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Form 10-K/A for INTERNET CAPITAL GROUP INC


31-Mar-2009

Annual Report


ITEM 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results
of Operations
Introduction
The following Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including those set forth elsewhere in this Report and the risks discussed in our other SEC filings. The following discussion should be read in conjunction with our audited Consolidated Financial Statements and the related Notes thereto included in this Report.
Although we refer in this Report to companies in which we have acquired a convertible debt or an equity ownership interest as our "partner companies" and indicate that we have a "partnership" with these companies, we do not act as an agent or legal representative for any of our partner companies, we do not have the power or authority to legally bind any of our partner companies, and we do not have the types of liabilities in relation to our partner companies that a general partner of a partnership would have.
The Consolidated Financial Statements include the consolidated accounts of Internet Capital Group, Inc., a company incorporated in Delaware, and its subsidiaries, both wholly-owned and consolidated (Internet Capital Group, Inc. and all such subsidiaries, are hereinafter referred to as "we," "us," "our," "ICG," the "Company" or "Internet Capital Group"), and have been prepared in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States of America ("GAAP").
Executive Summary
Since our inception in 1996, we have focused on acquiring and building Internet software and services companies that improve the productivity and efficiency of their business customers. We call these companies our "partner companies." As of December 31, 2008 and the date of this Report, we hold ownership interests in fourteen companies that we consider our partner companies. Additionally, we hold marketable securities in other companies, which, as of December 31, 2008 and the date of this Report consist primarily of Blackboard common stock. The results of operations of our partner companies are reported within two segments: the "core" reporting segment and the "other holdings" reporting segment. The core reporting segment includes those partner companies in which ICG's management takes a very active role in providing strategic direction and management assistance. We devote significant expertise and capital to maximizing the success of these core partner companies. The other holdings reporting segment includes partner companies over which, in general, we have less influence because they are public companies and/or we have a relatively small ownership stake in those partner companies.
The various interests that we acquire in our partner companies are accounted for under one of three accounting methods: the consolidation method, the equity method or the cost method. The applicable accounting method is generally determined based on our voting interest in a partner company. Generally, if we own more than 50% of the outstanding voting securities of a partner company, and other stockholders do not possess the right to affect the significant management decisions of that partner company, the partner company's accounts are reflected within our Consolidated Financial Statements. Generally, if we own between 20% and 50% of the outstanding voting securities of a partner company, that partner company's accounts are not reflected within our Consolidated Financial Statements, but our share of the earnings or losses of the partner company is reflected in the caption "Equity loss" in our consolidated statements of operations. Partner companies not accounted for under either the consolidation or the equity method of accounting are accounted for under the cost method of accounting. Under this method, our share of the earnings or losses of these companies is not included in our consolidated statements of operations. Because we own significant interests in software and services companies, many of which have generated net losses, we have experienced, and expect to continue to experience, significant volatility in our quarterly results. While many of our partner companies have consistently reported losses, we have recorded net income in certain periods and experienced significant volatility from period-to-period due to infrequently occurring transactions and other events relating to our ownership interests in partner companies. These transactions and events are described in more detail in our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and include dispositions of, changes to and impairment of our partner company ownership interests, dispositions of our holdings of marketable securities and debt repurchases.


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Liquidity and Capital Resources
The following table summarizes our and our consolidated subsidiaries' cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash and marketable securities as of December 31, 2008 and 2007:

                                           December 31, 2008                                  December 31, 2007
                                               Consolidated                                       Consolidated
                              Corporate        Subsidiaries        Total         Corporate        Subsidiaries        Total
                                                                      (in thousands)
Cash and cash equivalents    $    73,208      $       16,087      $ 89,295      $    69,125      $       12,906      $ 82,031
Restricted Cash (1)                    -                 232           232                -                   5             5

                             $    73,208      $       16,319      $ 89,527      $    69,125      $       12,911      $ 82,036

Marketable securities (2)    $    63,918      $            -      $ 63,918      $    84,376      $            -      $ 84,376

(1) Restricted cash at December 31, 2007 does not include $0.2 million of long-term restricted cash included in "Other" assets on the Company's consolidated balance sheets.

(2) Includes a contributing asset of $6.5 million at December 31, 2008 and an offsetting liability of $3.7 million at December 31, 2007 related to derivative instruments associated with the Company's marketable securities.

