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Why almost no one is complying with Regulation FD
LAST July, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved new guidance for company websites that covered a broad spectrum of issues that have apparently been holding companies back from making better use of their websites as a source of disclosure.
Although the interpretive release provided advice on a range of topics, including links to third-party [...]
At Google Finance, Google's profit miss not news
BIZARRE is the only way to describe the screenshot below of Google Finance’s homepage this morning — the day after the search giant reported earnings that missed analyst forecasts and sent its shares tumbling more than 7% in after-hours trading.
By all accounts, Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) earnings miss was big news. It is on the front [...]
Web 2.0: Think it through
A COUPLE of stories in the Financial Times are getting some attention because they’re calling into question the sustainability of the Web 2.0 boom amid a tough economy and a lack of revenue.
The first article — Web 2.0 fails to produce cash — quotes Roger Lee, a partner at Battery Ventures, as saying: “There is [...]
The real story behind RSS registration
JUST over 70% of the people who participated in this week’s poll guessed correctly when choosing the word I would use to describe the practice of making investors register to access RSS feeds on corporate websites.
This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for the past two years but never got around to. [...]
6 things you didn't know about Thomson Reuters
HERE are some things you might not know about the new Thomson Reuters, which had its first day of trading as a combined company yesterday under the ticker symbol TRI in New York and Toronto, and TRIL in London.
1. According to Google Finance, the company does not exist.
2. CEO Tom Glocer is the world’s best [...]
Get your SEC filings widget here!
THE EDGAR XML feeds were not even a week old and already intrepid web developers were finding new ways to reuse them.
Over at iBanknet, where they have been doing interesting things with XBRL call reports, Marian Albert and Chris Smith saw the opportunity to create a little tool called a “widget” or “gadget” that anyone [...]
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 A site that contains out-of-date information will quickly lose users to other sources of information.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 [...]
Google Finance adds company events, news RSS
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, you can [...]
Traffic to Thomson IR websites slumps
By Dominic Jones
IN WHAT may be an indication that U.S. IR websites are no longer able to attract and hold the interest of investors, traffic to IR websites hosted by Thomson Financial has slumped to all-time lows, according to the Alexa website information company.
Alexa, owned by Amazon.com, measures traffic only of people who have the [...]
What were regulators thinking?
WE SEE a lot of stupid things in the world of public company disclosure, but few are as dumb as the “Annual Information Update” required by European regulators.
Do a search of Google for “Annual Information Update” and you’ll see what we mean.
Look at this one via Market Wire and RNS, the “company news service from [...]
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