Business
business to business, auctioning, etc.
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General Information
Discussions, etc.
Events, conferences, etc.
Starting Points
- BizWeb
BizWeb is a web business guide to (43163) companies listed in (192) categories.
- BizMove.com
The small business knowledge base.
Large and comprehensive free resource of small business information.
Packed with hundreds of guides and worksheets. Here's all the guidelines and
ools you need to successfully manage your business.
- Business on the Web, Management and Technology
by Information Innovation
- Worldclass
daily updated guide to the Web's best global business sites.
They have created a site about world business, developed by world
businessmen and women, for convenient use by world businessmen and women.
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International Business Resources
- Global Trade Point
an initiative from the United Nation
Articles
Magazines
- Entrepreneur Square
Magazine's small business.
- Red Herring
Technology watch for the High Tech entrepreneur
- Mercury Center
news from the Silicon Valley.
- Nashville Business Journal Online
InfiNet, L.C., Norfolk, VA, US
Weekly updates of business news, market statistics, and commentary
from Middle Tennessee's leading source of business reporting. Features
include a summary of top local and regional business stories, a weekly
review of Tennessee stocks, a calendar of key business events, and
columns from editor Roger Shirley and managing editor Valeri Oliver.
- International Journal of Electronic Markets
- The Dismal Scientist
Free economics website that helps business decision-makers and
college students understand the impact of economics through
analysis of current economic indicators, regional data, forecasts,
tools, and topical commentaries.
Organizations
Initiatives, projects, Research
- Midas.net
An initiative of the INFO2000 programme to create new markets by
stimulating multimedia demand at European level among targeted user groups
(Info 2000)
Miscellaneous
- meansbusiness
meansbusiness is an Internet-based knowledge service that aggregates,
organizes, and manages the concepts and ideas found in books for direct access
by knowledge workers from their desktops.
meansbusiness editors, using sophisticated knowledge management tools,
extract the key ideas from leading business books. These concepts are
integrated with related extracts from other authoritative authors into suites
of comparable concepts. This new class of knowledge resources provides direct
access to the critical ideas of business thinkers.
Business Centres, B2B, etc.
Articles
- "Leap of faith: Why B2B went bust"
by Erich Luening and Margaret Kane
CNET News.com, May 7, 2001
In the last year, the well-funded, ballyhooed army of online
business marketplaces has run full tilt into an unexpectedly powerful foe:
a cost-conscious executive who likes to close deals simply with a handshake.
- ...
Business Indexes
Business Centers
- IndustryNET, US
Industry's On-Line Mall
The latest in industry news, application assistance, new products,
demo software, on-line tradeshows, hundreds of tested shareware
programs, hundreds of job openings, and used industrial equipment.
IndustryNET carries information from nearly 3,000 companies, covering
over 10,000 products. There are over 250 manufacturers' stores in the
on-line mall.
- The Internationalist
The Center for International Business Information
- Planet Industrie
le serveur Web francais a vocation industrielle
- Can.Exe.Net
This is an information service about Canada's premier
membership network-organization with emphasis on exclusive personal and
business one-to-one contact.
- eBusiness Center
a joint initiative from IBM
and Yahoo
- Business Village
Une "cyberentreprise" destinée à faciliter l'accès des
entreprises francaises à Internet
Les services: les services d'appel gratuits sont relativement classiques :
messagerie electronique, revue de presse (synthese d'articles) ou forums de
discussion. D'autres sont plus innovants, comme la possibilité de passer
des appels d'offres nationaux ou de consulter une base de transmission
d'entreprises. Les services plus pointus sont payants, notamment la traduction
(quinze langues disponibles), le dépot d'un nom de site Web (ou sa
vérification), le téléchargement de formulaires
administratifs ou la recherche d'aides et subventions.
- Global Trade Center
Global Trade Center provides many valuable international trade services for manufacturers,
importers exporters, trade service businesses and opportunity seekers.
Business Centres & Electronic Marketplaces
Business to business electronic commerce
Information brokers (companies)
- Dun & Bradstreet UK
This site covers direct marketing, business information and collection
services. The site also provides on-line ordering facilities for CDs,
publications and business information and country reports as well as booking
information on training courses and seminars.
- Dun & Bradstreet
resource for global business expertise
- NYNYEX Interactive Yellow Pages
Offers a well-organized directory that makes searching for businesses and Web sites easy.
- T.R.A.D.E., Inc.
Publishes monthly U.S. import information. Importers and exporters
worldwide use this information to identify and qualify new suppliers and
customers as well as gather competitive intelligence.
- GIGA
Miscellaneous
Malls for companies
- BTG
BTG Technology Systems (Formerly BDS) GSA Schedule
The Federal Government and state and local governments may purchase
computer-related equipment and services through BTG GSA contracts.
