B2C marketing cloud company Emarsys has launched a “hype-free and tangible” set of artificial-intelligence-powered services including predictive product recommendations, individually-tailored incentive recommendations, and send time optimization. Its goal is to automatically tailor customer treatments to the individual, freeing up marketers for more fun stuff. The new features are fruits of the $33 million investment Emarsys accepted in September 2015, the first outside funding since it started in 2000. Emarsys supports email, mobile, push, social, Web advertising and Web site personalization.

Digital marketing agency Stirista has introduced StiristaLINK, a service to enrich B2B and B2C profiles with business, consumer, and social data including contact information. B2B profiles are linked to consumer information using proprietary geo-coding methodology. Just in case you didn’t have enough data sources to consider.

CDP mParticle is being acquired by ecommerce platform Rokt for a price of $300 million.  It’s the third acquisition of a leading independent CDP in a little over one month, following Uniphore’s purchase of ActionIQ and Contentstack’s purchase of Lytics. All three buyers offer some type of customer-facing technology; apparently they’ve decided that adding real-time profiles from CDP will give them a competitive edge.  (See this blog post for more analysis.)