By Dominic Jones on April 16, 2009
THE New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ plan to eliminate rules that currently require listed companies to issue press releases when disclosing important information. The NYSE has filed a proposed rule change (PDF 503KB, 18 pages) to amend its Listed Company Manual to allow listed companies to comply with its immediate release policy by [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, nasdaq, nasdaq stock market inc, new york stock exchange, regulation fd, securities and exchange commission, wire services
By Dominic Jones on May 30, 2008
TECHCRUNCH, a leading technology blog that boasts more than 3 million readers, has accused a company that is currently preparing an IPO of funding its growth by running a scam that gets people to unknowingly bill small recurring payments to their credit cards. The company, Intelius, is run by Naveen Jain who left his former [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, cowen and company, David Phillips, deutsche bank securities, insider trading, Investor Relations, Jeff Matthews, Michael Arrington, nasdaq, Naveen Jain, SEC, securities and exchange commission, techcrunch, technology, ubs investment bank
By Dominic Jones on April 4, 2008
SOFTWARE company BladeLogic, which went public last July, has one of the hippest ticker symbols going: BLOG. But now that the company is being acquired by BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) those funky four letters are up for grabs. One problem, though. The way the US IPO market has been doing so far this year, it [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged initial public offerings, Investor Relations, IPOs, nasdaq, national venture capital association, nyse, stocks, thomson financial, ticker symbol, venture capital, venture capital association, venture capital funding, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on April 2, 2008
I HAVE never fully understood why analysts and portfolio managers vote for the sites that win the best IR website category in IR Magazine’s US Awards. I’m not suggesting there is anything wrong with IR Magazine’s process. They survey a large number of people and the results are what they are. What has puzzled me [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, IR websites, nasdaq, SEC
By Dominic Jones on March 5, 2008
APPLE Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been a market darling over the past 18 months, so some observers are surprised that a majority of the firm’s shareholders have voted against the board for a say in the firm’s executive pay practices. The voting results were not released by the company, but it was reported at yesterday’s [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, e-proxy, finance, Investor Relations, microsoft, nasdaq, notice-and-access, rss, SEC, securities
By Dominic Jones on February 12, 2008
WITH tech titans Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) poised for a brawl, it might be useful for the two to see examples of companies that are right now using the Web to effectively present their bid propaganda. Ironically, the examples I have to share, whipped up after a quick Google News search [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged microsoft, nasdaq, news releases, SEC, SEC filings, technology, transcripts, 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 January 28, 2008
WHAT’S your company’s policy on bloggers who contact official company spokespeople like investor relations or media relations looking for information or a comment? Do you treat them the same as anyone else or do you treat them as lesser human beings — as giant US retailer Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) currently does? In my experience, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Investor Relations, nasdaq, rss, technology
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 23, 2008
INVESTORS in US-listed stocks will notice something different this quarter when they visit Yahoo! Finance to catch up on the latest corporate earnings results. For the first time, they will have free access to full-text transcripts of earnings conference calls on approximately 2,500 companies thanks to Seeking Alpha, a firm started by former Wall Street [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged conference calls, disclosure, earnings, earnings calls, finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, nasdaq, rss, SEC, seekingalpha, stocks, transcripts, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on January 11, 2008
DELL Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) launched its investor relations blog just over two months ago, becoming the first major corporation to use a blog to communicate specifically with its investors. IR Magazine posted a story this week by Anna Snider saying that the Dell Shares blog is “gaining momentum,” which I think is an accurate description. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Investor Relations, nasdaq, SEC, strategy
By Dominic Jones on January 6, 2008
MORNINGSTAR Inc. (NASDAQ:MORN), the U.S.-based investment data and research provider, says it will grow the UK investor relations business it acquired as part of its $51.6 million purchase of Hemscott, but has no immediate plans to expand the business internationally. In its monthly Investor Questions and Answers, Chicago-based Morningstar answers questions about the Hemscott deal, [...]
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By Dominic Jones on January 4, 2008
THIS three-month extension the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been forced to give companies so that they can become eligible for the Direct Registration System makes you wonder what else is slipping through the cracks at America’s public companies. After all, it’s not as if companies weren’t given adequate notice of the need [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, law, nasdaq, SEC, securities
By Dominic Jones on December 18, 2007
HEMSCOTT IR, the UK-based investor relations website provider that claims 540 companies as clients, was sold yesterday by parent Ipreo Holdings LLC to U.S.-based investment research provider Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ:MORN).But it’s abundantly clear from the deal announcement that Morningstar doesn’t really care about the IR website business it is getting as part of a wider [...]
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By Dominic Jones on November 28, 2007
IT doesn’t take a genius to figure out that U.S. boards of directors and corporate executives are in for a rough time this coming proxy season.No one can be sure how the story in the stock market is going to play out, but with a month to go to year-end it looks increasingly like most [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, finance, management, nasdaq
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