According to the Global Innovation Index 2020, co-published by Cornell University, INSEAD, and the World Intellectual Property Organization, innovators enjoy an increasingly broad spectrum of funding sources across different stages of their companies' life cycles. However, while the emergence of new sources has helped alleviate funding gaps, it has not eliminated them. This is particularly true for many developing and emerging economies where financial markets have remained underdeveloped.

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According to Troy Gregory, president and CEO of System One, “Compliance is well-positioned to exceed our expectations; the company has an exceptional technology offering and we expect big things from them in the near future. Under Marc’s leadership, Compliance has thrived, and with the additional investments, we expect to see the company scale and advance at an accelerated rate through organic growth and an aggressive acquisition strategy."

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According to the media release as shared by Eric De Grasse, CEO of Project Counsel Media, "With more than two decades coverage and service to practitioners in the cybersecurity, digital media, and legal technology domains, we are now seeing more than ever the accelerated convergence of these discrete, yet mutually inclusive areas in the lives of our worldwide audiences. With a commitment to increasing the understanding and implications of this convergence, we are excited to partner with The Maas Consulting Group and ComplexDiscovery Solutions as they have unique expertise in identifying and sharing insight that helps industry practitioners venture out of the comfort zone of traditional information silos."

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Increased interest in levels of M&A activity has warranted that the Bureau of Competition’s Premerger Notification Office (PNO) share the monthly figures for Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act transactions. This increased activity can be seen in the running update of HSR transaction numbers between October 2019 and today. The latest monthly update from the PNO is for February 2021 and noted 304 reported transactions. This is the highest number of monthly reported transactions in any February between FY 2010 and FY 2021. The 304 reported transactions number is also the second-highest reported monthly transactions number for any month between October 2010 and today, only trailing the 424 reported transactions in November 2020.

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As shared by the Commissioner for Data Protection, Helen Dixon, “The progress the DPC has made in 2020 provides a solid platform on which to build across our enforcement and complaint-handling functions in particular. The GDPR must be understood as a project for the now, but equally for the longer-term. The DPC intends to continue as a leader in its full implementation.”

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Consisting of analysis from 524 organizations that experienced data breaches between August 2019 and April of 2020, the Cost of Data Breach Report 2020 from the Ponemon Institute shares key information, findings, and data points harvested from more than 3,200 interviews on areas ranging from global data breach costs to data breach lifecycles in influential countries and industry sectors.

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According to the recently released cybersecurity guidance from the National Security Agency (NSA), as cybersecurity professionals defend increasingly dispersed and complex enterprise networks from sophisticated cyber threats, embracing a Zero Trust security model and the mindset necessary to deploy and operate a system engineered according to Zero Trust principles can better position them to secure sensitive data, systems, and services.

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According to HaystackID CEO Hal Brooks, “We are proud to once again be recognized as a worldwide Leader in eDiscovery services. As a pioneer of remote review, HaystackID has been operating remotely even long before the pandemic. We’re honored that our innovation in and vision for remote review has been recognized by the IDC MarketScape.”

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According to Alex Martinez, CEO of First Legal, “Both First Legal and Redpoint are entrepreneurially minded, seeking to promote transparency, teamwork, integrity, and trust with the community we consider extended family. This is a union of people passionate to help others, and who won’t sit back and wait, but will charge forward into the future of technology with extreme commitment, candor, and the willingness to do whatever it takes to help our clients win.”

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From litigation trends and legal tech investing to facial recognition and cybersecurity threats, the February 2021 edition of the Five Great Reads on eDiscovery newsletter provides a selection of recent research, reports, and articles to update and inform legal, business, and information technology professionals in the eDiscovery ecosystem.

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