THE SOCIAL TIMES — Social Suitcase, a tool that provides advertisers with brand campaigns focused on engagement, monetization and brand impact, has been acquired by Traffic Marketplace to expand the tmpSocial platform. The goal here is that the tmpSocial platform will now have the ability to create campaigns that leverage offer walls, behavioural targeting and Social Suitcase’s many advertisers...

INSIDE FACEBOOK — Context Optional acquired unwrap inc., maker of Facebook application platform Buzzeo, today in an effort to continue the development of its Page management offerings. The Palo Alto-based Buzzeo created a service for creating, managing and launching a variety of Facebook applications, primarily for e-commerce but also polls, product listings and others. The two companies noted in separate press releases that Buzzeo and Context Optional’s Social Marketing Suite are a "natural compliment" to each other...

MASHABLE — E-mail marketing giant Constant Contact has acquired NutshellMail, a service that lets businesses track and post updates to social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn via e-mail. The deal moves Constant Contact –- which went public back in 2007 -- into the world of social media marketing. The company has 350,000 business customers for its e-mail marketing service, so the idea is to now become their provider of social media tools as well...

TECHCRUNCH — Making buzz happen online is an elusive enterprise, but BuzzFeed is making a business around it. The New York City startup just raised an $8 million series B financing, led by RRE Ventures. Ron Conway (via SV Angel) and Chris Dixon (via Founder Collective) also invested. BuzzFeed previously raised a $3.5 million series A in 2008 from Hearst and Softbank. BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti was one of the original founding partners of the Huffington Post. Ken Lerer is the chairman of both companies, and also an investor in BuzzFeed. Peretti moved on to BuzzFeed, which tracks and promotes viral video, articles, and other content across the Web...

INSIDE FACEBOOK — LivingSocial raised another $14 million this week, fresh after a round of $25 million fundraising last month, and a spokeswoman tells us the infusion will help it to continue to expand its Deals service — currently a primary revenue source for the company. Deals has been made popular in a big way by Facebook users. Through implementing the new Facebook plugins, the company hopes to grow even more. LivingSocial Deals is a free service launched last summer inviting people to buy deals on restaurants, hotels, sporting events and spas in their areas via Facebook Connect, an iPhone app or their web site. Here’s how it works...