Archive for the ‘Business’ Category

• Decide.com: Price predictions on electronics

• The best technology product in each category

• Employee Benefits Abandoned Plan Search

• Form 5500 Data Sets

• Form 5500/5500-SF Filing Search

• Open States: Find your legislators, see how they’ve voted and browse upcoming legislation and events

• North Carolina concealed weapon carry permits

• Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Registry of Certified Medical Examiners

• Google Custom Search – Search Just State Web Sites

• Compound Interest Calculator

• Retirement Savings Calculator

• Social Security Benefit Calculator

• National Credit Union Administration

• Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA)

• Best Credit Cards | Compare 1,685 Card Offers At Once

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• Retirement Savings Calculator

• National Credit Union Administration

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Directory

• Private Equity Manager magazine

• SalesFuel – Search companies and employees – addresses, phone, email

• Bank search | Find a bank by name, city or state

• MillionShort – eliminate spam results

• San Francisco Colma Cemetery Index Search

• National Registry of Exonerations

The rest of my favorite links are here.

• New York Genealogy

• ITweetLive – Search tweets

• Genealogy Libraries in the U.S.

• Federal Audit Clearinghouse – audited companies and entities receiving federal funds

• Worldwide Company Data | shareholders, management board, finances of companies from various countries

• UK & Ireland company directors – current and historical

• UK Financial Services Firm Search

• Companies House – UK companies search

• Search and alerts on federal and state legislation – Scout

• Genealogy Research Guides at FamilySearch.org

The rest of my favorite links are here.

• Figures of Speech Served Fresh
  

• State and Local Government Search Engine
  

• 101 Best Websites for 2011 for discovering and sharing your family history
  

• Digital Journalist’s Legal Guide
  

• U S Commodity Futures Trading Commission – Reparations Sanctions in Effect 1984 – Present
  

• US Commodity Futures Trading Commission – Administrative Sanctions in Effect 1975 – Present
  

• SEC Trading Suspensions
  

• Search Historical SEC EDGAR Archives
  

• Securities and Exchange Commission Forms List
  

• SEC Investment Company Act Notices and Orders
  

• Municipal Securities Disclosures

• NASAA – North American Securities Administration Association
  

• SEC Investment Adviser Search

• Compliance Reporter

• Securities Investor Protection Corporation

The rest of my favorite links are here.

An article by CFO.com reports that a recent Ernst & Young survey of more than 300 corporate-development officers and other finance professionals found that many companies use forensic techniques, including hiring private investigators, to learn more about local market dynamics and the people involved in a potential deal.

This is a great opportunity for investigators to locally market their investigative skills and international contacts to conduct international investigations.

Many private investigators who belong to international PI associations such as WAD – World Association of Detectives, WAPI – World Association of Professional Investigators, CII – Council of International Investigators, WIN – World Investigators Network, and many more. Their members already know the financial benefits of international networking.

Our world has gotten much smaller with the Internet and ease of international travel and trade regulations.

You can learn more about international investigative marketing from Jimmie Mesis at PI Magazine.

The Los Angeles County Superior Court has ruled that church personnel files of priests accused of molesting children may be released to the public, whether or not there was a criminal prosecution. The decision affects a small number of clergy but tips the balance in favor of the public right to know over privacy, which could affect many other cases.

Santa Clara County, California is continuing to fight a Superior Court determination that its GIS mapping should be easily available to the public at low cost. Meanwhile, Greenwich, Connecticut has assented to that state’s Supreme Court ruling and will post aerial photographs of the town on its Web site. Both government agencies used the specious defense that freely available geographic information systems maps were a security risk.

Folks in North Carolina may want to comment at the blog of a county Register who removed vital records from the Internet, then wrote about it.

The state police can demand lists of email activity conducted by a business if they deem it relevant to an investigation, according to an opinion by the Nebraska Attorney General. This includes “non content” records retained by providers of electronic communication services, such as ISP records of email headers, but not the email message.

Search the New York local civil court records by index number, party name, attorney/firm or judge. Some courts are online now and others will be added through the year.

Appeals filed with the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Minnesota Court of Appeals are now searchable online. More extensive information is available for cases filed after March 2003.