We had a flurry of acquisitions last week, each serving a different strategic purpose. B2B CDP Leadspace is expanding its data quality and enrichment capabilities by acquiring ReachForce. There’s some overlap but Leadspace has predictive modeling and interaction management features that ReachForce does not.

Even shipping and inventory software vendor ShippingEasy is thinking outside the box. They already had a customer marketing solution that creates segments and sends emails. They’ve now expanded it to include Amazon feedback management and a drop-and-drop template builder for email campaigns, segmentation rules, and abandoned Shopify shopping carts.

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.