WebXU, Inc.(fka WBXU)

[janice shell]

That's because HEMP ticker spams. Whenever they put out a PR, they name all the companies their subsidiary has consulting contracts with. Those tickers are picked up by the wire services, and the PRs turn up in their news feed as well.

The dot.coms used to do it back in the late 90s. I remember some particularly sleazy ones that would include up to 20 or so big name tickers in their PRs. Stuff like: What XXXX does is similar to what MSFT, AAPL, INTC…. blah blah blah. In reality the small company was just trying to attract attention from investors in those companies.

Finally the newswires got fed up and refused to run PRs of that kind.