August 17, 2010 – 4:24 pm
MORE than four in ten of the most actively traded US-listed international companies – including well-known firms like Alcatel-Lucent, Vodafone, Barclays and Petrobras – are not using paid PR wires to distribute their earnings releases and other disclosure information. And more companies are likely to follow suit in coming quarters after rule changes by the [...]
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August 16, 2010 – 5:45 pm
SLIDESHARE, best known as a presentation sharing service, has launched three new paid accounts with features that may appeal to investor relations departments looking for ways to spread their stories online and improve the user experience of their IR websites. A growing number of companies are using SlideShare for investor relations presentations. The main reasons [...]
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August 16, 2010 – 4:00 am
A NEW study has found that when CEOs take responsibility for financial restatements and deliver the bad news via online video, investors’ trust in management rises and they recommend larger investments in the firm. Researchers designed a simulation using a former television news presenter posing as a CEO. They found that when he accepted full [...]
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August 13, 2010 – 3:25 pm
This is a weekly feature at IR Web Report highlighting articles and commentaries of interest to our readers. How News Consumption is Shifting to the Personalized Social News Stream The social network of a reader is quickly becoming their personalized news wire. That’s because in the last five years, a revolutionary shift has taken place [...]
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August 13, 2010 – 4:45 am
NEWS this week from the Wall Street Journal that academics have found key language markers of executive deception on earnings calls won’t come as a surprise to some of the world’s biggest hedge funds. That’s because they have for years used advanced detection techniques devised by the US intelligence community and sophisticated voice analyzing software [...]
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August 12, 2010 – 4:45 pm
RICH DALY, the CEO of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR), has responded to investor concerns about the potential impact on his company of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proxy system review, saying critics want to take the system back 45 years and companies’ costs could more than double in an unregulated market. Speaking on [...]
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August 11, 2010 – 11:17 pm
EARNINGS reporting practices are evolving and becoming more complicated as companies increasingly integrate social media channels into their distribution circuits — and one good example is the closely watched technology bellwether Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) Yesterday, Cisco reported its Q4 2010 results after the regular Nasdaq trading hours but during a very active after-hours session [...]
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August 11, 2010 – 5:03 am
STUART CROSBY, the CEO of Australia-based Computershare Limited (ASX:CPU), the world’s biggest transfer agent business and main rival to Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE:BR), has praised the Securities and Exchange Commission’s concept paper on improving the US proxy system. In a presentation to analysts on announcing his company’s full-year 2010 results, Crosby said the concept paper [...]
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August 10, 2010 – 11:09 am
THE Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators is this month launching new Apple iPad software for directors that it says is “aimed at bringing the boardroom into the 21st century by moving board papers into the digital realm.” “This will really change things”, says Mike Evans, ICSA Software’s CEO. “Directors no longer need be burdened [...]
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August 10, 2010 – 10:00 am
VIDEO is a powerful communications medium that just doesn’t seem to want to take off in the investor relations field — especially not in North America. But a few pioneering Chief Financial Offers are shedding their dull “bean-counter” images and taking their message to the web in moving pictures. In this list we are focusing [...]
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