Ecommerce within social media platforms has been a trend for some time and the pandemic makes it even more important. So it’s not surprising but still worth noting that Facebook has launched Shops, which lets small businesses set up an online store within their Facebook and Instagram profile pages. There’s no altruism here: Facebook will charge a small fee for sales and expects this will generate more advertising.

You also have little interest in security or access management, but those are important too. So I’ll mention that access management vendor CyberArk is spending $70 million to buy Idaptive, which uses AI to identify questionable access requests.

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.