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. Yahoo! Finance is the 800lb Gorilla of finance and investing websites and is as popular [...]
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IN ANOTHER sign that the mobile investor relations web is coming of age, SNL Financial’s IR Solutions group is now providing free mobile investor relations websites to all of its clients. The US-based IR website provider, which has a strong presence among financial services and real estate companies and is expanding in other sectors, began [...]
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MORE than two-thirds of company investor relations websites in IR Web Report’s benchmarking survey link to expired presentation webcasts, causing wasted time for analysts and investors and casting doubt on the accuracy and timeliness of the companies’ IR websites. The fact that 67% of mega-cap companies in our survey are failing to regularly review their [...]
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FOR THE past two years, Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR) CEO Richard Daly has been talking to analysts about the promise of his pet project – the company’s proprietary Investor Network shareholder forum that has failed to gain market acceptance. Now he is ratcheting up the rhetoric and angling to have the U.S. Securities and [...]
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IT HAS been a good month at IR Web Report. We added five outstanding new contributors, and judging by the feedback and engagement levels their posts have seen, they are off to a strong start. We achieved 7,747 unique monthly users in November, representing a healthy continuation of the constant growth we’ve seen this year. [...]
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UNLESS you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that the mobile web has seen explosive growth over the past year — and all projections are that it will be the fastest growing area of the web in the next few years. The numbers are staggering. Did you know, for instance, that more than [...]
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AT THE IR Society’s prestigious IR Best Practice Awards in London last night, German chemical company BASF SE (ETR:BAS, PINK:BASFY) walked away the big winner with four awards – 3.5 of which were for its online IR communications. The company won IR Best Practice Awards for: Best use of a website to communicate and support [...]
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WE’RE very pleased today to welcome five new contributors to IR Web Report, each of whom has unique expertise and experience in investor relations communications in North America or Europe. We invited them to become contributors because we know they have a lot to offer based on what they have been writing on their own [...]
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FOUR service providers who together host the majority of investor relations websites in North America have expressed confidence that their systems are secure following high-profile leaks of unpublished earnings information in recent weeks. None of the companies’ products were party to the leaks at The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) or at NetApp Inc. (NASDAQ: [...]
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AROUND this time 10 years ago, I began writing about investor relations communications on the web for an email newsletter that I sent to a handful of client companies. A few months later, in February 2001, I launched IRWebReport.com A couple years later, Pam Agnew, ABC joined me and has been the steady hand behind [...]
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