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Investor Relations

The truth about synergies

Posted on January 12, 2010 at 7:43 pm (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Ethics, Investor Relations, Workplace

I watched an interview at lunchtime today on the BBC News channel where Roger Carr, chairman of Cadbury, was being asked a number of questions concerning his company’s position as it confronts a hostile takeover bid by Kraft Foods.
Towards the conclusion of the interview, Carr said something most interesting in response to a question [...]

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Controlling leaks Apple style

Posted on January 7, 2010 at 7:42 am (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Ethics, Investor Relations, Public Relations, Society

There’s been quite a lot of buzz during the past week or so surrounding rumours that Apple will be launching a tablet device very soon, and the expectation that there’ll be an announcement by Apple on January 26. I wrote a post myself, too.
What’s behind all the buzz? How did it get started? Who [...]

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The $220m effect of Tiger Woods’ fall

Posted on December 17, 2009 at 1:11 pm (UK)
in: Business, Investor Relations, Marketing, Public Relations, Reputation, Society

Tiger Woods’ personal life may be out of the prime time news headlines at the moment but the financial consequences of what he allegedly did are now becoming clear.
I’m talking about the effect on business, not only the value of the many sponsorship contracts Woods has but also predictions on the effects on the [...]

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End of the road looms for SpinVox

Posted on September 13, 2009 at 12:26 pm (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Investor Relations, Public Relations, Reputation, Technology

Things seem to be going from bad to worse for SpinVox.
The voice-to-text transcription company has been at the centre of a major kerfuffle in recent months regarding the genuineness of its claims about its technology and how it performs its service.
The latest development is a less-than-stellar assessment of its ROI performance by Invesco Perpetual, [...]

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Apple’s corporate omerta and share price growth

Posted on August 17, 2009 at 3:51 pm (UK)
in: Business, Investor Relations, Leadership, Public Relations, Reputation, Technology

At lunchtime, I was reading “Steve Jobs: The man who polished Apple,” a most excellent feature about Steve Jobs and Apple written by Times journalist Bryan Appleyard and published in the Times Online (and probably in the newspaper itself as well).
While there’s copious biographical, anecdotal and other information about Steve Jobs and Apple almost [...]

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How bad can it get for SpinVox?

Posted on August 9, 2009 at 12:09 pm (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Investor Relations, Public Relations, Reputation, Technology, Web

When I think about SpinVox and the huge public kerfuffle that broke out last month stemming from allegations made in a BBC investigation over SpinVox’s audio-to-text transcription service, Billy Flynn and razzle-dazzle from the musical Chicago is mostly what springs to my mind.

(You can read the lyrics, too.)
The allegations the BBC and others have made [...]

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Easy FT on the iPhone

Posted on July 14, 2009 at 4:12 pm (UK)
in: Business, Communication, Investor Relations, Mobile, Public Relations, Reviews, Social Media, Software, Technology

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:41 — 6.3MB)

The Financial Times has joined the growing group of media companies offering an easy means for readers and subscribers to access the newspaper’s online content from wherever they happen to be via a bespoke app for the iPhone.
Today the FT launched its new FT mobile app for iPhone (iTunes link) that combines clean and fast [...]

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