Company Research
Biznar Biznar is a free, publicly available business search site. Using state-of-the art federated search technology from Deep Web Technologies, Biznar accelerates your search by returning the most relevant results from across the web. This will include blogs, wikis, mainstream searches and deep web sources to one, easily navigable page. Clicking on any of the results will take you directly to the suorce website wehre you can view your information directly.
Guidestar Directory of non-profit organizations with reports on their financial status. Useful for those researching non-profit sector for jobs.
CorpTech Searchable database of in-depth profiles for more than 50,000 public and private high-tech companies.
Hoovers Handbook The Hoovers Handbook provides company profiles for 500 major corporations indexed by type of industry, geographical location of headquarters bynames of people included in the profiles and by company name and products. Links are provided to EDGAR and individual company web sites where available.
Thomas Register Online Thomas Register online is indexed alphabetically, geographically, and by trademark/brandnames. It requires registration but provides free company and product information for nearly 160,000 companies.
OSU Virtual Finance Library Colelction of web sites and tools for use by investors, finance students and researchers. Maintained by the OSU Department of Finance.
Yahoo! Finance Current stock market quotes, currency and exchange information, market and company analysis.
CNNmoney Contains full-text transcripts of CNN's fianncial news stories and links to financial and other data. Access to quotes and stock analysis.
EDGAR (Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). Publicly traded companies must file all required reports including 10K, 10Q directly to EDGAR. The SEC makes the EDGAR database full-text available for searching by the general public.
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Small Business Start-Up
U.S. Small Business Administration Contains information about marketing, managing, funding small businesses. Links to grants sources and information also provided. Includes detail reports on establishing e-commerce. Links to local, state, and regional small business resources also available.
FedBizOps Web site listing business opportunities for Federal agency and military contracts, grants and other programs.
Guru.com Meta-site for business support services for independent professionals. Includes features such as job-matching, management tools, colelction of sites for business services such as e-mail, faxing, insurance, postage and so on.
Home-Based Business Information on the Web
Ohio Department of Development Entrepreneurship and Small Business Information on workshops, reports and online tools for making decisions about starting a home-based business. Includes links to related information regarding regulations for different types of businesses.
Scambusters Is it too good to be true? Check out this site first before spending any more time and money on a project.