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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… 18 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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Tag Archives: financial
3 reasons why the EU’s new Business Vocabulary is so important
This weekend, the EU published its public draft of its Business Vocabulary (along with Person and Location), to help make it easier for organisations within Europe, including governments themselves, to exchange information relating to companies. Now if I haven’t already … Continue reading
Posted in open data, opencorporates, standards
Tagged companies, corporate, corporations, European Commission, financial, LEI, LEIS, linked data, linkeddata, semantic web
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Building a global database the open, distributed way
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
Posted in open data, opencorporates
Tagged bounty, business intelligence, corporate, DC, financial, Gibraltar, Ireland, Isle of Man, open data, opendata, scapers
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OpenCorporates March update: more companies, more data, more features
The past few months have been pretty busy at OpenCorporates, with literally hundreds of commits, improvements, bugfixes and tweaks. The underlying search has been improved (with more improvements planned), we’re now pulling in more data about companies, and we’ve added … Continue reading
Posted in opencorporates
Tagged business intelligence, financial, gov20, linkeddata, michigan, open data, opendata, trademarks
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Netherlands companies now added to OpenCorporates
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
Posted in open data, opencorporates, press release
Tagged business intelligence, corporate, financial, kvk, netherlands, open data, opendata
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Introducing OpenCorporates: a new way of seeing business
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
Posted in howto, open data, opencorporates
Tagged business intelligence, corporate, financial, google refine, gov20, linked data, linkeddata, open data, opendata
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