The Internet is awash with data. Where ten years ago developers had difficulty finding data to power applications, today’s difficulty lies in making sense of its abundance, identifying signal amidst the noise, and understanding its contextual relevance. To address these problems Factual is today launching Resolve — an entity resolution API that makes partial records [...]

From the beginning, we’ve always struggled with drafting a nice clean blurb that really summarizes Factual’s capabilities. On our homepage we say, “Access great data for your web and mobile apps,” which tells developers what we offer, but it doesn’t really shed light on our core technology stack. Our more targeted message to the developer [...]

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 [...]