EANS-News: asknet AG / asknet publishes results for first quarter of 2010

- Stable six percent growth in gross profits
- Thirty-five percent
improvement in EBT compared to the same quarter of 2009

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3-month report

Subtitle: - Stable six percent growth in gross profits - Thirty-five
percent improvement in EBT compared to the same quarter of 2009

Karlsruhe (euro adhoc) - Karlsruhe, May 14, 2010 - asknet AG, an
international provider of eCommerce solutions which recently was
ranked as one of Germany´s fastest-growing technology companies in
Deloitte´s "Technology Fast 50" report, has published its financial
figures for the first quarter of 2010.

In the first three months of 2010, the asknet Group posted sales of
16.2 million euros. asknet´s gross profits grew steadily by six
percent to 2.49 million euros (first quarter of 2009: 2.36 million
euros). The Group´s operating results saw a year-on-year improvement
of 35 percent.

"The company's financial figures for the first quarter of 2010 once
again show growth and an improvement in results," says asknet CFO
Michael Konrad. "asknet AG will look to stabilize this positive trend
by intensifying our push to internationalize and expand into new
geographical markets. Our objective is to offer our customers
solutions and services that open up new growth potential in eCommerce
for them. Our new partnerships with Alipay, a Chinese financial
services institute, and Klarna AB of Sweden will help further this
aim. They allow us to offer software vendors local payment options
that number among the most used online payment methods in the
respective markets."

As of today, asknet AG's Quarterly Report 1/2010 is available on the
company´s website www.asknet.com.

About asknet asknet offers its clients customized outsourcing
solutions for global software sales via the Internet. Founded in 1995
as a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, formerly
the University of Karlsruhe), the company has become the number two
independent global provider for electronic software distribution. In
addition to its fully integrated shop solutions for software
publishers, the company develops and maintains portals for software
distribution such as softwarehouse.de, one of Europe's largest
platform for downloads of standard software. In 2009, asknet posted
sales of approximately 68.9 million euros. In 2009 the Karlsruhe
company was named in the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu "Technology Fast
50" ranking of the fastest-growing technology firms in Germany.
asknet´s clients include numerous providers of specialty software
such as CollabNet, DivX, F-Secure, Nero, Panda Security, Steganos,
and NetObjects. The company also supplies software products to around
eighty percent of German universities. Further information is
available from www.asknet.com.

Press Contacts
asknet AG
Kirsten Neininger
phone: +49 (0)721.96458-6399
eMail: kirsten.neininger @asknet.com

asknet, Inc.
Bernard Haug
phone: +1 (415) 352-2622
eMail: bernard.haug @asknet.com

www.asknet.com

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Further inquiry note:

Kirsten Neininger

Corporate Marketing Manager

Telefon: +49 (0) 721 96 458 6399

e-mail: kirsten.neininger@asknet.de

Branche: Electronic Commerce
ISIN: DE0005173306
WKN: 517330
Börsen: Frankfurt / free trade/entry standard
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