Dockets.Justia.com -- beta 2 - More Updates & Faster
Hi Friends,
As I noted in a previous post (Federal Court Case Filings - Dockets.Justia.com).... we put up a "beta" free Website of new civil case filings. Well it has been a few weeks, and "beta 2" is here :)
Here is what we have fixed up.
1. We are now updating the dockets database continuously --- multiple updates each day.
2. We are checking for updates of previous dockets to pick up changes and corrections.
3. Faster. We have moved dockets to a very fast machine and have optimized the database for faster search results.
4. We have added additional docket information, including
a. the cause of action
b. the presiding judge (and referring judge if given)
c. whether a jury trial was demanded, and if so by which party.
5. We have put in additional links from each listing into relevant online databases, some specific to the type of case, such as patent searches for patent cases.
6. Additional interface changes. They are small, such as replacing the case number with the cause of action in the result listing pages, but they should make things more intuitive.
Anyway, we thought we had enough changes to announce a Dockets.Justia.com Beta 2. We have a lot of additional free features we are working on... but you will have to wait a bit longer for beta 3 :)
Peace,
Tim
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Federal Court Case Filings - Dockets.Justia.com
Hi Friends,
We put up a Website with the new civil case filings in the US District Courts with links into Pacer for the full docket and filing information and News, Finance, Web and Blog Internet resources. The URL is: http://dockets.justia.com
It allows you to search and track when new cases are filed by State, Court, Lawsuit Type (eg Patent Law) or Party name... or any combination. We are updating this daily (but note the courts often post the filings a day or two after they are received).
RSS FEEDS
One feature we like is the RSS feeds. You can subscribe to an RSS feed of all of the new cases for a State, Court or Lawsuit Type, or you can do a search and subscribe to an RSS feed of the search results (which you can add to your MyGoogle or MyYahoo! page). The RSS feed is nice because you can track the new cases without redoing your search everyday.
For example you could track all of the Federal Court Patent cases or all of the Federal Court cases filed against Microsoft with an RSS feed, or just those Microsoft cases that are filed in Washington State. Whatever the search criteria, you can track new cases with an RSS feed.
LINKS TO PACER, BLOG, NEWS, FINANCE & WEB INFO
Each case has an individual page with a link to the Pacer info page (you do need a subscription to access these documents at 8 cents per page - easily worth the costs for a case you care about) as well as Blog, News, Finance and Web searches on the party names. Depending on the particular case, you can often get some good background information on the parties. For example the page on Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Apple Inc. iPhone trademark dispute.
LAW FIRM MARKETING VALUE - CLIENTS/COMPANY TRACKING
The value of the database could be seen as a tracking mechanism for:
- tracking client - you may know when they get sued before they do,
- tracking companies - eg Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!
- finding new clients/cases - eg if you were a Palo Alto patent lawyer, you could track Patent cases filed in California Northern District Federal Court or all of California or the entire USA.
DAILY UPDATES
There are over 300,000 case titles since January 1, 2006, and we are updating it daily.
We are still making some user interface changes, and just added subscribe buttons for MyGoogle, MyYahoo!, Bloglines etc... yesterday, and we are going to add more functionality and editorial groupings of parties in the future. We are always looking for ideas, so if you want any additions or changes, feel free to let us know.
You can check the Justia Federal Court Filings Site out at http://dockets.justia.com/, and Happy Valentines Day.
Peace,
Tim
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Research Tips for Finding Information Hidden from the Major Search Engines
Google proudly displays the number of web pages contained within its index. At 8 billion pages and counting, this potentially represents an immense quantity of useful information. Indeed, Google is well suited for finding all sorts of arcane trivia tucked into the many recesses of the web.
However, web researchers already recognize that the quantity of data is only one factor. If the information you are searching for is not within one of the 8 billion pages in Google's index, you're out of luck.
For example, let's look at securities filings. Google surprisingly returns Canada's SEDAR as the first result (gasp!) and the SEC's EDGAR as the second result. Sacre bleu! Despite French protestations, it turns out that the Internet really is a tool for foisting Canadian (and not American) values and culture onto the world. :-)
All kidding aside, while Google will point you to the SEC's web site, this only represents a first albeit incomplete step since the contents of the securities filings are not included in the Google index. This is true even though these securities filings are freely accessible online and are not sequestered in a password-protected section of the web site. So, you cannot search for every mention of a particular executive within a company's securities filings through Google. However, the fault for this omission lies with the SEC and not with Google, Yahoo or MSN. For some reason, the SEC has set-up a robots.txt file to hide securities filings and other files from search engines. Unfortunately, this effectively banishes securities filings to the Deep Web. So, on one hand, the SEC promotes the disclosure of important corporate data to investors; however, on the other hand, the SEC itself hides the disclosures it receives from the search engines - the usual way people go about finding information.
