Not every business information story has a happy ending.  Crowd-sourced company data collector Owler was just bought by media-monitoring firm Meltwater for $24.5 million in cash and equity.  Owler had raised $30.8 million in funding, according to Crunchbase.

Small business marketing platform Constant Contact is buying marketing automation and CRM vendor Sharpspring for $240 million, or about 8x revenue. The deal will further expand Constant Contact’s offerings, which already include email, ecommerce, websites, and social media advertising. Sharpspring has specialized in selling through small marketing agencies.

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.