IceWEB Reports Fiscal Third Quarter Results

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Gross Margin Improves 300% Over Prior Year, Exceeding 50% for the First Time,
Due to Sale of High-Margin Proprietary Storage Products; Company Significantly
Reduces Debt
DULLES, Va.--(Business Wire)--
IceWEB, Inc.™ (OTCBB:IWEB), www.iceweb.com, today announced financial results
for its fiscal third quarter for the period ended June 30, 2009. 

Recent Operational highlights

* Chief Executive Officer recently acquired the remaining Series B preferred
Stock 
* Company executed $3MM Series C preferred investment 
* Revenue margins for the IceWEB family of products eclipsed 50% for the first
time ever, compared to 12.2% in the same period in fiscal 2008. 
* 100% of the company`s revenue was generated through the sales of high-margin
proprietary storage solutions; the Company exited the lower-margin reseller
business earlier this year 
* Company Launched its Iplicity enterprise platform 
* Company added 30+ new customers 
* Loss from operations was reduced by 61.2% to $804K, from $2.07 million. Of
this loss, non-cash expenses accounted for $322K. 
* Selling, general and administrative expenses totaled $1.0 million, versus $2.4
million in the year-ago period. Excluding non-cash expense, G&A for the quarter
ended June 30, 2009 was $765,000 versus $1,200,000 in the year ago period, a
reduction of $435,000 or 36%. 
* Current liabilities declined from approximately $9 million at its fiscal year
ended September 30, 2008, to $3.0 million. Total debt declined from $10.1
million at September 30, 2008 to $4.3 million at June 30, 2009. 
* Actual operating cash loss for the quarter was $233,000, including one- time
legal charges of $123,000

Revenue for the 2009 third quarter was $826,000 compared to $6.0 million for the
same period in fiscal 2008. Revenue declined due to the Company`s decision to
divest its IceWEB Solutions Group, Inc. (VA) subsidiary, a reseller of
low-margin hardware and software products. Third quarter total operating
expenses were $1.2 million, which included $322,000 of non-cash items, compared
to $2.8 million in the year-earlier period. 

After adjusting for non-cash items and interest expense, the Company`s pro-forma
EBITDAS (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, Amortization and
Stock-based compensation) for the 2009 fiscal third quarter was a loss of
$396,000, compared to a loss of $617,000 in the previous year. The actual
operating loss was $233,000 after taking into account one time legal charges of
$123,000. 

"We believe the improved operating results for the third fiscal quarter reflect
our commitment to our proprietary storage products we own and manufacture," said
John R. Signorello, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IceWEB, Inc. "We are
now focused on the many opportunities to increase sales of our storage products.
We believe that these initiatives will favorably impact results over the balance
of the year, leading to growing sales, additional margin improvement and
improved profitability." 

Strategic Update

With the recent preferred stock financing in place, and with recent product
development progress, including the roll-out of the Company`s Iplicity 2.0
Enterprise Platform, the Company is positioned to place even greater emphasis on
penetrating key markets and increase its sales and marketing efforts. 

Mark B. Lucky, IceWEB Chief Financial Officer stated, "Our efforts over the last
nine months to improve our balance sheet and right size the Company's operations
and capital structure will greatly enhance the Company`s prospects for
profitable financial performance in the coming fiscal year." 

NON-GAAP Financial Measures 

The Company uses non-GAAP financial measures in evaluating its financial and
operational decision making and as a means to evaluate period-to-period
comparison. Company management believes that the non-GAAP financial measures
provide meaningful supplemental information regarding our performance and
liquidity by excluding certain expenses and expenditures that may not be
indicative of the performance of our core cash operations. The Company believes
that both management and investors benefit from referring to these non-GAAP
financial measures in assessing our performance and when planning, forecasting
and analyzing future periods. The Company believes these non-GAAP financial
measures are useful to investors because they allow for greater transparency
with respect to key metrics used by management. 

EBITDA. As is common in the industry, the Company uses EBITDA as a measure of
performance to demonstrate earnings exclusive of interest and non-cash items.
(e.g. depreciation, amortization & stock-based compensation expense). The
Company, in its daily management of its business affairs and analysis of its
monthly, quarterly and annual performance, makes its decisions based on cash
flows. In managing its current and future affairs, the Company cannot affect the
amortization of the intangible assets to any material degree, and therefore uses
EBITDA as its primary management guide. Since an outside investor may base its
evaluation of the Company's performance on the Company's net loss, not its cash
flows, there is a limitation to the EBITDA measurement. EBITDA is not, and
should not be considered, an alternative to net loss, loss from operations or
any other measure for determining operating performance of liquidity, as
determined under GAAP. The most directly comparable GAAP reference in the
Company's case is the removal of interest, depreciation, amortization, taxes and
other non-cash expenses. 

