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Byline: Kirk Pinho Credit Acceptance Corp. is attempting to sell a large portion of its Southfield office portfolio. An auction of the 297,000-square-foot Raleigh Officentre at 25300-25330 Telegraph Road between [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho Dykema Gossett LP is moving its Bloomfield Hills office to downtown Birmingham. The Detroit-based law firm is downsizing its physical footprint along Oakland County's Woodward Avenue corridor [...]

The article profiles the firm Meltwater and company founder Jorn Lyseggen. Topics include Lyseggen's investment in the firm as a startup, competition from the applications Google Alerts and Yahoo News in the media intelligence business, and Lyseggen's Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of technology for African entrepreneurs in Accra, Ghana.

An analysis of the Amorphic System of Web information management is presented. The author reviews how Web mining has the potential to dramatically change in the way individuals access and use the information available on the Internet. The author discusses the emergence of Web business support software applications. It is suggested that Web information services and Web business intelligence applications should be structured in such a way as to incorporate their value-added services. The benefits of Adaptive Information Extraction Systems are analyzed.

We all use computerized databanks; we just don't think of them that way. Airline schedules, telephone books, and catalogs are all databanks of external information that we take for granted. But, increasingly, corporations are finding that they need access to more and varied masses of information to solve pressing business problems. Fortunately, the supply of publishers of such databanks is there to meet the growing demand of, among others, corporate executives, strategic planners, and investment managers. In this article, the authors describe the databank industry and discuss what kinds of information can be shared, the economics of buying versus collecting one's own data, what subject areas are covered in databanks, what form they are published in, and, finally, how to describe a specific databank and evaluate its potential for meeting the needs of one's organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article features Schlumberger Ltd., a company that provide consulting and information service to petroleum companies across the world. The company is engaged in the so-called logging business of the petroleum exploration industry where it has cornered a good portion of a market worth 2.9 billion dollars. The company controls 50% of the U.S. market and 90% of the foreign markets. It is expected that the company's business will continue to grow.

Byline: Kirk Pinho I've received multiple inquiries about some scaffolding that popped up at a building downtown recently, so here's what I know. Richard Karp, the owner of the building [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho The Maccabees Center building in Southfield is getting a new name in honor of its owner's upcoming 100th anniversary. The Century building at 25800 Northwestern Highway at [...]

Byline: Kirk PinhoHigh-end malls like some in Oakland County are expected to continue to perform well far into the future in spite of a changing mall landscape in the state's [...]

The article presents information on the business plan of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT&T) under which it is setting its sights on value-added and unregulated information services. It is reported that AT&T has changed the focus of its sales efforts. The firm is tailoring its products and services to the specifie needs of particular industries.

SURE A WEBSITE SOUNDS LIKE A GREAT IDEA, BUT WHERE DO YOU BEGIN? Like many others in small or midsized companies, we at Med Resorts international were considering jumping onto [...]

This article reports on private equity and business information services. It examines private equity as a financial phenomenon and discusses the basic facts and development of corporate finance. It evaluates private equity and its exponential growth into all areas of industry, focusing on equity funding for companies involved in business information. It discusses European firms involved in private equity or business information deals. It also covers North American private equity acquisitions of business information services and features several deals in the last two years.

The article discusses the importance of official company information in business research. The author states that official company information can be defined as the data that needs to be legally filed by businesses looking for protection of limited liability. The author believes that the most significant source in business research are company filings that are required from both listed and non-listed companies. Listed company information documents are the most common form of regulatory company filings, and filing offices such as the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S. are fully known by researchers. The author suggests the making the right effort to know what documents need to be filed and where they are likely to be found can help the researcher obtain good results.

This article reports on competitive intelligence (CI) for gathering market information and how competitors can gather intelligence about rival companies. CI is oriented towards strategies, tactics, targets, and technology, 90 percent of which is public information. Companies can implement defensive CI programs that will protect company data through controlling information in public channels, focusing protection on vulnerable areas, and looking at information from a rival's perspective.

The article offers tips on how to leverage business intelligence (BI) applications using database query optimization. BI technologies are designed to gather, consolidate and analyze data that helps businesses understand and act on the metrics that boost growth. The cost-based query optimizer built in to IBM DB2 for i5/OS is the basis for achieving optimal performance in a BI application. Resource information, statistics and data model are some of the information that can be leveraged by optimizer.

The article presents suggestions on entrepreneurship. New technologies are creating new business opportunities on the Internet, on mobile phones, in consumer products, and in information services. While birthing a company is easier, succeeding is as difficult as ever. The general rule in the investment community is that only about a third of all startups ever turn a profit. Another third limp along at a break-even level, and the rest end in failure. Top among the reasons young companies fail are problems such as incorrect market focus and misguided executive leadership. Beta testing used to be a drawn-out ordeal, but for software, Web services, and online media companies, "agile development" has redefined the rules by emphasizing the release of fully functional products, asking end users for input, and addressing suggestions quickly to iron out bugs or add features. There are two ways to bring a new product into the world. With the quiet approach, a price tag is attached and beta customers transition into paying customers.

