By IR Web Report on July 22, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged analyst, Bloomberg, Forbes, indymac bancorp, Investor Relations, Ladenburg, ladenburg thalmann, nyse, Richard X. Bove, securities, strategy, The Street, wall street journal
By IR Web Report on April 4, 2008
TAKE a look at these news releases put out this week by two New York Stock Exchange-listed companies about awards they’ve received for their investor relations websites and their disclosure practices. The first is from Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligents SA, the airline firm listed on the NYSE under the symbol GOL. SAO PAULO, Brazil, April [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, communications, corporate governance, disclosure, disclosure practices, finance, financial communications, gol linhas aereas inteligentes, Investor Relations, IR websites, IRGR, management, mz consult, new york stock exchange, news releases, PRNewswire-FirstCall, Richard Lark, SAO PAULO, SEC, TAM, yahoo
By IR Web Report on February 9, 2008
Yahoo! Finance, once the clear leader in finance portals, has been neglected to the point where it is in danger of becoming irrelevant.
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, finance, finance portals, google finance, Investor Relations, management, strategy, Tech Ticker, ThomsonOne, Yahoo Finance
By IR Web Report on January 20, 2008
THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE wrote to its listed companies last week to remind them of their disclosure obligations, including its policy around issuing news releases about material information. The exchange said that it “feels strongly that its longstanding policy of requiring a press release for the dissemination of material corporate information is in the [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, disclosure, feeds, finance, news releases, rss, SEC, yahoo
By IR Web Report on November 6, 2007
AFTER making a big deal last quarter about no longer relying on paid PR wires to distribute its earnings releases, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) has gone back to the traditional approach this quarter.I cannot find an explanation for why the company has decided to once again issue its earnings release first via a PR [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, communications, disclosure, earnings, feeds, Investor Relations, nasdaq, NIRI, rss, SEC, securities, technology, wordpress
By IR Web Report on October 29, 2007
Guest Post by Luanne M. Wing INTERNET video is a phenomenon that is making overnight stars of start-up entrepreneurs. Innovative videos provide information, as well as compelling and creative visuals of products and services that may never have seen the light of day. Video morphs yesterday’s media of passive text and still photographs into captivating [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, earnings, finance, Investor Relations, management, SEC, strategy, technology, yahoo
By IR Web Report on October 12, 2007
By Dominic Jones IF you read the major news services yesterday, you might have seen the big news from BP plc (NYSE:BP), the troubled oil giant that has suffered a slew of negative news over the past year or so. I was trawling Bloomberg and spotted an article headlined BP’s Hayward Will Cut Jobs After [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, management, SEC
By IR Web Report on September 28, 2007
By Dominic Jones “We are developing a new website and have decided not to use RSS,” she stated, arguing that a news feed could discourage investors from getting in direct contact, costing IROs the chance of building up two-way communication. The above is taken from an item headlined UK IROs Cool on RSS that was [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, Investor Relations, rss
By IR Web Report on August 17, 2007
By Dominic Jones A FEW months ago, there was a lot of hubbub in the technology blogging community about a new service called Twitter. The service asked people to write short messages about what they were doing, and then it delivered the one-liners to their friends in near real time via instant messaging, SMS and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, disclosure, earnings, feeds, Investor Relations, IR websites, SEC, stocks, technology, twitter
By IR Web Report on August 1, 2007
Note: I’ve added more specifics around the sequence of events around Sun’s release, including adding a screenshot taken from Yahoo! Finance which shows times various news items became available there. I’ve also added a link to a PRWeek article that provides a more balanced report than IR Magazine. I’ve also added an update about Business [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, corporate websites, disclosure, earnings, EDGAR, feeds, finance, law, rss, SEC, securities, stocks, technology, wordpress, yahoo
By IR Web Report on June 29, 2007
THE board of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) will hold face-to-face meetings with an invited list of shareholders to hear their views on corporate governance issues, including executive pay. The first summit will happen later this year. The company said it plans to invite shareholder representatives who together own about 35% of Pfizer’s shares. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, communications, e-proxy, SEC
By IR Web Report on June 20, 2007
THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today voted to make all companies post their annual meeting materials on their websites. Full details of the rules won’t be known until the SEC posts the final rule on its website, but as it was explained today large companies will have to post their proxy materials on [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, disclosure, e-proxy, IR websites, law, nasdaq, notice-and-access, privacy, SEC, securities, shareholder.com, usability
By IR Web Report on June 5, 2007
By Dominic Jones EMBARRASSING is the only word I can think of to describe International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM), the biggest Blue Chip of them all, getting a public tarring and feathering from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for trying to manipulate earnings expectations with misleading statements. In a release, the SEC’s Associate [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, disclosure, earnings, management, SEC, securities
By IR Web Report on May 25, 2007
By Dominic Jones NASDAQ Stock Market Inc. is bidding $3.67 billion for Sweden’s OMX AB, Europe’s sixth-largest stock exchange group, in a deal to create the second trans-Atlantic stock exchange. OMX AB sells exchange software and operates equity and derivatives exchanges in the Nordic and Baltic markets. Its Nordic Exchange includes exchanges in Copenhagen, Stockholm, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, communications, Europe, Iceland, London Stock Exchange, nasdaq, NASDAQ OMX Group, nasdaq stock market inc, new york stock exchange, OMX AB, Prime Newswire, privacy, Riga, SEC, shareholder.com, stock exchange, Stockholm, Sweden, Tallinn, technology, the Washington Post, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Vilnius
By IR Web Report on May 25, 2007
By Dominic Jones HOME Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD), the home improvement giant that caused an uproar over its heavy-handed tactics at last year’s annual meeting, held its 2007 annual meeting yesterday and said sorry. And different from last year when none made an appearance, all of the directors except one showed up. The meeting lasted [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, chief executive officer, communications, Frank Blake, Home Depot Inc., IR websites, Kenneth Langone, lead director, management, Mark Clothier, SEC, shareholder.com, web communications
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