• About
  • Contacts
IR Web Report
  • Latest Posts
  • Categories
    • Web Disclosure
    • Annual Reports
    • Quarterly Reporting
    • Presentations
    • Social Media
    • IR Law
    • Governance
    • Shareholder Services
    • Video
    • Mobile
Browse: Home / pr newswire


pr newswire

BGC proves notice-and-access releases work

By Dominic Jones on February 27, 2009

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 [...]

Posted in Disclosure, Issues, Online IR | Tagged newswires, pr newswire, Quarterly Reporting, Thomson Reuters, Web Disclosure

NYSE to change policy on websites for disclosure

NYSE to change policy on websites for disclosure

By Dominic Jones on February 4, 2009

The New York Stock Exchange is set to change its antiquated “timely alert policy” to bring it in line with the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) guidance for using corporate websites to satisfy Regulation FD.

Posted in Issues, Online IR | Tagged nyse, pr newswire, reg fd, SEC, Web Disclosure

No changes please, we're PR Newswire's Disclosure Advisory Board

By Dominic Jones on August 21, 2008

PR NEWSWIRE has trotted out its Disclosure Advisory Board (DAB) to say that they do not see companies changing their disclosure practices any time soon in response to the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recent guidance for company websites. They have issued a statement that basically calls for companies to continue to use the [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure, Investor Relations | Tagged corporate communications, credibility, disclosure practices, genesis inc, goldman sachs, individual investors, Internet, Lou Thompson, Mark Hynes, new york stock exchange, notice-and-access, pr newswire, rss, SEC, securities and exchange commission

What were regulators thinking?

By Dominic Jones on April 17, 2007

WE SEE a lot of stupid things in the world of public company disclosure, but few are as dumb as the “Annual Information Update” required by European regulators. Do a search of Google for “Annual Information Update” and you’ll see what we mean. Look at this one via Market Wire and RNS, the “company news [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure | Tagged Google, London Stock Exchange, Market Wire, pr newswire, SEC, securities, yahoo

NYSE in disclosure dark ages

By Dominic Jones on February 14, 2007

WHAT year is it? If you spend your life with your head buried in the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) Listed Company Manual, you might be in a 10-year time warp. Last week, the NYSE issued reminder letters to its listed companies about their disclosure obligations this annual meeting season. Those letters, one for U.S. [...]

Posted in Disclosure, Online IR | Tagged new york stock exchange, pr newswire, regulation, rss, SEC

SEC assessing blogs for disclosure, says Cox

By Dominic Jones on January 10, 2007

By Dominic Jones THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is continuing to weigh whether to allow companies to use website and blog postings instead of news releases for investor disclosure. Chairman Christopher Cox told a Reuters Regulation Summit in Washington that the dissemination requirements for Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg. FD) that were passed more [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure | Tagged blogs, conference calls, earnings, Jonathan Schwartz, news releases, pr newswire, reuters, rss, SEC, SEC filings, securities, sun microsystems, technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, XBRL

Newswires Selling Like Hot Cakes

By Dominic Jones on December 12, 2006

EURONEXT NV, which is set to be acquired by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), has strengthened its position in the corporate newswire business by acquiring Hugin ASA of Norway. The move means that the NYSE will join its US rival Nasdaq as the proud owner of a newswire service. In September, Nasdaq acquired PrimeZone, [...]

Posted in IR News | Tagged Euronext NV, Hugin ASA, NASDAQ OMX, new york stock exchange, pr newswire, rss, SEC

Cox’s blog post gets 10x more media mentions than official release

By Dominic Jones on November 15, 2006

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 [...]

Posted in Social Media | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, Google, news releases, newswire services, pr newswire, SEC, sun microsystems, wall street journal, XBRL

PR Newswire should give Heineken’s money back

By Dominic Jones on November 13, 2006

THIS kind of thing shouldn’t happen — and companies need to stand up and start demanding that it stop. I’ve pasted a screenshot below of a news release today by Heineken N.V. inviting investors to listen in on an investor presentation it’s giving in New York. The company has done the right thing for its [...]

Posted in Online IR | Tagged news releases, pr newswire, pr wires

Nasdaq on collision course with IR vendors

By Dominic Jones on October 3, 2006

THE Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. appears ready to wrap the cost of investor relations websites and newswire services into its annual listing fees — putting it on a collision course with many of its listed companies’ current service providers. In a filing with the SEC yesterday, the stock exchange said its fees would rise about [...]

Posted in Issues | Tagged IR Websites, Market Wire, nasdaq, NIRI, pr newswire, pr wires, PrimeZone, privacy, SEC, shareholder.com, thomson financial

Search the Site

Latest Stories

  • Survey finds social media gap between investors, companies
  • SEC’s social media guidance has devil in details
  • Crisis investor relations in the age of social media
  • Private meetings undermine fair disclosure, study finds
  • What makes a good annual report?
  • CEO pushes Reg FD limits on Twitter
  • For IROs, XBRL errors a wake-up call

Get Our Free Email Newsletter

Close
Note: We don't sell or rent our email list. Unsubscribe instructions come with each email.

Full Disclosure

All articles on IR Web Report are unpaid editorial. We do not charge a fee to outside contributors. Sponsors or advertisers are not automatically entitled to become contributors or receive editorial coverage. We accept contributors based on their individual expertise and experience. Contributors are required to disclose when they write about or refer to any company with which they have a business relationship, either directly or indirectly. If you believe that any contributor or IR Web Report is not living up this policy, please contact us or leave a comment on the relevant post. Editorial integrity is important to us and we take all complaints seriously.

Site Map

  • Home
  • Terms of Use
  • IR News
  • About
  • Contacts

Archives

  • 2013
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2008
  • 2007
  • 2006
  • 2005
  • 2004
  • 2003
  • 2002
  • 2001

About IR Web Report

Founded in 2001, we are the world's leading source of information about online investor relations communications. Our core philosophy is that investors' needs must come first or companies' online communications efforts will fail to be effective. More about us

Follow @irwebreport
Feed Subscribe to feed

Copyright © 2001 - 2018 IR Web Reporting International Inc. By using this site you agree to the Terms of Use and our Privacy & Cookie Use Policy.