Business Information Alert articles from October 2006

Business Information Alert archives from October 2006

Researching company information in Europe: general principles.(Report)
October 1, 2006... I have been writing about European company research for Business Information Alert since 2002, and now realize I may have made many assumptions about the background and detailed knowledge required to complete successful projects from business...

From the editor.
October 1, 2006... Sylvia James gives us another in her continuing series on researching company information. In this feature, she goes backward before going forward to catch you up on some essential background on European company research. She has covered some...

United we sell.(News and Trends)(Company overview)
October 1, 2006... Business information vendors continue to partner with peers and distribute their products to multiple channels. Take Wright's Investors Service. Wright's is the 40-year-old enterprise that developed the financial database WorldScope, now a...

EIU--where are you?(News and Trends)(Economist Intelligence Unit )
October 1, 2006... The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) has released a host of new products again in collaboration with other vendors. World Investment Service, an alliance with Bureau VanDijk (BvD), features a detailed database containing flows of investments...

Caught in the time machine.(News and Trends)
October 1, 2006... Now that I've incriminated myself "age-wise" by disclosing that 1960s lyrics and ceased publications still dance in my head, I might as well reveal another gaffe that will surely earn me a place in the Obsolescence Hall of Fame. The...

I spy.(News and Trends)(wordspy.com, books.google.com, booksprice.com)(Website overview)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... WordSpy is dangerous! This database is so engrossing that it nearly sabotaged my efforts to finish this column on time. Devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases, WordSpy is an Oxford English Dictionary-style resource,...

Researching western European companies: selected bibliography & links.(Bibliography)
October 1, 2006... For those of you who would really like to acquire a good background on international companies, here is the first of an occasional series of short, annotated bibliographies of very readable books on various aspects of business. There is...