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Most popular posts Jan. – Feb. 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 Berkshire [...]
BGC proves notice-and-access releases work
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 if [...]
My real-time personal newswire
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 blogs and [...]
SEC's new guidance for websites and blogs posted
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 comments [...]
Business Wire, Yahoo! roll out readable releases
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 usability [...]
Best of the Blog Vol. 1
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 we [...]
We don't need PR wires for Reg. FD
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 highly economical [...]
Nasdaq's IR services conflicts in the spotlight
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 business.
Interestingly, Nasdaq’s [...]
Wire services target Euro gold rush
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 [...]
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