We believe existing cash and cash equivalents and proceeds from the potential sales of all or a portion of our interests in certain marketable securities and partner companies to be sufficient to fund our cash requirements for the foreseeable future, including any future commitments to partner companies, debt obligations and general operations requirements. On February 3, 2009, we entered into certain arrangements under which we have guaranteed approximately $3.6 million of debt for a partner company. Under these arrangements, we placed approximately $3.6 million in a bank account that may be used to repay the partner company debt when it matures in 2009 or otherwise becomes due and payable. We will receive additional preferred ownership interests with respect to this partner company if and to the extent that any funds from the bank account are used to repay debt in connection with these guarantee arrangements. Funds from the bank account will be returned to us if and to the extent that all or any portion of the $3.6 million debt is forgiven, discharged or repaid from some source other than the bank account. As of the date of this filing, we were not obligated for any other material funding and guarantee commitments to existing partner companies. We will continue to evaluate acquisition opportunities and may acquire additional ownership interests in new and existing partner companies in the next twelve months; however, such acquisitions will generally be made at our discretion.
ICG Commerce, Investor Force and Vcommerce have funded their operations through a combination of cash flow from operations, borrowings and equity issuances. ICG Commerce expects that its existing cash balance and cash flow from operations will be sufficient to fund its operations through 2009, while Investor Force and Vcommerce are expected to require additional borrowings and/or equity issuances to fund their respective operations through 2009.
Consolidated working capital improved by $4.5 million from December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2008, primarily due to cash proceeds received from the sales of marketable securities, partially offset by acquisitions of ownership interests in existing partner companies.


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Summary of Statements of Cash Flows

                                                          Year Ended December 31,
                                                      2008          2007          2006
                                                               (in thousands)
  Cash used in operating activities                 $ (12,385 )   $ (16,174 )   $ (7,325 )
  Cash provided by (used in) investing activities   $  28,964     $  15,428     $ (7,019 )
  Cash used in financing activities                 $  (8,593 )   $ (37,960 )   $ (9,454 )

The decrease in cash used in operating activities from 2007 to 2008 is due to an improved net loss position, other income from sales of partner companies and the receipt of a $4.9 million federal income tax refund in 2008 compared with 2007, offset by greater equity loss and impairment charges in 2008. The increase in cash used in operating activities from 2006 to 2007 is primarily due to the receipt of a $8.1 million refund received in 2006 related to $26.9 million of estimated federal income tax payments paid in 2005.
The increase in cash provided by investing activities from 2007 to 2008 is primarily related to proceeds received from the sale of marketable securities, partially offset by greater net acquisitions of ownership interests in partner companies in 2008 versus 2007. The variability in cash provided by (used in) investing activities in 2007 versus 2006 is the result of net monetizations of ownership interests in partner companies and marketable securities in 2007 versus net acquisition of ownership interests in partner companies in 2006. The decrease in cash used in financing activities from 2007 to 2008 is the result of the repurchases of the Company's Common Stock in 2008, which was less than the repurchase of all outstanding senior convertible notes in 2007. The increase in cash used in financing activities from 2006 to 2007 is primarily related to repurchases of notes in 2007 versus proceeds from employee loan repayments in 2006 and a lower amount of notes repurchased in 2006. We and our consolidated subsidiaries are involved in various claims and legal actions arising in the ordinary course of business. We do not expect any ultimate liability with respect to these actions will materially affect our financial position or cash flows.
Contractual Cash Obligations and Commercial Commitments The following table summarizes our contractual cash obligations and commercial commitments as of December 31, 2008:

                                               Payments due by period
                                          Less
                                         than 1        1-3         3-5        More than
                             Total        year        years       years        5 years
                                                   (in thousands)
         Operating leases   $ 12,164     $ 2,224     $ 3,703     $ 2,318     $     3,919
         Capital leases          153         108          45           -               -
         Other debt            4,081         210         163       3,708               -

                            $ 16,398     $ 2,542     $ 3,911     $ 6,026     $     3,919

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We are not involved in any off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a material future effect on our financial condition, changes in financial condition, revenues or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.


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Our Partner Companies
As of December 31, 2008, we owned interests in 14 partner companies that are
categorized below based on segment and method of accounting.

                     CORE PARTNER COMPANIES (%Voting Interest)
             Consolidated                     Equity              Cost
             ICG Commerce (65%)     Channel Intelligence (46%)   (none)
             Investor Force (81%)   Freeborders (31%)
             Vcommerce (53%)        Metastorm (32%)
                                    StarCite (34%)
                                    WhiteFence (36%)

                OTHER HOLDINGS PARTNER COMPANIES (%Voting Interest)
             Consolidated          Equity                  Cost
             (none)         ClickEquations (30%)   Anthem (9%)
                            GoIndustry (29%) (1)   Captive Capital (5%)
                                                   Jamcracker (2%)
                                                   Tibersoft (5%)

(1) As of December 31, 2008 and March 2, 2009, we owned 133,832,852 shares, or approximately 29% of the voting securities, of GoIndustry. GoIndustry's common stock is traded on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange under ticker symbol GOI. See "Note 3 -
Ownership
Interests in
Partner
Companies,
Goodwill and
Intangibles,
net" to
Consolidated
Financial
Statements.

