By IR Web Report on November 16, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Google, Investor Relations, IR websites, technology
By IR Web Report on July 18, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Google, google news, merrill lynch, stocks, technology, wall street journal
By IR Web Report on May 27, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Google, Investor Relations, Roger Lee, twitter
By IR Web Report on April 24, 2008
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. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate websites, feeds, Google, Investor Relations, IR websites, NASDAQ OMX Group, rss, Ryan Lejbak, Search results, southern company, thomson financial, yahoo
By IR Web Report on April 18, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Google, Investor Relations, London, New York, reuters, Thomson Reuters, Tom Glocer
By IR Web Report on April 6, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, feeds, Google, Marian Albert, notice-and-access, SEC, SEC filings, ticker symbol, XBRL, XML
By IR Web Report on May 9, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, EDGAR Online, finance, Google, google finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, nasdaq, reuters, SEC, Standard & Poor's, thomson financial, yahoo
By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report on April 24, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged earnings, finance, Google, google finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, Lou Thompson, messenger, NIRI, S&P 500, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, stocks, thomson financial, transcripts, yahoo
By IR Web Report on April 17, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Google, London Stock Exchange, Market Wire, pr newswire, SEC, securities, yahoo
By IR Web Report on April 13, 2007
WE ARE forced to take a break from posting here for the next little while. But rather than leave you cold turkey, we thought we’d offer up these 10 points to contemplate and debate while we’re gone from the blog. We’ll see you soon, though, so keep watching this space. 1. Walk in investors’ shoes [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, conference calls, disclosure, Google, investor communications, law, management, SEC, technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, usability, web communications, web usability, XBRL, YouTube
By IR Web Report on March 29, 2007
SOME readers might be wondering if I’ve gone completely mad by saying this week’s three-day CEO open interview hosted by blog network Seeking Alpha represents the future of IR. You might be wondering why I am advocating that you put your CEO in front of a group of hardened investors, analysts and finance bloggers — [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, conference calls, David Jackson, disclosure, finance, finance bloggers, Google, google finance, law, management, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, Steven Sprague, Wave Systems Corp., yahoo
By IR Web Report on March 26, 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. IR News National Investor Relations Institute Elects New Board Chairman and Four Directors The National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Adobe, communications, Darden Restaurants Inc., disclosure, Financial Services Authority, goldman sachs, Google, House Committee on Financial Services, insider trading, Internet, Investor Relations, law, London, Massachusetts, Matthew V. Stroud, Maureen Wolff-Reid, media outlets, Merrill, microsoft, national investor relations institute, NIRI, NIRI Board of Directors, Orlando, PDF, rss, search function, SEC, Sharon Merrill Associates Inc., Sharon Merrill Associates Inc. Merrill Restricts Research Access, Suspicious, technology, TELLABS Inc., TIAA-CREF, twitter, Volkswagen, Web browser, web traffic
By IR Web Report on March 21, 2007
GOOGLE Finance, the investing website that has yet to make a real impact in the year since it was launched, has just gotten a major boost with an important change to Google’s main search results pages. Now when people search the main Google site for public company names, they will see an option to preview [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, finance, general manager of global research at Hitwise, Google, google finance, Investor Relations, Investor relations communications professionals, main search, Mattel, official, search pages, Search results, SEC, ticker symbol, yahoo, Yahoo Finance
By IR Web Report 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
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