September 3, 2009 – 9:06 am
Guest post by Cathy Brooks, read her blog | follow her on TwitterCredit
The tech industry cannibalizes its own young quite well – at least when it comes to conferences.
You know what I’m talking about. Any time there’s a hot topic, a battery of conferences and events spring to life, all purporting to be the end [...]
By Cathy Brooks
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Posted in Articles, Industry Blogs
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Also tagged 140, allthingsd, charcters, conference, Conferences & Events, darwin, demo, PR 2.0 - New Communications, social media, tech, techcrunch50, twitter, twtrcon
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Entrepreneurs trying to raise capital – and get businesses up and running – are turning more and more to social media stars vs. traditional media to get the word out, The New York Times reports in “Spinning the Web: P.R. in Silicon Valley.”
The hottest PR people in Silicon Valley, says The Times, care less now [...]
It’s been a truism that the secret to runaway success in technology has always been in platform building. I learned about the intricacies of building platform leadership from a book by the same name, “Platform Leadership” which I read during my MBA. The book by Gawer and Cusumano detailed how Cisco, Intel and Microsoft drove [...]
By Zack Miller
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Posted in Stock market
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Also tagged ameritrade, broker, etrade, finance, financial advisors, industry news, investment, investment site, online broker, platform, td ameritrade, trading
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Twitter represents a technology platform, sustaining ecosystem, and evangelical community that facilitate not only a behavioral transformation in how we communicate and define online relationships, but also represents a fundamental shift in how we listen, share, participate, and learn. For many, Twitter is the catalyst that is inspiring individuals and organizations to discover and [...]
February 28, 2009 – 10:29 pm
A LOT of regular readers have been buried in year-end reporting and preparing annual reports, so I thought I’d recap the most popular posts on IR Web Report over the past two months in case you missed them.
Business Wire’s Double Standards About how Business Wire is attacking cheap notice-and-access releases even while its owner Berkshire [...]
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February 11, 2009 – 8:15 pm
BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP), a small-cap inter-dealer broker of financial instruments, is taking the bold step of using the notice-and-access approach with its next earnings release on February 26 — but I think they should reconsider.
On M…
By Dominic Jones
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Posted in Industry Blogs, Investor Relations
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Also tagged bgc partners, BGC Partners Inc., BGCP, business, business wire, Cathy Baron Tamraz, disclosure, newswires, notice-and-access, Online Investor Relations, reuters, Robert MacMillan, SEC, Thomson Reuters, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, web disclosure, websites, wire services
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February 10, 2009 – 12:00 am
AT HIS first press conference Monday night, US President Barack Obama made history at 8:52 pm ET by calling on blogger Sam Stein of the Huffington Post to be among only 14 reporters to ask a question.
The recognition of a blogger alongside mainstream m…
January 29, 2009 – 2:38 am
Investors are increasingly gleaning tradable information from blogs. Companies need a strategy to respond.
