by Zack Miller on March 23, 2010
Investors continue to cozy up with blogs for investment advice. Kudos to Dominic Jones for uncovering a recent survey that shows young investors rely heavily upon the Internet to manage their portfolios. I’ve embedded the survey below. The survey shows that: Turning to the Web: financial websites and blogs were the most influential external influences [...]
by Zack Miller on March 16, 2009
For those reading these pages for some time now, you’ve noticed that I believe strongly in the rise of the financial blogosphere’s influence on investor decision making (see our New Rules of Investing), the power of long-tail content (blogs writing about stocks) and how investor relations is changing in its wake (see Dominic Jones’ IR [...]
by Zack Miller on August 20, 2008
Mike Arrington at TechCrunch has a great post this morning afternoon (where does the time go?) about a startup soliciting a private round of investment over Twitter. He’s got the whole scoop but the gist of the story is a CEO of a tech startup recently twittered soliciting investments in his firm. According to Arrington, [...]
by Zack Miller on July 31, 2008
A potentially impactful accouncement was made yesterday by the SEC. Under certain circumstances, companies can rely on relating information via their websites to satisfy Reg FD requirements. According to an IR expert in new technologies, Dominic Jones, “The move is significant as it could cut disclosure costs for many companies that today use paid PR [...]