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ABC News - Business
Business site for U.S. television news service. |
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Academic Marketing Associations
Includes listing of non-U.S. based associations. From Tilburg University |
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Accenture - Latest Thinking
This site for a leading consulting firm provides access to free reports and case studies covering almost all major industries. Can search by industry, subject, date and more. |
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AdAge Datacenter
Offers several reports, statistics and fact sheets covering the advertising and media industries. Requires registration (free) to access. |
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AllExperts
This free service that allows visitors to pose new questions to supposed experts in many different fields including some in specific industries. Can also search through the database for previously answered questions. This service tends to be more consumer-oriented (i.e., non-business questions) than other services. |
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Annual Report Service
This site offers links to thousands of annual reports in both HTML and PDF formats though to access requires a registration (free). |
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Archive.org
Interesting site that is building a large database of websites as these have appeared over time and thus may prove useful for historical research. By entering a web address in its Wayback Machine search area, this site may offer screenshots of how a website appeared in the past. In some cases as far back (far back in Internet time!) as 1996. Unfortunately some sites to not always appear. |
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Associations on the Net - Internet Public Library
Searchable database of hundreds of associations that maintain websites. |
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Authors and Experts
Provides an online searchable resource for members of the media or for event coordinators looking for topical experts, authors, and speakers. If you fall into the category of expert, author or speaker you can sign up to be listed. |
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BBC - Business
Business site of U.K and international news service. |
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Bitpipe
Primarily a reseller of technology-related syndicated research reports though it does offer access to a modest amount of free (though users must register) industry provided case studies and white papers. |
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Bloomberg
Site of U.S. business news service. |
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Business Plan Archive
In the span of a few years millions of dollars where given to Internet businesses that in retrospect were really bad investments. This site offers a facinating retrospective of the dot-com boom era by providing information on over 2000 companies many of which did not survive. At its best the site provides extensive information on many of the failed dot-coms including presenting the company's business plan. |
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CAROL
Offers free (though must register) access to over 3000 annual reports for companies in Asia, Europe and US. Searchable by company name, industry, stock exchange and geographic region. |
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CBS News - Business
Site for U.S. television news service |
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The Center for Association Leadership
While the organization running the site is primarily an association for those in the association business, they do offer a searchable database called Gateway to Associations for locating trade associations (presumably their member’s sites). Search filtering can be done by US state, country and keyword. While not nearly as in-depth as other sources it is FREE! |
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ClickZ Stats
Good all around information site focusing on Internet, technology and business issues including regular summaries of research studies performed by market research companies and a very nice Stats Toolbox which offers summary results of various key statistics. |
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CNBC
U.S. and international business news service |
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CNN - Money
Site for U.S. and international cable news service. |
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Congressional Research Service Reports
This site from the National Council for Science and the Environment provides access to research reports produced by the US Congressional Research Service, a branch of the US Library of Congress that provides environmental and science research reports to members of the US Congress. While many reports are strictly of the technical and science vein, there are many that are appropriate for those looking for industry studies. |
