Salesforce rather casually announced during yesterday’s quarterly earnings call that it is buying Vlocity, which builds industry-specific CRM systems on top of the Salesforce platform, for a cool $1.33 billion. The news was buried in the middle of the sixth paragraph of the prepared statement. Just another day at the office, I suppose.

Leadplum doesn’t really fit with today’s other items: it mostly delivers B2C messages across mobile channels including push, in-app messaging, and email. But they did just raise $27 million, bringing their total raise to over 125 million. That seems worth a mention.

Tech is fun but a little caution is always a good idea.  This Pentagon-funded report on blockchain says that, whatever its theoretical virtues, existing real-world implementations contain major security weaknesses.  Raise your hand if you’re shocked.