Results of Operations
The following table summarizes the unaudited selected financial information related to our segments. Each segment includes the results of our consolidated partner companies and records our share of the earnings and losses of partner companies accounted for under the equity method of accounting. The partner companies included within the segments are consistently the same partner companies for 2008, 2007 and 2006. Additionally, Channel Intelligence and Vcommerce, the partner companies in which we acquired an interest after January 1, 2006, are included in the core segment from their respective acquisition dates, and ClickEquations is included in the other holdings segment beginning in March 2008, at which time we aquired more than 20% of its voting securities and began to record our share of the earnings and losses of ClickEquations under the equity method of accounting. The method of accounting for any particular partner company may change based on our ownership interest. "Discontinued Operations and Dispositions" are those partner companies that have been sold or ceased operations and are no longer included in a segment for all periods presented. "Corporate" expenses represent the general and administrative expenses of our business operations, which include supporting the partner companies and operating as a public company. The measure of segment net loss reviewed by us does not include items such as gains on the disposition of partner company ownership interests and marketable securities holdings, losses on convertible note repurchases and transactions, income taxes, accounting changes and impairment charges associated with partner companies, which are reflected in "Other" reconciling items in the information that follows.


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                                                          Segment Information
                                                             (in thousands)

                                                                                    Reconciling Items
                                                                        Discontinued
                                          Other          Total         Operations and                                      Consolidated
                           Core         Holdings        Segment         Dispositions        Corporate        Other           Results
For the Year Ended
December 31, 2008
Revenues                 $  71,181      $       -      $  71,181      $              -      $        -      $      -      $       71,181
Net income (loss)        $ (23,758 )    $  (4,381 )    $ (28,139 )    $              -      $  (18,966 )    $ 24,179      $      (22,926 )

For the Year Ended
December 31, 2007
Revenues                 $  52,923      $       -      $  52,923      $              -      $        -      $      -      $       52,923
Net income (loss)        $ (18,194 )    $    (856 )    $ (19,050 )    $          1,849      $  (17,022 )       3,595      $      (30,628 )

For the Year Ended
December 31, 2006
Revenues                 $  64,749      $       -      $  64,749      $              -      $        -      $      -      $       64,749
Net income (loss)        $ (15,089 )    $     592      $ (14,497 )    $          7,824      $  (13,788 )      36,085      $       15,624

For the Years Ended December 31, 2008, 2007 and 2006 Results of Operations - Core Companies
The following presentation of our Results of Operations - Core Companies includes the results of our consolidated core partner companies and our share of the results of our equity method core partner companies.

                                                    Year Ended December 31,
       Selected data:                          2008          2007          2006
                                                        (in thousands)
       Revenues                              $  71,181     $  52,923     $  64,749

       Cost of revenue                         (46,400 )     (39,523 )     (42,840 )
       Selling, general and administrative     (16,390 )     (11,101 )     (20,809 )
       Research and development                (10,212 )      (6,033 )      (8,779 )
       Impairment related and other               (994 )        (188 )      (1,873 )

       Operating expenses                    $ (73,996 )     (56,845 )     (74,301 )

       Interest and other                       (1,139 )         451            51
       Income taxes                               (687 )        (309 )           -
       Equity loss                             (19,117 )     (14,414 )      (5,588 )

       Net loss                              $ (23,758 )   $ (18,194 )   $ (15,089 )

Revenues
Revenue increased $18.3 million to $71.2 million in 2008, from $52.9 million in 2007. $11.9 million of the increase is attributable to ICG Commerce. ICG Commerce provides procurement outsourcing services generally under long-term relationships. These long-term relationships continued to contribute to ICG Commerce's success with revenue increasing 23% in 2008 over 2007. The majority of ICG Commerce's contracts are terminable by the client on short notice or without notice, sometimes without financial penalty. Accordingly, we do not believe it is appropriate to characterize the total contract value of these long-term relationships as backlog. The consolidation of Vcommerce beginning in May 2008 contributed the majority of the residual increase.
Revenue decreased $11.8 million, from $64.7 million in 2006 to $52.9 million in 2007. The primary driver of the decrease is the deconsolidation of StarCite for all of 2007. StarCite completed a transaction to consolidate with OnVantage, Inc. on December 29, 2006. Following the closing of the transaction, our ownership interest in the combined entity is accounted for under the equity method of accounting and StarCite revenue is not consolidated. The 2007 revenue decrease was partially offset by increased revenues at ICG Commerce.


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Operating Expenses
Operating expenses increased $17.2 million, from $56.8 million in 2007 to $74.0 million in 2008. This increase is the result of consolidating Vcommerce beginning in May 2008, which contributed $9.5 million, as well as an increase in operating expenses related to ICG Commerce's increased revenues in 2008. Operating expenses decreased $17.5 million, from $74.3 million in 2006 to $56.8 million in 2007. The primary driver of the decrease is the deconsolidation of StarCite for all of the 2007 period versus being included for all of the 2006 period.
Equity Loss
A portion of our net results from our core companies is derived from those partner companies in which we hold a substantial minority ownership interest. Our share of the net income or net losses of these companies is recorded in our Consolidated Statements of Operations under "Equity loss."

