Most popular posts Jan. – Feb. 2009
A LOT of regular readers have been buried in year-end reporting and preparing annual reports, so I thought I’d recap the most popular posts on IR Web Report over the past two months in case you missed them. Business Wire’s Double Standards About how Business Wire is attacking cheap notice-and-access releases even while its owner [...]
BGC proves notice-and-access releases work
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, yesterday announced its earnings using the notice-and-access news release method we have been advocating for several years. Despite heated hand-waving by one big PR wire service — and some hand-wringing by ourselves — the earnings release process went off without a hitch, even [...]
Why I’m nervous for BGC and its next earnings release
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, is taking the bold step of using the notice-and-access approach with its next earnings release on February 26 — but I think they should reconsider. On Monday, the company issued a news release announcing the following: “In compliance with the U.S. Securities and [...]
My real-time personal newswire
THERE was a time when being able to quickly send information to be published at multiple places on the Internet was difficult and expensive. Big PR newswires, for instance, charged hefty fees for the ability to have your press releases and other information distributed to multiple points where investors could receive them. But just as [...]
SEC's new guidance for websites and blogs posted
THE US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published its 47-page interpretive release that explains how companies can use their websites and blogs to meet its requirements for public disclosure under Regulation FD. Here’s a Scribd version of the complete release, which can also be downloaded in PDF from the SEC’s website. See my initial [...]
Business Wire, Yahoo! roll out readable releases
AFTER almost of decade of putting up with archaic news release text and garbled financial tables, Yahoo! Finance users may finally be getting company news releases they can easily read and reuse. Yesterday, I noticed that the world’s most popular finance website is using Business Wire‘s XHTML-based newsfeed, potentially ushering in a new era of [...]
Nasdaq's IR services conflicts in the spotlight
By Dominic Jones SIX weeks ago, I said Nasdaq should be forced to sell its press release and website hosting subsidiaries because they create an unacceptable conflict of interest between the exchange’s business interests and its role as a regulator. You can see my original comments in Nasdaq should get out of press release, website [...]
Social media wire releases are bogus
THERE’s a lot of talk these days from the big wire services about “social media news releases.” However, almost all of it is meaningless because people are mostly trying to reinvent something that is actually obsolete. Newswires have latched onto social media releases because they’re looking for ways to stay relevant in a world that, [...]
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