Tianyancha adds iPhone Duo support for business queries

Tianyancha, a Chinese corporate records platform with more than 600 million cumulative users, has adapted its business-search service for the iPhone Duo, bringing company lookups to the folding screen.

The company says its core tools — checking a company, checking its boss and checking the relationships between them — apply to job hunting, partnerships, client development and industry research. Support for a new screen format is a small upgrade; the pitch is that background checks now travel with the user.

Before the interview, look up the employer

Job seekers can use the platform to find out which company sits behind a recruitment brand, how the business is doing and what has changed recently. Tianyancha returns business registration data, affiliated relationships and risk records, giving candidates a view of the employer beyond the job description.

Before signing, verify the counterparty

A brand or store name is not always the legal name on the contract. Tianyancha lets users check the corporate entity, shareholders and affiliated companies, along with records of business irregularities and litigation. The aim is to confirm who the other side is and flag the questions worth asking next.

Finding clients and reading an industry

Users can filter companies by region and industry to build a prospect list. Equity relationships, outbound investment, trademarks and patents then show how a company is positioned and where business leads may lie.

About Tianyancha

Tianyancha is one of China's leading business-information platforms, with more than 600 million cumulative users. Drawing on public data and large-scale data processing, it offers company information searches, visualisations of business relationships and risk checks, intended to support decisions at work and in business.