                                                        Year Ended December 31,
   Selected data:                                  2008          2007          2006
                                                            (in thousands)

   Total revenues                                $ 193,498     $ 161,486     $  69,088
   Total net loss                                $ (46,505 )   $ (40,208 )   $ (17,767 )
   Our share of total net loss ("equity loss")   $ (19,117 )   $ (14,414 )   $  (5,588 )

The 2008 increases over 2007 are primarily the result of increased net losses at Metastorm and StarCite. Metastorm's net loss increased as the result of increased amortization expense associated with an acquisition, litigation expenses and expenses associated with an initial public offering that was not consummated. StarCite's net loss increased as the result of severance and merger integration expenses. Accordingly, our share of the total net loss increased. The 2007 increases over 2006 are primarily the result of the inclusion of StarCite as an equity method core company for all of 2007 after its previously-mentioned merger with OnVantage and the addition of Channel Intelligence for all of 2007. Our share of the net loss also increased in 2007 versus the prior periods as a result of those companies in which our ownership had increased relative to prior years (primarily Channel Intelligence and Vcommerce) experiencing an increase in net losses as these companies continue to increase operating expenses to expand market share. Results of Operations - Other Holdings Companies The following presentation of our Results of Operations - Other Holdings Companies includes the results of our consolidated other holdings partner companies and our share of the results of our equity method other holdings partner companies.

                                            Year Ended December 31,
                 Selected data:            2008          2007      2006
                                                 (in thousands)

                 Revenues               $        -      $    -     $   -
                 Operating expenses              -           -         -
                 Interest and other              -           -         -
                 Equity income (loss)       (4,381 )      (856 )     592

                 Net income (loss)      $   (4,381 )    $ (856 )   $ 592

Equity loss related to our other holdings increased in 2008 and 2007 as a result of GoIndustry recording more net losses both periods and the addition of ClickEquations as an equity method company in 2008.


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Results of Operations - Reconciling Items
Discontinued Operations and Dispositions
The following is a summary of the components included in "Discontinued
Operations and Dispositions," a reconciling item for segment reporting purposes:

                                                           Year Ended December 31,
                                                     2008             2007           2006
                                                                (in thousands)
Discontinued operations                           $        -       $      995      $   8,289
Equity income (loss) of partner companies
sold/disposed of                                           -              854           (465 )

Net income                                        $        -       $    1,849      $   7,824

In 2006, Investor Force completed the sale of its database division to Morningstar, Inc. ("Morningstar") for $10.0 million. In 2007 and 2006, the Company received $0.2 million and $0.1 million, respectively, of additional proceeds from the sale of the assets of Delphion, Inc. In accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 144, these three operations have been treated as discontinued operations. Accordingly, the operating results of these discontinued operations have been presented separately from continuing operations and include the gains or losses recognized on disposition. See Note 7 to our Consolidated Financial Statements. Cash proceeds to Investor Force of $9.0 million were received in August 2006, and $1.0 million was received in August 2007. The Company recorded gains of approximately $7.0 million and $1.0 million on this transaction in 2006 and 2007, respectively. The remaining $0.2 million loss for 2007 and the $1.2 million of income from discontinued operations related to the 2006 operating activities of the Investor Force database division.
The impact to our consolidated results of equity method partner companies in which we disposed of our ownership interest, or which have ceased operations, during 2007 and 2006 is also included in the caption "Dispositions" for segment reporting purposes. Equity income primarily relates to Marketron International, Inc. ("Marketron") in 2007 and 2006.

Corporate

                                                  Year Ended December 31,
                                             2008          2007          2006
                                                      (in thousands)

          General and administrative       $ (19,775 )   $ (21,680 )   $ (20,874 )
          Impairment related and other          (794 )           -             -
          Interest income (expense), net       1,603         4,658         7,086

          Net loss                         $ (18,966 )   $ (17,022 )   $ (13,788 )

General and Administrative
Our general and administrative expenses decreased $1.9 million in 2008 from 2007, primarily due to decreases in employee-related expenses associated with our annual bonus program of $1.4 million and stock-based compensation of $0.7 million partially offset by and other outside services of $0.2 million. Our general and administrative expenses increased $0.8 million in 2007 from 2006, primarily due to increased employee costs and other outside services of $1.7 million partially offset by a decrease in stock-based compensation of $0.9 million.
Impairment related and other
Our impairment related and other expenses increased $0.8 million due to severance charges. Those charges primarily related to cash payments of . . .

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