Barron’s journalist slams hidden guidance
By Dominic Jones
BARRON’S technology journalist Eric Savitz has lashed out at companies that provide guidance in conference calls but not in their news releases, a practice he says discriminates against individual investors and leads to technical violations of Reg. FD.
April 28, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 
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What to do about slumping IR traffic
By Dominic Jones
LET’S just assume that the Alexa trends I reported earlier this week are reasonably accurate and investors are deserting cookie-cutter IR websites in droves.
April 27, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 4 Comments »
All in the same boat at Applebee’s
By Dominic Jones
GOOD to see this type of thing for a change. Applebee’s International Inc. and a hedge fund operated by former SEC-chairman Richard Breeden have settled their proxy fight.
April 26, 2007 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »
Traffic to Thomson IR websites slumps
By Dominic Jones
IN WHAT may be an indication that U.S. IR websites are no longer able to attract and hold the interest of investors, traffic to IR websites hosted by Thomson Financial has slumped to all-time lows, according to the Alexa website information company.
April 24, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 10 Comments »
What’s wrong with U.S. health care IR sites?
By Dominic Jones (Note: See update at end of post.)
A COUPLE of U.S. health care sector companies in our IR website benchmarking survey are in the process of being gobbled up by bigger companies or are going private, so we’ve been looking for replacements.
April 24, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »
Provident Financial should return its award
By Dominic Jones
LAST week in London, Provident Financial plc won the Best Website for the Private Investor Award at the UK IR Society’s annual gala. It doesn’t deserve it.
April 23, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »
How does pretty stand up when things get ugly?
By Dominic Jones
SOME corporate websites are gorgeous to look at. They make a strong impression the moment they load in your browser. They establish credibility instantly.
April 23, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 5 Comments »
A “governance star” snubs shareholders
By Dominic Jones
ACCORDING to Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the corporate governance ratings company, Black & Decker Corporation (NYSE: BDK) respects its shareholders more than 99% of big U.S. companies.
April 20, 2007 | Posted in Corporate Governance, Online Investor Relations | 1 Comment »
Citigroup boss says “email me.” Activist bemoans democracy
ERIC DASH at the New York Times reports in surreal detail on Citigroup’s annual meeting at Carnegie Hall yesterday, which he describes as “a veritable concert of shareholder concerns” that ran for almost three hours.
April 18, 2007 | Posted in Corporate Governance | No Comments »
CFOs most skeptical about Web 2.0
By Dominic Jones
INTERESTING study out from the Economist Intelligence Unit on how executives view the potential for Web 2.0 technologies.
April 18, 2007 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »