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Best Practices, Reporting »

[31 Oct 2008 | 3 Comments | ]

This month marks roughly the 2nd anniversary for  Twitter. If you don’t know what Twitter is here is a brief description from Wikipedia:
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets ), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Updates are displayed on the user’s profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. The sender can restrict delivery to those in his or her circle of friends …

Legislation, Transparency »

[24 Oct 2008 | 7 Comments | ]

The other day I came across a Tweet from Tom Becktold at BusinessWire:
becktold From IR Magazine: Perils in relying on company website as primary channel http://tinyurl.com/6qnlx9 about 3 hours ago from web
I’m always interested to see what IR Magazine has to say so I checked it out. I was disappointed to see the article was based on a “study” from The Equity Group that says the majority of security lawyers don’t support web-site disclosure. I dug in more and found the press release that the article was based on. 
Here are …

Legislation, Product Tips & Tricks, Transparency »

[22 Oct 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

Every now and then something happens in the market that almost demands for me to shout from the rooftops about what we’re doing here at Q4.
On August 1 the SEC issued new guidance that deems corporate web sites and blogs as compliant with Reg. FD providing that certain criteria are met. This allows a public company to disclose information on their corporate web site, without having to issue a press release through an approved news wire service.
What’s bad for the newswires, whom have long enjoyed a guaranteed flow of business, …