WSJ adds Facebook widget, where's yours?
NEWS that the Wall Street Journal is adding a feature to its website that lets readers see which stories are popular with their Facebook friends should signal to the investor relations website industry that so-called “widgets” are moving to the mainstream. According to the Associated Press, the Journal, NBC Universal and CNET are partnering with [...]
IR Web Report's E-Proxy Coverage
This page consolidates all of IR Web Report’s articles about the SEC’s e-proxy process and default electronic annual reporting generally.
Dispelling the "cookie myth" around e-proxy
BROADRIDGE Financial Solutions consultants are spreading incorrect information about the SEC’s requirements regarding the use of cookies on websites hosting proxy materials. I’ve just seen a presentation in which the Broadridge presenter says companies must provide a website that is “cookie free.” Nonsense. The result of this misinformation is that companies, many of which use [...]
Where's IR leadership on firms who track investors?
CLIENTS of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.’s (NASDAQ: NDAQ) Shareholder.com investor relations website hosting business have more reasons to question the wisdom of their vendor’s continued use of cookies to track and compile detailed dossiers on investors without their knowledge. A coalition of privacy advocates will hold a news conference today at which, according Ad Age, [...]
SEC's "notice-and-access" model is a mess
THIS new “notice-and-access” model that the Securities and Exchange Commission in the U.S. introduced for annual reports and proxy statements a couple months ago is not working out. Shareholders — and here I’m thinking of those middle Americans trying to hold down a job, raise kids, build a life, and hopefully a nice retirement — [...]
Did Shareholder.com finally get a clue?
INVESTOR relations website developer Shareholder.com, a subsidiary of Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. (NASDAQ:NDAQ), appears to be finally getting the message that snooping on the activities of investors on company websites is unethical — and even illegal. At some point in recent weeks, Shareholder.com has changed the marketing information on its website to remove many references [...]
SEC posts Web-related proxy rules
WHAT a week is was for Web-related investor disclosure news! I was supposed to be on an extended blogging break, but there was no way I could stay away when history was being made. Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SUNW) broke ranks by announcing that it was changing its earnings release process by posting the information [...]
Is Shareholder.com client breaching SEC privacy rules?
APPLIED Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC), one of the first companies to make use of the new e-Proxy process, is using cookies to identify and track people using the website hosting its annual report and proxy statement. Under the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) rule for the voluntary e-Proxy process, “a registrant or its agent [...]
Thomson Financial vs. Shareholder.com
THEY’RE not the only providers of hosted investor relations websites, but they’re the biggest in the United States so many companies wonder which one has the better IR website product. Our survey of over 500 international large-cap IR websites includes companies that are clients of Thomson Financial and Shareholder.com, so we have a good handle [...]
My bad experience with first e-proxy notice
THE first companies to take advantage of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s new e-proxy process have sent out their notices to investors telling them where to find their annual reporting documents on the Web. Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (NASDAQ: AMCC), a small-cap technology firm, was the first company to catch my attention when it [...]
SEC mandates online proxy materials
THE U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today voted to make all companies post their annual meeting materials on their websites. Full details of the rules won’t be known until the SEC posts the final rule on its website, but as it was explained today large companies will have to post their proxy materials on [...]
SEC to go back on e-proxy usability? — Updated
Update: On July 26, 2007, the SEC posted the adopting release for the final rule requiring companies to post their proxy materials on their websites. The adopting release states: “The materials must be presented on the Web site in a format, or formats, convenient for both reading online and printing on paper.” This statement has [...]
Shareholder.com clients should read this
NEWS today that European Union privacy regulators are challenging giant Google Inc.’s privacy practices should be cause for alarm for companies that use Nasdaq Stock Market Inc.-owned Shareholder.com’s investor tracking tools on their websites. The EU regulators are concerned that Google’s tracking practices violate privacy protections in Europe. However, when you compare what Google is [...]
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