Nasdaq should get out of press release, website business
NASDAQ has sparked an uproar among its listed firms and investor relations service providers with a proposal to bundle news releases and website services into its listing fees. We cover the furor over the proposal in a separate story. In this article, I want to address a question posed by at least one company in [...]
Cox’s blog post gets 10x more media mentions than official release
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 [...]
Someone cheated on NIRI’s Nasdaq poll
SOMETHING strange happened shortly after I posted an update to our story about Nasdaq’s controversial move to bundle website hosting and newswire services with its listing fees. Yesterday, I updated our original story to add interim results from a NIRI member poll asking if they approved of Nasdaq’s move. The screenshot below shows that around [...]