Reuters distributes press releases in editorial feed
IN AN unconventional move that blurs the lines between journalism and public relations, Reuters is now distributing press releases of its parent company’s corporate clients in its editorial feed to Yahoo! Finance, the world’s most popular investing website.
Regulation Fair Disclosure: an overview
THE 90’s brought us faster computers, high-speed Internet access and online retail trading, all of which contributed to an increased awareness of the disparity between market information available to professional and retail investors.
Discussion: How to push social media for IR forward?
Patrick Kiss, Head of Investor & Public Relations at Deutsche EuroShop AG, sees a lack of progress in the use of social media for investor relations. He wonders if the time has come for IROs to take the next step and move beyond monitoring to active engagement — or potentially even withdraw to the sidelines.
Summary: Reaction to Netflix CEO’s blog response to short-seller
WHEN Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings personally responded to a short-seller’s treatise against his company in a Seeking Alpha blog post, he single-handedly upended investor relations convention.
Netflix CEO responds to short-seller in Seeking Alpha blog post
IN AN unusual move for a public company chief executive, Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings has responded via a blog post on the popular Seeking Alpha website to an investor who is shorting his company’s stock.
TD breaks social media ground in Canada’s dull bank sector
WHILE other countries’ banks have been snapping like twigs under the stresses of the financial crisis, Canada’s conservative financial institutions have been as steadfast as giant Douglas-firs in an old-growth forest.
Should you send holiday cards to analysts and investors?
ONE of the hottest discussions over the past week in the Investor Relations Executives Group on Linkedin asks whether investor relations pros send out holiday cards to their covering analysts and biggest shareholders.
NYSE heaps scorn on earnings leak firms
A NYSE Euronext official has called Bloomberg’s scraping of non-public earnings releases from the websites of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) and NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP), which caused huge volatility in the stocks of both companies, “good reporting” by the newswire and shameful of the companies.
We should all hope for a Facebook IPO in 2011
ALTHOUGH company executives have repeatedly tried to dampen speculation about an impending IPO, Facebook looks increasingly ready to go public in the coming year – an event that could be a big boost to shattered public interest and confidence in the US stock market.
At Bango, an IR website budget of $4.75 per month
BANGO plc, a micro-cap software firm with offices in the UK and the US, is saving thousands per year by hosting its investor relations website entirely on the popular WordPress.com blogging network.
New series to demystify SEC rules for social media and web pros
STARTING little over a minute ago, we’re introducing a new series to IR Web Report that aims to demystify the laws, rules and regulations that govern what public companies should and should not do on the web when it comes to information about their financial performance and business activities.
Tulip Bulbs, the SEC and Twitter
HELLO IR Web Report readers, I’m here to hopefully provide you with a bit of perspective on how the U.S. federal securities laws can come into play in the context of a web-based investor relations practice. But, being that I am a lawyer, the first thing I have to do is refer you to a [...]
As webcasting war heats up, NASDAQ OMX buys Sweden’s ZVM
NASDAQ OMX has acquired its corporate services partner, Stockholm-based Zoomvision Mamato (ZVM), amid heightened competition in the Nordic webcasting business from bigger rivals Thomson Reuters and Qbrick-Arkena.
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