Company News
If you are interested in certain public companies over a period of time, you can set up a news tracking system on those companies. We recommend these services in particular:
News Alert Inc.
News Alert’s free service offers stock quotes and news stories for an unlimited number of ticker symbols. It offers full text of premium news sources from Knight-Ridder Tribune and UPI.Divine (Northern Light)
Free registration is required to set up news alerts. Full text is free for current news from wire services. For other articles and reports, bibliographic and summary information is offered with the option to purchase full text.
Yahoo! Alerts
This site lets you create a news alert to run in such sources as USA Today, Associated Press and Reuters, as well as a number of major local daily newspapers. The alerts will be sent to you by e-mail. You also might want to check other news sources for coverage of the company you’re researching. More and more local newspapers have Internet editions. They vary in completeness and searchability but some have extensive searchable archives. Here are some of the best sites that index news media on the Web:
AJR News Link (American Journalism Review)
ABYZ News Links (newspapers, magazines, radio, tv)
FindArticles.com (magazines and journals)
FindArticles.com is an archive of published articles that you can search for free. It contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
AltaVista: News
AltaVista, powered by Moreover, searches multiple newspapers and delivers full text free where available.
Researchville
Researchville searches multiple newspapers with one single command. The search results must be retrieved by clicking on each separate newspaper Web site. Basic headlines and bibliographic information are retrieved but the full text may be only available for paid subscribers, depending on the policy of each newspaper.
You may also want to check some of the business magazines and newspapers:
Fortune
This site includes a searchable archive of news articles going back to September 1995 as well as the Fortune 500 companies and other ranking lists. Some of the lists of special interest are:
Fortune 500
Best Companies to Work For (can rank companies by number of women and ethnic diversity)
Forbes
Among the other features of the Forbes site are the Forbes 500 Annual Directory, the 200 Best Small Companies and, especially, the 500 Largest Private Companies. Information on these companies includes revenues, profits, number of employees, a brief profile, address, phone, and name and educational background of CEO.
Forbes 500 – Public
Forbes 500 – Private
America's Largest Private Companies
200 Best Small Companies in America
This site includes the Inc. 500, a fully searchable list of America’s 500 fastest growing private companies. Reports show revenue, profitability, number of employees, location, industry, year founded and Web site (if available).
Business Week Online
This site offers an archive of articles going back to 1994. Searching is free and it will retrieve a basic citation and summary of the articles. You must register and pay to view full text of most articles. Business Week also partners with Business.com to push other Web sites that relate to your search topic.
WSJ.com
This site gives Dow Jones business news and press release wires from the last 30 days. It also gives headlines of Wall Street Journal stories from the last month but full text is only available by paid subscription.Bloomberg Online
This site provides the latest financial news and data from Bloomberg. It also provides stock market indices from around the world. Additional information is available to Bloomberg Personal Magazine subscribers.
Financial Times
This site contains articles from the Financial Times newspaper, including a searchable 30-day archive. And it offers company profiles, a People Dossier with detailed information and links to news stories about corporate executives, and an interactive charting feature that permits comparison of a company’s stock with the industry average and common indexes such as the S&P 500.
Report on Business Magazine Top 1000
Listing of top Canadian companies, including top private and tech firms. Records contains brief financial information and contact information for each company. Also has list of best paid CEOs.