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- Required reading for all interested in complex corporate structures & tax. US Senate cttee report on Apple (PDF): levin.senate.gov/download/exhib… 14 hours ago
- @pigsonthewing No in the UK. Several jurisdictions make them free and open (check out NZ). UK charges for them, limiting access 1 day ago
- @MrkMcknz Thanks. Great idea. 5 days ago
- Looking forward to presenting at #PDF13 in New York next month: personaldemocracy.com/conferences/ny… Some great speakers & friends of @opencorporates 6 days ago
- RT @Open_Oil: @pwyptweets @africaprogress @opencorporates check out the first step in the African mining data trail!! wp.me/p14Gk1-Vb 6 days ago
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What makes a good company register? Part 1: The public purpose
This is the first in a series of posts on company registers – why they exist, what they should do, and how they should do it, based on OpenCorporates’ interactions with over 70 of them. Over the past six months, … Continue reading
Major Milestone: Over 50 million companies (& a sneak peak at the future)
TLDR: OpenCorporates smashes through the 50 million companies mark, and starts work mapping corporate networks. We’re pleased to announce that this weekend we smashed through the 50 million companies mark, with the addition of Thailand, West Virginia and several smaller territories (e.g. … Continue reading
Announcing version 0.2 of the OpenCorporates API
We’re pleased to announce the new version of our API (version 0.2), with some significant enhancements and improvements. In particular, you can now search the 39 million company directors and officers that OpenCorporates has (with more being added every day). Here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged api, business intelligence, corporate data, corporations, directors, officers, open data, opendata, reconciliation
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Corruption, corporate transparency, open data & business models: OKFest presentations
For those who weren’t able to make the Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki, here are OpenCorporates‘ two presentations. The first was Open Data: What’s In It For Business? and focuses on how businesses can get benefit from publishing open data, and … Continue reading
Stop Press: UK to open up company director information
This just in: UK Companies House has just announced that access to company appointments data will be free of charge from October 1. This is fantastic news and moves the UK closer to the fully free situation of New Zealand, … Continue reading
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Tagged business intelligence, companies, corporate, corporate governance, directors, officers, opendata
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OpenCorporates at OKFestival 2012
This next week the open data community will be descending on Helsinki for the Open Knowledge Festival, a week-long series of events celebrating open knowledge in all fields. OpenCorporates is really excited to be presenting here, having previously presented at last year’s … Continue reading
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Tagged business intelligence, conferences, corporate governance, corruption, open data, opendata, presentations
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Are DUNS numbers the crack cocaine of ID systems (and is the UK the latest addict)?
Last month the US General Accounting Office, produced an excellent report on the use of Dun & Bradstreet’s proprietary DUNS ID system by the Federal Government, specifically the GSA, its procurement and administration arm. In a fairly devastating report, it explains … Continue reading
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Tagged business intelligence, Dun & Bradstreet, DUNS, GAO, GSA, identifiers, LEI, opendata, uk
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Access to EU company data is very poor, Neelie
Two months ago, OpenCorporates published our ground-breaking report on access to company data in Open Government Partnership countries. The results were not good, with an average score of just 21 out of 100. Following this, Neelie Kroes, the EU Vice-President in … Continue reading
Norway becomes first OGP country to open its company data… and Belgium announces it will too
A couple of months ago, OpenCorporates published our report on access to company data in Open Government Partnership countries, which was pretty dire, with the countries scoring an average of just 21 out of 100 points. Well, today, Norway has boosted … Continue reading
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Tagged api, Brønnøysundregistrene, business registers, companies, norway, OGP, open data, open government partnership, opendata
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Towards a global lookup service for corporate ids
We’ve often stated that the goal of OpenCorporates is simple (but huge): to create an openly licensed database containing every corporate legal entity in the world, and provide open URI ids for them. We base this URI on the ID issued … Continue reading
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Tagged companies, corporate, corporations, EDGAR, LEI, linked data, linkeddata, open data, opendata, reconciliation, SEC, uris
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