# February 2025

## Multi-source Company data

### 🗺 Mapping improvements

**Funding data mapping:**\
Improved entity matching between firmographic and funding datasets, resulting in:

* **110,000+** additional funding records now integrated into the dataset.

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### 🔧 Field enhancements

**📍 Location data enrichment:**\
When unavailable in core records, location fields are now enriched from external sources, increasing coverage by over **1 million** companies.

**Impacted fields:**

* `hq_country`
* `hq_location`
* `hq_full_address`
* `hq_city`
* `hq_state`
* `hq_street`
* `hq_zipcode`
* `company_locations_full`

**👥 Employee count improvements:**\
Now includes profiles with blurred experience data for more accurate workforce metrics.

**Impacted fields:**

* `employees_count_by_country`
* `employees_count_breakdown_by_region`
* `employees_count_breakdown_by_seniority`
* `employees_count_breakdown_by_department`

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#### 🐛 Bug fixes

* Resolved the mismatch between `active_job_postings_count` and `active_job_postings_titles`
* Fixed duplicate values in:
  * `employees_count_by_month`
  * `professional_network_followers_count_by_month`
  * `active_job_postings_count_by_month`

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#### 📰 News category changes

**Impacting:** `num_news_articles`, `news_articles`\
**Cause:** Deprecation of the News category by a third-party data source\
**Effect:** Fewer or no updates for these fields in this release\
**Next steps:** Exploring alternative sources to restore coverage in future updates

## Multi-source Company API

### ⚠️ Data category deprecation: Company News

**Impacted dataset:** Multi-source Company API\
**Effective from:** February 2025\
**Fields affected:**

* `num_news_articles`
* `news_articles`

**Impact:**\
You may observe a noticeable drop in data updates for these fields due to the deprecation of the underlying News data category from our third-party provider.

**Next steps:**\
We are actively investigating alternative data sources to restore and improve Company News coverage in future releases.