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In our mind’s eye, we never age. We remain slim, dark haired and up to the moment in developments. However, every now and then something happens that reminds us that our view of the world is different than those younger than ourselves. Just such …
WHEN hospital operator HCA Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: HCA) raised $3.79 billion last week in the largest private-equity backed IPO ever in the US, it chose to host its investor relations information on a website run by Thomson Reuters. That a company of HCA’s considerable resources and scale doesn’t have the know-how to create and host [...]
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Readers of this blog will know that I am somewhat of a skeptic when it comes to the use of social media in investor relations (and yes, I recognize the irony of that statement when written in a blog). It’s not that I think there is no use for twitt…
A MAJOR battle is shaping up in the United States between giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), NASDAQ OMX (NASDAQ:NDAQ) and the big PR wire services as they compete for control of companies’ financial disclosures. So far Thomson Reuters appears to have the upper hand as its new US PR wire service, based on European technology acquired [...]
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A STUDY has found a gap between what financial analysts rate as most important and what companies listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) actually provide on their investor relations websites. Accounting professor Asli Turel of the Istanbul University School of Business surveyed analysts on what they consider to be the 15 most important items [...]
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DESPITE major advances in web technologies over the past few years, most investor relations websites are little different from what they were a decade ago. However, there are always exceptions — and now Q4 Web Systems, which provides content management software and tools for IR and corporate websites, has compiled a free compendium of best [...]
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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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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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A STUDY group of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) tasked with providing practical guidance on using the web for corporate reporting has published discussion drafts of three guidance publications. The project, which was started in 2008, is being coordinated by an 8-person study group chaired by Jerry Trites, who for many years has [...]
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