IR Web Report's Investor Relations Blog

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THE online annual reporting period in Europe and North America is drawing to a close — and except for an elite group of forward-thinking companies it has been a disappointing season.

JUST in time for the weekend, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today posted the full text of the proposed rules for mandatory XBRL filings for domestic and foreign public companies.

TECHCRUNCH, a leading technology blog that boasts more than 3 million readers, has accused a company that is currently preparing an IPO of funding its growth by running a scam that gets people to unknowingly bill small recurring payments to their credit cards.

I HAVE just updated my post from earlier this week about the disconnect between the guidance practices of public companies and the opinions of investment analysts and portfolio managers about what constitutes best practice.

WE “TRAVEL” to Japan regularly as part of our research of how companies around the world are using the web to communicate with their investors.

Update: According to IR Magazine, which alludes to this post in a backhanded way, I have this story wrong. They say: “The survey found that the proportion of companies providing quarterly earnings estimates (which NIRI says should not be confused with the frequency with which guidance is offered), are down to 18 percent, from 27 percent in 2007. Longer time frames including annual estimates account for 72 percent, up from 59 percent.”

IN WHAT is thought to be the first academic study to show that effective investor relations has a clear market impact, researchers have found that companies nominated in the US IR Magazine Awards earn unusually high returns both before and after the awards.

A COUPLE of stories in the Financial Times are getting some attention because they’re calling into question the sustainability of the Web 2.0 boom amid a tough economy and a lack of revenue.

WHEN I first saw this on JustSystems’ website earlier in the week, I wondered why they didn’t provide a way for me to grab and embed it on this site. It looked to me like an obvious opportunity for them to get some free publicity.