ALAN Meckler, CEO of WebMediaBrands Inc. (NASDAQ: WEBM), may be single-handedly redefining how corporate executives in the buttoned-down world of public companies communicate with their investors. The 64-year-old media entrepreneur, whose company owns interests in a number of online businesses and blogs, has been using Twitter to talk about his micro-cap company in ways that [...]
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REED HASTINGS, CEO of Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) is a remarkable entrepreneur. He founded a DVD-by-mail business in the late ‘90s that now boasts 25+ million subs and is disrupting the media and entertainment industries. But similarly impressive and yet somewhat overlooked is how he’s provided a blueprint for the future of online finance, investor relations, [...]
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STATISTICS from trackable links in company press releases suggest that even small companies’ websites are the most heavily used sources for financial disclosure information and that dissemination via PR wire services is mostly ignored by investors. The public statistics bust the widely held misconception among investor relations professionals and securities lawyers that PR wire services [...]
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Narrow web disclosure practices are giving an unfair advantage to institutional investors at the expense of retail investors. Business Wire’s Neil Hershberg takes a look at the implications.
SLOPPY web publishing practices by Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) enabled a high-speed news technology company to pick up the tech giant’s earnings release from a staging URL and publish the results more than an hour before its scheduled release. Ryan Terpstra, founder and CEO of Selerity, based in Jersey City, NJ, confirmed to IR Web Report [...]
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NETFLIX Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) yesterday released its earnings results via its investor relations website for the first time – and despite intense market interest the process went off without a hitch. About 35% of Netflix’s total share volume for the day, or just over 3 million shares, traded after the company posted its earnings release [...]
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WHEN Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt announced that he was stepping aside from the top management job at the company, he did so in a way that provides a blueprint for the use of social media in official public company disclosures. Instead of the traditional approach of announcing the move in a news [...]
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IF AN earnings release distributed by a PR wire on behalf of the world’s most-watched public company fails to arrive on the world’s biggest investing website and no one notices, does anyone pay attention to press releases anymore? That’s precisely what happened January 18 when Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported its first-quarter earnings amid intense investor [...]
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IF AN earnings release distributed by a PR wire on behalf of the world’s most-watched public company fails to arrive on the world’s biggest investing website and no one notices, does anyone pay attention to press releases anymore? That’s precisely what happened January 18 when Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) reported its first-quarter earnings amid intense investor [...]
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NETFLIX, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) will become the latest in a growing list of companies to use its website as its primary channel for financial disclosure when it publishes its fourth-quarter results later this month. In an announcement yesterday, the $9.8 billion market-cap company said it will use the so-called “advisory release model” to publish its next [...]
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