About IceWEB, Inc.

Headquartered just outside of Washington, D.C., IceWEB manufactures and markets
storage solutions and on-line application services. Its customer base includes
U.S. government agencies, enterprise companies, and small to medium sized
businesses (SMB). For more information, please visit www.IceWEB.com. 

This press release may contain forward-looking statements, which are made
pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. In some cases you can identify those so-called "forward
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"plans," "targets," "believes," "anticipates," "estimates," "predicts,"
"potential," or "continue" or the negative of those words and other comparable
words. These forward looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties,
product tests, commercialization risks, availability of financing and results of
financing efforts that could cause actual results to differ materially from
historical results or those anticipated. Further information regarding these and
other risks is described from time to time in the Company's filings with the
SEC, which are available on its website at: http://www.sec.gov. We assume no
obligation to update or alter our forward-looking statements made in this
release or in any periodic report filed by us under the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 or any other document, whether as a result of new information, future
events or otherwise, except as otherwise required by applicable federal
securities laws.

 ICEWEB, Inc.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
 
Consolidated Balance Sheet                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
 
June 30, 2009                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 
(Unaudited)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 CURRENT ASSETS:                                                                                                                                                                                                               June 30,                   September 30,                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
2009                      
2008(1)                     
 Cash                                                                                                                                                                                                                          $    25,339              $      4,780               
 Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $9,000                                                                                                                                                              859,623                    3,094,110           
 Inventory, net                                                                                                                                                                                                                     107,204                    400,312             
 Other current assets                                                                                                                                                                                                               28,704                     21,572              
 Prepaid expenses                                                                                                                                                                                                                   43,106                     55,155              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    1,063,976                  3,575,929           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 OTHER ASSETS:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
 Property and equipment, net of accumulated depreciation of $1,505,014                                                                                                                                                              993,079                    1,169,369           
 Deposits                                                                                                                                                                                                                           74,571                     61,418              
 Intangible assets, net of accumulated amortization of $303,862                                                                                                                                                                     850,816                    1,132,612           
 Total Assets                                                                                                                                                                                                                  $    2,982,442           $      5,939,328           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 CURRENT LIABILITIES:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
 Accounts payable and accrued liabilities                                                                                                                                                                                      $    1,277,169           $      7,762,872           
 Notes payable                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1,773,445                  1,372,565           
 Deferred revenue                                                                                                                                                                                                                   11,101                     13,164              
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    3,061,715                  9,148,601           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 Long-Term Liabilities                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 Notes Payable                                                                                                                                                                                                                      1,252,085                  956,520             
 Total Liabilities                                                                                                                                                                                                                  4,313,800                  10,105,121          
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 Stockholders` Deficit                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
 Preferred stock ($.001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized) Series A convertible preferred stock ($.001 par value; 0 shares issued and outstanding)                                                                            -                          -                   
 Series B convertible preferred stock ($.001 par value; 1,253,334 shares issued and outstanding)                                                                                                                                    1,253                      1,253               
 Common stock ($.001 par value; 1,000,000,000 shares authorized; 49,767,950 shares issued and 49,605,250 shares outstanding at June 30, 2009 and 24,688,088 shares issued and 24,425,588 outstanding at September 30, 2008)         49,770                     24,690              
 Additional paid in capital                                                                                                                                                                                                         17,648,572                 15,953,221          
 Accumulated deficit                                                                                                                                                                                                                (19,017,953  )             (20,131,957  )      
 Treasury stock, at cost, (162,500 shares)                                                                                                                                                                                          (13,000      )             (13,000      )      
 Total stockholders` deficit                                                                                                                                                                                                        (1,331,358   )             (4,165,793   )      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
 Total Liabilities and stockholders` deficit                                                                                                                                                                                   $    2,982,442           $      5,939,328           
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
 (1) Derived from audited financial statements                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             


 ICEWEB, Inc.                                                                                                                                                              
 
Consolidated Statements of Operations                                                                                                                                    
 
(Unaudited)                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                           
                                                       Three Months Ended                                       Nine Months Ended                                      
                                                       June 30                                                  June 30                                                
                                                       2009                         2008                      2009                         2008                    
                                                                                                                                                                   
