Let’s do news from CDP vendors today. Tealium announced new capabilities to stream data into cloud computing platforms including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Key benefits include real-time data collection, prebuilt connectors for more than 1,000 source systems, and transformation of data before it is fed into destination systems.

There’s more to marketing today than talking to people. Covisint manages identities and messaging among machines as well as humans. It’s especially well connected in the automobile industry. The company just agreed to be bought for $103 million by enterprise information management vendor OpenText.

Procrastinators of the world can throw a party whenever they get around to it: Google has once more pushed back complete third-party cookie deprecation.  The new target is “early next year.” Reasons for the delay include concerns expressed by U.K. data regulator Information Commissioner’s Office, an ongoing inquiry by the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority, and widespread discontent in the advertising ecosystem.