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BizStats.com
A wealth of data on a wide range of industries, including financial ratios, business statistics, and benchmarks.

CorpTech Technology Company Information
CorpTech publishes public and private business information on technology companies that make, develop and provide services related to everything from lasers to computers, and from biotech products to advanced materials.

Economy.com
Tons of economic data and research available for a fee. Research is available at the metro, state, and country levels, as well as by industry.

Marketing Research Association
Offers some resources to market researchers.

Social Science Data on the Net
A variety of social science, government, and geographic data.

TheInfoPro (TIP)
TheInfoPro (TIP) is an independent research network and leading supplier of market intelligence for the Information Technology (IT) industry. Created by alumni of Gartner, EMC, Giga and Bell Labs TIP produces fundamental, objective, analyst–free research on: markets, vendors, issues, future adoption plans, and investor confidence.

U.S. Census Bureau
Access the results of the 2000 Census and the 1997 Economic Census

Entreworld excellent resource for research.

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