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SEC Guidance on Use of Company Websites

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New SEC guidance recognizes that technological innovations allowing instantaneous communications are a driving force behind the securities markets. There is no doubt that modern communication technologies make it easier for companies to broadly and swiftly disseminate important information. Issuers can use a variety of new methods to communicate with the market, including the Internet and company websites. By facilitating rapid and widespread information dissemination, the Internet has had a significant impact on capital-raising techniques and, more broadly, on the structure of the securities industry, and also on SEC regulation. Many if not most public companies are incorporating Internet-based technology into their routine business operations, including setting up their own websites to furnish company and industry information. Some provide information about their
securities and the markets in which their securities trade, while others post summary financial information.

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