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By Dominic Jones on April 6, 2008
THE EDGAR XML feeds were not even a week old and already intrepid web developers were finding new ways to reuse them. Over at iBanknet, where they have been doing interesting things with XBRL call reports, Marian Albert and Chris Smith saw the opportunity to create a little tool called a “widget” or “gadget” that [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged EDGAR, feeds, Google, Marian Albert, notice-and-access, SEC, SEC filings, ticker symbol, XBRL, XML
By Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones on January 31, 2008
PERHAPS it’s a testament to how far corporate reporting and disclosure have come, but there was a time when shareholders had no way of knowing exactly how much they were paying senior executives to run their companies. Then came new regulations and companies began to disclose more precisely how much their top executives were being [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged corporate reporting, disclosure, finance, SEC, securities, ticker symbol, XBRL
By Dominic Jones on August 28, 2007
SUN Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) CEO Jonathan Schwartz is now able to publish from his blog directly to his company’s page on Yahoo! Finance. Here’s a screenshot from Sun’s Yahoo! Finance page showing a link to Schwartz’s most recent blog post about the company changing its ticker symbol yesterday. Click on that link and you [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, disclosure, finance, google finance, nasdaq, rss, ticker symbol, XBRL, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on August 24, 2007
By Dominic Jones WHY should CEOs and boards of directors blog? Because it gives them feedback — real, honest, heartfelt feedback — they would otherwise never get. It keeps them in touch with the real world, something that’s easily lost after just a few months in the rarefied atmosphere of mahogany row. I’m marveling right [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, technology, ticker symbol
By Dominic Jones 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 Dominic Jones on March 21, 2007
GOOGLE Finance, the investing website that has yet to make a real impact in the year since it was launched, has just gotten a major boost with an important change to Google’s main search results pages. Now when people search the main Google site for public company names, they will see an option to preview [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, finance, general manager of global research at Hitwise, Google, google finance, Investor Relations, Investor relations communications professionals, main search, Mattel, official, search pages, Search results, SEC, ticker symbol, yahoo, Yahoo Finance
By Dominic Jones on January 4, 2007
By Dominic Jones (Note: this post has been revised to add my views on stockpickr from an individual investor perspective.) THE news release doesn’t do this new site justice. I spent about 30 minutes looking it over and near the end I was convinced that it was worth my while to go back when I [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, finance, Google Inc., Howard Lindzon, Investor Relations, James Altucher, Pfizer, Radyne Corporation, social media, social networking, social site, Stockpickr, Stockpickr.com, stocks, techcrunch, The Street, TheStreet.com, ticker symbol, Warren Buffett, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on October 4, 2006
By Dominic Jones BIG web companies like Google and Yahoo! are providing free web content that may be useful to anyone with a finance-related website, including corporate investor relations departments, shareholder activists and finance bloggers. Variously known as gadgets, widgets or badges, these mini applications are generally free and can be easily customized and integrated into an existing website by [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate websites, finance, finance bloggers, Finance widgets, Google, Google Services, Investor Relations, IR websites, management, Mountain View, nasdaq, privacy, Qwest, S&P, SEC, SEC filings, ticker symbol, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Verizon, web content, yahoo
By Dominic Jones on August 21, 2006
Here are links to 8 articles… Delisting stocks hurts investors | A Look Forward to the High-Definition Web | Banner Year for Majority Elections | For some, public-to-private move may be permanent | Netherlands is New Stomping Ground for Hedge Funds | Moody’s Cites Effects of New Pension Law | Activist Shareholders Flex Their Muscles [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Eric Karp, financial reporting, hedge funds, Japan, law, Look Forward, Moody's, Moody's Investors Service, SEC, securities, stocks, ticker symbol, Web browser, XBRL, XML
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