Adobe has acquired ecommerce platform Magento for $1.68 billion cash. Adobe competitors Oracle, Salesforce, and IBM already have ecommerce products. Magento is stronger in the mid-market than Adobe Experience Cloud, so this may give them an opportunity to expand in that direction.

Growth also attracts fraudsters. Mobile measurement specialist Adjust found mobile ad fraud rates in first quarter of 2018 have doubled since the year before. Click here for a handy-if-terrifying explanation of the many ways mobile fraud can happen.

Martech keeps taking larger bites out of marketing budgets: 17.3% last year, 19.9% this year, 23.5% next year, and 30.9% five years from now, according to the latest CMO Survey. This despite barely more than half (56.4%) of current tools being used and nearly half (48.8%) of the survey respondents reporting worse-than-expected results. Oddly enough, marketers rate selecting marketing technologies as the thing they do best.