The much buzzed about BlueGlass Interactive announces today the launch of its automated SEO platform for businesses, which the company is releasing in private Beta after trying it out on high profile customers like Intuit, Homeaway, and Salesforce, and Disney. Dubbed SecondStep, the platform is in the same league as BrightEdge SEO and DIYSEO, with cloud based auditing and link building tools. What’s unique...

Here’s something you will not read every time an acquisition deal collapses at the last minute: an account of what happened, and why it did. Let alone why it happened twice over. Backblaze, an online storage and backup startup based in Palo Alto, this morning published a blog post about not one but two acquisition deals that fell through, ‘breaking down the breakup’. They don’t name names,...

Officially launching today is the latest addition to the Zynga roster, Mafia Wars Las Vegas. Up in beta since July 21st, the mobster-themed game has exploded within the past week, and Zynga’s internal metrics are currently at the 3 million player mark. The meter has also registered 7 million Vegas gifts per day, 8.5 million casino properties being upgraded, and 1.5 billion jobs being done in the newest Mafia...