By Dominic Jones on February 28, 2009
A LOT of regular readers have been buried in year-end reporting and preparing annual reports, so I thought I’d recap the most popular posts on IR Web Report over the past two months in case you missed them. Business Wire’s Double Standards About how Business Wire is attacking cheap notice-and-access releases even while its owner [...]
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By Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones on February 11, 2009
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, is taking the bold step of using the notice-and-access approach with its next earnings release on February 26 — but I think they should reconsider. On Monday, the company issued a news release announcing the following: “In compliance with the U.S. Securities and [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Investor Relations, newswires, notice-and-access, reuters, Robert MacMillan, SEC, technology, Thomson Reuters, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, web disclosure, wire services
By Dominic Jones on January 25, 2009
THERE was a time when being able to quickly send information to be published at multiple places on the Internet was difficult and expensive. Big PR newswires, for instance, charged hefty fees for the ability to have your press releases and other information distributed to multiple points where investors could receive them. But just as [...]
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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 October 19, 2007
AFTER almost of decade of putting up with archaic news release text and garbled financial tables, Yahoo! Finance users may finally be getting company news releases they can easily read and reuse. Yesterday, I noticed that the world’s most popular finance website is using Business Wire‘s XHTML-based newsfeed, potentially ushering in a new era of [...]
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By Dominic Jones on April 1, 2007
OVER the past eight months or so, we’ve published more than 355 posts amounting to over 900 printed pages of text and pictures, not counting the 225-odd comments from readers and ourselves. To help new readers, and those who’ve been busy over the annual reporting season, we’ve put together a list of the original pieces [...]
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By Dominic Jones on March 27, 2007
By Dominic Jones PROPONENTS of changing the information distribution requirements of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg. FD) say the world is ready to receive disclosures direct via companies’ websites rather than via intermediaries like news release distributors. As evidence, they point to widespread adoption of the Internet and email by investors, plus the availability of new [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, disclosure, feeds, Investor Relations, IR websites, Jonathan Schwartz, managing director, newswire services, newswires, poll-pull technology, pr newswire, retail investors, rss, SEC, securities, Steve Messick, sun microsystems, technology, Tim Bray, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, web disclosure, web technologies, Web-based disclosure, wire services, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on February 2, 2007
By Dominic Jones SIX weeks ago, I said Nasdaq should be forced to sell its press release and website hosting subsidiaries because they create an unacceptable conflict of interest between the exchange’s business interests and its role as a regulator. You can see my original comments in Nasdaq should get out of press release, website [...]
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By Dominic Jones on January 23, 2007
Note: After receiving an email from a mutual acquaintance of someone mentioned in the original of this article, I’ve made a minor edit to remove an individual’s name. Seems information was sent to me from Business Wire under the name of an employee per their normal routine, but that individual didn’t personally send it to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate websites, disclosure, Europe, European Commission, European Union, France, Investor Relations, IR websites, managing director, mandatory regulatory wire services, mobile device, newswires, pr newswire, rss, SEC, securities, syndication technologies, technology, wire services
By Dominic Jones on January 17, 2007
By Dominic Jones THERE’s a lot of talk these days from the big wire services about “social media news releases.” However, almost all of it is meaningless because people are mostly trying to reinvent something that is actually obsolete. Newswires have latched onto social media releases because they’re looking for ways to stay relevant in [...]
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By Dominic Jones on December 22, 2006
IN THE sixth newswire deal this year, Canada’s second largest news release distributor CCNMatthews is being acquired by the private equity arm of Canadian pension fund OMERS. The cash deal, terms of which were not disclosed, will also see Manulife Capital, the private equity group of insurer Manulife Financial, take a minority stake. CCNMatthews, which [...]
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By Dominic Jones on December 12, 2006
By Dominic Jones EURONEXT NV, which is set to be acquired by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has strengthened its position in the corporate newswire business by acquiring Hugin ASA of Norway. The move means that the NYSE will join its US rival Nasdaq as the proud owner of a newswire service. In September, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate websites, disclosure, Euronext NV, feeds, Hugin ASA, nasdaq, new york stock exchange, newswires, Paris, pr newswire, PrimeZone, private equity, rss, San Francisco, SEC, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, United Business Media
By Dominic Jones on November 15, 2006
Update: Please see the comments by Dave Armon, COO of PR Newswire at the end of this post. Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems’ Chief Open Source Officer, has also commented. While neither Simon nor I agree with Dave’s position, his willingness to take us on in such a public forum is a credit to him and [...]
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By Dominic Jones on October 5, 2006
By Dominic Jones (1 update added) WHY do companies issue full-text earnings releases via newswire services? Except for bloating the bottom lines of the newswires, who actually benefits from this practice? Sun Microsystems Inc.’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz has written to the SEC to ask the same thing. I’ve chimed in with how I think companies [...]
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