Business: Websites

This is one of the most comprehensive sites on the Web for entrepreneurs and growing businesses. AllBusiness.com features articles, advice, forms, agreements, and videos covering small business topics, M&A, venture capital, angel financing, sales and marketing, careers, and more. The site offers over 33,000 articles written by experts from many different fields.

Search more than 65,000 reports from more than 5000 companies worldwide. Search for individual companies by company name or ticker symbol or by industry. View reports in their original form as PDFs.

Bloomberg Business provides up-to-the-minute U.S. and international news on financial markets, commodities, currencies, company earnings, technology, and more. The site has numerous articles, feature stories, and videos.

Good starting place to find information about local and regional businesses, people and events. CNYBJ publishes an annual Book of Lists that includes the most recent data on businesses and nonprofit organizations in the 16-county Central New York Region which is useful for business research and local job hunting.

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

All companies, foreign and domestic, are required to file registration statements, periodic reports, and other forms electronically through EDGAR. Anyone can access and download this information for free. Here you'll find links to a complete list of filings available through EDGAR and instructions for searching the EDGAR database.

Forbes has great and comprehensive content across every business category: the stock market, entrepreneurship, personal finance, M&A, technology, careers, and more. It contains many popular lists, including “The World’s Billionaires” and the “Most Valuable Brands.” It has numerous staff writers and over 1,800 contributing experts who generate a great quantity of articles, which results in over 75 million visitors a month to the site.

Fortune provides extensive coverage of the financial markets, especially larger companies that make up the “Fortune 500.” Topic categories include careers, entrepreneurs, finance, sports, technology, markets, most powerful women, and energy and the environment.

MarketWatch is a comprehensive news site covering stocks, bonds, commodities, U.S. and international markets, personal investing, real estate, and media. The site is known particularly for its continuous coverage of stock market updates.

Microsoft’s MSN Money has comprehensive and current information and advice on the markets, investing, personal finance, real estate, small business, careers, taxes, and more.

The Onondaga Small Business Development Center (SBDC) is a resource for new entrepreneurs realize and assists existing businesses through confidential one-on-one business counseling, facilitated learning opportunities, and providing relevant business resources and directed research.

Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of meeting locations. Members improve their speaking and leadership skills by attending one of the 14,350 clubs in 122 countries that make up the global network of meeting locations. (There is a Toastmasters chapter on the OCC campus.)

From the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) provides up-to-date and accurate economic accounts data for the United States government, including gross domestic product (total and by industry) and a wide range of economic information on personal income, assets, and many other topics, often broken down by geographic area.

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