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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
OpenCorporates: The directors’ cut
One of the most often requested features for OpenCorporates, especially by journalists, is for us to extract information about the directors and officers for the over 35 million companies we’ve opened up. And as Alex Howard reported on O’Reilly Radar … Continue reading
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Tagged business intelligence, companies, corporate, corporate governance, corporations, directors, officers, open data, opendata, uk
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One year on: 10 times bigger, masses more data… and a new API
Was it just a year ago that we launched OpenCorporates, after just a couple months’ coding? When we opened up over 3 million companies and allowed searching across multiple jurisdictions (admittedly there were just three of them to start off … Continue reading
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Tagged api, business intelligence, google refine, linked data, open data, opendata, reconciliation
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New features: add company data, log in with LinkedIn
One of the earliest requests for features on OpenCorporates was actually from company owners – the ability to add data about their company, especially websites and telephone numbers. Well, now at last you can do that, and not just company … Continue reading
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Tagged address, business intelligence, corporations, linked data, multinationals, open data, opendata, ugc
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