Business
BizLink: Your Online Business Resource
(http://www.bizlink.org)
Site is sponsored by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg
County, and provides links to other commercial and government business
websites.
Business Wire (http://www.businesswire.com)
Great place to find current news devoted just to business.
Corptech Database of 50,000 U.S.
Technology Companies (http://www.corptech.com/)
Technophobes beware. Not only does this database allow you to search
for 45,000 companies by company name and stock symbol, but you can also
find the products of 3,000 manufacturers and look up the addresses of 160,000
high-tech execs.
EDGAR Database of Corporate
Information (http://www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm)
This site will allow you to retrieve publicly available filings submitted
to the Securities and Exchange Commission from January 1994 to the present.
Entrepreneur Magazine Online
(http://www.entrepreneurmag.com)
Covers issues of finance, technology, marketing, and management.
Other resources include "Small Business Tools" and "Entrepreneur's Databases."
Fortune Magazine Online (http://www.fortune.com/)
Up-to-date business news, along with features and stories from the
magazine. Includes Fortune's 500 list and snapshots of the top ten largest
corporations in America.
Foundation Center Online (http://fdncenter.org/)
Need a grant? Here's the place to learn what foundations are out there
and how to write them successfully.
Hoover's Online (http://www.hoovers.com/)
Up-to-the-minute company news and information, searchable by company,
stock symbol, and keyword.
Hudson Valley Business Journal (http://www.hvbj.com/)
"The definitive source of business news in the Hudson Valley." View
current news stories, check out weather and airport delays around the area,
even search a database of local businesses.
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (http://www.uspto.gov/)
Access over 26 years of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) patent
descriptions as well as the last 23 years of images. That equals over 2
million patents!
International Business
Resources on the WWW (http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp)
Maintained by the Michigan State University - Center for Business Education
and Research (CIBER), this site provides links containing news and
resources for international business information by region or country,
as well as statistics and directories.
Newburgh Free Library
Business Resource & Information Exchange (BRIX) (http://www.newburghlibrary.org/brix.htm)
BRIX is an outreach project brought to you by the Newburgh Free Library
for the local economic community, and focuses on starting, managing, and
growing entrepreneurial businesses.
Nightly Business Report(http://www.nightlybusiness.org/)
From the #1 daily business television program, up-to-the-minute business
news as well as analysis from the program's reporters.
Online Women's Business Center
(http://www.onlinewbc.org)
Not just devoted to women, this site combines resources and expertise
from the United States Small Business Administration and several major
corporate sponsors, and contains general resources from learning about
business to running your own business.
Public Register's Annual
Report Service (http://www.annualreportservice.com)
Over 2,247 public annual reports are available at this site where you
can can view the report online or request a free hard copy.
Thomas Register
of American Manufacturers (http://www1.thomasregister.com/index.cgi/)
Same as the print, its your resource to 155,000 companies, 124,000
brand names, 60,000 product and service listings, and 5,500 online supplier
catalogs. You'll have to sign up, but it is free.
U.S. Small Business Adminsitration(http://www.sba.gov)
Provides access to government information and specific "how-to" documents.
Virtual International
Business & Economic Sources (VIBES) (http://libweb.uncc.edu/vibes)
Maintained by Jeanie M. Welch, Business Librarian, J. Murray Atkins
Library, UNC Charlotte, this award-winning site has over 1,500 links to
international business and economic information.