By IR Web Report on January 30, 2008
NEWS that the Wall Street Journal is adding a feature to its website that lets readers see which stories are popular with their Facebook friends should signal to the investor relations website industry that so-called “widgets” are moving to the mainstream. According to the Associated Press, the Journal, NBC Universal and CNET are partnering with [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Investor Relations, privacy, shareholder.com
By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report on January 4, 2008
BROADRIDGE Financial Solutions consultants are spreading incorrect information about the SEC’s requirements regarding the use of cookies on websites hosting proxy materials. I’ve just seen a presentation in which the Broadridge presenter says companies must provide a website that is “cookie free.” Nonsense. The result of this misinformation is that companies, many of which use [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate websites, e-proxy, IR websites, microsoft, notice-and-access, privacy, SEC, shareholder.com, usability
By IR Web Report on October 31, 2007
CLIENTS of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.’s (NASDAQ: NDAQ) Shareholder.com investor relations website hosting business have more reasons to question the wisdom of their vendor’s continued use of cookies to track and compile detailed dossiers on investors without their knowledge. A coalition of privacy advocates will hold a news conference today at which, according Ad Age, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Doug Ventola, Investor Relations, law, nasdaq, NIRI, privacy, SEC, securities, shareholder.com
By IR Web Report on October 1, 2007
THIS new “notice-and-access” model that the Securities and Exchange Commission in the U.S. introduced for annual reports and proxy statements a couple months ago is not working out. Shareholders — and here I’m thinking of those middle Americans trying to hold down a job, raise kids, build a life, and hopefully a nice retirement — [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, disclosure, e-proxy, Investor Relations, microsoft, notice-and-access, privacy, SEC, securities, shareholder.com, technology, url redirection, usability
By IR Web Report on July 28, 2007
By Dominic Jones INVESTOR relations website developer Shareholder.com, a subsidiary of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ), appears to be finally getting the message that snooping on the activities of investors on company websites is unethical — and even illegal. At some point in recent weeks, Shareholder.com has changed the marketing information on its website to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, investor relations website, morgan stanley, nasdaq, nasdaq stock market inc, privacy, proxy statement, SEC, shareholder, shareholder.com, tracking tools
By IR Web Report on July 28, 2007
WHAT a week is was for Web-related investor disclosure news! I was supposed to be on an extended blogging break, but there was no way I could stay away when history was being made. Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) broke ranks by announcing that it was changing its earnings release process by posting the information [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, disclosure, e-proxy, earnings, EDGAR, finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, nasdaq, NIRI, privacy, SEC, securities, shareholder relations, shareholder.com, usability, XBRL, yahoo
By IR Web Report on July 10, 2007
APPLIED Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC), one of the first companies to make use of the new e-Proxy process, is using cookies to identify and track people using the website hosting its annual report and proxy statement. Under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) rule for the voluntary e-Proxy process, “a registrant or its agent [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, feeds, law, nasdaq, privacy, rss, SEC, securities, shareholder.com, usability
By IR Web Report on July 10, 2007
By Dominic Jones THEY’RE not the only providers of hosted investor relations websites, but they’re the biggest in the United States so many companies wonder which one has the better IR website product. Our survey of over 500 international large-cap IR websites includes companies that are clients of Thomson Financial and Shareholder.com, so we have [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, nasdaq, privacy, SEC, shareholder.com
By IR Web Report on July 4, 2007
THE first companies to take advantage of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new e-proxy process have sent out their notices to investors telling them where to find their annual reporting documents on the Web. Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC), a small-cap technology firm, was the first company to catch my attention when it [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, EDGAR, nasdaq, privacy, SEC, securities, shareholder.com, technology, URLs
By IR Web Report on June 20, 2007
THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today voted to make all companies post their annual meeting materials on their websites. Full details of the rules won’t be known until the SEC posts the final rule on its website, but as it was explained today large companies will have to post their proxy materials on [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, disclosure, e-proxy, IR websites, law, nasdaq, notice-and-access, privacy, SEC, securities, shareholder.com, usability
By IR Web Report on June 15, 2007
Update: On July 26, 2007, the SEC posted the adopting release for the final rule requiring companies to post their proxy materials on their websites. The adopting release states: “The materials must be presented on the Web site in a format, or formats, convenient for both reading online and printing on paper.” This statement has [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, disclosure, e-proxy, EDGAR, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, nasdaq, privacy, SEC, securities, shareholder.com, technology, usability, web usability
By IR Web Report on May 25, 2007
NEWS today that European Union privacy regulators are challenging giant Google Inc.’s privacy practices should be cause for alarm for companies that use Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.-owned Shareholder.com’s investor tracking tools on their websites. The EU regulators are concerned that Google’s tracking practices violate privacy protections in Europe. However, when you compare what Google is [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged analyst, corporate websites, e-proxy, earnings, earnings calls, Europe, European Union, feeds, Google Inc., Investor Relations, IR websites, JPMorgan Chase & Co, law, nasdaq, nasdaq stock market inc, national investor relations institute, Netflix, NIRI, non-anonymous web tracking services, Palm Inc., privacy, QUALCOMM Inc., Questar, rss, SEC, SEC filings, securities, securities and exchange commission, shareholder.com, technology, The Western Union Co., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, VeriSign Inc., Zimmer Holdings
By IR Web Report on May 25, 2007
By Dominic Jones NASDAQ Stock Market Inc. is bidding $3.67 billion for Sweden’s OMX AB, Europe’s sixth-largest stock exchange group, in a deal to create the second trans-Atlantic stock exchange. OMX AB sells exchange software and operates equity and derivatives exchanges in the Nordic and Baltic markets. Its Nordic Exchange includes exchanges in Copenhagen, Stockholm, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, communications, Europe, Iceland, London Stock Exchange, nasdaq, NASDAQ OMX Group, nasdaq stock market inc, new york stock exchange, OMX AB, Prime Newswire, privacy, Riga, SEC, shareholder.com, stock exchange, Stockholm, Sweden, Tallinn, technology, the Washington Post, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Vilnius
By IR Web Report on May 16, 2007
By Dominic Jones I DREW attention yesterday to the fact that Thomson Financial’s corporate investor relations and public relations businesses don’t fit well in the structure outlined in the Thomson-Reuters acquisition announcement. According to the companies, the combined Reuters and Thomson Financial business will be guided by journalistic principles, such as integrity, independence and freedom [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged ADP, broadridge financial solutions inc, communications, corporate communications, CorporateNews Group, Europe, finance, Investor Relations, nasdaq, pr newswire, privacy, public relations, reuters, rss, shareholder.com, strategy, thomson financial, wire services
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