OVER the past several weeks, dozens of companies have added a new feature to their normally mundane quarterly financial reporting ritual: they are using social networks to deliver a stream of updates and key facts from their results announcements in so-called “live tweeting” sessions. So far during the second-quarter reporting season, more than 50 companies [...]
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THIS is potentially good news for the hundreds of international companies with non-exchange listed ADRs that have long had to contend with low levels of visibility and few options for communicating with their US-based investors. StockTwits (sponsor) has for the first time added a verified investor relations account for a Level 1 ADR company – [...]
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IT SEEMS that hardly a month goes by these days where investor relations and corporate communications professionals aren’t being introduced to some new technology, service or acronym. There’s XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), RSS (Really Simple Syndication) and more recently RT (Re-Tweet). Now there’s a new one for IR pros to get their heads around [...]
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EARLY adopters of social media for investor relations have long had to contend with consumer-oriented tools and services that don’t quite meet their stringent compliance and business needs. But that is about change as StockTwits* this morning introduces the world’s first set of social IR services built especially for public companies. Now, before you start [...]
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WITH the addition of Reuters.com as a distribution partner, StockTwits* now provides its users – including a growing number of public company investor relations departments – direct access to a financial audience of almost 60 million monthly users. That number excludes the additional reach that IR departments can achieve by linking their StockTwits accounts to [...]
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STOCKTWITS, the investor-focused microblogging service that is attracting a growing number of investor relations users, has hired an executive from Yahoo! Finance to lead product development as traffic to the service has more than doubled in the past three months. David Putnam, who for the past five years has been responsible for global product strategy [...]
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WHILE many companies are using social media to push out investor relations information, global conferencing firm PGi (NYSE: PGI) is among a rare few that is also using social media in two-way conversations with investors. During the company’s recent Q4 earnings call, PGi Senior Vice President of Strategy & Communications Sean O’Brien, who was an [...]
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Q4 WEB SYSTEMS, a provider of website software for investor relations departments, has been quietly rolling out a new breed of corporate website that features direct integration with a variety of third-party online services to push out information to investors and other stakeholders. While the Toronto-based firm is currently tapping into only a handful of [...]
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WHEN Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL) reported its Q4 2011 financial results yesterday it broke new ground for online investor relations communications and set the stage for an era where companies and executives can use social media with as much confidence of compliance as traditional disclosure channels. While many companies have been using services like Twitter and [...]
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SAYING that institutional investors are increasingly looking to the open web for information, a Boston-based independent research firm plans to use its blog as its primary publishing and client management platform. Research 2.0, founded in 2005 by former Wall Street director of research Kris Tuttle, will provide much of its research through its blog while [...]
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