Last week I blogged about why we’ve decided to launch with iOS (iPad/iPhone) versions of our mobile application solutions first.   According to Nielsen, Apple made substantial gains over Q4 2011 while Android declined.  Apple’s net gain was somewhere around 36%.  I’m sure the 4S had something to do with that and I don’t know how many new Android devices launched, but at last count it was about 65 across the major US carriers.
Taking into account 85% of our mobile traffic across a sampling of our clients sites comes from …

We love infographics here at Q4, so we thought we’d take a segment of the data from our latest research and put it into a visual format. We hope you like it!

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“Readers will still have access to the same great content they have come to expect from our blog“, said Darrell Heaps co-founder and CEO of Q4 Web Systems, “with a continued overarching objective of striving to have the blog serve as a key resource to IR professionals – which is currently accomplished by staying apprised of and sharing news relevant to IROs such a changes in the regulatory environment and online IR best practices“.
We will continue to share findings from our active research into IR website and social media best …

Best wishes from everyone on the Q4 team for a wonderful holiday season!  We will be taking a short hiatus from our blog and Twitter to spend some time with loved ones.
We look forward to connecting with you in early 2010!

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We’ll be live blogging from NIRI 2009 this week and you can follow @darrellheaps, @ccrofton, @q4websystems for updates or via our NIRI Mashup feed.
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I read an article in today’s ROB entitled ‘Who’s reading insider e-mails? Try the IT guys’ that should send a strong message to issuers regarding their compliance risk management efforts.
Regulators revealed yesterday that an IT analyst with TD Securities Inc. bought shares in Synenco Energy, based on information he obtained while reading the personal emails of investment bankers working on a takeover bid. And of course, the fact that the emails were being monitored was invisible to all participants.
Apparently there have been a string of recent cases in which people …

I read an interesting perspective on how much executive time can be drained through the avid use of Twitter – ‘ What is the Value of Twitter?’ In this article there was no mention of the benefits the company in question derived and so it’s difficult to determine the ROI of the estimated $72,000 in executive time. I do agree that ‘Free’ is a misnomer when it comes to social media and companies should look at the soft costs associated to their involvement, as with any other communications initiative.
Corporations need …

During the SEC’s meeting today the panel voted 4 to 1 in favor for mandating XBRL for the 500 largest US issuers. Other companies will have until 2010 (likely) to begin filing using XBRL. This article from Dow Jones provides some additional details. 
Chairman Cox Video: The SEC has approved interactive data financial reporting to give investors faster, better, and less expensive information disclosure.
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General Electric, parent of NBC Universal, has gained attention in the blogosphere over the last few weeks since the October 22 launch of its corporate blog, ‘GE reports – Your source for what’s happening at GE.’
The response has been both positive and negative. Criticism has primarily focused on the accessibility of information disclosed in this way – although anyone can receive automatic updates through RSS feeds, which take all of 2 minutes to set up. And North America enjoys the highest penetration of internet usage in the world.
What’s important to …

Darrell and I had an interesting conversation with a securities regulator the other day regarding where legislation is headed as fallout to the financial crisis. (This is a topic of great interest to us and at times I find myself providing armchair observations.) Read a summary of the conversation:
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