Yahoo! - Industry Center. For background research, Yahoo covers industry news, statistics and profiles, as well as top performing companies within the industry. Yahoo also provides an earnings calendar to track upcoming events.

bizjournals.com - Industries & Communities. bizjournals.com aggregates news articles by industry from different local business journals. They even offer a My Industries custom page where they will display news headlines from industries you have selected.

BNET - White Papers RSS Feeds by Job Function and Industry. BNET offers white papers that span a broad range of job functions and industries. This is another great resource that you can feed into My Yahoo. You have to register in order to read the white papers though.

Moreover Technologies - Free RSS News Feeds Listing. Moreover offers news feeds by industry.

bizjournals.com - RSS Feeds. bizjournals.com also offers RSS feeds of local news and industry news.

Onecle- Sample Contracts and Business Forms. Onecle has compiled a database of material contracts extracted from SEC filings. This collection is both searchable and browsable, and includes employment agreements, services agreements, license agreements, manufacturing agreements, severance agreements and more. This is the insider source for corporate contracts and other actionable intelligence.

PwC - EdgarScan PricewaterhouseCoopers offers a different twist on SEC filings. Their focus is on financial data, which they've extracted and may be displayed as an MS Excel spreadsheet or as a chart.

SEC Info. SEC Info offer yet another spin on SEC filings. This site includes both SEC EDGAR and CSA SEDAR securities filings, and also includes SEC-deleted filings. Why would a company request that the SEC delete a filing? Because there was either an error in the filing or the company inadvertently disclosed something that it now wishes to redact. So, even when the SEC deleted a copy of a filing from its own site, you may be able to find an archival copy on SEC Info.

bizjournals.com - Legal Services Features news about the legal services industry from local business journals.

LexisNexis Mealey Publications - Legal News via RSS. LexisNexis offers free (gasp!) RSS feeds for legal news. They also provide individual feeds for different practice areas, including insurance, products liability, litigation, intellectual property and more. While reading the news headlines and summaries is free, you do need a paid subscription to view the full-text of any articles or cases.
Moreover Technologies - Law News.

Jaffe Legal News Service - Law Firm News. Offers RSS feeds for top stories, law firm news and breaking news.

GoogSpy. GoogSpy offers a tremendously powerful strategic intelligence tool. The Ranks in the Top 10 on these Search Terms section tells you where a web site currently ranks for certain keywords. So, instead of manually entering keywords into Google to see how your web site or a competitor's web site ranks, a simple search using GoogSpy takes care of this tedious task. Another advantage of using GoogSpy is that you may discover that your web site is ranking highly for certain keywords that you did not intend to target. The disadvantage of using GoogSpy is that its data set is not complete. So, not all web sites or keyword combinations appear in the GoogSpy database. You may also consider optimizing portions of your own site to capture your competitor's higher ranking keywords. Just be careful that you don't end up de-optimizing your site for your existing keywords in the process.

Greedy Associates Board. The Greedy board is the destination for those seeking the latest law firm gossip and rumors. Associates on this board frequently talk about law firm culture, salaries and other issues.

Yahoo! - Venture Capital. Offers venture capital news. As I've discussed in a prior tip, you can even set-up a customized news feed to target a specific venture capital firm. For example, here's an RSS news feed for Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

BusinessWeek Online - Deal Flow. BusinessWeek blog on venture capital and startups. Also available by RSS.

Yahoo! - Mergers & Acquisitions. M&A news feed.

CNNMoney - M&A Databank. Features reports on recent M&A deals, including transaction details and information on the target and acquiror.

BNET - Mergers and Acquisitions. Features RSS feed of mergers and acquisitions updates. BNET also provides an RSS feed for mergers and acquisitions white papers.

Onecle - Mergers Agreements. Features mergers and acquisitions agreements that were disclosed in SEC filings.

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