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E-Commerce Portals
- eBusinessforum (by EIU)
- TechWeb - includes a useful tech encyclopedia
- About.Com - Internet Technology
- About.Com - E-Commerce
- @Brint - BizTech Network
Industry Overviews
Babson students & faculty can now access Forrester Research and GigaWeb (see a reference librarian for access). E-businesses tend to into a specific industry group (for instance, Amazon.com under bookstores and retail or eTrade under financial services), use standard industry sources listed in our Researching an Industry guide to find information about the specific industry, or use the following resources for more info about e-commerce in general: - State of the Internet 2000 - from the United States Internet Council. The 2001 Executive Summary is free online.
Investext for industry reports by investment firms, when searching make sure to use all synonyms possible and use the phrase "industry report" to eliminate company specific reports from your results. Search examples:
(internet or ecommerce or electronic commerce or e-commerce) and industry report
internet infrastructure and industry report - Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Technology Research/News - some Internet & B2B industry reports
Library Subscription Services & Books
ValueLine or InfoDesk1 - see their Internet and E-Commerce snapshots
WEBcat, our online library catalog for books on Electronic Commerce
Tech Company Directories
- OneSource CorpTech - over 50,000 hi-tech companies
- Hoover's - directory, profiles, links to SEC filings, etc.
- FACCTS: Faulkner Advisory on Computer & Communications Technology
- Dun's Million Dollar Database Premier
Finding Information about Internet Start Ups
Other than reading the current news and industry magazines, it's hard to stay on top of the changes and developments in this fast paced industry. If you are interested in finding information about pre-existing e-businesses that may have gone public, search for the prospectuses using IPOcentral or the LexisNexis Academic company financial information section. The prospectus, form S-1, is the pre-effective registration statement, or Initial Public Offering filing, that is submitted when a company decides to go public. For private companies try to search for periodical articles in local news sources (Factiva).
For information on e-businesses that are being financed by venture capitalists, check the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Moneytree survey at http://www.pwcmoneytree.com/ or for local information check out the Boston Globe's quarterly venture capital report. For more information check out the National Venture Capital Association Web site. Subscribe to Tech Partners VentureWire for daily updates on new funds and news on portfolio companies. Online Trade Publications for info on Internet Start Ups:
Best Online E-Commerce Trade Publications
Good Starting Places:
Other Useful Sites
- CBS Marketwatch Internet Daily
- C-Net - choose Tech News
- Computer Industry Almanac
- Datamation - Useful salary survey for IT staff and articles
- EM: Electronic Markets - The International Journal of Electronic Commerce and Business Media Published since 1991 the journal reports on the principal developments and the latest trends in Electronic Commerce and Markets.
- ePaynews Resource Center
- Forbes ASAP - bimonthly tech supplement to Forbes
- Information Week - part of CMP's TechWeb
- InfoWorld - IDG's weekly magazine with daily updates, also includes useful IT salary survey
- Industry Week - often covers IT industries
- Internet.com - Real-time Internet news and resources
- Internetworld.com
- Wired News
- ZDNet News
Searching for Journal/Magazine Articles
Try the following databases to find articles in magazines and trade journals (including from some of the above titles).
- RDS Bizsuite
- Factiva
Industry Newsletters
These sites will email you for free, some each weekday, others once a week, their electronic newsletter(s).
- CMPnet Newsletters
- Choices include: TechWeb News, TechInvestor Direct, TechCalendar Direct among others.
- Internet World Weekly & Daily
- Newslinx Internet News
- Daily compilation of Internet news. Look for the subscribe box to sign up.
- Wired Digital Daily
- Daily news and analysis of the technologies, companies, and people driving the information age. Look for the subscribe box and enter your email address for daily updates.
Web Advertising and Marketing
- Ad Resource - Web Advertising & Promotion Resources
- Brint Marketing & Advertising on Web
- BtoB: Magazine for Marketing and ECommerce Strategists
Emarketer - free white paper on Media Advertising trends - Internet Advertising Bureau - association
- Internet Advertising Resource Guide - excellent resource
- Web Digest for Marketers - weekly
Net Statistics
Babson students & faculty can now access Forrester Research! - Start with these snapshop reports:
- E-Visory E-Facts by NPD GroupA Nation Online: How Americans are Expanding their Use of
the Internet by National Telecommunications and Information Adminstration
Cisco Systems Facts & Stats - CyberAtlas: The Reference Desk for Web Marketing
Global Reach - internet statistics by language
Infotech Trends
Telecom: Characteristics and Choices of Internet Users
- General Accounting Office - 64 page pdf file
Internet Economy Indicators
NetCraft.com - monthly web server survey
RDS Tablebase
Stat Market
Survey.net
Yahoo! Internet - Statistics and Demographics
Yahoo! World Wide Web - Statistics and Demographics
Best Places for FREE-E-Consumer Demographic Data
Free is the key word here, since most of the computer related consumer data costs $$ from such companies as IDC, Frost & Sullivan, Nielsen, Jupiter, Gartner Group, and many others. Check their press releases for some good free summary data. Also search periodicals for this information, many of these market research firms are cited in newspapers and magazines. If you would like to purchase reports, search marketresearch.com. - CommerceNet: Internet Demographics and eCommerce Statistics
- CyberAtlas: The Reference Desk for Web Marketing
- eBusinessforum (by EIU) - internet & e-commerce infrastructure by country
- Emarketer
- Ethnicity in the Electronic Age from Cultural Access Group
- GVU's WWW User Surveys
- U.S. Census Bureau. Home Computer Use & Internet Use in the United States, Computer Use and Ownership and E-Business Data
- NUA Internet User Surveys
- Pew Internet & American Life - The Ever-Shifting Internet Population.
- See other Pew Internet Reports. - Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society (SIQSS) - study of the social consequences of the internet (2000)
- UCLA Internet Report - user behavior, online activities, social impact, etc
- WilsonWeb Demographics of Web Users
E-Commerce Policy
E-Commerce Tax Information
Includes US State by State listing
Global Economic Prospects and Developing Countries. World Bank.
Chapter 4 entitled "Electronic Commerce and Developing Countries"
Taxation Aspects of Electronic Commerce - OECD
E-Commerce and Development Report 2001. UNCTAD Electronic Commerce Branch.
See also eBusinessforum (by EIU) under "doing ebusiness in," for information on ecommerce taxation and regulations by country. |
