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NYSE, NASDAQ move to scrap compulsory news releases
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 disseminating [...]
Top tech blog exposes scam at IPO firm
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 company [...]
Cool ticker symbol up for grabs
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 doesn’t look [...]
More on PF Chang's strange website award
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 for years [...]
Did e-proxy figure in Apple's surprise say-on-pay loss?
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 meeting [...]
Takeover bid sites, old-economy style
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 for [...]
Microsoft, Yahoo! IR teams drop ball amid bid
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. I’m [...]
If I contact you, will you ignore me?
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, most companies [...]
IR Web Report's E-Proxy Coverage
This page consolidates all of IR Web Report’s articles about the SEC’s e-proxy process and default electronic annual reporting generally.
Democratizing the earnings call
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 research [...]
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