Company Research

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Company Research

• Company website
• Gartner, Hoovers, Yahoo Financials, Google
• Business Week, Forbes, Motley Fool, Factiva
• LexisNexis Technology magazines, Journals

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Company website

• General information about company
• Learn more about specific industry and how
  company is a part
• Insight into other similar companies

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Gartner, Hoovers, Yahoo Financials, Google

• You must pay to use both Gartner.com and
  Hoover.com
• Analyst reports know/analyze various markets
  (including technology)
• Current info on technology services
• Help with ideas for investigation focus
• Yahoo Financials and Google sometimes serve as
  (free) substitutes for finding analyst reports
• Can help with identifying other key companies
  associated/competing with your assigned company

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Business Week, Forbes, Motley Fool, Factiva

• General business information news
• Loads of current and not-so-current articles
• Motley Fool provides financial information
• Good way to find non-technical information (as
  well as technical)
• Some Factiva products http//www.factiva.com/prod
  ucts/index.asp?nodemenuElem1491

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LexisNexis, Technology magazines, Journals

• Technical information
• International information
• LexisNexis provides public records, legal
  information, and access to publications in
  multiple formats
• GaTech Library provides access to LexisNexis
  many journals and papers
• http//www.library.gatech.edu/
• http//www.library.gatech.edu/search_locate/electr
  onic_journals.html