By IR Web Report on June 18, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged CIRI, Investor Relations, jeff morgan, national investor relations institute, NIRI, niri08, Ryan Lejbak, SEC, social media, TheCorporateCounsel.net, twitter, URLs, YouTube
By IR Web Report on April 10, 2008
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. [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged e-proxy, Investor Relations, notice-and-access, url redirection, URLs, web usability
By IR Web Report on October 22, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclosure, earnings, feeds, finance, IR websites, nasdaq, news releases, notice-and-access, rss, URLs, xhtml, yahoo
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 29, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, e-proxy, earnings, NIRI, SEC, URLs
By IR Web Report on June 5, 2007
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, corporate websites, earnings, nasdaq, SEC, URLs
By IR Web Report on November 21, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged disclaimers, FAQs, markup, rss, shareholder.com, stock chart, URLs
By IR Web Report on October 24, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Denny's, earnings, Investor Relations, IR websites, nasdaq, news releases, SEC, thomson financial, URLs, xhtml
By IR Web Report on October 5, 2006
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 [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged blogs, communications, conference calls, disclosure, earnings, EDGAR, finance, finance websites, Investor Relations, IR websites, Jonathan Schwartz, management, Michael Dillon, news releases, newswires, rss, SEC, securities, securities and exchange commission, sun microsystems, Tim Bray, URLs, web technologies, wire services, XML, yahoo
By IR Web Report on 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 | [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged analyst, Australia, Jumpcut Six-month, management, Market Wire, Market Wire Enter Strategic Partnership, MySpace, Rivet Software, San Francisco, SEC, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, URLs, XBRL, yahoo
By IR Web Report on August 20, 2006
Note: Updated Sept. 8, 2006 to add preliminary voting results from Heinz. By Dominic Jones SHAREHOLDER activism is on the rise. Hedge funds are wielding more clout. Proxy battles could be made easier and cheaper. New exchange rules will make it harder for directors to get votes. Majority voting for director elections is set to [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged communications, director elections, Heinz, Hemscott, Investis, Investor Relations, IR websites, James Handslip, law, London, management, Nelson Peltz, news releases, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, retail investors, rss, SEC, securities, shareholder relations, shareholder.com, technology, thomson financial, Trian Group, URLs, usability, web-based communications program, website services, www.enhanceheinz.com, www.heinzsuperiorvalue.com
By IR Web Report on July 28, 2006
Poison pills become slightly less bitter Poison pills came into use in the early 1980s and are one of several takeover defenses, including staggered boards and rules that prevent shareholders from calling special meetings. Hedge funds top clients for many brokers – survey “When you take prime brokerage and these other products into account, hedge [...]
Posted in Articles | Tagged Poison, prime brokerage, URLs
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