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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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Case study: Fixing broken government information with open data

Posted on May 19, 2011 by

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 →

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OpenCorporates March update: more companies, more data, more features

Posted on March 18, 2011 by

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 →

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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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