Yahoo, lest we forget, is very strong in finance. As we learn in this Bloomberg video- Yahoo’s Big Business, people in the finance community use it  as well as their Bloomberg terminals, and  individual investors both sophisticated and novice go to it..

The Head of Yahoo Finance, Aaron Task, described features and future for Yahoo Finance. He summarized that Yahoo Finance does well at aggregating information for news and research, providing own analysis, personalizing the selection and presentation, and providing mobile access.  It has much more than stock quotes.

http://www.businessweek.com/videos/2013-01-09/yahoos-big-business-mail-sports-and-finance

ZoomInfo Expands Coverage, Develops New Technologies, Newsbreaks (Sept 6)

ZoomInfo announced that it now offers “detailed, just-verified profiles of 65 million businesspeople and 6 million businesses. The new totals represent annual growth of more than 20% in the company’s comprehensive coverage. The increase in its B2B data gives ZoomInfo’s customers—marketers, sales professionals, and recruiters at companies such as Google, Oracle, and Ranstad—a constant source of up-to-date, deep information about prospects, including middle managers and other decision makers and small- to medium-sized companies, both public and private.”

Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Completely Updated – July 2012, Sabrina Pacifici, LLRX.com
Hats off to Sabrina Pacifici for annually updating this terrific resource guide to search tools on the web. The collection is aimed at business research and competitive intelligence, but serves well for general research. Topics include in addition to web search engines, news, countries, media, people search, US legislation, tracking tools and aggregators

Business Research Plus – blog from the Library at the University of Manchester for its business school. Business researchers and business information professionals everywhere are invited to use this resource. It holds guides to research, popular questions wtih answers, and news.
BestBizWeb recommended it in its May Issue – http://bestbizweb.com/archive/BBW0512.htm

Competitive Intelligence – A Selective Resource Guide – Completely Updated – December 2011, Sabrina Pacifici, LLRX
Updated guide to resources for researchers seeking business information and competitive intelligence from a US point of view. Resources are organized by type and use. A good orientation to types of tools.

5 Tips for Using the New LinkedIn Company Pages, Social Media Examiner (Nov 18)
People looking for jobs through LinkedIn or doing company research will want to know what companies can do with their LinkedIn pages – “Up until now, your company page existed in isolation. Now businesses can update their individual company pages to enable their followers to receive updates and insights about job opportunities, company news, employee moves and more.”
And Social Media Examiner wants to help –

“There are some great resources from Social Media Examiner for building a business presence on Facebook and Twitter, and both of these networks are essential for positioning your business and engaging your community. Now you can extend the reach of your business with your LinkedIn company page to grow your influence as the industry expert!”