http://www.essential.org/monitor/monitor.html

Keeping track of corporate activities in the United States and across the world? This bimonthly journal is a great resource.

http://edgar.stern.nyu.edu/

Investors, take heed. EDGAR stores files submitted by publicly traded corporations to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). New York University and the SEC make the data available for you to search--so do it before you invest.

(http://www.hoovers.com/,http://www.hoovers.com/cgi-bin/show_func.cgi?&func=mlist)

The Hoover's Company Capsules are available for more than 10,000 companies. The results include contact information, an informative description, Web links, the latest stock quotes, and more.

http://www.directory.net/

This pretty basic collection of business home pages can be searched alphabetically or by type. It includes over 27,000 online companies.

(http://fast.quote.com/fq/quotecom/quote?portfolio1,http://fast.quote.com/fq/quotecom/ticker?)

The next best thing to being on the trading floor. These stock quotes are 15 minutes old. And free registration gets you financial news straight off the wire.

http://www.fedex.com/cgi-bin/track_it

Forget calling your clients. Find out online if and when your package was delivered, and who signed for it.

http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/shareware/index.html

Running a business takes determination, planning, financing--and good information. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) shareware library has a collection of more than 500 programs to support small business start-up and development.

http://www.bizweb.com/

Online business and product index with a new slant: online shoppers can follow the flags to sites where Internet purchasing is offered.

http://www.newspage.com/NEWSPAGE/BNPSearch.html

Read the day's headlines in business or perform some snap research here. The first few sentences are free, but to read whole stories, you must register.

http://www.lookupusa.com/lookupusa/ada/bussrch.htm

Courtesy of LookupUSA, this online business directory offers addresses, as well as the credit rating, sales output, and employee count of each company. Full profiles are $3 a pop.