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

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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How open is company data in Open Government Partnership countries?

Today, the day before the Open Government Partnership meeting starts in Brasilia, OpenCorporates is publishing a major new report into access to company data in OGP countries, and the picture is not good. Out of a total of a possible 100 … Continue reading

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New features: add company data, log in with LinkedIn

One of the earliest requests for features on OpenCorporates was actually from company owners – the ability to add data about their company, especially websites and telephone numbers. Well, now at last you can do that, and not just company … Continue reading

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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

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Our response to the EU Corporate Governance Green Paper

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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Introducing CorporateGroupings: where fuzzy concepts meet legal entities

One of the key issues when you’re looking at any big company is what are the constituent parts – because these days a company of any size is pretty much never a single legal entity, but a web of companies, … Continue reading

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