THOMSON REUTERS and Nasdaq OMX, the two US investor relations services giants, are set to launch new one-stop web disclosure tools that give companies greater choice and direct control over how they meet their regulatory obligations and communicate with investors online. The moves, which are a logical response to new web technologies, regulatory changes, and [...]
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IF YOU’RE looking for a good example of how corporate social media campaigns are rapidly overtaking traditional investor relations communications in both reach and effectiveness, look no further than Hewlett-Packard Company’s (NYSE:HPQ) announcement that it is acquiring Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) for $1.2 Billion. While HP’s announcement on April 28 was made via the usual website [...]
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IN A development that demonstrates the potential for the social web to bring companies and their shareholders closer, Canadian-based copper producer TVI Pacific Inc. (TSE:TVI) has recognized the discussion board on the company’s Facebook page as its “official Corporate Discussion Forum.” The move to official status was announced in an April 22 news release providing [...]
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INVESTOR RELATIONS professionals at hundreds of companies are exposing their firms to potential compliance risks because they have failed to play an active role in monitoring, managing and engaging in their companies’ activities on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Our research of the social media activities of almost 700 public companies has identified widespread [...]
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REUTERS, the news division of information services giant Thomson Reuters, has published an ill-informed, inaccurate and one-sided article about Google Inc.’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) announcement that it will use its website rather than paid PR wires to distribute its financial results. I predicted this would happen in the post I wrote immediately after Google made its [...]
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GOOGLE INC. (NASDAQ:GOOG) will begin making announcements about its financial performance solely through its investor relations website, making it the most prominent company to take advantage of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) guidance on using company websites for disclosure under Regulation FD.
Almost all North American public companies currently distribute their earnings announcements and [...]
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SEVERAL months ago, I stumbled across information in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing that raises important questions about the integrity of information posted on the popular Wikinvest website.
According to the filing, micro-cap biotech company INVO BioScience Inc. (OTC:IVOB) is paying a retainer of 1 million shares of restricted stock to a firm called [...]
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A GROWING number of U.S. companies are holding their annual shareholder meetings exclusively online in spite of shareholder concerns that virtual-only meetings may undermine board accountability and exacerbate plunging retail voting rates.
Although they are uncommon, online-only annual meetings are not new. As Broc Romanek at TheCorporateCounsel.net points out, it was nine years ago that Inforte [...]
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A SURVEY has found that financial websites and blogs are the top influences on U.S. individual investors, while those under age 40 are more heavily influenced by family, friends and work colleagues than are older investors.
The findings reinforce the importance of the web in shaping investors’ investment decisions and highlight the potential for information [...]
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The Wall Street Journal writes about how hedge funds and proprietary traders are working to automate trading based on social media information and sentiment.
Some traders use message boards, StockTwits and Google Insights to “get a handle on the buzz for stocks they are trading,” says the report. Meanwhile, StreamBase Systems Inc. provides tools to trade [...]
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