Before All?

Sometimes we get to know the hot news from someone else before we actually hear it from THE person.

This has happened some times for me but I always wonder how people do get inside information about a company & the proceedings there before even the employees get to know the actual news. One website which has always amazed me like this is Jim Pinto's. He has always come up with the latest sensational news in the industrial automation industry - be it Siemens, Rockwell, ABB, Invensys - before even the CEO decides to make the announcement to the public. Like today's event of APV sales or Mike Bradley's stepping down...

The problem zooms in when the stakeholders get to know such info from such third parties.