By IR Web Report on August 9, 2010
EUROPEAN Union securities regulators last week put out a paper on creating a central disclosure system — but with so many vested interests to placate it seems implausible that investors will soon have a single gateway to EU securities filings.
Posted in Articles | Tagged CESR, compay websites, Europe, Regulatory Filings, web feeds, XBRL
By IR Web Report 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 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 17, 2007
By Dominic Jones ANYONE who still thinks blogs are irrelevant to what happens on the stock market should read this story. During the middle of the trading day, top blog Engadget posted an item based on what it thought was an internal company email saying Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) was delaying its highly anticipated iPhone and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Europe, finance, google finance, Investor Relations, iPhone, Japan, Latin America, law, Leopard, Mac OS X, nasdaq, SEC
By IR Web Report on May 16, 2007
By Dominic Jones I DREW attention yesterday to the fact that Thomson Financial’s corporate investor relations and public relations businesses don’t fit well in the structure outlined in the Thomson-Reuters acquisition announcement. According to the companies, the combined Reuters and Thomson Financial business will be guided by journalistic principles, such as integrity, independence and freedom [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged ADP, broadridge financial solutions inc, communications, corporate communications, CorporateNews Group, Europe, finance, Investor Relations, nasdaq, pr newswire, privacy, public relations, reuters, rss, shareholder.com, strategy, thomson financial, wire services
By IR Web Report on May 11, 2007
By Dominic Jones HERE’s a great example of “over-disclaimering,” which is the senseless practice of slapping disclaimers on things that don’t need them. The most common example is when companies include disclaimers about forward-looking statements (FLS) in news releases that don’t include any forward-looking statements. Sometimes the disclaimer portion of the news release is longer [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, EMI Music Publishing, Euronext 100, Europe, finance, Financial services, Hugin ASA, India, Investor Relations, Kevin Entricken, law, Market Wire, Montclair State University, Nancy McKinstry, news releases, NYSE Euronext, Oya Yavuz, SEC, wire services, Wolters Kluwer
By IR Web Report on April 24, 2007
By Dominic Jones (Note: See update at end of post.) A COUPLE of U.S. health care sector companies in our IR website benchmarking survey are in the process of being gobbled up by bigger companies or are going private, so we’ve been looking for replacements. Usually we just pick companies at random from the S&P [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Australia, communications, Europe, IR websites, Japan, S&P 400, S&P 500, SEC, thomson financial
By IR Web Report on April 5, 2007
Notable excerpts and links to articles and reports we’ve found worthwhile reading. Though we try to avoid them, some links may be intercepted by ads or may require free log-ins. Please don’t blame us for this. General News NYSE Euronext Falls in First Day as Combined Exchange NYSE Euronext, home to General Electric Co., France [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged analyst, China, Euronext, Europe, Financial Services Authority, France Telecom SA, FSA, General Electric Co., Heineken NV, IPOs, John Raymond, law, London, Moody's, nasdaq, Nasdaq China, nyse, Paul Munn, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, SEC, securities, Steven Bloom, stocks, The Corporate Library, twitter, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
By IR Web Report on February 13, 2007
Notable excerpts and links to articles and reports we’ve found worthwhile reading. Some links may be intercepted by ads or may require free log-ins. Please don’t blame us for this. Publications have to make a living some way. Regulation S.E.C. Seeks to Curtail Investor Suits Critics said that the moves signaled a major retrenchment from [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Britain, Enron, Europe, facebook, Five Across Inc., Germany, Hank Paulson, law, MySpace, News Corp., San Jose, SEC, securities and exchange commission, social networking, social networking site, technology, US Treasury
By IR Web Report on January 23, 2007
Note: After receiving an email from a mutual acquaintance of someone mentioned in the original of this article, I’ve made a minor edit to remove an individual’s name. Seems information was sent to me from Business Wire under the name of an employee per their normal routine, but that individual didn’t personally send it to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate websites, disclosure, Europe, European Commission, European Union, France, Investor Relations, IR websites, managing director, mandatory regulatory wire services, mobile device, newswires, pr newswire, rss, SEC, securities, syndication technologies, technology, wire services
By IR Web Report on January 3, 2007
By Dominic Jones TODAY I ordered a new book with a promising title. Its called The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda and it’s co-authored by three experienced corporate governance and asset-management professionals. I obviously haven’t read the book yet, but I’ve been reading the press coverage and reviews. The central [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, David Pitt-Watson, Europe, finance, Harvard, Harvard Business Review, Home Depot, Jon Lukomnik, management, manager an indication, mutual fund manager, SEC, SEC filings, Stephen Davis, stocks, technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, yahoo
By IR Web Report on December 22, 2006
IN THE sixth newswire deal this year, Canada’s second largest news release distributor CCNMatthews is being acquired by the private equity arm of Canadian pension fund OMERS. The cash deal, terms of which were not disclosed, will also see Manulife Capital, the private equity group of insurer Manulife Financial, take a minority stake. CCNMatthews, which [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, disclosure, Euronext, Europe, Hugin ASA, Manulife Capital, Manulife Financial, Market Wire, Medialink Worldwide, nasdaq, new york stock exchange, news releases, newswires, OMERS Capital Partners, Paris, Paul G. Renaud, Pims Group, pr newswire, private equity, rss, San Francisco, SEC, securities, strategy, sun microsystems, U.S. newswire, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, United Business Media, Warren Buffett, website services
By IR Web Report on December 11, 2006
There are 7 items… VC rises to dotcom bubble levels | SEC more in tune with European companies | SEC Delays Proxy Access Again | New Online Activities Show Greatest Growth | The price of a tarnished image | Countdown to compliance: The transparency directive | Nasdaq’s CEO ‘does not know how to calculate gross [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Ernst & Young, Europe, Hewlett-Packard, Ireland, law, nasdaq, New Jersey Superior Court, SEC, the Times, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, venture capital
By IR Web Report on December 10, 2006
By Dominic Jones NASDAQ has sparked an uproar among its listed firms and investor relations service providers with a proposal to bundle news releases and website services into its listing fees. We cover the furor over the proposal in a separate story. In this article, I want to address a question posed by at least [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, disclosure, Europe, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, market intelligence services, market intelligence tools, nasdaq, news releases, newswire services, PrimeZone, privacy, rss, SEC, securities, shareholder.com, technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, website services, wire services
By IR Web Report on November 21, 2006
By Dominic Jones REAL IR, the investor relations magazine focused on Europe, has an interesting cover story this month that shines a spotlight on investors’ ever increasing expectations for IR websites. In the article, Niall Paul, 34, who overseas $64 billion in equities for Morley Fund Management in London, says that just over half of [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged analyst, disclosure, Europe, Investor Relations, IR websites, London, management, Manager By, New York, Niall Paul, retail investors, Scott Payton
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