AFXpress
(International business news)
http://www.afxpress.com/afxpress2/afx/section_3.xml.html
Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR)
http://www.aimr.org/
Biz/ed (UK based)
http://www.bized.ac.uk/
Business 2.0 - Reinventing Business (news and information - US
centric)
http://www.business2.com/
Business 2.0 Web Guide Topics (extensive links - mainly US centric)
http://www.business2.com/webguide/
Business Ethics
(Sources and links)
http://www.web-miner.com/busethics.htm
Business.com
(Search engine and Directory for Business Information - US centric)
http://www.business.com/
Business and Trade Directories (Global links)
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/biz/directory.htm
Business Research (Top Internet sites in the world) - US
http://www.washingtonresearchers.com/public/InternetGuide/InternetGuide.html
Business Strategy Search Specialist
http://www.sookoo.com/
Business Topics
(from the Librarians' Index to the Internet)
http://lii.org/search/file/business
Business Wire Search
http://www.businesswire.com/search.shtml
CFO
(Corporate Finance UK site)
http://www.cfo.com/
C-SPAN Business sources (US)
http://www.c-span.org/business_economy/
CRM & Business Intelligence Insight Portal
http://www.intellibusiness.com/
Canada NewsWire
http://www.newswire.ca/
Canada - Investor Canada
(Division of Canada NewWire)
http://www.investorcanada.com/index.php
Canadian Business magazine
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/index.asp
Canadian Corporate News
http://www.cdn-news.com/ccnnewswire/ccn_15.html
Company Directories: Strategis Guide to Canadian
and International Companies (Canada)
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/sc_coinf/engdoc/homepage.html
Canadian Securities Industry - Financial Review
http://www.fin.gc.ca/toce/2000/cansec_e.html
Canadian Securities Institute
https://www.csi.ca/pub/en/index.html
Canadian Venture Exchange Home Page
http://www.cdnx.com/home.htm
Commercial Guides Index
(by country, from the US Dept. of State)
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/index.html
Companies House (UK)
(Company House offers details on all
limited and public limited British firms,
including active and dissolved firms).
http://www.companies-house.gov.uk/info/
Company Profiles by WetFeet (US)
www.wetfeet.com/research/companies.asp
CompanySleuth
http://www.companysleuth.com
Competitive Alternatives site by KPMG
http://www.competitivealternatives.com/
Competitive Intelligence Information
-The Internet Intelligence Index-
http://www.fuld.com/i3/index.html
Corporate Affiliations (requires subscription)
http://www.CorporateAffiliations.Com/dca/Content/index.html
Corporation Information
http://www.corporateinformation.com/
Country Analysis Briefs
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/contents.html
Country Commercial Guides
(These are yearly reports that examine a country's
economic, political, and market environment. All reports cover
basically the same scope and follow the same format. The key
sections are: Executive Summary; Political Environment;
Marketing U.S. Products and Services; Leading Sectors for U.S.
Exports and Investments; Trade Regulations; Customs and
Standards; Investment Climate Statement; Trade and Project
Financing; Business Travel; Economic and Trade Statistics;
U.S. and Country Contacts; Market Research; and Trade Events Schedule).
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/
through 2001
http://www.usatrade.gov/website/ccg.nsf/ccghomepage?openform
since 2001
Customized Market Reports - Strategis (Canada)
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/bi18355e.html
Directory of Corporate Archives in the United States and Canada
( From the Society of American Archivists Business Archives Section.
This site provides a listing, and contact information for companies
that maintain their own historical records, or use consulting
firms to maintain their archive collection).
http://www.hunterinformation.com/corporat.htm
CyberTimes Navigator (NY TIMES)
http://www.nytimes.com/navigator
Dun and Bradsweet Small Business Solutions Portal (US)
http://sbs.dnb.com
also see
Dun and Bradstreet Small Business Services Search at:
http://sbs.dnb.com/advFind.asp?bhcd2=1020959156
EContent Magazine - Content Companies to Watch
(good list of links)
http://www.econtentmag.com/Magazine/Features/guide12_01.html
E-News
(Top business stories from BCE Emergis - global)
http://www.enewsservices.com/en/index.html
E*Trade Canada
http://www.etrade.ca/
EarthTrends
(Economics, Business and the Environment - Global)
http://earthtrends.wri.org
Energy Information Administration: Country Analysis Briefs
(This site offers succinct, but detailed overviews
on the role of energy for over 120 countries and regions. Each
report begins with a country background, including an
overview of its economy and environment, and then provides
details on the use and importance of oil, natural gas, coal,
electricity, nuclear power, synthetic fuels, and renewables.
Links to further sources of information are also provided).
