Apple announced several significant new features and products for both consumers and developers at WWDC, pertaining to Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5 and its iCloud service.
The company also revealed that its next generation of iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches would be deeply integrated with Twitter’s single sign-on service, a huge win for the microblogging site.
EDITD, provider of automated retail monitoring and analytics for the fashion industry, raised a $1.6 million seed round led by Index Ventures.
eWise, a global payments and online financial management solutions provider, closed a $14 million financing round, led by venture capital firm Wellington Partners. Previous investors also participated in this round, including Balderton Capital, TTV Capital and Patagorang.
Facebook accounts for 38 percent of links clicked on the social Web, more than the combined 34 percent from email and Twitter.
Concur, provider of integrated travel and expense management, agreed to acquire GlobalExpense, provider of end-to-end expense management, for 12 million pounds Sterling, plus a possible earn-out of up to 2 million pounds Sterling.
Groupon has teamed up with grocery store chain Big Y Foods, marketing company HaloEffect, and consumer behavior analytics company Incentive Targeting to introduce deals for grocery retail items and consumer packaged goods using customer loyalty cards.
Rich media applications company Intertainment Media agreed to acquire DealFrenzy.com, a Groupon-style collective buying site for $500,000 in cash and $200,000 in Intertainment common stock.
Prosper.com, a social lending marketplace that brings together creditworthy borrowers with individual and institutional investors, raised over $17 million in funding from new investors Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Crosslink Capital and others.
Violin Memory, provider fast and scalable memory arrays, raised a $40 million Series C funding round which includes existing strategic investors and new cross-over public market investors.
Salesforce invested “multiple millions of dollars” in VSee, provider of video collaboration software.
Stealth startup WayIn raised $6.4 million.
Social news site XYDO raised a $1.25 million round of seed funding led by EPIC Ventures, with contributions from several angel investors.
Just a week after releasing Empires & Allies on Facebook, Zynga started to push out Hanging With Friends, the company’s latest game for iOS devices.