That's why when I searched for berkshire hathaway securities filings, Google returned the copies from Hoover's Online, and the SEC's own copies are no where to be found. Unfortunately, Hoover's also blocks search engines from indexing the contents of its securities filings as well. So, Google can tell you that Hoover's Online has a copy of Berkshire Hathaway's securities filings, but cannot tell you what is inside them.
As a result, researchers have to go through the circuitous route of looking through each individual securities filing to track down the information they need or pay one of the subscription services which offers the ability to conduct full-text searches of securities filings. For those only interested in material contracts, Onecle has extracted thousands of business contracts from securities filings and these are all freely accessible, as well as searchable from Google.
In other search engine news, this week, Yahoo! announced Yahoo! Search Subscriptions - a new service for searching through subscription content. While Yahoo! Search Subscriptions is currently only configured to search through Consumer Reports, Forrester Research, FT.com, IEEE, the New England Journal of Medicine, TheStreet.com and the Wall Street Journal right now, Yahoo! states that its search engine will add Lexis-Nexis and other subscription content at a later time. Let's see how well this new service works so far by using three different approaches to locate Kozlowski in the Wall Street Journal.
Using Google, a search for Kozlowski on the Wall Street Journal site returns 6 results.
If I run the same search using Yahoo! Search Subscriptions, I get 20 matching results. Interestingly, if I ran a search for Kozlowski using the regular Yahoo! Search instead of Yahoo! Search Subscriptions, I only get back 2 matching results from the Wall Street Journal.
The final test is running a search for Kozlowski on the Wall Street Journal site itself. And the winner is...the Wall Street Journal with 120 matching results. This shows you how much content still remains out-of-reach of the major search engines. Google may have over 8 billion web pages stored in its index, but it isn't omniscient (yet). Not by a long shot!
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How to share your Personalized Google (Legal Competitive Intelligence) News Page with Others - Free Share of Google Redeemable for Law Firm Competitive Intelligence
Yesterday, Google released a customizable Home Page, which Tim Stanley reviewed in a prior post on this blog. This may be the first time that I've been disappointed with a Google product because it just wasn't customizable to the degree that I expected. Specifically, I was looking for customized news feeds—like the ones I can set-up on Google News.
In the screenshot below, you will see a baker mckenzie news module on the left-hand side and a "medical devices" patent module on the right-hand side. Howeer, I cannot customize or remove the Top Stories module.
I've scrolled further down the page and took another screenshot. On the left-hand side, the law firm theme continues with stories on jones day and skadden arps. On the right-hand side, my practice area theme continues with stories on trade secret and "center for devices and radiological health".
This is another way to gather competitive intelligence on law firms and news affecting your practice areas. As for the free share of Google, you may be asking what's that all about. Well, at the bottom of the customized Google News page, there's a link to Share your customized news with a friend.
So, instead of just sharing screenshots, I will freely share of My Google News. If you want to edit any of the modules, click on the Make this page your customized news link at the top of page. Now, if anyone really has a free share of Google, let me know.
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Competitive Intelligence for Transactional Lawyers
Venture Capital
- 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.
- MoneyTree Survey Report. PricewaterhouseCoopers compiles a quarterly study of venture capital investment activity in the United States.
- BusinessWeek Online - Deal Flow. BusinessWeek blog on venture capital and startups. Also available by RSS.
Mergers & Acquisitions
- 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.
Initial Public Offerings
- MSN Money - IPO Center Offers IPO filings, highlights and news.
- Yahoo! IPOs Features latest IPO pricings, filings, withdrawals and news.
- Hoover's Online - IPO Central Features IPO filings, calendar and more.
Think Globally, Act Globally
Despite the election-year demagoguery over outsourcing and Benedict Arnold CEOs, the wave of globalization has continued unabated. As companies continue to augment their existing workforce with lower-cost help from overseas, law firms are frequently needed to help their clients deal with legal, business and compliance issues in an international marketplace. Here are some resources to help you keep in touch with your overseas branches or clients.
- Yahoo! - International News. Features financial news.
- CNN/Money - World Business. Features international business news. CNN.com International - Business News also offers international business news with different stories than the CNN/Money web site. Here's an RSS feed for CNNMoney - News/International
- Yahoo! - European Business & Economy. Features an RSS feed of European business news.
