Today is a milestone in the trend towards a world of transparent company data. The US federal government announced that as of 4th April, any entity doing business with it…
Is the era of proprietary identifiers coming to an end? From April 2022, the US General Services Administration plans to stop using the DUNS number to uniquely identify companies registered…
Last week, OpenCorporates reached another minor milestone, as we hit 90 million companies. That's a long way from the 3 million companies we started with 4 years ago, and yet we're…
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…
Today, OpenCorporates announces a new sister website, Open LEIs, a user-friendly interface on the emerging Global Legal Entity Identifier System. At this point many, possibly most, of you will be wondering: what…
Last month the US General Accounting Office, produced an excellent report on the use of Dun & Bradstreet's proprietary DUNS ID system by the Federal Government, specifically the GSA, its procurement…