British publisher buys ChoicePoint
ChoicePoint Inc., a 1997 spinoff of credit agency Equifax, is being acquired by the parent of LexisNexis in a cash deal worth $3.6 billion, a major premium for a company that weathered an embarrassing breach of its database, federal investigations and a stock-trading probe of its top two executives. The deal combines ChoicePoint’s data and analytics assets with LexisNexis’ technology, a marriage
