Customer data-related announcements from Salesforce Marketing Cloud yesterday included integration with Google Analytics 360 for cross-channel customer tracking, bidirectional integration of first party data between the Salesforce DMP and its email engine, and integration with ThunderheadONE for real time interactions and next best action recommendations.

Speaking of inexplicable, here’s a study from Infographic World that finds infographics are effective. What’s inexplicable isn’t the conclusion but that the report isn’t accompanied by an infographic. Perhaps someone was being deliberately ironic. If so, they definitely get style points.

A U.S. district court judge has ruled that Google acted to create illegal monopolies in online advertising technology in a way that blocked competition and allowed higher ad prices to be charged. Google will appeal; meantime, the government will decide what to ask the court to do to remedy the monopoly. Google also faces a new U.K. antitrust lawsuit over its dominance of search.