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World Geographies Concordance 21 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
A large number of namespaces are used to describe the countries, cities, and regions of the world. In fact there are probably too many. Factual has its own World Geographies data. To help our partner...
Our New Office in Shanghai 7 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Our Shanghai office recently moved into new space, so we thought we’d share some information and pictures. We currently have 12 people in Shanghai, mostly engineers, and they were wall-to-wall at the ...
The Flotsam Project: Insanely Fast Floating-Point Number Serialization for Java and Javascript 1 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
At Factual, we have a lot of geospatial data that we want to send to a browser. It’s often possible to use polygons or images to transmit this data efficiently, but a couple of weeks ago we ran into a...
New Factual World Geographies Data 30 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
Factual World Geographies is our dataset of natural administrative geographic entities: postcodes, localities, regions, townships, states, oceans, countries, countries and continents. It contains 5,21...
Restaurants Extended Attributes Data Now Covers the United Kingdom 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
Finding authentic fish and chips just got a little easier. Today, we are pleased to announce that we’ve expanded our extended Restaurants data to include the United Kingdom. While our Global Places da...
Two New Products to Enable Mobile Personalization and Ad Targeting – Geopulse Audience and Geopulse Proximity 9 Jul 2013 | 07:45 pm
Factual believes that the future of Mobile will be built on Location. We now manage data on over 65 million small businesses and points of interest in fifty countries, in twenty-five languages, which...
Factual IDs Now Available Under CC-BY License 20 Jun 2013 | 10:34 pm
Factual is a huge supporter of data connectivity: the idea that data gains value when linked to other datasets, and loses value when it is technically or semantically isolated. Pragmatically, this mea...
“Attacking the Structure of Everything” – Panel Discussion Featuring Tyler Bell [VIDEO] 20 Jun 2013 | 09:14 pm
Factual Director of Product Tyler Bell joined Anthony Goldbloom (founder/CEO of Kaggle) and Douglas Merrill (founder/CEO of ZestFinance) on a panel moderated by Quentin Hardy (Deputy Tech Editor, New ...
Gil Elbaz Discusses Local Data and Mobile Marketing at Street Fight Summit West [VIDEO] 15 Jun 2013 | 02:06 am
On June 4, 2013, at Street Fight Summit West, Factual CEO and Founder Gil Elbaz joined Rex Briggs for a fireside chat discussing local data in the context of mobile marketing. Rex is a renowned expert...
Factual and Qualcomm Labs Team Up to Enhance Location-Based Contextual Relevance 18 Apr 2013 | 08:01 pm
Mobile developers are increasingly focused on creating a personalized experience for their users. Leveraging location has become a valuable tool to provide context for this personalized experience, so...
