As far as minor milestones go, this feels quite significant. With the addition of Missouri companies, we just added the ten millionth company to OpenCorporates. Missouri is the fifth US…
Last night, for a bit of fun, we thought we'd have a look in the common words used in company names, using all 8 million-plus companies in the growing OpenCorporates…
The open data collaboration with ScraperWiki to add more companies and more countries has been going incredibly well, with over 20 scrapers for company registers being worked on or completed.…
It's been a really hectic week, and it's not over yet, but before we head off to San Francisco for Data2.0 it's worth updating the community on a couple of…
When we started OpenCorporates it was to solve a real need that we and a number of other people in the open data community had: whether it's Government spending, subsidy…
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…
PRESS RELEASE, January 13, 2010 Over 2 million Netherlands companies added to OpenCorporates thanks to openkvk.nl In a groundbreaking collaboration between OpenCorporates.com, the Open Database of the Corporate World, and…
PRESS RELEASE Monday, December 20, 2010, 00.01 Introducing OpenCorporates: The open database of the corporate world OpenCorporates (http://OpenCorporates.com) is a new project launching today that for the first time brings…
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…