There are 6 items… Directors Link Firms in Option Probe | Hedge funds take in record $44.5 bln in 3rd qtr | Corporate Blogging: What Could Go Wrong? | Corporate reporting – Putting the right message in the right bottle | Investor Relations Internet Sites: Practices of European Listed Companies | Stanford uncovers ‘Net addicts’
Directors Link Firms in Option Probe
A study released Thursday found that 51 of 120 companies under scrutiny in the widening option backdating scandal had something in common — directors who served on the board of at least one other company with questionable option grants.
Hedge funds take in record $44.5 bln in 3rd qtr
The third quarter’s strong numbers surprised some analysts and investors who had expected to see more muted flows because hedge fund returns fell off over the year as fears of rising interest rates and slower economic growth helped trigger broad market declines.
Corporate Blogging: What Could Go Wrong?
Journalist Dan Gillmor says the majority of companies spend too much time worrying about unfiltered comments getting out. They should be more concerned with what happens when lawyers, executives and PR/marketing folks get the notion that blogs and other such media are nothing more than a new way to manipulate information.
Corporate reporting – Putting the right message in the right bottle
Good corporate disclosure means reporting on sustainability issues separately from a company’s annual report. The danger in subsuming CR material inside the annual report is that NGOs, politicians, government officials will not be addressed adequately.
Investor Relations Internet Sites: Practices of European Listed Companies
The study looked at 261 companies listed on the leading European indexes with the aim of establishing a complete overview of European companies’ use of their websites as financial communication tools. The websites were consulted between 15 June and 31 July 2006.
Stanford uncovers ‘Net addicts’
A random survey of 2,500 adults — the first-ever attempt to quantify “Internet addiction” in the general population — found that between 6 percent and 14 percent of computer users said they spent too many bleary-eyed hours checking e-mail, making blog entries or visiting Web sites or chat rooms, sometimes neglecting work, school, families, food and sleep.
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