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Bloomberg grabs NetApp’s earnings early, second case in a week

Bloomberg grabs NetApp’s earnings early, second case in a week

By Dominic Jones on November 18, 2010

NETAPP Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP) has become the second company in less than a week to have earnings information leaked from an unsecured area of its corporate website.

Posted in Issues, Online IR | Tagged Bloomberg, Disclosure, Disclosure leaks, Quarterly Reporting, security breaches

The downside of suing stock analysts

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 [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged analyst, Bloomberg, nyse, securities, strategy, The Street, wall street journal

Is there a disclosure issue here?

By Dominic Jones on April 4, 2008

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 [...]

Posted in Articles, Communications, Corporate Governance, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged Bloomberg, disclosure practices, finance, financial communications, management, new york stock exchange, news releases, SEC, yahoo

Yahoo! Finance has lost its way

By Dominic Jones on February 9, 2008

Yahoo! Finance, once the clear leader in finance portals, has been neglected to the point where it is in danger of becoming irrelevant.

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, finance, finance portals, google finance, management, strategy, Yahoo Finance

NYSE's antiquated Timely Alert Policy

By Dominic Jones on January 20, 2008

THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE wrote to its listed companies last week to remind them of their disclosure obligations, including its policy around issuing news releases about material information. The exchange said that it “feels strongly that its longstanding policy of requiring a press release for the dissemination of material corporate information is in the [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure | Tagged Bloomberg, feeds, finance, news releases, rss, SEC, yahoo

Sun Microsystems, Inc. confuses me — and Bloomberg

By Dominic Jones on November 6, 2007

AFTER making a big deal last quarter about no longer relying on paid PR wires to distribute its earnings releases, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) has gone back to the traditional approach this quarter.I cannot find an explanation for why the company has decided to once again issue its earnings release first via a PR [...]

Posted in Articles, Communications, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, earnings, feeds, nasdaq, NIRI, rss, SEC, securities, technology, wordpress

Lights! Camera! Missed opportunity?

By Guest Contributor on October 29, 2007

Guest Post by Luanne M. Wing INTERNET video is a phenomenon that is making overnight stars of start-up entrepreneurs. Innovative videos provide information, as well as compelling and creative visuals of products and services that may never have seen the light of day. Video morphs yesterday’s media of passive text and still photographs into captivating [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, earnings, finance, management, SEC, strategy, technology, yahoo

A common gaffe sends mixed signals at BP

By Dominic Jones on October 12, 2007

IF you read the major news services yesterday, you might have seen the big news from BP plc (NYSE:BP), the troubled oil giant that has suffered a slew of negative news over the past year or so. I was trawling Bloomberg and spotted an article headlined BP’s Hayward Will Cut Jobs After `Dreadful’ Quarter. The [...]

Posted in Articles | Tagged Bloomberg, management, SEC

Are IROs really this dumb?

By Dominic Jones on September 28, 2007

“We are developing a new website and have decided not to use RSS,” she stated, arguing that a news feed could discourage investors from getting in direct contact, costing IROs the chance of building up two-way communication. The above is taken from an item headlined UK IROs Cool on RSS that was posted on IR [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged Bloomberg, rss

Twitter: the newswire killer

By Dominic Jones on August 17, 2007

A FEW months ago, there was a lot of hubbub in the technology blogging community about a new service called Twitter. The service asked people to write short messages about what they were doing, and then it delivered the one-liners to their friends in near real time via instant messaging, SMS and the Web. Initially, [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, earnings, feeds, SEC, stocks, technology, Twitter

The truth about Sun's Web-first earnings release — Update 3

By Dominic Jones on August 1, 2007

Note: I’ve added more specifics around the sequence of events around Sun’s release, including adding a screenshot taken from Yahoo! Finance which shows times various news items became available there. I’ve also added a link to a PRWeek article that provides a more balanced report than IR Magazine. I’ve also added an update about Business [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, corporate websites, earnings, EDGAR, feeds, finance, law, rss, SEC, securities, stocks, technology, wordpress, yahoo

Pfizer starts summits with (some) shareholders

By Dominic Jones on June 29, 2007

THE board of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) will hold face-to-face meetings with an invited list of shareholders to hear their views on corporate governance issues, including executive pay. The first summit will happen later this year. The company said it plans to invite shareholder representatives who together own about 35% of Pfizer’s shares. [...]

Posted in Articles, Communications | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, e-proxy, SEC

SEC mandates online proxy materials

By Dominic Jones on June 20, 2007

THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today voted to make all companies post their annual meeting materials on their websites. Full details of the rules won’t be known until the SEC posts the final rule on its website, but as it was explained today large companies will have to post their proxy materials on [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure | Tagged Bloomberg, e-proxy, law, nasdaq, notice-and-access, privacy, SEC, securities, shareholder.com, usability

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