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In proxy voting messes, Broadridge a common denominator

By Dominic Jones on August 5, 2008

AN ADMISSION from Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR) that a basic system glitch caused it to undercount votes against directors in Yahoo! Inc.’s contentious annual meeting is just the latest in a string of recent problems where the company has been implicated. Questions were raised about the outcome of the Yahoo! meeting — perhaps the [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged annual meeting, broadridge financial solutions inc, notice-and-access, wall street journal

The downside of suing stock analysts

By Dominic Jones on July 22, 2008

BANKATLANTIC Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE:BBX) is embarking on a risky strategy by suing a veteran bank analyst for defamation and negligence after he included the company in a research report that ranked 107 U.S. financial institutions on the chances of them going bust. Yesterday, the bank holding company filed a lawsuit in the state court for [...]

Posted in Articles, Investor Relations | Tagged analyst, Bloomberg, nyse, securities, strategy, The Street, wall street journal

At Google Finance, Google's profit miss not news

At Google Finance, Google's profit miss not news

By Dominic Jones on July 18, 2008

BIZARRE is the only way to describe the screenshot below of Google Finance’s homepage this morning — the day after the search giant reported earnings that missed analyst forecasts and sent its shares tumbling more than 7% in after-hours trading. By all accounts, Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) earnings miss was big news. It is on the [...]

Posted in Articles | Tagged Google, merrill lynch, stocks, technology, wall street journal

CEO pay disclosures dense as academic texts

By Dominic Jones on March 1, 2007

DESPITE rules that say they must be in plain English, the average executive pay report filed by U.S. companies so far this year is as hard to read as an academic paper, a survey by IR Web Report has found. Under U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules passed last year, companies must for the [...]

Posted in Articles, Disclosure | Tagged blogs, Bloomberg, GE, Harvard, IBM, law, Merck & Co. Inc., SEC, securities, SunTrust, Texas, The Wall Street Journal, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, University of Texas, University of Texas at Austin, wall street journal

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

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