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Nasdaq should get out of press release, website business

By Dominic Jones on December 10, 2006

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 [...]

Posted in IR News | Tagged NASDAQ OMX, news releases, newswire services, pr wires, PrimeZone, privacy, SEC, shareholder.com

Nasdaq gets black eye over fee hike

By Dominic Jones on December 10, 2006

THE Nasdaq Stock Market has provoked an unprecedented uproar among its listed companies over a proposal to raise its listing fees and force them to pay for investor relations services from firms the exchange owns. In a major embarrassment for the exchange, dozens of investor relations officers, CFOs and other executives have written to the [...]

Posted in IR News | Tagged London Stock Exchange, nasdaq, NASDAQ OMX, pr wires, PrimeZone, shareholder.com, webcast services

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

The perfect earnings release for 2006

By Dominic Jones on October 5, 2006

WHY do companies issue full-text earnings releases via newswire services? Except for bloating the bottom lines of the newswires, who actually benefits from this practice? Sun Microsystems Inc.’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz has written to the SEC to ask the same thing. I’ve chimed in with how I think companies could do away with certain types [...]

Posted in Issues, Online IR | Tagged advisory releases, Disclosure, pr wires, press releases, Quarterly Reporting, Web Disclosure

Websites and blogs should be approved for scheduled disclosures

By Dominic Jones on October 5, 2006

SUN Microsystems’ CEO Jonathan Schwartz has written to the Securities and Exchange Commission to argue that website postings should be recognized as full and fair disclosure under securities regulations. In essence, he is arguing that by posting material information on its website, a company achieves a level of dissemination equal to or better than that [...]

Posted in Disclosure, Online IR, Social Media | Tagged blogs, conference calls, Disclosure, earnings, EDGAR, pr wires, regulation, rss, SEC, Web Disclosure

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

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