Business & Economics News

Recent happenings in areas of interest to business and finance.

Resources in this category:

Advancing Women
http://www.advancingwomen.com/

"An award winning, bi-lingual [English and Spanish] web site, offering business and technology news and career strategies for women in the workplace, including the first refereed journal for women researchers and educators." Includes an online career center, Today's Womens' News feature, forums for discussion, links for networking with international women, personal services resources and links to similar sites.

Alberta Venture: the Authoritative Source of Online Information for Alberta's Business Community
http://www.albertaventure.com/

"As Alberta's only province-wide business magazine, we follow the trends, the issues, the people, and events that set the pace for this fast-growing and diverse business community." This website features articles on business from an Alberta point of view, a list of upcoming business events in Alberta, contact information for people and companies featured in Alberta Venture, and access to special issues and sections.

Bloomberg.com
http://www.bloomberg.com/

This website is useful for financial, world, and market news. It also provides job and employee recruiting for Bloomberg. Users can also find stock quotes and information about Bloomberg Media. You can find a variety of calculators including currency, mortgage, retirement, lease/buy, 401(k), education cost, and emergency fund.

BNET
http://www.bnet.com/

Get ahead at work with BNET: "Management, strategy, work life skills and advice for professionals." BNET offers current perspectives on business and human resources issues, business news and stock market information.

Business Daily Review
http://businessdailyreview.com/

"Business Daily Review is a Web site showcasing high quality business analysis and information available online." Provides brief abstracts and links to business news and analysis articles from magazines and newspaper Web sites.

Business Wire
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/index.jsp?front...

In addition to current and archived business news, this website provides a useful calendar of events including upcoming trade shows, conference calls, and Business Wire events. Registration is free and required to view the news articles.

CNN/Money
http://money.cnn.com/

Up-to-date financial news from CNN. Includes stock quotes. Searchable.

Corporate Affiliations Mergers and Acquistions
http://www.corporateaffiliations.com/Executable/cn_mergers.a...

The Mergers and Acquisitions page is a free resource on the Directory of Corporate Affiliations site, a subscription-only guide to corporate families in the United States and abroad provided by the Lexis-Nexis Group. The Mergers and Acquistions Activity page lists CorporateAffiliations.com companies which have merged, changed names, or gone out of business. Users may search within a specific time frame (within the past 1, 2, 3, 4 weeks, or within 1 year) or they may access the archives, which go as far back as 1976.) The FAQ's page is also available without charge. A free trial subscription to the full site is available from the home page.

E-Commerce Times
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/

"24 hours of breaking news and special reports about e-business and technology. Everything you need to know about doing business online."

1stHeadlines-Business
http://www.1stheadlines.com/business.htm

1stHeadlines-Business provides a central location where a user can quickly scan headlines from the Business sections of top online news sources. 1stHeadlines-Business checks each source for updates on a continuous basis, 24 hours a day.

Individual.com NewsPage
http://www.individual.com/login.php

Categorized news stories for industry groups, updated daily. (Requires free registration)

Internetnews.com
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/

This news website provides coverage for a variety of topics surrounding technology issues. It offers a useful search function and provides stock quotes and charts for companies featured in their news articles. Check out the specialized regional information for Boston, Washington D.C., New York, and Silicon Valley.

Marketplace Money from American Public Media
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/

Daily radio show on National Public Radio (NPR) that discusses all matters financial, such as business news, retirement, home purchasing, asking for a raise, paying off credit card debt, and paying for college. All previous radio programs are available online, and be sure to check out features section.

Newswise
http://www.newswise.com/nwhome.htm

"Newswise maintains a comprehensive database of news releases from top institutions engaged in scientific, medical and business research." Search each section or browse by date.

Reuters
http://today.reuters.com/news/home.aspx

Reuters is a global information company providing information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media, and corporate markets. This website supplies global news – text, graphics, video, and pictures –to media organizations and websites around the world. It also provides news to businesses outside financial services. Users can also find information on stock quotes. (This site may take some time to load, especially on dial-up connections.)

Tech Blogs on ZDNet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/

Longtime technology watchdog and publisher Ziff-Davis's portal for blog-formatted commentary by ZDNet's impressive array of tech gurus.

Yahoo! Finance
http://finance.yahoo.com/

Stock quotes (delayed 20 minutes) and other financial information and news from Reuter's New Media.