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31 Jul 2013CPOL 4.4K  
A hypothetical application that gets the company news in a specified location

This article is an entry in our DnB Developer Challenge. Articles in this sub-section are not required to be full articles so care should be taken when voting.

Introduction 

This idea involves  using the sandboxed data provided by D & B on Windows Azure along with the data on DNB Direct via the API: http://developer.dnb.com/ to create a windows mobile application that gets company news in a specific location.

Background 

In  a nutshell, the idea goes like this:

A user will have the ability  to receive news about all companies in a certain geographic region. The user can set the radius within which she would like to receive news or she can set the the criteria to be from a certain City or State. This can be handled by the D & B sandbox using the Firmographics and LocationLatLong on Windows Azure.Please see Locust Career Relocation Data Mining App.

The request for news if available, will be handled by the D & B Direct API , using the get request.

GET /company/884114609/news

A sample response is shown below.Actually, guess what company this is?

XML
{
  "companyNews": {
    "duns": "884114609", 
    "newsItems": {
      "newsItem": [
        {
          "category": [
            "Executive Announcement", 
            " Executive Activity", 
            ...
          ], 
          "title": "//sup {vertical-align: text-top; line-height: norm...", 
          "text": "", 
          "source": "Website Investor", 
          "link": "http://investor.dnb.com/index.cfm", 
          "date": "Tue Jun 25 00:00:00 UTC 2013"
        }, 
        {
          "category": [
            "Reduction"
          ], 
          "title": "Entrepreneurs Suspect Credit-Rehab Service Misled ...", 
          "text": "A close look into Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Cor...", 
          "source": "Entrepreneur Magazine", 
          "link": "http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/entrepreneur/latest...", 
          "date": "Mon Jun 24 00:00:00 UTC 2013"
        }, 
        ...
      ]
    }, 
    "name": "Dun Bradstreet"
  }
}

The remaining is history, you know -deserialization of the JSON string e.t.c

Points of Interest 

Feedback on the feasibility of this idea would be appreciated. I wish I had the time to attempt its implementation.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)


Written By
Software Developer @Free Games
Canada Canada
Erasmus is a free lance Software Developer.He obtained his Bachelors degree in Photonics from Algonquin college, Ottawa Canada and Masters in Software Systems from University of British Columbia, Canada in 2013.He has 4 game titles on Windows Phone and is currently working on building cross platform mobile games with the aid of C#.net and Xamarin.

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