This catalog allows users to search a database of more than 15,000
hardware and software products related to LAN, WAN, UNIX, storage and
imaging solutions. BTG Technology Systems represents over 200 vendors,
such as Novell, Intel, Digital Equipment Corp., Sun Microsystems, IBM.
- Global Commerce Link
is a world-wide network service that provides affordable and productive
market communications and electronic commerce services to businesses and their
customers around the corner and around the world.
- Onward computer market
Offering four diverse, robust and integrated tools to enable corporate
buyers and sellers of computer products and services to successfully
interact and do business over the Internet.
Auctionning
Events
- ICMAS-00 Trading Agent Competition
Boston in July 2000
The Fourth International Conference on Multiagent Systems (ICMAS-00), will
feature a Trading Agent Competition (TAC), in which software agents developed
by research groups, students, and others from all over the world will compete
in a challenging market game
Starting Points
People
Articles, documents
- "FreeMarkets flies in opening day"
by Bloomberg News,
CNET News.com, December 10, 1999
Shares of FreeMarkets,
which hopes to become to industrial companies what
online auctioneer eBay is to individual consumers, skyrocketed more than 475
percent in its first day of trading.
- "AuctionWatch to launch online appraisal service"
by Troy Wolverton
CNET News.com, December 7, 1999
- "Bringing auction-based IPOs to the Web"
by Sandeep Junnarkar,
CNET News.com, February 8, 1999
Investment banking firm W.R. Hambrecht & Company today announced the
launch of OpenIPO service, a new electronic, auction-based method of
conducting initial public offerings.
OpenIPO
- "An online auction for businesses"
By Tim Clark, CNET NEWS.COM, April 21, 1998
This week's public launch of an online auction site for manufacturers,
distributors, and resellers of computer products highlights the growing
phenomena of Internet auctions for businesses targeting specific markets.
- "Business negotiations on the Internet"
by Manoj Kumar, Stuart I. Feldman,
IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce report, March 11, 1998
Research projects & systems
- Priceweb
by Ramin Zabih,
from Cornell University
Together with some friends at Cornell he had begun an experiment called
PriceWeb. PriceWeb is an attempt to create an
efficient market in computer peripherals. For a given peripheral, PriceWeb's
web site provides a list of nationally advertised mail-order prices, listed in
increasing order. This makes it simple to find the lowest-priced vendor.
(mirror here)
- Artificial Markets Project
from MIT Sloan
The focus of this project is the rich dynamics arising from interactions
between human and artificial agents in a stochastic market environment in which
agents learn from their interactions. This focus contains three major themes:
- artificial and experimental market simulations;
- complex systems and learning dynamics; and
- measurement, data analysis, and statistical inference for financial
models and associated computational issues.
(see also this short description)
see also the MIT Sloan Trading Room
- Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce initiative at MIT
The Agent-mediated Electronic Commerce (AmEC) Initiative investigates how
software agent technologies can expedite the electronic commerce revolution.
Issues addressed include distributed component-based marketplaces, open and
extensible languages and protocols for locating and defining goods and
services, merchant differentiation, value-based product comparisons, buying
decision aids, negotiation protocols, visualization of marketplace data and
activities, and issues of trust, reputation, security, marketing,
intermediaries, as well as the socioeconomic implications of next generation
agent-mediated electronic commerce systems.
- AuctionBot
from University of Michigan
- DEALMAKER / DEALSCRIBE project
The project aim to provided automated support in the detection,
characterization, and resolution of conflicts in a variety of domains.
The goal of the theoretical work is to provide a basis for automatically
analyzing and resolving conflicts across a wide variety of domains including
competitive, cooperative, and multi-modal domains.
- Project Fish Market
This project studies how to build agent-mediated institutions that may prove useful for electronic commerce.
FM is an electronic auction house, based on the traditional fish market,
where agents of arbitrary complexity may trade over a reliable network under
fair, robust and lively conditions.
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Business Rules for Electronic Commerce: Project at IBM T.J. Watson Research
Investigating rule-based business processes for e-commerce:
both business-to-business, e.g., to integrate supply chains;
and business-to-consumer.
- HP Agent Technology Group
In the Agent Technology Group, they are currently focusing their
research on agent-based automated trading. In particular, we are
researching the use of Economic Agents to create stable and
efficient electronic markets, and investigating ways of making these
agents easy for humans to instruct, interact with and trust.
- XML Auction Demo
by Microsoft and
DataChannel
This demo presents an Web-based auction where you can make a bid on items
being auctioned and see live bids that are being made by other people.
The purpose of this demo is to show how XML can be used to create interesting
Web-based applications (weblications) that have a lot of client-side
functionality without needing round trips to the server or complicated server
session state.
Trading floors, Auction Systems, ...
