We begin this round with acquisition news: New York-based Towers Watson acquired San Mateo, Calif.-based Extend Health Inc., which reportedly operates the largest private Medicare exchange in the United States.

New York-based compensation consultancy Pearl Meyer & Partners acquired London-based Patterson Associates, an independent renumeration advisory firm.

CallidusCloud, a Pleasanton, Calif.-based cloud-computing provider, acquired career site 6FigureJobs from Maitland, Fla.-based talent-management provider HRSoft.

Aon Hewitt, of Lincolnshire, Ill., signed a multi-year agreement with Draper, Utah-based HireVue as part of a partnership to offer Aon clients access to HireVue?s Digital Interview platform.

The American Management Association, based in New York, formed a strategic relationship with CrossKnowledge, a Europe-based provider of distance learning solutions, to offer its on-demand e-learning solutions in the United States.

Boca Raton, Fla.-based eTOTALplan, a provider of tools designed to integrate predictive scheduling, time-and- attendance, and budget forecasting, was selected by South Florida-based WG Group to provide automated workforce scheduling for 10 Sprint communications retail stores.

Roseland, N.J.-based ADP and Santa Monica, Calif.-based talent-management solutions provider Cornerstone OnDemand agreed to extend their reseller relationship through 2017.

BackTrack Reports, a due-diligence services provider based in New York, partnered with the Association of Executive Search Consultants, also headquartered in New York, to provide their

services.

In other news, FirstAdvantage, a provider of talent-acquisition and electronic-data solutions headquartered in St. Petersburg, Fla., implemented its e-signature capability for Work Opportunity Tax Credit screening, designed to allow employers to digitally sign the Internal Revenue Service's 8850 forms.

And finally, SilkRoad, a Chicago-based provider of social talent-management solutions, completed a $35 million Series C financing round.