At bizologie free business resources are our specialty. Here are 24 of of my favorites that I will be highlighting at the 2012 Texas Library Association Conference:
Google Finance: Current, but most importantly, historical stock prices by day up to 35 years
CPI Inflation Calculator: From the Bureau of Labor Statistics, what was the dollar worth
Investopedia: Finance education - dictionary, calculators, tutorials, videos
CIA World Factbook: Statistics on population, GDP, and more, plus maps
Worldometers: Live statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health
U.S. Commercial Service: Trade professionals in over 100 U.S. cities and in more than 75 countries that help U.S. companies get started in exporting or increase sales to new global markets
Corruption Perception Index: Visual representation of corruption by country
Compete: Web traffic statistics
comScore: The press release page offers charts, graphs, and data on consumer and market trends for digital technologies and Internet web site market share rankings
BatchGeo: Make maps from a list of multiple locations, use addresses or zip codes
VisualBee Plugin: 50 free templates for PowerPoint, you put in text and then VisualBee does the design
LiveLoop Plugin: Real-time collaboration in PowerPoint. Sign up to test in private beta
Prezi: Cloud-based presentation software that is cross between whiteboard and slides
Zanran: Numerical search – find data and statistics
FindThatFile: Searches FTP sites and repositories
GMA: Grocery Manufacturers Association shopper data
Digital Music News: iTunes top 100, biggest movers, top ipad music apps
Box Office Mojo: Tracks US and international movie sales
EMPORIS: Commercial Real Estate Information by city, tallest buildings
Trade show News Network: Tradeshow directory
The Official Board: Organizational Charts for the world's 30,000 largest corporations
Clinical Trials.gov: Clinical trials directory
American Pet Products Association: Statistics on pet ownership
In 2010 I highlighted more free resources and those are just as relevant today!