Business software information company G2 has raised a $157 million Series D, bringing total funding to $257 million and valuation to $1.1 billion.  While best known for its crowd-sourced reviews, the company also helps companies buy and manage their software and offers marketing solutions to software sellers.

I know you’ve already heard the news, but still feel obligated to report that Google has announced it will support third-party cookies in Chrome until the end of 2023, more than a year longer than expected.  They nobly cite concern for “the business models of many web publishers” but protecting their own revenue and data-gathering seems a more plausible motivation.  They’re also grounding FLoC, their much-criticized cohort-based targeting alternative, until further notice.

News organizations have long sought ways to make platforms like Meta and Google pay for the content they reproduce. Now Google says the value of news content is overrated, especially when it comes to ad revenue. A study conducted by Google in eight European countries found no change to Search ad revenue and less than 1% drop in usage when the content from 13,000 EU publishers was removed.