Shell launches Apple, Android apps for investors, media
OIL giant Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS) has launched the most feature-rich corporate apps yet for iPhone, iPad and Android devices — and the company says there’s more to come.
Investor relations iPad apps: best practice examples
INVESTOR relations departments are hardly renowned for being leaders in using new technology, but it seems you can make an exception when it comes to iPad apps designed to deliver IR information on Apple’s popular tablet.
SNL now offering free mobile IR websites to clients
IN ANOTHER sign that the mobile investor relations web is coming of age, SNL Financial’s IR Solutions group is now providing free mobile investor relations websites to all of its clients.
12 mobile IR websites reviewed
UNLESS you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that the mobile web has seen explosive growth over the past year — and all projections are that it will be the fastest growing area of the web in the next few years.
Annual reports for iPhones & iPads: hype or good idea?
Working in the online reporting field since 2001, Thomas Rosenmayr has a financial background as an equity analyst and holds an MBA from Vienna/Austria. He is the founder and CEO of Nexxar, a firm that focuses on producing online corporate reporting documents that take full advantage of web technologies to improve engagement through interactivity and [...]
iPads in the Boardroom: ICSA launches Blueprint BoardPad
THE Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators is this month launching new Apple iPad software for directors that it says is “aimed at bringing the boardroom into the 21st century by moving board papers into the digital realm.”
NASDAQ makes StockTwits even more relevant to IR
NASDAQ OMX Inc., the world’s largest exchange company, has launched an iPhone application that prominently incorporates content from StockTwits, a service that aggregates Twitter messages by traders and investors about stocks and other securities. The move is another wake-up call to investor relations departments that they cannot ignore social media or dismiss its role in [...]
Pocket projectors: a must-have gadget for IROs?
ADD pocket projectors to the obligatory BlackBerry as among the list of must-have gadgets for investor relations officers and CFOs. As the New York Times reports today, tiny projectors that can be embedded in mobile phones or in pocket-sized standalone projectors are coming this year. Analysts predict that the business market — and my tween [...]
Apple blogged, stock tanks. Wow!
ANYONE who still thinks blogs are irrelevant to what happens on the stock market should read this story. During the middle of the trading day, top blog Engadget posted an item based on what it thought was an internal company email saying Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) was delaying its highly anticipated iPhone and its new operating [...]
U.S. Mobile Web Users Favor Mail, Weather, Sports and Search
BY IR Web Report Staff MORE than 34.6 million mobile subscribers accessed the Internet via their wireless devices in June 2006 — and they mostly used email, weather, search and sports sites. According to Telephia, a provider of performance measurement information to the mobile industry, email and weather sites were the top two most visited [...]
Get ready for the mobile investor web
DRAMATIC changes in technology are providing new ways for companies and investors to stay in touch — and the mobile Web should be right near the top of every IR and PR department’s web plans. People around the world are increasingly accessing the Web on mobile devices — and investment information is a logical fit [...]
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