Let’s try some corporate news today. We’ll start with a $6.4 million Series A funding for Skupos, which gives convenience store operators a real-time inventory tracking system that supports automated purchasing and operational reporting. Interestingly, they position themselves as an analytics vendor not an inventory specialist.

Despite the confusion around GDPR, 60% of companies in this Demandbase survey said it has caused them to change their global approach to privacy. Yet just 32% were fully GDPR compliant while 22% were entirely unaware of it. Not quite half – 41% — were at least somewhat concerned that their martech vendors might expose them to GDPR compliance risks. The survey was taken several weeks after the GDPR effective date.

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.