Welcome to SMAC News Weekly, featuring the latest news and numbers relating to SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud) that I come across each week.

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Each of us is impacted by SMAC.  We all use mobile devices and social networking solutions like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.  We use search engines, maps and weather apps, all of which use analytics and are in the cloud.  SMAC is the combination of all of these trends coming together on mobile devices.  This convergence is impacting businesses in many different ways.  We will do our best to capture these by reporting on the SMAC trends, numbers and forecasts in this weekly newsletter.

Instagram is revising its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service to improve collaboration with Facebook, which acquired Instagram for $715 million earlier this year. The changes, which take effect in January, enable Instagram to share user content and information such as location data, usage data and device identifiers with other Facebook-owned entities. Read Original Content

A survey released earlier this week by IDC in association with EMC revealed the world is now generating data at a rate of 5 exabytes every two days. Gartner has already forecast that in 2013 big data will drive $34 billion worth of IT investment. Read Original Content

Deltek, an enterprise resource planning and IT solutions company that serves government contractors, expects federal spending on Big Data solutions to reach $7.2 billion by 2017 despite some belt-tightening by several government agencies. Read Original Content

While social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies add a new dimension to your model, to fully maximize their value consider the sum is greater than its parts. The formula for the Future of Work is called SMAC - social, mobile, analytics and cloud on one integrated stack, where each function enables another to maximize their effect.  To learn more about SMAC and Cognizant please visit http://www.cognizant.com/futureofwork/smac.  This newsletter is sponsored in part by Cognizant.

TechNavio's analysts forecast the Global Big Data-as-a-Service market to grow at an annual rate of 68.93 percent over the period 2012-2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the demand for cost-effective big data solutions. Read Original Content

For the second time this year, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Google Cloud Storage and Microsoft Windows Azure dropped their cloud storage prices in lock-step over the past few weeks. Read Original Content
GFT's recent study, Impact of Social Media on the Financial Services Sector reveals only a minority of financial service providers exploit the potential of web 2.0 tools, concentrating on one-way social marketing activities, instead of integrating social media elements into customer relationship processes. Read Original Content

Commonwealth bank has revealed a number of updated and new banking technologies within the mobile and social media space, which it will be launching in 2013.The company will make available a banking service for Facebook. Read Original Content

IBM Corp. will establish an IBM Client Center for Advanced Analytics at its northwest Columbus campus, adding 500 jobs over the next three years. Read Original Content

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