2004.2.1

B2B / B2C:

B2 stands for Business To as in Business To Business or Business To Consumer. Two additional acronyms are described at http://www.CheshireHenbury.com.

B2B market research

... MarketResearch.com has a database of research providers that can be searched for by specialty as well as location. Key word search is free and doesn't require site registration. Research reports and other items found are for sale. Finding this resource for .network users came from an IxQuick metasearch for the meaning of B2B. IxQuick produced a sponsored result listing Hoovers.com also. Hoover's Inc. is listed at the bottom of this page as a resource (page down).

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2004.2.2

Yahoo! China::

Update of the original information published here: Yahoo! China, acquired in 2005 by Alibaba.com Corporation. The e-commerce company ... (operates) the world's largest online marketplaces for both international and domestic China trade, as well as China's most popular online payment system, AliPay. Alibaba.com also owns and operates. This resource was first submitted to The Network as a B2B example of Chinese enterprise development and global outreach. International headquarters are in Hong Kong. US contact is in San Jose, CA.

Google Searches for a Home in China, Business Week Online, 06/06, by Bruce Einhorn. Article indicates Baidu is Google's main china competition, not Alibaba's Yahoo! China. This is an update in this issue of the report about a partnership that integrated Google's Chinese Language Search and WebSearch into NetEase/Content Channel Network (http://netease.google.com?).the WebSearch named here is not to be confused with .network WebSearch. Also, The Network has integrated the Google Search Engine into its operations. Top search engines, including Yahoo can be accessed through .network WebSearch.

key word search demonstrations (China):

industrial+directory+China+enterprises

Chinese+embassy+economic+development+contacts

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2004.2.3

new venture planning:

The key word combination, definition+of+risk+management is Googled as a part of meaning of new venture startup in the .network glossary.
definition of new venture planning meaning of new venture planning defined
What is a new venture plan defined meaning of venture planning is the same as
An operational enterprise comes into existence at startup. It's the the existence of an enterprise during the time that things are ongoing according to a plan.

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2004.2.4

Bureau of Economic Analysis / U. S. Department of Commerce:

http://bea.gov

BEA glossary

The glossary, for example, defines enterprise as ... a business, service, or membership organization consisting of one or more establishments under common, direct or indirect, ownership or control. It is the highest level of establishment aggregation. An enterprise may vary in composition, ranging from a single- establishment company to a complex family of parent and subsidiary companies (firms under common ownership or control)links in the quote are to to other BEA glossary definitions. The definition of enterprise in the .network glossary is tied to economic development (enterprise and economic development). It was placed there as a precursor to creating the term enterprise development in order to expand industrial development and economic development into a larger arena than that of accommodatingsite selection or facilities location.

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2004.1.4

Hoovers:

Hoover's, Inc., provides enterprise, industry, and market information, services and tools. The company is online at http://www.hoovers.com/free where you will find, for example, an offer of a free download of the Fortune 500 list. There is a search tool available at the website; also additional third-party library keyword searches are available. For direct access to Hoover's webpage for small business, CLICK HERE. The specific Hoovers.com webpage mentioned under the B2B definition above is headed by Looking For B2B Opportunities? The page offers a free pass access to ... over 16 million companies and their executives, news from 3,000 newspaper, press release, and industry sources ... and more.

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