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You can use the internet to compile a tremendous amount of information about a business -- it's prospects, competitors, vendors, suppliers, and companies. This is very helpful information if you're researching a company you may want to work for.
General company information can be found with Hoover's Online (from Unit 4), from Infoseek Industry Watch, from CorpTech's Database of 50,000 Companies, and from CompanyLink. More information is available from the following sites:
Commercial web sites:
Search for a company's homepage by trying out their name within the URL; i.e., http://www.companyname.com -- and if that doesn't work, try looking them up at WebSitez, which searches the Internic database for domain names. If you're looking up a nonprofit, try using "org" at the end; i.e., http://www.npr.org.
More nonprofit information:
News sources:
Financial information:
Public companies will have a stock exchange ticker symbol. Look them up here:
Yahoo! Finance - Ticker Symbol Lookup
More financial details can be found by using the following sites:
Online discussions:
Check http://www.dejanews.com and http://www.reference.com/ to see if anyone has posted an article about your company to any of the newsgroups.
See http://www.techstocks.com/index.html for financial discussions in the marketplace.
Professional associations, conferences, and seminars:
Besides providing opportunities for companies to market themselves, trade shows are often good opportunities to learn about competitors' technologies and network with others in your field. You can find business and professional associations that provide in depth information, networking opportunities, and standards of performance for individual industries and occupations. If you want to get involved with a particular association, you may want to attend a local chapter meeting.
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Last updated: 16 Apr 2003
