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IR leaders on YouTube and FriendFeed
LAST WEEK, I wrote about how the US National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) annual conference was being given a little Web 2.0 treatment on the new, 100-day-old service called FriendFeed.
That unplanned experiment, which occurred to me on a whim and far exceeded what I or anyone else expected, was followed this week by a similar [...]
E-Proxy Part 37: Try this for fun
YOU know how under the SEC’s notice-and-access process companies send their shareholders a postcard-size notice asking them to go online to view their annual meeting materials?
Well, I think you will agree with me that the single most important bit of information on that notice is the URL that you want people to go to. So [...]
A mock "notice-and-access" earnings release
FOLLOWING up on my earlier post about a “notice-and-access” concept for disclosure news releases as a way to cut costs for issuers, I thought it would be interesting to put together a mock release based on an actual company’s quarterly results.Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK), the pharmaceutical giant, reported Q3 2007 earnings earlier today [...]
My bad experience with first e-proxy notice
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 filed [...]
Top posts in June
HERE’S a list of the 5 most popular posts over the past month, just in case you missed any of them or are interested to see what other people find most interesting on this blog.
The top posts are determined by the number of people who viewed the posts during the month. Posts earlier in the [...]
OmniVision, PR Newswire release earnings by mistake
By Dominic Jones
A WEBSITE scheduling glitch at OmniVision Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OVTI) and a mistake by PR Newswire led to the halting of the company’s stock last week.
Barron’s blogger Eric Savitz pieces the story together:
Sometime after noon Pacific time on Thursday, the company inadvertently posted the announcement on the investor section of its Web site. [...]
10 Signs You Need a New IR Website
By Dominic Jones
THINKING off the cuff, I jotted down 10 things that would suggest to me that a company needs to consider upgrading its IR website. They aren’t in any order but they are the first things that sprang to mind based on my recent site reviews.
1. If people want to contact you via [...]
Use Links Instead of Directions in New Releases
By Dominic Jones
MANY IR news releases waste investors’ time unnecessarily because companies don’t provide direct links to webcasts and other information on their websites.
Look at the screenshot below of restaurant chain Denny’s (NASDAQ: DENN) recent announcement about its upcoming earnings call. The sentences I’ve highlighted tell investors how to find the call on the company’s [...]
Websites and Blogs Should Be Approved for Scheduled Disclosures
By Dominic Jones (1 update added)
SUN Microsystems’ CEO Jonathan Schwartz has written to the Securities and Exchange Commission to argue that website postings should be recognized as full and fair disclosure under securities regulations.
In essence, he is arguing that by posting material information on its website, a company achieves a level of dissemination equal to [...]
News Digest for September 28, 2006
There are 8 items today… US brokers unveil new trading system | SEC Hires a Company It’s Investigating | Biovail Asked for Punishment of Critical Analyst, Report Says | Less paper, more trees | Rivet Software and Market Wire In XBRL Partnership | Yahoo, MySpace lead online video index | Yahoo acquires video-editing site [...]
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