizations
of 0.4 million Euro (Q3/2007 without one-off effects: 2.0 million 
Euro). Acquisitions are not scheduled according to the current 
planning for 2008. For the full year 2008 the company forecasts a 
positive result of 1-2 million Euro on the basis of the current asset
and financial structure including the financial income.
Appendix: Table
According to IFRS 5, the operation ComBOTS will in future be shown as
"Result from discontinued product operation ComBOTS". This is due to 
the discontinuation of the development and operation of the service.
|in million Euro                        |Q3/07  |Q3/06 |Q1-Q3/07 |Q1-Q3/06 |
|                                       |       |      |         |         |
|General administration costs           |(1.9)  |(1.7) |(4.9)    |(6.3)    |
|Operating result from continued        |(1.9)  |(1.7) |(4.9)    |(6.3)    |
|operations                             |       |      |         |         |
|Financial result and result from       |1.2    |1.1   |7.1      |6.8      |
|associated companies                   |       |      |         |         |
|Tax income (expense)                   |(1.1)  |(0.2) |(1.2)    |1.1      |
|Result from continued operations       |(1.8)  |(0.8) |1.1      |1.6      |
|Result from discontinued product       |(16.8) |(11.7)|(30.1)   |(28.0)   |
|operation ComBOTS                      |       |      |         |         |
|Net result for the period              |(18.5) |(12.5)|(29.1)   |(26.4)   |
|Net result for the period per share    |(0.53) |(0.35)|(0.83)   |(0.73)   |
|(in Euro)                              |       |      |         |         |
|Liquid funds and other securities      |510.0  |432.5 |510.0    |432.5    |
|Shareholders' equity                   |525.0  |462.4 |525.0    |462.4    |
|Balance sheet total                    |545.1  |481.4 |545.1    |481.4    |
Additional information:
The complete Quarterly Financial Report is available for Download at
www.combots.com.
end of announcement                               euro adhoc 26.10.2007 14:24:02

Further inquiry note:

Investor Relations:
Silvia Teschner
Tel. +49 721 5160 2701
investor.relations@combots.com

Public Relations:
Oliver Schwartz
Tel. +49 721 5160 2222
public.relations@combots.com

Branche: Online
ISIN: DE000CMBT111
WKN: CMBT11
Index: Prime All Share, CDAX, Technologie All Share
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