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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… 23 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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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
Posted in api, milestone, opencorporates
Tagged api, business intelligence, google refine, linked data, open data, opendata, reconciliation
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Major milestone: now over 20 million companies
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
Posted in milestone, open data, opencorporates
Tagged companies, corporate, corporations, google refine, gov20, Ireland, linked data, multinationals, open data, opendata, reconciliation, wikipedia
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Case study: Fixing broken government information with open data
This is a tale of good intentions, bad practices, and broken processes. Although it’s superficially about charity and company data, in fact it’s really about how the public sector is failing to use the open data now being produced, and … Continue reading
Posted in howto, open data, opencorporates
Tagged charities, Charity Commission, companies, google refine, gov20, nonprofits, open data, opencharities, opendata, uk
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More countries, more companies, and what this means for reconciliation
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
Posted in open data, opencorporates
Tagged companies, corporate, google refine, iceland, Malta, opendata, reconciliation, Singapore
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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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