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By IR Web Report on August 17, 2010
MORE than four in ten of the most actively traded US-listed international companies – including well-known firms like Alcatel-Lucent, Vodafone, Barclays and Petrobras – are not using paid PR wires to distribute their earnings releases and other disclosure information.
Posted in Articles | Tagged adrs, disclosure, international IR, IR websites, SEC filings
By IR Web Report on August 10, 2010
A STUDY group of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) tasked with providing practical guidance on using the web for corporate reporting has published discussion drafts of three guidance publications.
Posted in Articles | Tagged IR websites, social media, web disclosure, web reporting
By IR Web Report on August 6, 2010
This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers.
Posted in Articles | Tagged integrated reporting, IR websites, social media, twitter, web disclosure
By IR Web Report on June 2, 2010
THOMSON REUTERS and Nasdaq OMX, the two US investor relations services giants, are set to launch new one-stop web disclosure tools that give companies greater choice and direct control over how they meet their regulatory obligations and communicate with investors online.
Posted in Articles | Tagged GlobeNewswire, Investor Relations, IR websites, NASDAQ OMX Group, NIRI, shareholder.com, Thomson Reuters
By IR Web Report on April 18, 2010
REUTERS, the news division of information services giant Thomson Reuters, has published an ill-informed, inaccurate and one-sided article about Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) announcement that it will use its website rather than paid PR wires to distribute its financial results.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Google Inc., Investor Relations, IR websites, pubsubhubbub, securities and exchange commission, Thomson Reuters, Web-based disclosure
By IR Web Report on February 10, 2010
What’s with the IR website vendors and always being the last ones to the technology party? I’ve just finished reviewing the web feed implementations of all of the IR website vendors — from Thomson Reuters to Shareholder.com to Investis to SNL to Q4 — and not one of them has implemented push on their clients’ [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged IR websites, pubsubhubbub, rss, web feed
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By IR Web Report on February 27, 2009
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, yesterday announced its earnings using the notice-and-access news release method we have been advocating for several years. Despite heated hand-waving by one big PR wire service — and some hand-wringing by ourselves — the earnings release process went off without a hitch, even [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, earnings releases, Investor Relations, IR websites, newswires, notice-and-access, pr newswire, PR Newswire Association LLC, Thomson Reuters, web disclosure
By IR Web Report on February 4, 2009
The New York Stock Exchange is set to change its antiquated “timely alert policy” to bring it in line with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) guidance for using corporate websites to satisfy Regulation FD.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, Marketwire, nyse, pr newswire, reg fd, SEC, timely alert policy, web disclosure
By IR Web Report on January 19, 2009
The example set by the Obama Presidency will put pressure on other public institutions, including public companies, to follow Obama’s lead to harness technology as a way to provide more transparency and encourage stakeholder engagement.
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, engagement, Investor Relations, IR websites, social media, social networking, technology, transparency, web communications
By IR Web Report on December 4, 2008
THE CFA Institute, the global professional association representing almost 100,000 financial analysts, portfolio managers, and other investment professionals in 133 countries and territories, has complained to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about companies that are slow to post earnings releases on their websites. In a December 1 comment letter (PDF 281KB, 7 pages) on [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate websites, disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, regulation fd, technology
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 September 26, 2008
I’VE been otherwise occupied the last two weeks, so blogging has taken a backseat during what is probably the most interesting period in the financial markets that many of us are likely to experience in our lifetimes. One of the benefits of not being in the thick of every new development is that you tend [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites
By IR Web Report on September 9, 2008
IN PART one of this review, I mentioned that the US National Investor Relations Institute’s (NIRI’s) executive alert on investor relations websites includes a list of 14 Do’s and Don’ts for IR departments to follow. In this post, I review each of the guidelines and explain why I think they’re either good or bad. The [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, NIRI, SEC, securities and exchange commission, technology, XBRL
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