Identity resolution vendor Neustar has partnered with cohort-based audience platform Permutive.  The deal will let advertisers use the Neustar Fabrick platform to analyze publisher cohort members and then select which cohorts to target through Permutive.   Advertisers get more information than if they just bought the cohorts alone, while publishers avoid exposing individual-level information.

Salesforce has reversed course on its bid to acquire data management and integration platform Informatica a source has told Reuters. Informatica itself said that it is not in talks to be acquired. Salesforce stocks rose on this latest news while Informatica’s fell.