Tag Archives: corporate

Major milestone: now over 20 million companies

Posted on August 1, 2011 by

Well, that didn’t take too long. It was barely 3 months ago that OpenCorporates hit 10 million companies, and in what seems like no time at all we’ve doubled that. In that time, we’ve: Added important countries such as Spain … Continue reading →

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Our response to the EU Corporate Governance Green Paper

Posted on July 22, 2011 by

The consultation for the EU Corporate Governance Green Paper closes today. Didn’t know know there was one? No, neither did we till a week ago, and even then it was pretty much by accident. Given the tight timing, and the fact … Continue reading →

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OpenCorporates breaks the 10 million mark

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

As far as minor milestones go, this feels quite significant. With the addition of Missouri companies, we just added the ten millionth company to OpenCorporates. Missouri is the fifth US jurisdiction to be added, and joins 14 other territories around … Continue reading →

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More countries, more companies, and what this means for reconciliation

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

The open data collaboration with ScraperWiki to add more companies and more countries has been going incredibly well, with over 20 scrapers for company registers being worked on or completed. Because of this we’ve already been able to import Iceland, … Continue reading →

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Building a global database the open, distributed way

Posted on March 25, 2011 by

When we started OpenCorporates it was to solve a real need that we and a number of other people in the open data community had: whether it’s Government spending, subsidy info or court cases, we needed a database of corporate … Continue reading →

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Netherlands companies now added to OpenCorporates

Posted on January 13, 2011 by

PRESS RELEASE, January 13, 2010 Over 2 million Netherlands companies added to OpenCorporates thanks to openkvk.nl In a groundbreaking collaboration between OpenCorporates.com, the Open Database of the Corporate World, and openkvk.nl, the website which makes the Dutch Chamber of Commerce … Continue reading →

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Introducing OpenCorporates: a new way of seeing business

Posted on December 15, 2010 by

Why OpenCorporates? Like most open data/open source projects, it was started (just a couple of months ago), because the founders, Chris Taggart & Rob McKinnon, needed such a resource to exist. Specifically we needed: an open data base of companies … Continue reading →

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