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Yahoo! Finance has lost its way
Yahoo! Finance, once the clear leader in finance portals, has been neglected to the point where it is in danger of becoming irrelevant.
Sun CEO's blog now on Yahoo! Finance
By Dominic Jones
SUN Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) CEO Jonathan Schwartz is now able to publish from his blog directly to his company’s page on Yahoo! Finance.
Here’s a screenshot from Sun’s Yahoo! Finance page showing a link to Schwartz’s most recent blog post about the company changing its ticker symbol yesterday.
Click on that link and you [...]
Yahoo! Finance homepage redesigned?
Update: Looks like someone at Yahoo! Finance flicked the switch by mistake, or was doing some early morning testing, because the new design was quickly removed after we wrote this post. The screenshot we took is actually of the “tour” that was provided via a link on the new homepage we saw.
By Dominic Jones
THE Yahoo! [...]
Fixing finance calendars with microformats
By Dominic Jones
INTERNET earnings and conference call calendars provided by the likes of Thomson Financial, Reuters and OpenCompany, owned by Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., are broken.
They are often incomplete and sometimes just plain wrong. Fixing this mess could save companies a lot of money, improve the flow of information to investors, and help firms meet [...]
Shareholder forums vs. board blogs
By Dominic Jones
THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s concept for an electronic forum where shareholders can discuss and possibly vote on corporate governance issues is too prescriptive and costly, and will mostly benefit a small group of vendors only.
At their roundtable on proxy access in May, the SEC floated the concept of an electronic forum [...]
My favorite stock research site
By Dominic Jones
THE Company Insight Center on BusinessWeek’s website has quickly become my favorite company research site. Lots of great information, really good usability for a new site, and I like that it’s backed by Standard & Poor’s data.
The site makes Yahoo! Finance seem old, cluttered and dull, and it completely and utterly blows Google [...]
As sell-side declines, go direct on the Web
By Dominic Jones
LAST week’s surprising announcement from Prudential Financial (NYSE: PRU) that is was closing its equity research business and axing more than 400 employees has many wondering what the future has in store for the sell-side.
BusinessWeek ran a good article on the subject which noted that while the sell-side’s business model is threatened, demand [...]
Apple blogged, stock tanks. Wow!
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 its new [...]
Nothing to see, but much to ponder at XTO Energy
By Dominic Jones
AS PART of a continuing theme that many corporate websites are becoming increasingly irrelevant to investors due to poor management and a lack of a clear communication strategy, I offer two screenshots.
The first is from the events calendar page on XTO Energy Inc.’s (NYSE:XTO) investor relations website, which is hosted by Thomson [...]
Thomson Financial's timeliness troubles
By Dominic Jones
TIMELINESS is vital for investor relations websites to remain relevant to investors. A site that contains out-of-date information will quickly lose users to other sources of information.
And that’s what may be happening to corporate investor relations websites hosted by Thomson Financial and other large vendors. As I wrote recently, according to the Alexa [...]
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