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As Web 2.0 tools have developed, audiences have grown to expect to be involved. While many new businesses have developed around this idea, traditional media has had little choice but to jump on the bandwagon. The results have been mixed, but companies new and old are finding ways to leverage community for content and revenue.

Each day, in boardrooms across the world, professionals gather with one common goal in mind: to improve upon their corporation's best practices and the productivity of its workers. And yet, in some ways, the very act of these daily meetings goes against precisely what companies strive to achieve.

FTI Consulting, Inc., the global business advisory firm, has announced that it completed its acquisition of Attenex Corporation, an eDiscovery software provider, for $88 million in cash.

ProQuest has closed on its agreement to acquire the Dialog business from ThomsonReuters.

Microsoft reached an agreement to acquire Powerset, a San Francisco-based search and natural language company.

Cisco announced an anchor investment in a venture capital fund that will focus on Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

Greenfield Online, Inc., a global interactive media and services company, announced that it has entered into a merger agreement to be acquired by an entity affiliated with Quadrangle Group LLC, a private investment firm focused on the media and communications industries.

Springer Science+Business Media announced the release of Springer Content Solutions for Industry, which features customized collections of professional, scientific, technical and medical books, journals, reference works, and protocols.