Vital intelligence does not begin at Reuters or Dow Jones. News of layoffs begins in the town nearest the factory, not on Wall Street. New technology enhancements are heard first in the suburb where the company's data processing center is located, not necessarily in Silicon Valley. Think about how corporations really operate. Although companies are national or international in scope, they all have a home base and employ local people.
Most databases neglect that fact.
Just examine the article list above once again. What you see there are general, national announcements. They tell you little of how these software or e-commerce companies truly operate, how many people they employ, their sales strategy, distribution channels or proposed plant expansions. This information rarely makes it to the national arena or to the Web because most people don't care about such news. Management decries the problem of information overload, but it is within managers' power to improve information quality.