- BBC News - Business. Features international business news, as well as an RSS feed.
- International Herald Tribune - Business. Features international business news, as well as an RSS feed.
WaRSSington DC
A few years ago, the Supreme Court finally joined the other branches of the US Government with their own web site, which was a big breakthrough for that conservative institution. Nowadays, government web sites are more or less taken for granted. The latest technological push is towards implementing RSS feeds for press releases or other government announcements. Can't wait until the Supreme Court starts offering an RSS feed for court opinions. Until then, here are some teasers to whet your appetite.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration Features RSS News Feeds from the FDA and the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). Includes feeds for CDRH Recently Approved Devices, FDA Talk Papers, FDA Recalls, Withdrawals and Alerts.
- U.S. District Court - Eastern District of New York This court offers an RSS feed for judgments, orders and complaints. I hope this is a preview of things to come for all courts. However, you need a PACER account to view the underlying documents. Also, for some reason, this feed isn't working with My Yahoo right now.
For more US Government RSS feeds, be sure to read Robert Ambrogi's LawSites, in which he recently introduced us to FirstGov's U.S. Government RSS Library. Thanks for the tip!
This completes the Justia Free Sixty. I hope this resource was useful for all of you. We will be creating a new law firm competitive intelligence web site that includes all of these resources, as well as other useful sites that didn't make the original list.
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Justia Free Sixty: 60 Essential Free Law Firm Competitive Intelligence Resources 40-44
If you have been following Justia's Free Sixty: 60 Essential Free Law Firm Competitive Intelligence Resource, by now, you should have realized that I love My Yahoo, RSS feeds and inside competitive intelligence. Previously, I had written about using job listings and material contracts from SEC filings for competitive intelligence analysis. Today, I will share with you another great web site with tons of inside competitive intelligence.
Have you ever scoured a competitor's web site to look for product or personnel information? As companies have grown wise to this practice, they've increasingly restricted the amount of information that is being publicly disclosed on their corporate web sites. Even some law firms had adopted this practice and have removed their associates from the firm's web site to deter recruiters from poaching their human assets. However, there is a way around this corporate firewall.
- LinkedIn. A while back, social networking web sites were the latest fad. A number of them sprouted up for various purposes: career advancement, business networking, dating, etc. LinkedIn falls into the business category and offers registered members access to a network of business contacts. The basic premise of LinkedIn is that each member has a list of trusted friends, who are members. In turn, each of your friends will also have a list of trusted friends, who are members as well. So, when you are looking for a person with a particular interest or skill set, LinkedIn will match you with your friends or friends of your friends who meet your criteria.
Now, for the inside competitive intelligence. Because each LInkedIn member may also provide a resumé, you can view all contacts from a certain company to see what products their employees are working on. LinkedIn will also tell you if your proposed contact is open to employment opportunities elsewhere. - 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.
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Here's a 2-for-1 deal. Patent filings are another source of inside competitive intelligence. See what products your competitors have in their pipeline. You can also visit the web site of the European Patent Office to see what folks are filing across the Atlantic. And, I won't even count this one as part of the free 60 law firm competitive intelligence resources.
- FreshPatents.com. FreshPatents.com offers an RSS feed of "patent application highlights." Of course, this is not a complete feed of all patent applications, just those that are "popular, interesting, innovative, weird and/or kooky"— whatever that means.
- Moreover Technologies - IP and Patents News. Moreover Technologies offers an RSS feed on intellectual property and patents news. If you want something more targeted, you can always set-up a customized IP news feed based on targeted IP keywords using Yahoo News.
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Justia Free Sixty: 60 Essential Free Strategic Intelligence Resources for Your Law Firm 25-39
Last month, I had written about GoogSpy in I Spy Competitive Intelligence for Law Firm Marketing Consultants. At the time, I had reviewed GoogSpy's features without offering some insight on how you can use their data in your strategic planning. Let me share some of my ideas now.
- 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.
The Pays for these Google Adwords section tells you which keywords are valuable to a web site—at least valuable enough that the web site is willing to part with cash in order to buy that traffic stream. Now you know where your competition's product focus and attention resides and what audience they are targeting. How you choose to respond is up to you.