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/contents.html
Europe.eDirectories-Online.com
"Europe.eDirectories-Online.com forms part of a major Europe B to B
project partnered and supported by a formidable consortium of
influential
Europe media and Business partners."
http://www.europe.edirectories-online.com/
European High-Tech Industry Database
http://www.tornado-insider.com/radar/
Factiva Launches 2002 White Paper Series
(Factiva launches its 2002 White Paper Series with a new report
on the value of information tools. Free, Fee-Based and
Value-Added
Information Services considers the quality, availability and value
of information on free Web sites, fee-based Web sites
and value-added information services).
http://factiva.com/collateral/files/whitepaper_feevsfree_032002.pdf
Financial Data and Resource Locators:
Stock Exchange and Stock Market Information
(Sources from around the world)
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/biz/sxsm.htm
Financial Ratios and Quality Indicators
http://www.onlinewbc.gov/docs/finance/fs_ratio1.html
Financial Times Global Business News
http://news.ft.com/home/ww/
and global archive at:
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/
Investor research tools at:
http://investor.ft.com
Forbes Business related lists (U.S.)
http://www.forbes.com/lists/
and
http://www.forbes.com/2002/03/27/forbes500.html
Also see Forbes' list of the top companies
in the world at their 'Global 2000' see:
http://www.forbes.com/home/2003/07/02/internationaland.htm
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Fortune
http://www.fortune.com/
Franchises - top 100 (US)
http://www.entrepreneur.com/Franchise_Zone/FZ_Special_Listing/1,4731,12-12---HO-,00.html
FreeRealTime (US) http://quotes.freerealtime.com/dl/frt/S?&
globalEDGE - An international business resource.
(From Michigan State University's Global Management
Certificate Program)
http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp
Gurteen Knowledge Website
http://www.gurteen.com/
Hemscott - UK and European Business and Investment
http://www.hemscott.net/
Hoover's Online http://www.hoovers.com/
IAR: Internet Advertising Report
(IAR provides timely news stories on topics
related to interactive advertising. This includes email
marketing, pay-for-placement search, portals, wireless,
and Internet company activities. Also covered are related
consumer issues, such as demographic trends, Internet
survey usage results, and so on).
http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/
IMF Publications
http://www.imf.org/external/pubind.htm
ISI Emerging Markets
(US subscription based, but still a lot
of good free background material as well)
http://www.securities.com/
InfroTech Trends
(market data)
http://www.infotechtrends.com/freedemo.htm
Intellectual Property Network (Delphion)
http://www.delphion.com/
International Trademark Association
http://www.inta.org
Insider's Guide to Davos
http://www.davosnewbies.com/
Inside Privacy (Customer/Client relational issues)
http://www.insideprivacy.com
Institutional Investor Online - Analyst Database.
(The Analyst Database section of Institutional
Investor Online is a directory of sell-side equity research
analysts, which includes all of Institutional Investor's
ranked analysts since 1998, worldwide).
http://www.institutionalinvestoronline.com/premium/rr/default.htm
Interesting list of 'Power Brokers' in the network technology world
(US based)
http://www.nwfusion.com/power01/people/
Investment Dealers Association of Canada
http://www.ida.ca/
Investment Promotion Network (IPAnet)
(Good global source of data and information
on countries and emerging markets)
http://www.ipanet.net/infores/
Investor Canada
http://www.investorcanada.com/index.php
Investor Learning Centre of Canada
http://www.investorlearning.ca/
Knowledge Management News
http://www.kmnews.com/
Knowledge Management Review
http://www.km-review.com/
Knowledge Management World
http://www.kmworld.com/
KnowThis
(Knowledge sources for market research)
http://knowthis.com/
LeFile - Best Practices of Corporate Web sites
(edited by William Dupuy)
http://lefile.com/
Librarians Index to the Internet - Business (mostly US sources)
http://www.lii.org/search/file/business
Lowtax.net - Offshore Tax, E-Commerce and
Information Resource
http://www.lowtax.net/
M&A Database search resource at Wall Street net
http://wsn.doremus.com/fr_ma.html
Major Market Catergories
(as defined by Brendan Woods International consulting
annual
survey of Canadian portfolio managers,
circulated
the week of July 8. 2002.)
Managing Think Tanks
(from the Urban Institute)
http://www.urban.org/Template.cfm?template=/TaggedContent/ViewPublication.cfm&PublicationID=7686
Manufacturing Net (US)
http://www.manufacturing.net/
Market Reports
(Information to customize reports,
from Canadian Government Strategis site)
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/bi18355e.html
MARKET RESEARCH - background and links
http://www.rba.co.uk/sources/mr.htm
MarketResearch (UK)
http://www.marketresearch.com/
Market Research/Internet Marketing (US)
http://knowthis.com/
Market Guide Screening
(This site allows users to provide detailed screening
to pinpoint specific types of firms from
a database of over 9,400 companies).
http://marketguide.com/screen/SScreen.asp
Montreal Stock Exchange
http://www.me.org/
Morebusiness - Sample plans, contracts, etc.
