It's Day 6 of our #FlashHacks campaign and we have reached over 2.5 million datapoints. If you are coming to #OKFest14 – we have great news for you! OpenCorporates in partnership with leading open data…
Yesterday, we officially launched #FlashHacks - the campaign the crowdscrape 10 million datapoints in 10 days. We were blown away by the sheer enthusiasm and support we got from you.…
The success story that is OpenCorporates is very much a team effort – not just the tiny OpenCorporates core team, but the whole open data community, who from the beginning have been…
It’s been two months since I joined OpenCorporates as the Community & Communications Manager and it’s been an amazing journey so far. Some of you have met me or spoken to…
This weekend, we will be joining Wikimedia UK for an Open Data Hack and CLEAR Info project for an Environmental Data hack. We wanted to invite you to join us for both of…
Last week was a big step forward in the history of open company data, with the formation of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation, which will oversee the global system of…
Who controls the biggest corporations in the world? What licences do they hold? What patents have they been granted? What government contracts have they won? If we can't answer important…
It’s been 4 months since we started importing UK company accounts data as XBRL (a worldwide standard format that allows company accounts to be easily readable by computers), thanks to the…
We're proud to announce that version 0.3 of the OpenCorporates API is now live, with many, many new features, improvements (and even a few bug fixes). Along the way, we've…
In parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series, we explored the complex world of corporate control, and how it is described in various regulations. We found that a company may…