GTE Superpages ssEnables reverse searching (enter phone number to find business).
Multiple Business Phone Books wwPulls together several databases, including the Switchboard Directory, AT&T Directory, and GTE Interactive Yellow Pages.
SalesLeads USA ssAmerican Business Information enables free searching though more than 14 million yellow page listings.
Wall Street Research Network ssLists not only U.S. public companies, but also Canadian companies whose shares trade on the Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, and Alberta exchanges. This appears to be one of the most comprehensive company sites on the Net. Data presented for each company includes links to the company home page and SEC filings, links to company news (courtesy of Yahoo), and lots of data about the company's stock.
Yahoo! Company Information ss Very easy to use. The screen presents scrollable lists of companies. Opposite each company are three options: News, Profiles or Quote. The News option lists news articles from the past seven days. Yahoo draws its articles from the following news sources: Reuters General News, Reuters Securities News, PR Newswire, Business Wire and UPI. The Profile option lists the company's address, phone, fax and top executives. Links are provided to the company home page, stock price and SEC filings.
Companylink ssProvides cross-indexed access to data on some 45,000 U.S. companies. This database, compiled from Hoover's Online and CorpTech can be searched based on the company name (or portion thereof, or ticker symbol). In addition, you can narrow your search by specifying a Primary Industry and state. The results presented for each company include the basic contact info, as well as the nature of ownership (public vs. private). In addition, Companylink provides free links for each company to the home page, stock prices and charts, a local street map and local weather, headlines of all related news stories, and the full text of today's news articles. For an additional fee, you can get the full text of all related news stories, summary profiles (including the CEO, annual sales and employee count).
Major Corporations ssThis site provides links to several hundred corporate sites, and several other domestic and international corporate directories.
Global Corporate Information Services: Japanese Company Reports Global Corporate Information provides annual reports for over 100 companies, short profiles of more than 800 companies, and links to 285 company home pages. The site can be viewed in English or Japanese.
Webgator This page links to a number of state corporate records offices. Most of these do not yet provide actual corporate data on the Net, although some do link to corporate forms and procedural information.
ASSOCIATIONS
Associations Online ssThe Internet Public Library provides this collection of over 500 links to associations on the Net. You can search by title of association or category. Categories include arts, business, computers, entertainment, health, industry, labor, law, science.
Nonprofits Online You can use this database to search for an organization's Web page by name, or browse through the hundreds of listings.
Professional Organizations Index Directories included are business related: accounting, appraisal, banking, brokerage, entrepreneur, law and venture capital.
Associations Database is a searchable directory of international business related associations.
Internet NonProfit Center ssLocate non-profits by searching the NonProfit Locator database (by keyword, zipcode or state) of one million+ nonprofits. The data is drawn from the IRS. In addition, this site houses an extensive collection of links to non-profit organizations.
Non-Profit Resource Center is a service from John Farino, CPA, which provides some accounting-oriented and introductory info on non-profits.
Public Records KnowX provides free "adverse filings," on businesses. Adverse filings involve bankruptcies, judgements, liens, lawsuits and UCCs. Free results are very summarized, for example: "Joe Smith is a plaintiff in a suit filed in New York." You'll pay between $2.50 and $9 for a more detailed record. Data is drawn from the Information America database.
How to Research Companies on the Net