As the festive season ramps up, perhaps we should think of corporate acquisitions as a B2B self-gift.  In that light, a pair of private equity firms have treated themselves to SALESmanago, a Poland-based but globally-sold CDP and marketing automation platform.  They claim 2,500 clients, which are mostly small businesses but include some big enterprises.  Price is undisclosed but over $100 million.

Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.