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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… 2 days ago
- @pigsonthewing No in the UK. Several jurisdictions make them free and open (check out NZ). UK charges for them, limiting access 3 days ago
- @MrkMcknz Thanks. Great idea. 1 week ago
- Looking forward to presenting at #PDF13 in New York next month: personaldemocracy.com/conferences/ny… Some great speakers & friends of @opencorporates 1 week ago
- RT @Open_Oil: @pwyptweets @africaprogress @opencorporates check out the first step in the African mining data trail!! wp.me/p14Gk1-Vb 1 week ago
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Corporate confidentiality, company relationships, and why this ‘competitive advantage’ is anti-competitive
Last week OpenCorporates was in Basel at the Financial Stability Board‘s workshop on Global Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) for corporate entities, as a member of the advisory panel. It’s worth giving a sentence or two’s background here for those who aren’t … Continue reading
Major milestones: 40m companies, 50+ jurisdictions, moving out of alpha, getting respectable
We did it – last week we went over the 40 million companies mark, with the addition of our 52st jurisdiction: Mauritius. As well as being quite a significant milestone in itself, we’re also using this as an excuse to … Continue reading
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Tagged companies, corporations, Financial Stability Board, Global LEI, LEI, Mauritius, open data, opendata, SEC
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OpenCorporates: The directors’ cut
One of the most often requested features for OpenCorporates, especially by journalists, is for us to extract information about the directors and officers for the over 35 million companies we’ve opened up. And as Alex Howard reported on O’Reilly Radar … Continue reading
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Tagged business intelligence, companies, corporate, corporate governance, corporations, directors, officers, open data, opendata, uk
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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
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Tagged api, business intelligence, google refine, linked data, open data, opendata, reconciliation
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The OpenCorporates principles: What we do and how we do it
From the beginning it’s been our goal that OpenCorporates isn’t just another business data service. We’ve got no interest in being a more modern Bloomberg or Dun & Bradstreet – the goal here is not improve on what they do, but to … Continue reading
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Tagged companies, corporate governance, corporations, open data, opendata, principles, rights
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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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Tagged address, business intelligence, corporations, linked data, multinationals, open data, opendata, ugc
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APIs, why an open licence matters (& another milestone)
One of the key aspects of OpenCorporates has always been that word ‘open’. Open here means something very specific. It means freedom (as in free speech), not just free beer. The open source movement has travelled this road before, not … Continue reading
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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Tagged companies, corporate, corporations, google refine, gov20, Ireland, linked data, multinationals, open data, opendata, reconciliation, wikipedia
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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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Tagged business intelligence, companies, consultation, corporate, corporate governance, corporations, EU, multinationals, open data, opendata
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