The article presents the final part of a three-part series on financial services. It discusses some ideas related to financial services essential for business information professionals. According to the author, business information professionals working in the sector need to keep their knowledge up to date. These suggestions are vital for the accumulation of background knowledge, considered desirable for those professionals who research about this sector. Some further readings, listening, and viewing, including some of the best non-fiction writing, financial fiction novels, and films are also recommended. In addition, the author suggested that such ideas would extend the knowledge of those who want to know more about financial services.

This article explores how users of content, in work and academic settings, are evolving in their information habits and preferences and how information providers can be a part of such an evolution. Allegedly, it is information consumers who are driving advancement in the technologies and processes used to deploy content. A new generating of users who were raised with information technology all around them have grown up to allegedly become the young knowledge workers served. They readily incorporate content technologies into every aspect of their lives, both at home and at work. For one, Outsell has allegedly touted the importance of understanding information content users as a fundamental step in creating information solutions and managing information environments. Such an understanding has apparently become increasingly critical in the information market. Outsells's proprietary data assets are used extensively in research and analysis about end-user preferences, behavior patterns, decision-making, and information content spending. The company's Information About Information Markets data asset and the Normative database include details such as user functions, industries, geographic locations, age, workflow applications, and content use habits, including preferred delivery.

The article offers pieces of advice on being an information-entrepreneur. One of the most rewarding aspects of being an independent information professional is having almost unlimited flexibility. The flip side of this flexibility, though, is being a one-person business, which means that the person would have to create his own ready-reference collection and keep it updated. The info-entrepreneur would have to rely on his own ability to find information and to handle all the marketing. Fortunately, info-entrepreneurs--like most librarians and information professionals--have a dominant helper gene, and while most are solo practitioners, they tap into the network of fellow toilers. A good example of this is the help, encouragement, and advice freely given in the private e-mail discussion list of the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP). Info-entrepreneurs and researchers maintain a collection of key reference tools, regardless of their subject specialization or industry focus. And while they may not have a very extensive print collection of basic reference sources, a virtual reference desk--complete with must-have resources--is something all info pros need to develop. Conversely, most info-entrepreneurs find that they never get the same request twice, even if they limit their services to a single industry or market. Successful info pros find a middle ground. Some situations do call for subcontracting. INSET: If You Haven't Fired Your Boss Yet....

One aspect of World Wide Web searching the literature frequently ignores involves using search engines to search on Internet domain names. This type of searching can be vitally important to […]

Most professional searchers still conduct searches for full text of newspapers, magazines, trade press, etc., from traditional search services that themselves acquire the material from 'compiler' database producers. More and […]

Part V. Focuses on Web sites that offer business information in the Middle East and North Africa. Banking and finance Web sites; Web sites about companies; Web sites about news sources. INSETS: An All in One Site;Regional Directories.

This article discusses how to use on-line databases to gain immediate access to key business information. As the amount of business information grows, on-line databases will enlarge and multiply, and they probably will become the primary source of business information. The high speed and extreme accuracy of electronic searching, the huge volume of materials that can be stored and readily accessed for searching and printing and the phenomenal expansion in the number and size of on-line databases over the past decade will make computerized information retrieval systems the primary research tools of the future.

Focuses on an investigation of a vending machine outfit, Antares Corp., by the author. How the Internet can be an investigatory medium for investors; The use of databases and services such as KnowX.com, which checks county and federal courthouses for tax liens, judgments, bankruptcies and lawsuits; Information gathered on the company and the product.

The article reviews hardware products and information services for stock market investors available as of October 1982, including FM receiver Pocket Quote, information system Telerate, and private radio report service DowAlert offered by financial information firm Dow Jones.

Technology continues to drive innovation in mapping applications. Earlier this year Google, one of the World Wide Web's leading search engine providers, introduced the beta version of Google Maps, a [...]

An easy and free way to track the performance of your investments Frustrated with scanning daily stock listings and compiling broker statements to get a complete picture of their portfolio, […]

The article discusses the evolution of online business information. Analyzing the cycle of business information can help researchers evaluate the validity and integrity of the information they read and research. News wire services play an important part in the business information cycle. They report, and sometimes analyze, issues and updates concerning companies and industries. There are companies that established Web blogs to report their own news and there are search engines that are designed for business updates and news. With the advent and development of Web blogging and other Internet services, researchers should be more aware of the proper way to evaluate business information.