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By Dominic Jones on August 5, 2008
AN ADMISSION from Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR) that a basic system glitch caused it to undercount votes against directors in Yahoo! Inc.’s contentious annual meeting is just the latest in a string of recent problems where the company has been implicated.
Questions were raised about the outcome of the Yahoo! meeting — perhaps the highest-profile [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged annual meeting, broadridge financial solutions inc, business, Investor Relations, kara swisher, notice-and-access, wall street journal
By Dominic Jones on July 22, 2008
BANKATLANTIC Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:BBX) is embarking on a risky strategy by suing a veteran bank analyst for defamation and negligence after he included the company in a research report that ranked 107 U.S. financial institutions on the chances of them going bust.
Yesterday, the bank holding company filed a lawsuit in the state court for Broward [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged analyst, bankatlantic bancorp inc, bfc financial corp, blog, Bloomberg, business, Forbes, indymac bancorp, Investor Relations, Ladenburg, ladenburg thalmann, nyse, Richard X. Bove, securities, strategy, The Street, wall street journal
By Dominic Jones on July 18, 2008
BIZARRE is the only way to describe the screenshot below of Google Finance’s homepage this morning — the day after the search giant reported earnings that missed analyst forecasts and sent its shares tumbling more than 7% in after-hours trading.
By all accounts, Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) earnings miss was big news. It is on the front [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged business, Google, google news, merrill lynch, stocks, technology, wall street journal
By Dominic Jones on May 22, 2007
By Dominic Jones
OH dear! A bit of mess over at Glass Lewis & Co., the proxy advisory firm acquired in December by China-based Xinhua Finance Media.
Two senior executives at the corporate governance firm — former SEC chief accountant Lynn E. Turner and former Wall Street Journal reporter Jonathan Weil — have quit, apparently in protest [...]
Posted in Investor Relations Blog | Tagged Bill Alpert, Chief Accountant, China, disclosure, finance, Fredy Bush, Glass Lewis & Co., Jonathan Weil, law, Lynn E. Turner, National Association of Securities Dealers, SEC, securities, Shelly Singhal, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, wall street journal
By Dominic Jones on March 1, 2007
By Dominic Jones
DESPITE rules that say they must be in plain English, the average executive pay report filed by U.S. companies so far this year is as hard to read as an academic paper, a survey by IR Web Report has found.
Under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules passed last year, companies must for [...]
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By Dominic Jones on November 19, 2006
By Dominic Jones
LAST week was an interesting one for people who believe that corporations are entering a new era of openness where once jealously guarded pretences are being stripped bare to reveal the “authentic” soul of the company.
Both Time Warner Inc. and Yahoo Inc. stood naked in front of millions when their internal management workings [...]
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By Dominic Jones on November 15, 2006
Update: Please see the comments by Dave Armon, COO of PR Newswire at the end of this post. Simon Phipps, Sun Microsystems’ Chief Open Source Officer, has also commented. While neither Simon nor I agree with Dave’s position, his willingness to take us on in such a public forum is a credit to him and [...]
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By Dominic Jones on September 12, 2006
By Dominic Jones
PITY the investor relations people at Illinois Tool Works Inc. They arrived at work this morning to find that someone named Jason Wood had gained access to Yahoo! Finance and is calling their latest acquisition a “strange, strange deal.”
You can almost hear them asking: “Who the hell is Jason Wood and where [...]
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