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OpenCorporates
Company blog · blog.opencorporates.comdatabusiness
OpenCorporates is the company blog at blog.opencorporates.com, writing about data and business. Since 2012, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link the blog for its job listings and for the Map the Banks project post, which tracks companies with debt collection operations in other jurisdictions. None of the comments judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The largest open database of companies in the world
What Hacker News says?
OpenCorporates | Backend Engineer | London, UK | Full-time, Onsite We at OpenCorporates are looking for backend engineers - see https://blog.opencorporates.com/jobs-at-opencorporates for the details. In brief, if you work at OpenCorporates you get to work with interesting technology on a successful open data project which helps people fight corruption, money laundering and organised crime. Which is a pretty cool com…
Comment linking /jobs-at-opencorporates
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted OpenCorporates: Global Register to Shine Light on Anonymous Companies as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOpenCorporates | Backend Engineer | London, UK | Full-time, Onsite We at OpenCorporates are looking for backend engineers - see https://blog.opencorporates.com/jobs-at-opencorporates for the details. In brief, if you work at OpenCorporates you get to work with interesting technology on a successful open data project which helps people fight corruption, money laundering and organised crime. Which is a pretty cool com…
Comment linking /jobs-at-opencorporates
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2017)”Submitted The three stages of verification for beneficial ownership data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis site is from OpenCorporates - have a look at their mission here: https://opencorporates.com/info/principles Edits: Here is the blog post announcing the project: http://blog.opencorporates.com/2014/12/10/launching-map-the-... From the post: * Which companies have debt collection operations in other jurisdictions? Even with the small amount of data already collected, we know there are at least 178 financial servi…
Comment linking /2014/12/10/launching-map-the-banks-campaign-to-map-the-global-financial-industry/
on “Map the Banks”Submitted Norway becomes first OGP country to open its company data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe wider problem with the DUNS number, especially as far as its use within government, is that it is a proprietary identifier, which makes it unsuitable for use in a public domain context, especially as far as combining with other data (e.g. combining data from different federal agencies) or in an open data context. Having said that the UK government is now using it in procurement just as the US government is now s…
Comment linking /2012/07/24/are-duns-numbers-the-crack-cocaine-of-id-systems-and-is-the-uk-the-latest-addict/
on “Dear Apple, DUNS is a scam, but you already know that”Submitted A Beneficial Ownership Register for the world: The first steps as a story · 1 points
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