Business Wire and Business-to-Investor, Inc. to Offer No-Cost Governance Web Sites.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Business Wire today announced MyGovernanceWebsite.com, a significant new investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. tool that enables Business Wire members to quickly and easily create and manage fully compliant Corporate Governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. web sites. Completely free to Business Wire members, MyGovernanceWebsite.com is a hosted Content Management Solution (CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. ) that enables non-technical users to quickly and easily create and manage Corporate Governance sections of their corporate web sites in accordance with sections 302, 404, 408 and 802 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act See SOX. , as well as U.S. Exchange requirements. MyGovernanceWebsite.com can be added to a company's existing corporate web site in most cases within hours with no disruption to the existing web site. "MyGovernanceWebsite.com highlights Business Wire's dedication to transparency, cutting-edge investor relations solutions and high-quality benefits of membership," said Cathy Baron Tamraz, Business Wire's president and chief executive officer. "At a time when many services are raising rates while bundling fee-based services, we are pleased to offer a best-in-breed solution to issuers with no additional fee associated." MyGovernanceWebsite.com is a compilation of modules containing step-by-step wizards making it quick and simple to create and update the following six areas of a corporate web site with a click of the mouse: - Governance Documentation Module - Management Biographies Module - Directors' Biographies Module - Committees Module - Committee Composition Chart - Section 16 Filings. "Business-to-Investor(R) was established to help companies succeed in the public markets, not take advantage of them," stated Troy A. Ussery, president of Business-to-Investor, Inc. "So when issuers were under pressure to add a Corporate Governance section to their corporate web sites in 2003, B2I B2I Business to Institution (R) made the decision to turn the Corporate Governance web site module of its InvestorPass(R) Suite into a not-for-profit offering. We are expanding this program in this partnership with Business Wire because they share our commitment to the issuers. With Business Wire's global, rapidly growing reach, it is our hope that no publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. should ever feel pressure or challenges in meeting their Corporate Governance web site requirements again." To learn more about MyGovernanceWebsite.com, please visit us at www.MyGovernanceWebsite.com. About Business Wire Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is utilized by thousands of member companies and organizations to transmit their full-text news releases, regulatory filings, photos and other multimedia content to journalists, news media, trade publications, institutional and individual investors, financial information services, regulatory authorities, Internet portals, information web sites, business-to-business decision-makers and consumers worldwide. With a news distribution network spanning 150 countries and 45 languages, Business Wire's multi-channel delivery network, has access to some 60 international and national news agency networks throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The Business Wire news network is powered by its patented NX high-speed data platform and supports XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , XHTML (EXtensible HTML) A markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with proprietary tags. Also like XML, XHTML must be coded more rigorously than HTML. and XBRL (EXtensible Business Reporting Language) A specification for publishing financial information in the XML format. It is designed to provide a standard set of XML tags for exchanging accounting information and financial statements between companies and analysts. code to deliver the most sophisticated news file to enhance news release interactivity, customization and search engine optimization Designing a Web site so that search engines easily find the pages and index them. The goal is to have your page be in the top 10 results of a search. Optimization includes the choice of words used in the text paragraphs and the placement of those words on the page, both visible and hidden . Business Wire has 30 bureaus in cities including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Miami, Paris, Frankfurt, London, Brussels, Tokyo and Sydney with reciprocal offices throughout the world. Business Wire was founded in 1961 by Chairman Lorry I. Lokey, veteran journalist and public relations executive. Cathy Baron Tamraz is president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . About Business-to-Investor, Inc. Business-to-Investor, Inc., a Delaware Corporation, provides InvestorPass(R),an award-winning software and service that enables investor relations consultants and publicly traded companies to interact online with the financial community. With 23 quarters of consecutive growth, InvestorPass is currently used by clients to interact with nearly 400,000 satisfied members of the investment community in over 150 countries. With four patents pending, InvestorPass has been recognized as one the fastest growing and most innovative solutions in the corporate communications software industry. For more information, see www.investorpass.com. |
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