Hoover's Online

Pros: Extensive Information on Corporations
Cons: Some of the information requires that you pay a fee, to get access

Hoover’s On- Line is a financial research web service that contains information on more than 14,000 public and private companies around the world. This web service is headquartered in Austin, Texas and it provides in- depth financial information, company...

Pros: Extremely sophisticated and complete, fast and very well structured
Cons: Not everything is free

This review on Hoover's Online Research Business Network concentrates on a non-membership utilization of the site.

If you need to keep up with industry information and/or financial backgrounds of various corporations there are certainly many...

Pros: Easy site to navigate, non-members can get a lot of information
Cons: Need a membership for full access

Many people use Epinions to find reviews from actual customers about certain products. Well what if you want to know about the company behind that product? Hoover's On-line (www.hoovers.com) will generally fill that need.

I do a lot of...

Pros: Comprehensive company information
Cons: Sometimes slow to update

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when journalists had to work the phones or rummage through the local library's microfiche to get inside financial information.

Then came helpful print pubs like Hoover's that published data inside a...

Pros: comprehensive, plenty of tools
Cons: quarterly financials take a few days to get updated

I write for a large financial news service. Here at work, we have access to a sophisticated stocks database and write breaking stock market news all day.

Sometimes I'll come across a company thats not listed in our database. In order...

Pros: Great information
Cons: Cannot think of one

Hoovers has many many features that enable you to get all your answers at one websight. And if you cant find what you are looking for on Hoovers, which is rare, then they suggest alternative sights to look up your information on. I would recommend this...