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By Dominic Jones on August 2, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published its 47-page interpretive release that explains how companies can use their websites and blogs to meet its requirements for public disclosure under Regulation FD. Here’s a Scribd version of the complete release, which can also be downloaded in PDF from the SEC’s website. See my initial [...]
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By Dominic Jones on April 4, 2008
A WEEK ago, I called the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) notice-and-access process for delivering annual meeting materials on the web “one gigantic flop from an investor protection perspective.” I think it’s worth beating that drum a little louder in light of the latest statistics from Broadridge Financial Solutions showing a sharp drop in [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, financial reporting, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, NIRI, notice-and-access, online communications, SEC, securities, shareholder relations, technology, usability, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on April 4, 2008
TAKE a look at these news releases put out this week by two New York Stock Exchange-listed companies about awards they’ve received for their investor relations websites and their disclosure practices. The first is from Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligents SA, the airline firm listed on the NYSE under the symbol GOL. SAO PAULO, Brazil, April [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, communications, corporate governance, disclosure, disclosure practices, finance, financial communications, gol linhas aereas inteligentes, Investor Relations, IR websites, IRGR, management, mz consult, new york stock exchange, news releases, PRNewswire-FirstCall, Richard Lark, SAO PAULO, SEC, TAM, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on March 28, 2008
AS MORE companies add blogs and other social media tools to their online communications, knowing how to handle errors in posts has become an important practice point. Business Wire (BW) is one company that hasn’t yet learned how to do this properly. And that’s a problem because part of BW’s business is advising companies and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, disclosure, earnings, Investor Relations, law, management, online communications, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on March 26, 2008
I WAS interviewed for 45 minutes last Friday by well-known communications consultant Shel Holz for a book he is co-authoring on the topic of “practical transparency.” Shel is one of the thought leaders on the topic of communications and technology. He has written and spoken about it extensively over the years, in various books, reports, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, conference calls, management, microsoft, news releases, technology, transcripts
By Dominic Jones on March 4, 2008
ABOUT eight months ago, I let my membership of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) expire. I wasn’t happy with the direction of the organization, and I felt that being a member would restrict me from speaking my mind about it on this blog if I wanted to. Since then, however, I’ve kept my mouth [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, e-proxy, earnings, Investor Relations, management, NIRI, online communications, shareholder.com
By Dominic Jones on February 24, 2008
WHILE his competitors lavish huge fees on his PR wire service, frugal billionaire Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is being thrifty by keeping its earnings releases short and referring investors to complete disclosures on the company’s website. Ironically, management at Business Wire, acquired by Buffett in March 2006, has argued vehemently against other companies following its [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, disclosure, earnings, finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, microsoft, news releases, NIRI, notice-and-access, SEC, securities, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on February 18, 2008
THE spotty success rate of mergers and acquisitions in creating shareholder value has long dogged investors who must try to decide whether a proposed acquisition by a company they own makes sense. But with the advent of employee bloggers on the open Internet, especially those who work for leading technology companies, investors may be getting [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, Investor Relations, m&a, management, microsoft, rss, technology, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on February 14, 2008
I THOUGHT I wouldn’t have to write about the Microsoft-Yahoo! takeover saga again after likening the investor relations communications around it to watching two drunks wobbling and slurring their way through a back alley rumble. But I can’t resist. A couple of hours ago, the great Web pioneer and innovator that is Yahoo! fired off [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, finance, Investor Relations, management, microsoft, shareholder.com, strategy, technology, xhtml, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on February 10, 2008
IF YOU’RE a Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) or Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) shareholder, you’ve probably heard the news — thanks in no part to the companies’ investor relations departments. Yes, on February 1, 2008 Microsoft proposed to acquire Yahoo! for $31 per share, apparently comprised of half cash and half Microsoft shares, or something like that. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, disclosure, EDGAR, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, microsoft, nasdaq, news releases, rss, SEC, SEC filings, shareholder.com, technology, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on February 9, 2008
Yahoo! Finance, once the clear leader in finance portals, has been neglected to the point where it is in danger of becoming irrelevant.
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, finance, finance portals, google finance, Investor Relations, management, strategy, Tech Ticker, ThomsonOne, Yahoo Finance
By Dominic Jones on January 27, 2008
CORPORATE governance advocates around the world were stunned earlier this month when a powerful group of Canadian institutional investors said it would not support a say-on-pay regime for the country’s corporations. The announcement by the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (CCGG), which represents 49 of Canada’s leading institutional investors with over $1 trillion in assets, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, management, SEC, technology
By Dominic Jones on January 25, 2008
A National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) survey that finds 56% of respondents plan to use the new default web delivery option for their annual reports and proxy statements in 2008, but that may be optimistic.
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, e-proxy, Investor Relations, management, NIRI, notice-and-access, SEC
By Dominic Jones on January 24, 2008
This page consolidates all of IR Web Report’s articles about the SEC’s e-proxy process and default electronic annual reporting generally.
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, management, microsoft, nasdaq, NIRI, notice-and-access, privacy, SEC, shareholder.com, usability
By Dominic Jones on January 10, 2008
SURPRISINGLY little seems to have been written following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) actions last November to establish ground rules for the use of shareholder forums as a corporate governance tool. Perhaps this is because the SEC has not yet posted the final rule release, or maybe it’s because the SEC’s other decision [...]
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