Live tweeting becomes a fixture of earnings season
OVER the past several weeks, dozens of companies have added a new feature to their normally mundane quarterly financial reporting ritual: they are using social networks to deliver a stream of updates and key facts from their results announcements in so-called “live tweeting” sessions.
First Level 1 ADR company gets verified StockTwits account
THIS is potentially good news for the hundreds of international companies with non-exchange listed ADRs that have long had to contend with low levels of visibility and few options for communicating with their US-based investors.
What is an API? 5 questions for Q4′s Darrell Heaps
IT SEEMS that hardly a month goes by these days where investor relations and corporate communications professionals aren’t being introduced to some new technology, service or acronym. There’s XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and more recently RT (Re-Tweet).
StockTwits launches world’s first social IR dashboard
EARLY adopters of social media for investor relations have long had to contend with consumer-oriented tools and services that don’t quite meet their stringent compliance and business needs. But that is about change as StockTwits* this morning introduces the world’s first set of social IR services built especially for public companies.
With Reuters, StockTwits now rivals PR wires for reach
WITH the addition of Reuters.com as a distribution partner, StockTwits* now provides its users – including a growing number of public company investor relations departments – direct access to a financial audience of almost 60 million monthly users.
StockTwits hires Yahoo! Finance exec as traffic surges
STOCKTWITS, the investor-focused microblogging service that is attracting a growing number of investor relations users, has hired an executive from Yahoo! Finance to lead product development as traffic to the service has more than doubled in the past three months.
PGi makes investor relations social
WHILE many companies are using social media to push out investor relations information, global conferencing firm PGi (NYSE: PGI) is among a rare few that is also using social media in two-way conversations with investors.
IR websites resemble “wire services” as Q4 taps APIs
Q4 WEB SYSTEMS, a provider of website software for investor relations departments, has been quietly rolling out a new breed of corporate website that features direct integration with a variety of third-party online services to push out information to investors and other stakeholders.
Dell Inc. breaks new ground for social media in investor relations
WHEN Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) reported its Q4 2011 financial results yesterday it broke new ground for online investor relations communications and set the stage for an era where companies and executives can use social media with as much confidence of compliance as traditional disclosure channels.
Equity research firm bets on blogging over Wall Street
SAYING that institutional investors are increasingly looking to the open web for information, a Boston-based independent research firm plans to use its blog as its primary publishing and client management platform.
Discussion: How to push social media for IR forward?
Patrick Kiss, Head of Investor & Public Relations at Deutsche EuroShop AG, sees a lack of progress in the use of social media for investor relations. He wonders if the time has come for IROs to take the next step and move beyond monitoring to active engagement — or potentially even withdraw to the sidelines.
StockTwits on Yahoo! Finance: Implications for companies
INVESTOR relations professionals who have dismissed social media as a fad or irrelevant are in for a rude awakening today as messages from StockTwits, the Twitter equivalent for traders and investors, are now appearing on their Yahoo! Finance ticker pages.
Reporting earnings, HP style
WHEN Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) reported its third-quarter earnings last week it did so using a wide range of new and traditional media in a reporting event that shows how complex online corporate reporting has become with the advent of social media.
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