 Sales                                                 $    826,182               $    5,981,083          $    3,936,472             $    14,095,946       
                                                                                                                                                                   
 Cost of sales                                              404,641                    5,249,906               2,478,707                  12,127,796       
                                                                                                                                                                   
 Gross profit                                               421,541                    731,177                 1,457,765                  1,968,150        
                                                                                                                                                                   
 Operating expenses:                                                                                                                                               
 Marketing and selling                                      18,266                     50,208                  48,778                     138,927          
 Depreciation and amortization                              85,793                     259,933                 432,839                    412,297          
 Research and development                                   94,020                     121,906                 250,450                    207,636          
 General and administrative                                 1,027,484                  2,369,286               2,554,898                  5,187,547        
                                                                                                                                                                   
 Total Operating Expenses                                   1,225,563                  2,801,333               3,286,965                  5,946,407        
                                                                                                                                                                   
 Loss From Operations                                       (804,022    )              (2,070,156  )           (1,829,200  )              (3,978,257  )    
                                                                                                                                                                   
 Other income (expenses):                                                                                                                                          
 Gain from sale of subsidiary                               -                          -                       3,452,236                  -                
 Interest income                                            -                          682                     1,142                      3,266            
 Interest expense                                           (144,884    )              (196,450    )           (510,178    )              (481,457    )    
                                                                                                                                                                   
 Total other income (expenses)                              (144,884    )              (195,768    )           2,943,200                  (478,191    )    
                                                                                                                                                                   
 Net income (loss)                                     $    (948,906    )         $    (2,265,924  )      $    1,114,000             $    (4,456,448  )    
                                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                                   
 Basic income (loss) per common share                  $    (0.02       )         $    (0.12       )      $    0.03                  $    (0.28       )    
 Diluted income (loss) per common share                $    (0.02       )         $    (0.12       )      $    0.03                  $    (0.28       )    
                                                                                                                                                                   
 Weighted average common shares outstanding-basic           38,794,632                 19,172,959              35,431,837                 16,162,168       
 Weighted average common shares outstanding-diluted         38,794,632                 19,172,959              37,637,725                 16,162,168       


 ICEWEB, Inc.                                                                                                                    
 
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows                                                                                          
 
(Unaudited)                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                 
                                                                        Nine Months Ended                                      
                                                                        June 30,                                               
                                                                        2009                         2008                    
                                                                                                                             
 NET CASH PROVIDED (USED) IN OPERATING ACTIVITIES                       $    (1,408,644  )         $    (385,319    )    
                                                                                                                             
 CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:                                                                                       
 Purchase of property and equipment                                          (28,318     )              (65,923     )    
 Cash used in acquisitions, net                                              -                          (1,311,318  )    
 NET CASH USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES                                       (28,318     )              (1,377,241  )    
                                                                                                                             
 CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:                                                                                       
 Repayment of equipment financing                                            (45,114     )              (60,068     )    
 Repayment of notes payable - related party                                  -                          (115,767    )    
 Proceeds from notes payable                                                 7,060,871                  7,092,685        
 Payments on notes payable                                                   (6,122,036  )              (6,476,876  )    
 Common stock issued for services rendered                                   12,500                     -                
 Proceeds from exercise of common stock options                              454,300                    198,450          
 Proceeds from sale of common stock                                          97,000                     80,000           
                                                                                                                             
 NET CASH PROVIDED BY FINANCING ACTIVITIES                                   1,457,521                  718,424          
                                                                                                                             
 NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH                                             20,559                     (1,044,136  )    
                                                                                                                             
 CASH - beginning of year                                                    4,780                      1,092,470        
                                                                                                                             
 CASH - end of period                                                   $    25,339                $    48,334           
                                                                                                                             
 Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:                                                                           
 Cash paid for :                                                                                                             
 Interest                                                               $    365,294               $    463,245          
 Income taxes                                                                -                          -                
                                                                                                                             
 Non-cash transactions affecting investing and financing activities:                                                         
 Conversion of shares of preferred stock to shares of common stock                                        1,037,000        
                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                             
 Acquisition details:                                                                                                        
 Liabilities assumed                                                    $    -                     $    614,668          
 Common stock issued                                                    $    -                     $    276,8456         
 Direct costs                                                                -                          740,000          
 Fair value of assets acquired                                          $    -                     $    3,904,245        
 Cash paid                                                              $    -                     $    2,412,731        


See accompanying notes to unaudited consolidated financial statements 





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