the problem with this company

[navi tasan]

Are these correct:

1) The problem with this company is trying to find out anything. Nobody wants to talk about it. Everybody's afraid to.
2) The problem with this company is trying to find out anything about it. Nobody wants to talk about it. Everybody's afraid to.

The idea is that it is difficult to find out anything about this company. I think in informal, slangy English, '2' might work. But I don't think they work in formal English.

 

[5jj]

Neither sentence is particularly informal. They are certainly not slangy.

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you 5jj,

So you'd say both of them are fine?

 

[5jj]

Yes, in most contexts.

 

[Tarheel]

Is the problem that they are so secretive? Do you want to know something about them that they don't want to tell you?

 

[navi tasan]

Thank you both very much,

The problem is that it is difficult to get information about them because nobody wants to talk about them. Not only are they secretive, but when it comes to them, others are as well.
PS. My problem with the sentences is that I think we should have

3) The problem with this company is the difficulty of finding out anything about them.

"Trying to find out anything" and even "trying to find out anything about them" cannot be a problem. I think there is a problem with the choice of words, although the meaning is completely clear to me.

 

[Tarheel]

Apparently, somebody warnts to find out some things about a particular company. However, he can't get anybody to talk to him about those things. So the problem is that he can't get what he wants -- information about the company.

Any time you are having trouble achieving your goal its fair to say that's a problem. However, it's also fair to say that it's your problem -- not mine.