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.

Facebook is now accepting mobile payments in France, covering services like virtual gifts and game credits for its HTML5-based content, which can now be billed directly to a user’s mobile bill rather than via premium SMS or credit cards. Read Original Content

Cisco is working with AT&T to move into the data analytics game with a new platform that focuses on analyzing location-based information stemming from mobile devices in public hotspots such as retail stores, hotels and hospitals. Read Original Content

A bank in South Africa announced this summer that its mobile banking customers are now able to conduct transactions and monitor their accounts through Facebook. This type of cross-pollination between banks and social media does not yet exist in the United States, but it could be coming. 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.

Digital startup Science has publicly launched HelloInsights, a premium platform for Pinterest influencer analytics. It aims to help brands optimize their social media campaigns by providing tools for measuring company growth on Pinterest. Read Original Content


Dell is expanding its data center capabilities, buying Gale Technologies for its infrastructure automation software. Gale Technologies will give Dell greater automation software capabilities for cloud-focused, converged IT infrastructure environments. Read Original Content

SAP expects cloud solutions to bring in revenue of 1.6 billion euros in 2017. In the second quarter of this year, the revenue from cloud was 69 million euros. Annualized, that's about 276 million euros. Read Original Content

Compass Labs announced the launch of CLIQ Social Intelligence, a software solution that provides marketers and advertisers with access to an unprecedented level of data and analytics around a brand’s social presence and performance on Facebook and Twitter. Read Original Content

The vast majority of wealth managers and private banks are dealing quite “clumsily” with social media according to a recent study of 50 leading private banks and wealth management firms by Swiss consulting firm Assetinum. Read Original Content

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