Yahoo!’s latest inspiration: snail mail
I THOUGHT I wouldn’t have to write about the Microsoft-Yahoo! takeover saga again after likening the investor relations communications around it to watching two drunks wobbling and slurring their way through a back alley rumble.
February 14, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 
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Dissent on SEC panel over XBRL
A PRIVATE advisory committee of the US Securities and Exchange Commission this week voted to recommend a watered down implementation of mandatory XBRL, prompting one member to warn that the move could “invite a chaotic outcome” and delay the technology well into the “next decade.”
February 13, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations, XBRL | 3 Comments »
Takeover bid sites, old-economy style
WITH tech titans Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) poised for a brawl, it might be useful for the two to see examples of companies that are right now using the Web to effectively present their bid propaganda.
February 12, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 1 Comment »
Watching two tech drunks rumble
OUR research has long found that big technology companies are among the weakest when it comes to online investor relations communications — and we’re now seeing that manifest itself in the Yahoo!-Microsoft dust up.
February 11, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »
Open letter to jerry yang (and Yahoo! IR)
Dear jerry,
I’m trying hard to stay informed about your thinking around Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo, but your Investor Relations department is not making it easy for shareholders to get your views on this issue.
February 11, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »
In tough times, IBM’s IR website shines
IBM’s investor relations team is proving the adage that when the going gets tough, the tough get going.
February 11, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | No Comments »
Microsoft, Yahoo! IR teams drop ball amid bid
IF YOU’RE a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) shareholder, you’ve probably heard the news — thanks in no part to the companies’ investor relations departments.
February 10, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 2 Comments »
Yahoo! Finance has lost its way
“I love the smell of profits in the morning.”
That simply has to be the lamest tagline imaginable for a new section on Yahoo Inc.’s finance portal called Tech Ticker that just went live.
February 9, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News | 1 Comment »
Free online annual reports — in 5 minutes!
LET’S start this with a big caveat: I do not recommend that you convert your online annual report to Flash or images, but if you are going to do so — as many companies are — then free is the only way to go.
February 7, 2008 | Posted in Online Investor Relations | 5 Comments »
Real IR magazine, R.I.P
AND then there was one. Last month, Real IR magazine ceased publishing after less than four years as Europe’s magazine for investor relations professionals.
February 7, 2008 | Posted in Investor Relations News | No Comments »