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Icahn joins blogosphere, gets blank stares
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 excited [...]
Innovator: George Tsiolis, AGORACOM Investor Relations
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Firm name: AGORACOM Investor Relations Date [...]
The real story behind RSS registration
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. [...]
Is there a disclosure issue here?
TAKE a look at these news releases put out this week by two New York Stock Exchange-listed companies about awards they’ve received for their investor relations websites and their disclosure practices.
The first is from Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligents SA, the airline firm listed on the NYSE under the symbol GOL.
SAO PAULO, Brazil, April 1, 2008, [...]
SEC adds free news feeds to EDGAR
IN A move that portends dramatic changes in how disclosures are disseminated online, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has added news feeds for every issuer and reporting person who files with the commission’s EDGAR database.
The development is potentially bad news for news release distributors such as Business Wire, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, and [...]
Acergy S.A. gets my attention, then squanders it
WE all have limited attention spans. Mine is about 20 seconds. Make an impression within those first few moments and I’ll give you more of my time. Squander it and I’m gone.
Harder still is to even get within my field of vision. There is so much information competing for my attention at any given time [...]
Investors' new insight on mergers — employee bloggers
THE spotty success rate of mergers and acquisitions in creating shareholder value has long dogged investors who must try to decide whether a proposed acquisition by a company they own makes sense.
But with the advent of employee bloggers on the open Internet, especially those who work for leading technology companies, investors may be getting valuable [...]
Yahoo!'s latest inspiration: snail mail
I THOUGHT I wouldn’t have to write about the Microsoft-Yahoo! takeover saga again after likening the investor relations communications around it to watching two drunks wobbling and slurring their way through a back alley rumble.
But I can’t resist.
A couple of hours ago, the great Web pioneer and innovator that is Yahoo! fired off its latest [...]
Takeover bid sites, old-economy style
WITH tech titans Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) poised for a brawl, it might be useful for the two to see examples of companies that are right now using the Web to effectively present their bid propaganda.
Ironically, the examples I have to share, whipped up after a quick Google News search for [...]
Watching two tech drunks rumble
OUR research has long found that big technology companies are among the weakest when it comes to online investor relations communications — and we’re now seeing that manifest itself in the Yahoo!-Microsoft dust up.
I’ve already highlighted how neither company is making effective use of its website to keep shareholders informed, and I’ve complained aloud about [...]
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