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WITH financial data providers increasingly using XBRL filings in the numbers they deliver to Wall Street, poor corporate reporting controls are threatening company reputations and raising the specter of investors making trading decisions based on faulty figures. In one recent case, SEC Data Guy founder Ed Hodder reported that six companies have submitted XBRL instance [...]
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A NEW company is causing a stir in investor relations and corporate reporting circles with its financial reporting software that makes it a snap for companies to confidently create multiple disclosure documents that automatically update when figures are changed in a single spreadsheet. WebFilings, which developed its cloud-based software over an 18-month period, emerged from [...]
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The Drudge Report announced today that it had passed more than 9 billion page views for 2010. Yeah, 9 billion.
From the site:
OVER 9 BILLION SERVED! THIS MORNING DRUDGEREPORT PASSED 9 BILLION PAGE VIEWS IN YEAR… TOPPING 2009′S TOTAL OF 7.8 BILLION… 43 COUNTRIES EACH HIT PAGE OVER 1 MILLION TIMES…
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The Bloomberg juggernaut continues to impress. Not satisfied with more static, unidirectional programs on Bloomberg Radio and TV, Bloomberg is layering in more experiential type content.
Accompanying Bloomberg Surveillance, a popular radio program hosted by Tom Keene and Ken Prewitt, is a new program called Inside Surveillance.
For listeners and those interested in the show and [...]
Throughout the writing of Tradestreaming (my new book) and my analysis on the intersection of social media and investing, I kept bumping up against analytics.
Just as analytics are key to running a web business (I mean, where else can you microtarget advertising and test just about everything — see Dave McClure’s presentation on metrics), they’re [...]
Wikinvest: What it is and where it’s going
Don’t get me wrong. I really like the guys at Wikinvest. I’ve written a lot about how well their crowdsourced information and annotatable charts kicks the pants off of more static resources. I’ve also contended that the way Wikinvest deals with investment data is better [...]
Rupert Murdoch on Fox News post D8 presentation. He’s pushing the Wall Street Journal as a mainstream paper/product and is pretty blunt about turning off non-payers of premium content.
He also claims that he expects similar subscription numbers that the WSJ.com enjoys on the iPad (1MM+).
Check out the video below.
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It’s always a good idea to check out what’s being advertised to see what the financial product firms are pushing. Some of this is horse-leading-the-cart stuff, but sometimes financial products are developed based on demand for such things. Looking at advertising in the financial industry is a momentum-driven way to look at trends [...]
Worth checking out a very interesting report from Bob Veres, financial industry analyst, entitled “Future of the Profession.”
At over 100 pages, it’s a really in-depth look at the confluence of trends affecting the industry (brokers, financial planners and RIAs) and a critical look at where Veres thinks the market, business, and profession are headed.
The advisory [...]
