Contest Builder, an app designed to motivate salespeople and increase productivity through contests that are built and deployed by sales managers has raised $1million from Detroit Venture Partners and ePrize. The gamification app for Salesforce, simply makes a game out of any sales task.

Bunchball, a company that is leading the way in gamification in the enterprise, has added two new product lines to their product suite: Spark and Fuse. Sparks are plug-and-play applications that combine Bunchball's industry-leading technology and experience to solve specific business problems like software adoption, site engagement and sales productivity. The various Sparks will allow companies to address a range of significant business goals, such as monetization metrics and Web traffic/time-on-site.

Callidus Software Inc., sales performance management solutions provider, has announced the acquisition of 6FigureJobs, a premier executive career community and job board, to extend CallidusCloud's Hiring Cloud suite. CallidusCloud will combine its own online assessment technologies with 6FigureJobs to create an agile hiring cloud, including a sales focused edition.  The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Peoplefluent™, offering a unique combination of best-of-breed mobile and SaaS suite solutions for Talent Management, Vendor Management and Workforce Compliance and Diversity, today unveiled two new Human Resources Games. The games, Talentastic and HR Ladder, introduce the creative power of gaming to Peoplefluent's commitment to increasing engagement, collaboration, creativity and learning across the organization by weaving innovation and interactivity throughout its full suite of Talent Management applications.