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THE EDGAR XML feeds were not even a week old and already intrepid web developers were finding new ways to reuse them. Over at iBanknet, where they have been doing interesting things with XBRL call reports, Marian Albert and Chris Smith saw the opportunity to create a little tool called a “widget” or “gadget” that [...]
Cool ticker symbol up for grabs
SOFTWARE company BladeLogic, which went public last July, has one of the hippest ticker symbols going: BLOG. But now that the company is being acquired by BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) those funky four letters are up for grabs. One problem, though. The way the US IPO market has been doing so far this year, it [...]
Transparency 2.0: The executive pay widget
PERHAPS it’s a testament to how far corporate reporting and disclosure have come, but there was a time when shareholders had no way of knowing exactly how much they were paying senior executives to run their companies. Then came new regulations and companies began to disclose more precisely how much their top executives were being [...]
Sun CEO's blog now on Yahoo! Finance
SUN Microsystems Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) CEO Jonathan Schwartz is now able to publish from his blog directly to his company’s page on Yahoo! Finance. Here’s a screenshot from Sun’s Yahoo! Finance page showing a link to Schwartz’s most recent blog post about the company changing its ticker symbol yesterday. Click on that link and you [...]
Sun’s Schwartz sparks storm over ticker change
WHY should CEOs and boards of directors blog? Because it gives them feedback — real, honest, heartfelt feedback — they would otherwise never get. It keeps them in touch with the real world, something that’s easily lost after just a few months in the rarefied atmosphere of mahogany row. I’m marveling right now at the [...]
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