My Yahoo—Your Legal Desktop
The reason why I'm a huge fan of My Yahoo—besides the fact that it is free—is because My Yahoo truly allows me to customize my legal desktop. At this point, you may be scratching your head and wondering, "When did Yahoo become a legal portal?" And, you are right. Yahoo is not a legal portal or a medical portal or a venture capital portal. However, My Yahoo does offer such a customizable system that I can configure the content to be focused on any topic that I want, whether that is law, medicine or even venture capital. Furthermore, I'm not locked into just using their proprietary content sets. So long as a third-party web site offers an RSS feed, I can incorporate that feed into my legal desktop.
Legal News
A number of free legal news sites are available. I've also provided a button so that you can easily add their RSS feeds, if available, to My Yahoo.
- bizjournals.com - Legal Services Features news about the legal services industry from local business journals.
- JURIST - Legal News and Research. JURIST offers separate RSS feeds for legal news, legal documents, and videos. I've provided a link to add the legal news RSS feed to My Yahoo.
- Law.com. Features legal news and information.
- 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.
- Virtual Chase Features RSS feed of current news. From Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP.
- Yahoo! News - Full Coverage. Yahoo offers news stories, feature articles, opinions & editorials and related web sites on Personal Bankruptcy Law, Corporate Governance, Intellectual Property and Labor & Workplace. While Yahoo does not offer pre-set RSS feeds for these topics, you can set-up a custom RSS news feed. Yahoo does offer a Supreme Court RSS feed though.
- CNN - Law Center. CNN also has a Supreme Court News page, but no RSS feed for Supreme Court news only.
- NPR - Legal Affairs. NPR provides RSS feeds of law-related radio programs.
- Jaffe Legal News Service - Law Firm News.
Offers RSS feeds for top stories
, law firm news
and breaking news
.
- C-SPAN - America and the Courts. Features videos from recent programs, court documents, news and more.
- Online NewsHour - Supreme Court Watch. Watch segments from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer online.
Lawyer Blogs
Of course, fellow lawyers are also great sources for legal news, especially if they blog. Here are two examples. One covers the U.S. Supreme Court and the other covers New Jersey law.
- SCOTUSblog. Commentary and news on the U.S. Supreme Court. From Goldstein & Howe, P.C.
- New Jersey Law Blog. Provides timely information on recently published court decisions, enacted legislation and news which impact businesses in New Jersey. From Stark & Stark.
Remember, if you can't find a relevant RSS feed, you can always create it. I've just come across an even easier way to create RSS news feeds on Yahoo. Start from the Yahoo! Search page and enter your keywords. I entered "California Supreme Court." The News Stories column on the left-hand side displays matching news stories. On the right-hand side, there is an Add your news search to My Yahoo link and button. Clicking on either will add the RSS feed to My Yahoo.
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Justia Free Sixty: 60 Essential Free Actionable Intelligence Resources for Your Law Firm 12 - 24
What is actionable intelligence? For strategic planners, actionable intelligence means insight into the future business plans of a competitor. Imagine being able to see your competitor's product road map months or even years before their product is ready for release. During this period, you have time to properly assess the competitive threat and defend your business kingdom accordingly by widening your competitive moat or erecting higher barriers to entry. However, there's a big difference between offering buzzwords and offering solutions. Unless you have an insider working for you, how will your law firm get its hands on actionable intelligence?
- Yahoo! HotJobs. Many people visit employment web sites to explore new career opportunities. And, that's how employers and recruiters would like you to use them. However, savvy strategists have long realized that job listings provide a trove of actionable intelligence regarding a competitor's future plans. What projects are your competitors staffing for? Which companies are developing products similar to yours? Yahoo! HotJobs knows, and it'll even compile an RSS feed of the results for you. I guess you do have an insider working for you after all.
- Work.com. Like Yahoo! HotJobs, Work.com also offers an RSS feed of job search listings. However, you have to copy and paste the URL instead of having a handy button to just add the feed to My Yahoo. You can experiment with targeting a specific company, combining a company name with a job title, or even focusing on a unique set of keywords specifically relevant to your own products.
Industries
If your practice is focused on serving a particular industry, staying up-to-date on industry trends and challenges could not be simpler.
- 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.
- MSN Money - News by Industry. MSN offers a basic news feed of industry news.
RSS Feeds
- 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. They've conveniently included an Add to My Yahoo link to simplify the process of adding content to your My Yahoo page.
On this page, I'm tracking jobs that include the keyword section 508, commercial real estate development white papers, consumer non-durable news, Atlanta local business news, and accounting and consulting headlines. You can customize your My Yahoo page to match your industry, location, and competitors too.
Most Favored Nation
When you are preparing to structure a major transaction, you would really like to know what terms your negotiating partner has offered other parties before. This time, you can't count on the HR Director to post actionable intelligence online to tip you off. You need a different insider.
