As a legal blogger, I fear living in an echo chamber. So it’s nice to find that some hot blawgosphere topics also engage the business world. I follow blogger commentary…

Autonomy announced on 21 January 2009 that it will acquire Interwoven.  The Autonomy press release spells out the rationale for the acquisition: “The combination of Autonomy’s Meaning Based Computing technologies…

The 2007 large law firm librarian survey is out. Some of the data surprise me.  Competitive Advantage (big PDF) in Law Firm Inc. magazine (an American Lawyer, now Incisive Media,…

ALM announced on March 6, 2008 that it acquired Altman Weil Publications.  “ALM, a leading media company serving legal and business professionals, today announced the acquisition of Altman Weil Publications,…

Law firms business intelligence has become a big deal (see my blog posts on BI). One of the leading BI software tools, Redwood Analytics, was acquired last week by LexisNexis. …

Microsoft today announced its acquisition of full-text search company Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST).  Jeff Raikes of MS is quoted in the the press release: “Enterprise search is becoming…

Thomson, owner of West and other legal properties, has acquired Contact Networks.  The Contact Networks home page has a notice at top: “Thomson, the world’s leading information company, has acquired…

A relatively new discovery document review developer has been acquired.  Anacomp announced it has acquired CaseLogistix. From the press release: “Anacomp Inc. (OTC: ANCPA), a leader in document and business…