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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Patrick Kiss, Head of Investor & Public Relations at Deutsche EuroShop AG, sees a lack of progress in the use of social media for investor relations. He wonders if the time has come for IROs to take the next step and move beyond monitoring to active engagement — or potentially even withdraw to the sidelines.
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A lot of work is going into developing the next generation of financial powerhouses. Where traditional brokers/banks controlled the locus of power in the investing game, it’s not clear exactly who is going to take their place as their assets and influence have waned. Here are a couple of ways that firms are going at [...]
INVESTOR relations professionals who have dismissed social media as a fad or irrelevant are in for a rude awakening today as messages from StockTwits, the Twitter equivalent for traders and investors, are now appearing on their Yahoo! Finance ticker pages. Yahoo! Finance is the 800lb Gorilla of finance and investing websites and is as popular [...]
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WHEN Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) reported its third-quarter earnings last week it did so using a wide range of new and traditional media in a reporting event that shows how complex online corporate reporting has become with the advent of social media. The event also marked the first time that the new StockTwits IR service has [...]
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STOCKTWITS, the growing investor and trader microblogging service, has introduced a new investor relations service that enables companies to provide verified information and better engage with their online investor audiences. The StockTwits IR service, which is still in beta testing, is currently being used by technology giant Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ), exchange company CME Group Inc. [...]
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Interesting little announcement from StockTwits this morning. The distance between financial content and trade execution narrows as Stock Twits embeds broker Zecco’s Zap Trade into their site.
From the announcement:
Zap Trade is a little “widget” that appears wherever you see a ticker symbol on StockTwits. Clicking the Z launches a pop-up trade ticket [...]
The evolution of investment newsletters
Investment newsletters have been around as long as investments have. Never mind that they used to be delivered snail mail. Then fax. Then email. Given the lag time between publishing and delivery, these old-school newsletters, like the Motley Fool’s Hidden Gems or Al Frank’s Prudent Speculator, mostly gave paid subscribers a [...]
Stock Twits rolled out a refresh of their website yesterday with some nice new functionality for users.
One thing that really jumps out at me is that there are even more ways to filter the tradestream: in addition to filtering for authors and stocks, users can slice and dice the stream according to asset classes and [...]
