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By Dominic Jones on June 2, 2010
THOMSON REUTERS and Nasdaq OMX, the two US investor relations services giants, are set to launch new one-stop web disclosure tools that give companies greater choice and direct control over how they meet their regulatory obligations and communicate with investors online.
Posted in Articles | Tagged GlobeNewswire, Investor Relations, IR websites, NASDAQ OMX Group, NIRI, shareholder.com, Thomson Reuters
By Dominic Jones on August 8, 2008
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) new guidance for company websites gives investor relations departments an opportunity to cut their disclosure costs and boost traffic to their websites by using “notice-and-access” news releases for Regulation FD. Although the SEC’s guidance goes so far as to say that “some companies” may not need to use [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, disclosure practices, earnings, EDGAR, feeds, hedge funds, Internet, Investor Relations, investor relations website, ir departments, IR websites, national investor relations institute, news releases, NIRI, notice-and-access, nyse, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission, shareholder.com, technology, Thomson Reuters, twitter, us sec
By Dominic Jones on June 10, 2008
IN TODAY’S technology-driven disclosure world, every IR department needs a reliable and highly informed web communications partner to help them navigate through the many new and exciting ways that they can connect online with their investors. This was made clear yesterday at the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) annual conference in San Diego when John [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate websites, disclosure, Investor Relations, IR websites, national investor relations institute, niri08, shareholder.com, social media, technology, Thomson Reuters
By Dominic Jones on April 22, 2008
THERE is only one word to explain what is depicted in this screenshot I took while visiting the website of Southern Company, a big US energy utility. But rather than say what I think the word is, I thought you might like to have a quick guess using the poll embedded below the screenshot. I [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, rss, rss registration, shareholder.com, southern company, technology
By Dominic Jones on April 12, 2008
BACK in November 2006, I published a list of 10 signs that an investor relations website was in dire need of an upgrade. Reading the list again, it struck me how we still see many companies making the same mistakes. So I thought it would be helpful to post the list again and offer to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclaimers, Investor Relations, investor relations website, IR websites, rss, shareholder.com, stock chart, thomson financial, web usability
By Dominic Jones on April 1, 2008
Please note the date of this post (and the many clues throughout) should tell you it can’t be trusted. AFTER several weeks of intense negotiations, I’m proud to announce today that my company last night signed a binding agreement to purchase the investor relations website hosting and webcasting business of Thomson Financial. The Thomson Financial [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, disclosure, earnings, Investor Relations, IR websites, rss, SEC, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, technology, transcripts, wordpress
By Dominic Jones on March 4, 2008
ABOUT eight months ago, I let my membership of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) expire. I wasn’t happy with the direction of the organization, and I felt that being a member would restrict me from speaking my mind about it on this blog if I wanted to. Since then, however, I’ve kept my mouth [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, e-proxy, earnings, Investor Relations, management, NIRI, online communications, shareholder.com
By Dominic Jones on February 14, 2008
I THOUGHT I wouldn’t have to write about the Microsoft-Yahoo! takeover saga again after likening the investor relations communications around it to watching two drunks wobbling and slurring their way through a back alley rumble. But I can’t resist. A couple of hours ago, the great Web pioneer and innovator that is Yahoo! fired off [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, finance, Investor Relations, management, microsoft, shareholder.com, strategy, technology, xhtml, 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 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 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 8, 2008
SORRY to bore you with this arcane discussion about cookies, but I’m continuing to hear from vendors who claim companies cannot use any cookies on websites hosting their proxy materials. This is nonsense and the people pushing this line of thinking — and I’m talking about a lot of different people — either aren’t paying [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, IR websites, SEC, shareholder.com
By Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones on November 2, 2007
THOMSON FINANCIAL, the 800-pound gorilla of corporate investor relations services, recently rolled out new features for its hosted investor relations website product that it promises will “transform” IR websites and improve their “user experience.”In this review, I assess each of the new features and provide my research-based, unbiased opinion on whether they are good, mediocre [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, earnings, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, management, online communications, SEC, shareholder.com, usability, wordpress
By Dominic Jones 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
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