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Articles about the use of company websites to meet the requirements of Reg FD.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

FOUR service providers who together host the majority of investor relations websites in North America have expressed confidence that their systems are secure following high-profile leaks of unpublished earnings information in recent weeks.

MICROSOFT corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has become the latest high-profile company to end the decades-old practice of using a paid PR wire service to distribute its quarterly earnings announcements – a move that acknowledges the real-time capabilities of the web.

WITH the third-quarter earnings season fast approaching now is the time to begin planning an advisory release process for your next earnings announcement.

WHEN Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ) reported its third-quarter earnings last week it did so using a wide range of new and traditional media in a reporting event that shows how complex online corporate reporting has become with the advent of social media.

STOCKTWITS, the growing investor and trader microblogging service, has introduced a new investor relations service that enables companies to provide verified information and better engage with their online investor audiences.

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