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By IR Web Report on June 20, 2008
BILLIONAIRE corporate raider Carl Icahn launched his long-anticipated blog yesterday, eliciting some rather bemused reactions from some of the blogosphere’s leading writers. By starting The Icahn Report yesterday, the world’s 46th richest man with a net worth of US$14 billion joins the ranks of guys who work long hours for ad clicks, and who get [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Dan Primack, Eric Savitz, Investor Relations, Jack Davis, John Paczkowski, new york post, SEC, thomson financial, twitter, yahoo
By IR Web Report on April 24, 2008
JUST over 70% of the people who participated in this week’s poll guessed correctly when choosing the word I would use to describe the practice of making investors register to access RSS feeds on corporate websites. This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for the past two years but never got around to. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate websites, feeds, Google, Investor Relations, IR websites, NASDAQ OMX Group, rss, Ryan Lejbak, Search results, southern company, thomson financial, yahoo
By IR Web Report 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 IR Web Report on April 8, 2008
SEARCHING for something online the other day, I bumped into Thomson Financial’s channel on YouTube. The channel is a mix of market reports, research updates and — what I thought was nice — advice on investor relations from the company’s Corporate Advisory Services division. Looks like they’ve been posting short videos on YouTube for about [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, crisis communications, Investor Relations, law, Mike Tamas, thomson financial, YouTube
By IR Web Report on April 4, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged initial public offerings, Investor Relations, IPOs, nasdaq, national venture capital association, nyse, stocks, thomson financial, ticker symbol, venture capital, venture capital association, venture capital funding, wordpress
By IR Web Report on March 28, 2008
THIS is an open invitation to the 2,600 buy-side analysts, sell-side analysts and portfolio managers who, according to the IR Magazine US Awards, selected PF Chang’s China Bistro as having the best investor relations website for small- to mid-cap companies. I don’t get it. What is it about the site that makes it good? As [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Investor Relations, ir magazine, PDFs, pf chang, thomson financial
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
By IR Web Report on May 15, 2007
By Dominic Jones EARLY this morning, the boards of Thomson Corporation and Reuters Group PLC announced that they have agreed to combine their companies. Reuters CEO Tom Glocer, 47, will become CEO of the new Thomson-Reuters. Thomson President and CEO, Richard J. Harrington, 60, will retire after the deal closes, which is expected after anti-trust [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, corporate communications, David Schlesinger, Devin Wenig, Investor Relations, journalist, media, public relations, Reuter Trust Principles, reuters, Reuters Group PLC, Richard J. Harrington, thomson financial, Tom Glocer, Woodbridge
By IR Web Report on May 9, 2007
By Dominic Jones TIMELINESS is vital for investor relations websites to remain relevant to investors. A site that contains out-of-date information will quickly lose users to other sources of information. And that’s what may be happening to corporate investor relations websites hosted by Thomson Financial and other large vendors. As I wrote recently, according to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, EDGAR Online, finance, Google, google finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, nasdaq, reuters, SEC, Standard & Poor's, thomson financial, yahoo
By IR Web Report on May 7, 2007
By Dominic Jones GOOGLE Finance has just been upgraded in the past few hours to add information on company events like earnings call webcasts and upcoming events that integrate with Google Calendar. The screenshot below shows the new Events module on the Google Finance page for Zimmer Holdings, Inc. By clicking on the webcast links, [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, earnings, earnings calls, feeds, finance, Google, Google Calendar, google finance, Katie Jacobs Stanton, Kyphon, microsoft, official, rss, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, thomson financial, ticker symbol, yahoo, Zimmer Holdings Inc.
By IR Web Report on April 24, 2007
By Dominic Jones IN WHAT may be an indication that U.S. IR websites are no longer able to attract and hold the interest of investors, traffic to IR websites hosted by Thomson Financial has slumped to all-time lows, according to the Alexa website information company. Alexa, owned by Amazon.com, measures traffic only of people who [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged earnings, finance, Google, google finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, Lou Thompson, messenger, NIRI, S&P 500, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, shareholder.com, stocks, thomson financial, transcripts, yahoo
By IR Web Report on April 24, 2007
By Dominic Jones (Note: See update at end of post.) A COUPLE of U.S. health care sector companies in our IR website benchmarking survey are in the process of being gobbled up by bigger companies or are going private, so we’ve been looking for replacements. Usually we just pick companies at random from the S&P [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Australia, communications, Europe, IR websites, Japan, S&P 400, S&P 500, SEC, thomson financial
By IR Web Report on April 2, 2007
By Dominic Jones JUST over a week ago, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Christopher Cox gave an important speech that has so far gone unreported by the investor relations profession’s main associations and trade press. In his closing remarks to the Second Annual Corporate Governance Summit at the USC Marshall School of Business in [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, communications, disclosure, e-proxy, EDGAR, GE, investor communications, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, less-glamorous retail investor communications, management, online communications, PDF, retail investors, Roel Campos, SEC, securities, securities and exchange commission, shareholder law suits, shareholder materials, shareholder.com, SunTrust, technology, thomson financial, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, USC Marshall School of Business in Los Angeles, web communications, website hosting services, XBRL
By IR Web Report 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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, communications, corporate websites, disclosure, e-proxy, earnings, EDGAR, finance, google finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, management, Media Mentions Than Official, microsoft, Model for Corporate Website Management, nasdaq, newswires, NIRI, PDF, pr newswire, privacy, retail investors, rss, SEC, securities, social media, Starbucks, strategy, thomson financial, transcripts, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, usability, web privacy, XBRL, yahoo, YouTube
By IR Web Report on March 19, 2007
WHY don’t more companies provide transcripts of their earnings conference calls and investor presentations on their websites? Of the 525 large-cap companies whose websites we review, only 12% are currently providing transcripts of their earnings calls on their investor relations websites. It’s NOT because investors don’t want them. There wouldn’t be a transcript industry if [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged cfa institute, conference calls, earnings, earnings calls, finance, Google, google finance, Investor Relations, IR websites, law, management, PDF, SEC, SEC filings, seeking alpha, seekingalpha, SeekingAlpha.com, StreetEvents, thomson financial, transcripts, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, yahoo
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