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BlueGlass Interactive, Inc. an innovative Internet marketing company specializing in social media marketing and search engine optimization, today announced the acquisition of Voltier Digital, a digital agency specializing in content marketing, infographic creation and data visualization. As part of the agreement, all Voltier Digital employees will join BlueGlass and Voltier’s three founders will hold senior roles on BlueGlass’ production and marketing teams.

“It’s hard to express how excited our team is about joining BlueGlass,” said Nicholas Santillo, CEO of Voltier Digital. “We have watched the impressive trajectory BlueGlass has taken since it’s inception and we are eager to add our team’s experience to an already stellar group of Internet marketing visionaries.”

The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but BlueGlass Interactive Co-founder Chris Winfield described the move as strategic:

“I first started working with the team at Voltier in 2007 and I have always been amazed at their ability to constantly innovate and stay at the forefront of the inbound marketing industry. The

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Spain’s government has launched legal action against the now-defunct airline Spanair for allegedly violating the country’s aviation regulations by suddenly ceasing operations.

An estimated 22,000 passengers who had booked seats on more than 220 cancelled flights have been left looking for alternative arrangements after Spanair, owned by a consortium based in the north-eastern region of Catalonia, shut down its operations late on Friday because of a lack of funding.

The legal proceedings begun by Spain’s government could lead to Spanair being fined €9m for two “serious infringements” of aviation security legislation, development minister Ana Pastor said. T

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Last week I received an email that had some great career success advice.  It was a challenge from Robin Sharma to “Be your own hero.”  Robin Sharma is an internationally-known speaker on sales leadership, peak performance and creativity and the bestselling author of several motivational books.  You should check out his website:

I really like the idea of being your own hero.  I think it is a great way to get yourself on the road to the life and career success you want and deserve.  I like it so much that I’m sharing Robin’s thoughts with you here.

Be Your Own Hero By Robin Sharma

So many of us have heroes. Leaders, artists or entrepreneurs that inspire us. People who have made an impact, people who have shown us a better way, people who have overcome outrageous odds.

Yet, the interesting insight about heroes is that they have the human imperfections and weaknesses that we do. They have their bad days, they feel despair, they get knocked down (in fact, heroes get knocked down more than the rest of us).

Yet, in spite of their human frailties, heroes find a way to change the world.

Here’s my challenge to you — be your own hero. Ask yourself, wh

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You wake up Monday morning, pour yourself a glass of orange juice, and get breakfast ready for your clan.

Off to the office, you battle the traffic, thinking about how to tell your rebel employee that there have been complaints about his behavior.

You dread the meeting and yet know it can’t wait.

Pulling into the parking lot you feel a wave of frustration, seeing that someone has parked in your reserved spot and the rain is now coming down in buckets. Glad there is an umbrella on the back seat, you make a run for it hugging folders from last night’s homework close to your chest.

The demands for your time never stop.

By noon, it feels like this Monday has been a month long and you start to wonder what it’s all about, why you work so hard and why there are so many demands on you that just don’t stop. Then yo

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10.08pm: If you had Arab Spring in the drinking game … well you’re still sober, although he has referred to it but not by name.

But now it’s the two Is: Iran and Israel –

Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal. But a peaceful resolution of this issue is still possible, and far better, and if Iran changes course and meets its obligations, it can rejoin the community of nations.

and shortly after that:

Our iron-clad commitment to Israel’s security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history.

10.06pm: Did Obama just call for the end of the filibuster – the need for 60 votes out of 100 to end debate, or cloture – in the Senate? This is what he said:

A simple majority is no longer enough to get anything – even routine business – passed through the Senate. Neither p

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Today: Apple blows away any and all observers with a record-breaking quarterly earnings report, so here’s an attempt at some context for the incredible numbers. Also: Yahoo earnings and Google’s new privacy policy.

There are no words for what Apple just did, so here are a bunch of numbers

The final quarter of 2011 was a historic one for Apple, as the company had the highest earnings in one three-month period of any tech company in history, challenged the record for most profits in one quarter for any U.S. company, and subsequently took the title of most valuable U.S. company from the quarterly-profit record-holder, Exxon.

Here’s an attempt to process all the extravagant numbers Apple threw out Tuesday afternoon.

– Revenue: Apple reported that it hauled in $46.3 billion in the last three months of 2011, nearly double the $26.7 billion it pulled in during the holiday-shopping quarter of 2010. That is the biggest quarterly revenue for a