Australia’s ongoing bushfires are some of the worst on record. Direct Relief is helping by sending half a million N95 masks – and using Factal data to do it.
Disinformation is always on the move. At first you could simply avoid offending sources, but new tactics have complicated matters, further blurring the information landscape.…
This week Esri has released a solution from the ArcGIS Solutions for Business team that has enabled Factal’s breaking news data feed in the ArcGIS platform. The Multi Source Data Feeds solution…
Building on our public service mission, Factal is now providing our breaking news alerting and mapping service at no cost to a growing list of…
The Factal team is gearing up for the annual GSX conference on Sept. 8-12 at McCormick Place in Chicago. This year we’ve doubled our booth space…
Eight years ago, a man in Abbottabad, Pakistan, tweeted about the US special forces raid that killed Osama bin Laden. The moment was instrumental in…
If you rely on Esri in your organization, you can now bring Factal’s breaking news data into ArcGIS maps and apps. We unveiled our integration…
We’re excited to head to San Diego to present at the largest geolocation event of its kind in the world, the Esri User Conference. The…
Several years ago, the term “active shooter” was strictly the domain of law enforcement. Today it’s become ingrained in American lexicon, a frequent fixture on social media and breaking news coverage….
On the evening of Feb. 6, Central Washington University police in Ellensburg, Wash., raced to a report of shots fired on campus. The university published a campus-wide alert at 5:35 pm…