Salesforce has new AppExchange partners for its CDP, including Annalect, Acxiom, Criteo, LiveRamp, MediaMath, Metarouter, Neustar, Nine Digital, Streamlytics, The Trade Desk, Yahoo and WPP Resolve, along with a Google Ads integration. Other news from the company’s Connections event includes several new product names and new integrations among its marketing, commerce, customer service, and Slack products. If that’s not trendy enough for you, they’ve dipped their toe into Web3.0 with a closed pilot of NFT Cloud , which lets users create and manage non-fungible tokens.

More on software buying: this CMO Council / KPMG study finds just 26% of marketing leaders actively partner with their company’s procurement departments.  Those who do work closely with procurement end up placing higher weight on price, vendors’ industry standing, security, and privacy practices, and less on ability to scale and to meet compliance rules.  It’s not clear this results in better outcomes.

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.