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BizJournals
Lists business journals in the US. Useful for zooming in on the home location
of your target.
C-4-U Scout http://www.c-4-u.com/
Directory service
Choicepoint
ChoicePoint has grown from a source of data to the insurance industry into the
provision of decision-making intelligence to businesses and government. Through
the identification, retrieval, storage, analysis and delivery of data, ChoicePoint
claims to serve the informational needs of businesses of all sizes, as well
as federal, state and local government agencies.
Competia ($)
Subscription based web magazine devoted to Competitive Intelligence. New articles
each month.
CNN Interactive
Excellent for up to date, recent information.
Deja
News
This service specialised in retrieving information posted to newsgroups and
is a forum for exchange of reviews on innumerable topics. Good for scuttlebut
which can be a useful starting point for CI investigations. Taken over by Google.
Dun & Bradstreet ($)
Economic and Competitive
Intelligence
Links to strategic, military and economic intelligence sources.
The Electric Library
Good for researching articles in magazines, reference works and news wires.
Free two week trial. Otherwise $9.95 per month.
Ecola's 24-hour Newsstand
This is an excellent directory of newspapers, and other publications allowing
you to zoom in to the home town publications of your competitors.
Energy Information Administration (EIA) http://www.eia.doe.gov/
Factiva
Factiva is a Dow Jones & Reuters Company, providing global content, including
Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and The Wall Street Journal - unduplicated in
a single service elsewhere. Factiva claims to offer offers the only single content
solution with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering
nearly 9,000 sources.
Fuld
A good list of links
Herold http://www.herold.com/research/disp_home
Strong on oil and gas
Hoovers
Lots of free information on companies, more information at $9.95 a month (free
for AOL subscribers). Information not always up to date, however.
Integrated Exploration and Development Services Limited (IEDS) http://www.ihsenergy.com/
International business sources
on the WWW
Organized by Michigan State University
International Petroleum Exchange of London http://www.ipemarkets.com/w1/index.php
Jayde
Jayde.com is a cross between a directory and a search engine and now boasts
over 1.2 million site listings. Unlike site directories that are organized in
a series of nested sub-categories which force the user to drill down to find
meaningful results, Jayde offers visitors fast sub-category searches by making
each sub-category a keyword or keyword phrase that is searched in real-time
across the entire database.
Lexis-Nexis ($)
Lizst
Newsgroup directory.
Mbendi http://www.mbendi.com/
Speciality data base on Africa and mining
Media Finder
Uses keyword search to find relevant media in a 100,000+ publication database.
Morgan Stanley http://www.morganstanley.com/
Multex
Mix of free and pay-per-view service, specialising in brokers' reports.
New York Mercantile Exchange http://www.nymex.com/
One Source ($)
Pathfinder
This site gives summary data of Fortune 500 companies
Petroconsultants http://www.petroconsultants.com/
Profound ($)
Another service from the Dialog Corporation.
Strategis
Canadian site with useful CI links
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (Edgar) http://www.sec.gov/
VIBES
Virtual International Business & Economic Sources. Provides over 1,600 links
to Internet sources of international business and economic information that
are in English and available free of charge.
Yahoo Finance
Available in various national flavours