http://www.morebusiness.com/
Morningstar Research
http://www.morningstar.ca/globalhome/main/index.asp
MultexInvestor (US)
http://multex.multexinvestor.com/home.asp
Nasdaq Stock Market (US)
http://www.nasdaq.com/
National Post Top 500 analysis (Canada)
http://www.nationalpostbusiness.com/datamining/top500/top500.asp
NewsDirectory - Newspapers re. Business (global)
http://www.newsdirectory.com/news/press/business/
OilExec
(A site for oil and gas industry professionals and employers).
http://www.oilexec.com/
Organizational Development Network
http://www.odnetwork.org/index.html
Patents Gateway - Europe, US and Asia
http://gb.espacenet.com/
Precursor Research (Independent (US)
(focused on technology, globalization and competition issues)
http://www.precursorgroup.com/
Public Records Database Collection (global)
http://www.pac-info.com/
Red Herring (Background information and press on companies - US)
http://www.redherring.com/
Report on Business (ROB) from the Globe and Mail (Canada)
http://www.robmagazine.com/
Rocketinfo - Market and Competitive Intelligence
http://www.rocketnews.com/index.html
Quote Seek - Shop and Compare (US) http://www.quoteseek.com/
SamSpade.org
(This site helps decipher who is behind a particular
Web site. Type in a specific URL in the "do stuff"
box, and Sam Spade runs various programs that will
typically return the following: what the alphanumeric URL
resolves to numerically; a "whois" search informing you who the
site is registered with; the name and address of the registrant;
an administrative contact of the registrant; the "traceroute" which
maps out the path a packet takes from the Sam Spade server to
the target machine, and additional information.)
http://www.samspade.org/
Search-SEC.com
(This site provides access to SEC documents filed
by U.S. public companies. Users can search by ticker
symbol, and limit searches by company name, zip code, phone
number, state, country, SIC code, or form types).
http://www.search-sec.com/
SEDAR http://www.sedar.com/homepage_en.htm
Small Business Websites that Work (UK)
http://www.sean.co.uk/books/sbwtw/index.shtm
Society of Business Editors and Writers (U.S.)
http://www.sabew.org/
Stock Exchange and Stock Market Information (Global links)
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/biz/sxsm.htm
Strategic Advantage site (US)
http://www.strategy4u.com/framed_home.html
Super Searchers on Wall Street - extensive links:
http://www.infotoday.com/supersearchers/superwall.htm
SurveyMonkey
(make cusomized surveys)
http://www.surveymonkey.com/home.asp?bhcd2=1047929129
Team Management Systems: Profiles for personal,
team and organizational development.
http://www.tms.com.au/tms03.html
Telecommunications Reports International, Inc.
http://www.tr.com/
Telecommunications Resources (Global)
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/eng/telecomm.htm
The Beige Book (US focused)
(From The Federal Reserve, provides an up-to-date commentary
on economic conditions and trends for twelve selected regions
around the country. The Book is updated eight times per year
and an archive of earlier reports dating back to 1996 is available).
http://www.federalreserve.gov/FOMC/BeigeBook/2002/
The Collapse of Enron:
A Bibliography of Online Legal, Government and
Legislative Resources - Updated.
http://www.llrx.com/features/enron.htm
The Dismal Scientist: Economic Analysis,
Indicators, and Data from around the world.
http://www.economy.com/dismal/
Thinks Tanks and Policy Research sites
around the world
http://www.nira.go.jp/linke/tt-link/index.html
Thomas Register of America Manufacturers
http://www.thomasregister.com
Thomson Financial Network - Stock and Stock Markets
http://www.thomsonfn.com/
Toronto Stock Exchange (Cdn) http://www.tse.com/
Translation Services: Eriksen (US based)
http://www.erikseninc.com/
UK Trade News Provider
(from Icorporation)
http://www.icorporation.com/
United Nations Statistics Division
(The United Nations has created 48 social and
economic indicators for countries around the world.)
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/mi.asp
United States International Trade Administration
(provides trade statistics, state export data,
country and industry information.)
http://www.ita.doc.gov/
Universal Description, Discovery and Integration
of Business for the Web (UDDI)
http://www.uddi.org/about.html
Wall Street Transcript Online
(This site publishes the full text of transcripts
of interviews with company CEOs and
corporate leaders in a Q&A format).
http://www.twst.com/ceos.htm
Wall Street Executive Library from the New York Times.
Excellent links to US newspapers,Media outlets, magazines,
market feeds, buzz, etc..
Also international links - very mainstream, but good :)
http://www.executivelibrary.com/
WebMergers
http://www.webmergers.com/
WorldAtOnce.com
http://www.worldatonce.com/
World Markets Analysis
http://www.worldmarketsanalysis.com/
Yahoo Finance - Sector Summaries
http://biz.yahoo.com/p/sectors.html