When Microsoft paid $26 billion for LinkedIn last year, the possibilities for leveraging LinkedIn data seemed endless. Yesterday the company filled in some of the details with product announcements including CRM data validation and integration of Sales Navigator with LinkedIn advertising campaigns and nearly two dozen business intelligence, marketing automation, sales acceleration and other vendors.  While Microsoft had already integrated Sales Navigator with its own Dynamics CRM, these announcements make clear that competitive products won’t be frozen out.

Here’s a more conventional item: a product launch. The vendor is Spatially, which provides businesses with location-tagged consumer data. They just added the ability to run geo-targeted ad campaigns in Google AdWords and Facebook.

The past year has been tough for all kinds of tech investments.  This LUMA report offers an overview of martech, adtech, and content tech financial activity in public markets, private financing, and mergers and acquisitions.  To summarize a mixed picture: the bleeding has stopped but growth has not yet resumed.