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By Dominic Jones on August 16, 2010
SLIDESHARE, best known as a presentation sharing service, has launched three new paid accounts with features that may appeal to investor relations departments looking for ways to spread their stories online and improve the user experience of their IR websites.
Posted in Articles | Tagged content sharing, earnings calls, presentations, slideshare, social media
By Dominic Jones on August 13, 2010
NEWS this week from the Wall Street Journal that academics have found key language markers of executive deception on earnings calls won’t come as a surprise to some of the world’s biggest hedge funds.
Posted in Articles | Tagged deception, earnings calls, voice analysis
By Dominic Jones on July 21, 2010
PERHAPS I’m old-fashioned, but when a company uses a service like Twitter to tell followers about company earnings, I expect them to make a reasonable effort to post the news simultaneously to other channels.
Posted in Articles | Tagged compliance, earnings calls, earnings releases, Investor Relations, social media, twitter
By Dominic Jones on October 15, 2009
ANALYSTS and investors have long complained that management at some companies manipulate the flow of information to the market and play favorites by carefully screening which questions they take on their earnings calls. Now Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has taken the lead to bring transparency to the earnings call question queue by inviting analysts — [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged earnings calls, engagement, Google Inc., webcasts
By Dominic Jones on March 9, 2009
eBay and other leading tech companies’ shallow earnings call archiving practices raise questions about their transparency.
Posted in Articles | Tagged earnings calls, eBay Inc, Investor Relations, Oracle Corporation, SEC
By Dominic Jones on February 10, 2009
AT HIS first press conference Monday night, US President Barack Obama made history at 8:52 pm ET by calling on blogger Sam Stein of the Huffington Post to be among only 14 reporters to ask a question. The recognition of a blogger alongside mainstream media outlets such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg and national [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate governance, earnings calls, financial communications, Investor Relations, social media, social networking, technology
By Dominic Jones on June 18, 2008
A lack of earnings conference call archives on companies’ investor relations websites has attracted attention from an SEC committee, but it is not suggesting regulatory action. Indeed, a lack of archives might be a useful indicator for investors.
Posted in Articles | Tagged conference calls, disclosure, earnings, earnings calls, financial reporting, Gregor Macdonald, Investor Relations, ir departments, IR websites, John Reucassel, SEC, securities and exchange commission, Tony Zuck, twitter
By Dominic Jones on April 8, 2008
AS THE US first quarter earnings season officially got underway with yesterday’s results from Dow component Alcoa Inc., IR departments were preparing to monitor their peers’ results and release their own numbers. Knowing what competitors are saying and getting a feel for the types of questions analysts are asking can help companies prepare for their [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged conference calls, earnings, earnings calls, Investor Relations, securities, seekingalpha, transcripts
By Dominic Jones on January 23, 2008
INVESTORS in US-listed stocks will notice something different this quarter when they visit Yahoo! Finance to catch up on the latest corporate earnings results. For the first time, they will have free access to full-text transcripts of earnings conference calls on approximately 2,500 companies thanks to Seeking Alpha, a firm started by former Wall Street [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged conference calls, disclosure, earnings, earnings calls, finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, nasdaq, rss, SEC, seekingalpha, stocks, transcripts, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on May 25, 2007
NEWS today that European Union privacy regulators are challenging giant Google Inc.’s privacy practices should be cause for alarm for companies that use Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.-owned Shareholder.com’s investor tracking tools on their websites. The EU regulators are concerned that Google’s tracking practices violate privacy protections in Europe. However, when you compare what Google is [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged analyst, corporate websites, e-proxy, earnings, earnings calls, Europe, European Union, feeds, Google Inc., Investor Relations, IR websites, JPMorgan Chase & Co, law, nasdaq, nasdaq stock market inc, national investor relations institute, Netflix, NIRI, non-anonymous web tracking services, Palm Inc., privacy, QUALCOMM Inc., Questar, rss, SEC, SEC filings, securities, securities and exchange commission, shareholder.com, technology, The Western Union Co., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, VeriSign Inc., Zimmer Holdings
By Dominic Jones on May 7, 2007
By Dominic Jones GOOGLE Finance has just been upgraded in the past few hours to add information on company events like earnings call webcasts and upcoming events that integrate with Google Calendar. The screenshot below shows the new Events module on the Google Finance page for Zimmer Holdings, Inc. By clicking on the webcast links, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, earnings, earnings calls, feeds, finance, Google, Google Calendar, google finance, Katie Jacobs Stanton, Kyphon, microsoft, official, rss, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, thomson financial, ticker symbol, yahoo, Zimmer Holdings Inc.
By Dominic Jones on March 19, 2007
WHY don’t more companies provide transcripts of their earnings conference calls and investor presentations on their websites? Of the 525 large-cap companies whose websites we review, only 12% are currently providing transcripts of their earnings calls on their investor relations websites. It’s NOT because investors don’t want them. There wouldn’t be a transcript industry if [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged cfa institute, conference calls, earnings, earnings calls, finance, Google, google finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, management, PDF, SEC, SEC filings, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, SeekingAlpha.com, StreetEvents, thomson financial, transcripts, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on February 1, 2007
By Dominic Jones OFTEN dismissed as noise, blog is still a four-letter word for many companies’ investor relations departments. But they are missing out on an opportunity to get valuable feedback and tactical intelligence at negligible cost. By monitoring what blogs are writing about, you can gain a better understanding of investors’ perceptions about investor relations practices and even [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, conference calls, corporate websites, earnings, earnings calls, Eric Savitz, Eric Schmidt, feeds, finance, George Reyes, GigaOmniMedia Inc., Google, Investor Relations, microsoft, Nick Wilson, Om Malik, rss, search engine, Sergey Brin, Snap.com, Steve Jobs, technology, thomson financial, usability, wordpress, WordPress.com, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on December 20, 2006
By Dominic Jones LOOKING back on 2006, which technologies relevant to investor relations failed to live up to the hype that surrounded them? Fortunately, the list is short because IR websites were not the scene of much innovation during 2006. Relatively few new technologies even registered a blip among the 525 sites in our survey. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged AJAX, conference calls, Don Dodge, earnings, earnings calls, GE, IBM, Investor Relations, IR websites, JavaScript, low-rent technology, microsoft, MP3, Roger Johansson, rss, SEC, technology, usability, Web developers, web technologies, XML
By Dominic Jones on October 20, 2006
By Dominic Jones I’M HAVING a bit of fun here, but shouldn’t the quintessential Web company be just a little more hip to using new technologies in its communications with investors? Google Inc. — which just acquired web video sensation YouTube for $1.65 billion — webcasted it earnings call yesterday using investor relations website outsourcing [...]
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