- SEC - EDGAR Company Search. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission offers real-time filings by company name, ticker symbol, location, and SIC Code.
- 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.
RSS Feeds
- EDGAR Index - Free RSS Feed Filing Alerts. EDGAR Index offers filing alerts for IPOs, quarterly reports, annual reports and insider trading.
Well, this concludes today's edition of the Justia Free Sixty: 60 Essential Free Actionable Intelligence Resources for Your Law Firm. I hope the web sites that I shared with you will prove useful in your practice. Stay tuned because I have 36 more law firm actionable intelligence tips on the way.
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Justia Free Sixty: 60 Essential Free Competitive Intelligence Resources for Your Legal Desktop 1 - 11
To succeed in today's business environment, you must know more about your own business than your competitors do. And, you must understand more about your clients' businesses, than your clients do. So, how can you keep abreast of changes in your competitive business landscape?
The first challenge is identifying sources of competitive intelligence. Thankfully, the amount of business intelligence available on the internet continues to grow. However, you must be able to effectively channel this flow of information to avoid drowning in an ocean of data.
To help you harness the power of the internet, Justia has compiled a list of 60 essential free competitive intelligence resources. We'll introduce you to new sources of actionable intelligence, as well as new twists on ways to use web sites with which you are already familiar.
- My Yahoo. My Yahoo heads this list because it offers a tremendous breadth of customized content with a clean interface. Furthermore, you can now place additional content modules into My Yahoo—beyond the default set provided—by taking advantage of RSS feeds, some of which we will discuss below. With customized stock quotes, business news and RSS feeds, there's no reason why My Yahoo shouldn't be your legal desktop.
- Google. Google your company, Google your competitors, or Google your clients. With over 8 billion web pages indexed, Google will likely provide you with some tasty morsel of information.
- Yahoo News. If you're just skimming the headlines of Yahoo! News, you haven't fully tapped into this essential resource. Yahoo News - RSS allows you to create custom news feeds based on search terms you've identified. You can then read these in an RSS reader or view them on My Yahoo!. Look at my Morrison Foerster news feed module on My Yahoo. This is an easy way to keep up with press coverage of your company, your clients or even your competitors.
- Google News. Google News doesn't offer RSS feeds, but you can set-up a Google Alert, which is similar in concept to the e-mail-based Yahoo Alerts. Given a choice though, I much prefer updates by RSS feed instead of e-mail. Don't like seeing too crowded an inbox.
Company Background Reports
The first four web sites are great starting points. Let's now turn to specific data sets for more in-depth intelligence. The first category is company background reports, which includes corporate profiles and financial data. Here, a number of web sites provide this basic data for free.
- Yahoo! Finance For publicly-traded companies, Yahoo offers stock quotes, stock charts, news, company profiles, competitor data, industry data, analyst coverage information, ownership data and financial statements—all for free.
- Hoover's Online Hoover's provides company fact sheets, news and financials on selected companies for free. Hoover's also offers additional business data, such as officers and employees, D&B reports and corporate family trees on a subscription basis.
- CNNMoney - Company Research CNNMoney offers stock quotes, stock charts, earnings estimates, insider trading data, SEC filings, financials and news. It also provides news feeds from CNN/Money, Dow Jones, press releases and Fortune.
- MSN Money Offers much of the same content as above in a less attractive interface.
RSS Feeds
- BNET - Company Updates RSS Feeds BNET features news updates for selected major companies.
- Yahoo - Company News via RSS Generates an URL for publicly-traded companies in the RSS format. My Yahoo already allows you to subscribe to company news as a default feature. This alternative lets you see the same content using an RSS news reader.
- Moreover Technologies - RSS News Feeds Moreover features news feeds by company.
11 down. 49 to go. Stay tuned for the next installment.
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I Spy Competitive Intelligence for Law Firm Marketing Consultants
I Spy a legal referral company looking for clients.
For law firm marketing professionals seeking competitive intelligence, GoogSpy offers a trove of marketing data. What keywords are competitors purchasing and what audiences are they targeting?
At first glance, GoogSpy offers a clean user interface reminiscent of Google. However, unlike Google, GoogSpy isn't flawless as the disclaimer notes. I've come across an error message or two on occasion, but waiting a few seconds and reloading the page works as a temporary fix. The hassle is well worth the value of the information that GoogSpy uncovers.
So, I ran a search for martindale. The results returned included some matching domain names and search terms.