The following websites offer significant research resources for private company information and general financial updates. If you have any favorites of your own that you think would be good additions to our own links, please let us know.

Google (Premier Web Search Engine) www.google.com

MSN Money (Financial Information) www.moneycentral.msn.com

Mergerstat Review (Merger & Acquisition Information) www.mergerstat.com

Wall Street Journal www.wsj.com

New York Times www.nytimes.com

M&A Professional Advisor www.privateequity.com

Forbes www.forbes.com

Fortune www.fortune.com

BV Market Data (Transactional data for Privately Held Companies) www.bvmarketdata.com

Reuters Financial Research & Information www.marketguide.com

M&A Source (Merger & Acquisition Advisors) www.masource.com

Yahoo Business News by Industry http://biz.yahoo.com/industry/

San Francisco Business Times www.sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com

Entreworld (Resources for Entrepreneurs) www.entreworld.org

Environmental Issues (EPA) www.epa.gov

Food & Drug Administration www.fda.gov

Federal Trade Commission www.ftc.gov

U.S. Department of Commerce www.doc.gov

U.S. Government Statistics www.fedstats.gov

Better Business Bureau www.bbb.org