Web analytics company comScore just announced that it has acquired advertising research agency ARSGroup.

Movie ratings site Flixster raised $12.5 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing . The last time Flixster raised money was a $5 million Series B in April, 2008

People love Blippy .

CA today announced that it has acquired privately-held Oblicore , a provider of Service Level Management (SLM) software for enterprises and service providers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Israeli business news outlet Globes had picked up rumors about the pending acquisition late last year and pegged the purchase price at $25 million.

Lenovo ’s just reminded us that’s there’s still a world outside CES — their recently-announced ThinkPad T410s, T510 and W510 are now available for on-line ordering.

Best Buy is offering a deal for consumers to get a free TweetDeck app with the purchase of a CD under Interscope Records, which includes artists such as 50 Cent, Flyleaf, Weezer, OneRepublic, Black Eyed Peas, Timbaland and others. With the purchase of one of the CDs, which range from $10.99 to $13.99, the buyer will receive an Interscope branded TweetDeck application that is pre-loaded to connect them to the social media content of the 16 various artists.