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SEC's new guidance for websites and blogs posted
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published its 47-page interpretive release that explains how companies can use their websites and blogs to meet its requirements for public disclosure under Regulation FD.
Here’s a Scribd version of the complete release, which can also be downloaded in PDF from the SEC’s website. See my initial comments [...]
The downside of suing stock analysts
BANKATLANTIC Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:BBX) is embarking on a risky strategy by suing a veteran bank analyst for defamation and negligence after he included the company in a research report that ranked 107 U.S. financial institutions on the chances of them going bust.
Yesterday, the bank holding company filed a lawsuit in the state court for Broward [...]
SEC to rule soon on websites for Reg. FD
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to address within the next three months whether companies can meet their obligations under Regulation FD by posting information on their corporate websites and in RSS feeds, according SEC Chairman Chris Cox.
The issue is among three areas that the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial [...]
Icahn joins blogosphere, gets blank stares
BILLIONAIRE corporate raider Carl Icahn launched his long-anticipated blog yesterday, eliciting some rather bemused reactions from some of the blogosphere’s leading writers.
By starting The Icahn Report yesterday, the world’s 46th richest man with a net worth of US$14 billion joins the ranks of guys who work long hours for ad clicks, and who get excited [...]
IR leaders on YouTube and FriendFeed
LAST WEEK, I wrote about how the US National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) annual conference was being given a little Web 2.0 treatment on the new, 100-day-old service called FriendFeed.
That unplanned experiment, which occurred to me on a whim and far exceeded what I or anyone else expected, was followed this week by a similar [...]
NIRI 2008 conference goes 2.0
THE NIRI annual conference is underway in San Diego, and while there’s no replacement for actually being there, this year you’ll be able to pick up at least some of the goings on via the Web as attendees use Web 2.0 tools to share their experiences.
We picked up the first online mentions of the annual [...]
Top tech blog exposes scam at IPO firm
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.
The company, Intelius, is run by Naveen Jain who left his former company [...]
What is "fundamental" on an IR website?
I WAS having a conversation the other day with a client about recommendations we had made about her company’s website. She wanted to know if a certain recommendation was really “fundamental” to her company’s site.
That’s a really good question and one that every company needs to think about. What are the basic requirements for an [...]
Innovator: Ian Anderson, Twentysix London
IR Web Report’s Q&As are unpaid profiles of service providers that we believe are doing interesting and innovative work in the area of online investor relations and stakeholder communications. If you would like your firm featured in a Q&A, we invite you to contact us using our general email inbox.
Firm name: Twentysix London Date [...]
More weirdness from IR Magazine's US awards
I WASN’T at the IR Magazine US Awards this week, but now I wish I had dusted off my tuxedo to make the trip.
Perhaps then I would understand why IR Magazine’s affable editor-in-chief Neil Stewart is apologizing so publicly and profusely for remarks he made about Bear Stearns in his opening speech.
In an extremely contrite [...]
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