In contrast to marketing, investing activities involve a pattern of behavior more compatible with the Internet sub-culture, which values providing and accessing information, especially actively seeking information. Thus recent developments in this domain have occurred without much publicity. In fact, one can even see two aspects to investing activity here, one the direct benefits of investment-related activities and the other more indirect. The latter develops when individuals who are active users of the Internet become aware of companies that are successfully using the Internet. To the extent that one believes that technological innovators represent good investments, then one learns about these investment opportunities first-hand as a result of pursuing other goals.
Some archives are specifically related to economics and business.
For example, there are a number of individuals who collect pointers to on-line resources. These people are often located in libraries or business programs in universities, who put these collections on-line for local instructional use by their students perhaps, but given the nature of the global network the archive then can be accessed by anyone. If we look more directly to the companies who are previously established in investment circles, we find many of the established financial enterprises moving on-line in one form or another. For example, Dun and Bradstreet, J. P. Morgan, VISA, Ernst and Young, and many others have recently established an on-line presence. And classic investing indices, such as stock quotes, are increasingly being made available via Internet services.