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SEC Enforcement Action Under Regulation FD For Implicit Communications To Selected Analysts

On October 21, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced enforcement actions against Office Depot, Inc. and two executive officers for violating Regulation FD by selectively conveying to analysts and institutional investors that Office Depot would not meet analysts' earnings estimates...

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The Social Media Revolution: Recent Developments And Guidelines For Employers To Consider

Now more than ever workers are leading double lives, only not in the way that you might expect. The old distinctions of day job and night job, or office life and home life are fading to the background as we rapidly embrace a new double life: one actual and one virtual. It is almost cliché to cite...

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Advertising Regulation In The Web 2.0 World

Use of social media websites - sites such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn - has grown dramatically over the past two years. According to the Pew Research Center, 46 percent of American adults who use the Internet logged onto a social networking site in 2009, which is up from 8 percent in 2005....

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