November 18, 2010 – 9:00 am
by Cathy Baron Tamraz, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Business Wire Once upon a time, in the Year 2000, a wonderful law was passed that protected the interests of all investors in our great land. You may have heard of it; it was called Regulation Fair Disclosure. Thanks to the great mind of Arthur Levitt, [...]
By Phil Dennison, Senior Marketing Specialist, Business Wire
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Posted in Industry Blogs, Investor Relations
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Also tagged brk-a, brk-b, business wire, Cathy Baron Tamraz, disclosure, fair disclosure, notice-and-access, SEC, web disclosure
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November 15, 2010 – 1:35 pm
Regulation Fair Disclosure has had an up and down history in terms of enforcement. It would appear that we are currently in an up cycle and investor relations officers need to have an enhanced sense of awareness about Reg. FD so that they don’t fin…
November 10, 2010 – 10:54 am
by Gregg A. Castano, President, Business Wire Forget about level playing fields, Regulation FD, interpretive guidance and recognized disclosure channels. What about good, old-fashioned EFFECTIVENESS? Have we entered a bizarro world in which simultaneously making material information available to millions of investors via every conceivable communications method known to modern man has somehow become [...]
November 7, 2010 – 12:08 pm
IR WEB REPORT is today publishing new guidelines to help investor relations departments maximize the reach and ROI of their investor presentation information on the web. Investor presentations are vital sources of information for current and prospective investors and a key way for companies to tell their stories to The Street. Many hours and considerable [...]
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October 28, 2010 – 1:30 am
MICROSOFT corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has become the latest high-profile company to end the decades-old practice of using a paid PR wire service to distribute its quarterly earnings announcements – a move that acknowledges the real-time capabilities of the web. The technology leader joins search giant Google and a growing list of other companies in moving [...]
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October 25, 2010 – 10:59 am
Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission announced enforcement actions against Office Depot, its CEO and former CFO for violation of Regulation Fair Disclosure. After a four year quiet period following its Federal District Court loss in its s…
September 21, 2010 – 1:39 am
WITH the third-quarter earnings season fast approaching now is the time to begin planning an advisory release process for your next earnings announcement. Implemented properly, this process enables companies to communicate their results more effectively, level the playing field between investors, offer a more engaging experience for investors and analysts, and cut their disclosure costs. [...]
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NOKIA Corporation (NYSE: NOK) last week became the latest company to use the advisory news release process that IR Web Report has long urged companies to adopt for disclosure information. The mobile phone maker’s US PR wire earnings release on July 22 consisted of a 41-word alert issued through PR Newswire that linked to the [...]
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WHEN Internet giant Google, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) reported its second-quarter 2010 earnings last week it did so without using a paid PR wire service – a controversial move that some predicted would create challenges for the disclosure ecosystem. But it seems the company’s unusual new process — posting its earnings release on its IR website [...]
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EXPEDIA, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) is one US company that has for several quarters used an advisory release process for its quarterly earnings releases. The process has run smoothly and resulted in an increase in the number of investors accessing the results from the company’s website, which recently was upgraded to a new platform hosted by [...]
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