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What is Factual?

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What is Factual?

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A. Factual, Inc. is an open data platform for application developers that leverages large scale aggregation and community exchange. For example, you will find datasets for millions of U.S. and International local businesses and points of interest, as well as datasets on entertainment, health, and education. Factual’s hosted data comes from our community of users, developers and partners, and from our powerful data mining tools. The result is a rich, constantly improving, transparent data ecosystem, made up of what we like to call “living” data. We provide a suite of simple data APIs and tools for developers to build web and mobile applications. In some cases, developers who create applications with our data may even get paid for crowdsourced data from their users. Factual was founded by Gil Elbaz, who co-founded Applied Semantics in 1998. Applied Semantics was a leader in natural language solutions and developed the ASI AdSense contextual advertising platform. It was acquired by Google