Tag Archives: corporate hierarchy

Major Milestone: Over 50 million companies (& a sneak peak at the future)

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

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 →

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Guest Post: Data Sketching With the OpenCorporates API

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

Tony Hirst, a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Systems at The Open University, and author of the OUseful.info blog has been using the OpenCorporates API for some time. Here’s a review of some of his experiments. Looking back … Continue reading →

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Corporate confidentiality, company relationships, and why this ‘competitive advantage’ is anti-competitive

Posted on April 5, 2012 by

Last week OpenCorporates was in Basel at the Financial Stability Board‘s workshop on Global Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) for corporate entities, as a member of the advisory panel. It’s worth giving a sentence or two’s background here for those who aren’t … Continue reading →

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