- --- Articles, papers
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"Expedia price-matching tool debuts in face of Priceline suit"
by Troy Wolverton
CNET News.com, December 9, 1999
The new Flight Price Matcher allows customers to specify the amount they
will pay for a specific flight.
The service matches customer requests with the lowest price tickets available,
even if the price is below the one they requested.
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"eBay blocks AuctionWatch"
by Troy Wolverton
CNET News.com, November 4, 1999
The leading online auctioneer said this morning it is blocking
AuctionWatch's access to eBay.
AuctionWatch launched a service last month that allows buyers to search
for items listed for sale on numerous auction sites. The universal search
engine scans for items across a spectrum of online auction houses, including
eBay, Yahoo, and Amazon.com, and arranges the listings based on the time
bidding ends.
- ---directories
- Auction.net
auction.net is an auction directory
- AuctionInsider.com
Internet Guide to online auction.
- ---Meta auction systems
- BidFind
BidFind is an auction search engine. Their agent (bot, crawler) visits
dozens of online auction sites and indexes their data (Auction Sites).
- AuctionWatch.com
Another meta auction system. (search the other auction systems)
- --- auction systems
- eBay
Individuals -- not big businesses -- use eBay to buy and sell items in
more than 1,600 categories, including collectibles, antiques, sports
memorabilia, computers, toys, Beanie Babies, dolls, figures, coins,
stamps, books, magazines, music, pottery, glass, photography,
electronics, jewelry, gemstones, and much more.
- Bid.com
Auction on computers, consumer electronics, gifts and more.
- The Trading Floor
World Market Watch's real-time continuous-stream import-export commodity exchange.
- Export Hotline
the mission of Export Hotline is to create a content rich Internet service
focused on all aspects of global trade and investment.
- TradeNet
TradeNet World Service is a membership organization of professional
importers and exporters located in virtually every country around the world.
- AgFuture Online Auctioning Service
Online Auctioning for Agricultural products.
- Bidengine
Bidengine is a specialized search engine that scours thousands of
procurement pages containing opportunities to sell products and services.
Intensely focused, Bidengine eliminates the irrelevant results produced by
generic search tools. Bidengine finds bid and proposal opportunities posted
by international, federal, state, city and county governments, along with
universities, school districts, public buying cooperatives and large companies
that have chosen to post their business opportunities on the web.
- First Auction
computer, consumer electronic & General goods
- Multi TRADE Plaza
- FreeMarkets
FreeMarkets creates business-to-business online auctions for buyers of
industrial parts, raw materials, commodities and services.
- --- computer & electronic products related
- ONSALE Live Auction
- FastParts
FastParts provides a secure and level (no subscriber has knowledge
advantage over any other subscriber) Trading Floor where Buyers and Sellers
of electronic parts can meet, negotiate and execute Buy/Sell transactions.
- AuctionX (computer goods)
- FairMarket
FairMarket is an auction site specifically designed for the volume buyer
of computers, components, and peripherals.
- The United Computer Exchange Corporation
The United Computer Exchange Corporation is a global clearinghouse for
buyers and sellers of new and used microcomputer equipment.
- BargainBid
computer products
- --- reverse auction, group buying, etc.
- eWanted.com (reverse auction)
eWanted.com hosts over 1000 categories and sub-categories of virtually
any product or service you could ever want. It's simple: You place a want ad
specifying the kind of offers you want-location, condition and any other
detailed information-then sellers, both private and dealers/resellers, submit
offers to you.
The sellers will come to you and, while they're competing for your
business, watch the price go DOWN!
- LetsBuyIt.com
The model, called co-buying, offers LetsBuyIt.com's members an opportunity
to aggregate their demand for a product or service in order to achieve
favourable price terms.
- Accompany
The Network transparently pools buyers from across the Web into the same
Buy-Cycles. When the Buy-Cycle closes, they pass along to the supplier a
substantial volume order. Because of this volume - and because the customers
have worked together to drive the price down - the suppliers offer significant
savings to the Network.
- Mercata (group buying)
A PowerBuy group purchase is a limited-time buying opportunity that allows
you to join other online shoppers and drive down prices in real time. The more
who decide to purchase a specific item, the greater the efficiency, and the
lower the price
- Priceline.com
customers name their price
- clust.com (french site)
Avec clust.com, groupons nos achats, faisons baisser les prix en direct
et créons de nouveaux produits...
- Expedia
business travel
- UnionDream
- lastminute.com
- --- miscellaneous
- Beans By Design
from Flashline.com
online marketplace for JavaBeans.
The process combines technologies like those used in online auction, matchmaking, and recruiting systems.
Technologies
Designed by Thierry Nabeth,
CALT (the Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies),
INSEAD
please send comments to
nospam.thierry.nabeth@insead.edu