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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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Guest Post: Data Sketching With the OpenCorporates API

Tony Hirst, a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Systems at The Open University, and author of the OUseful.info blog has been using the OpenCorporates API for some time. Here’s a review of some of his experiments. Looking back … Continue reading

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Announcing version 0.2 of the OpenCorporates API

We’re pleased to announce the new version of our API (version 0.2), with some significant enhancements and improvements. In particular, you can now  search the 39 million company directors and officers that OpenCorporates has (with more being added every day).  Here’s … Continue reading

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Corruption, corporate transparency, open data & business models: OKFest presentations

For those who weren’t able to make the Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki, here are OpenCorporates‘ two presentations. The first was Open Data: What’s In It For Business? and focuses on how businesses can get benefit from publishing open data, and … Continue reading

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OpenCorporates at OKFestival 2012

This next week the open data community will be descending on Helsinki for the Open Knowledge Festival, a week-long series of events celebrating open knowledge in all fields. OpenCorporates is really excited to be presenting here, having previously presented at last year’s … Continue reading

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Access to EU company data is very poor, Neelie

Two months ago, OpenCorporates published our ground-breaking report on access to company data in Open Government Partnership countries. The results were not good, with an average score of just 21 out of 100. Following this, Neelie Kroes, the EU Vice-President in … Continue reading

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Norway becomes first OGP country to open its company data… and Belgium announces it will too

A couple of months ago, OpenCorporates published our report on access to company data in Open Government Partnership countries, which was pretty dire, with the countries scoring an average of just 21 out of 100 points. Well, today, Norway has boosted … Continue reading

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Towards a global lookup service for corporate ids

We’ve often stated that the goal of OpenCorporates is simple (but huge): to create an openly licensed database containing every corporate legal entity in the world, and provide open URI ids for them. We base this URI on the ID issued … 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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Announcing the OpenCorporates Advisory Board… governance with teeth

Right from the word go, we wanted OpenCorporates to be a different kind of organisation, and we had three core goals we wanted to achieve. First, we wanted it to have as its central mission the opening of company data for … Continue reading

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