Materiality

I was part of a conversation today about materiality and blogging. One of the participants, 
a lawyer, was explaining all the SEC rules concerning disclosure of forward looking 
information by public companies and how dangerous blogging can be. Someone else laughingly 
said he had heard it said that blogging can destroy a company just be sure it is not ours. 

Obviously if a blogger starts talking about things like future product strategy or mergers 
and acquisitions it is material information. But where do you draw the line? If you say we 
are going to fix this bug in our next release is that material information?

It occurred to me that this is probably a discussion that has happened before. In fact I 
would imagine that whenever a public company talks about blogging this comes up. I'm sure 
there have been some good posts addressing this question. I'll do a bit of keyword 
searching but if anyone is aware of good blogs on this topic please let me know.

Author: marionvermazen

I am a traveler, hiker, avid reader, Sun alumnus, computer geek, Spanish and French language student, knitter and genealogist. I am retired after working for almost 30 years in the Computer Industry. I live in Reno, Nevada with my husband Duke. View all posts by marionvermazen