We’ve been globalizing our services over the last few months at Factual to better serve the needs of a borderless Internet: all global place data is now accessible via a single API endpoint, and we’ve added two new countries, China and Canada. With this announcement, Factual is the only service in the world where developers [...]

When looking for a good restaurant, it’s not enough to just know its address or phone number. You also want to know: Is it open? Can I bring my 4-year old? Will it break my wallet? Do others like it? BYOB? Our Restaurants dataset can now help your users answer these questions and more, supporting [...]

Today we are announcing a strategic partnership with SimpleGeo to jointly create a more comprehensive location data infrastructure solution for developers and publishers. Through the partnership, SimpleGeo will incorporate Factual’s global places data into its Places API to make it even easier and more convenient to create web and mobile applications. “Based on what developers [...]

We have a number of primary data directives at Factual: one is to create a global coverage of the world’s POI and businesses. At the time of writing we manage over thirty-one million entities in thirty-four countries; many more are in the oven. We produce and manage this content on a country-by-country basis — this [...]

We wanted to let you know about an exciting and inspiring contest for developers and data nerds! DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that allows anyone to help out teachers and schools in need. Since it started ten years ago, DonorsChoose.org has raised over $80,000,000 and helped hundreds of thousands of teachers nationwide. DonorsChoose.org recently launched [...]