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IBM will launch before mid-year several new and improved collaboration and communication products, including a new suite for human resources tasks and a major upgrade of its Connections enterprise social networking product. Read Original Content

Amazon Web Services have announced the availability of high-memory cluster instances on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. The workload-specific cloud services are aimed at memory-intensive uses such as in-memory analytics and databases, caching and scientific computing. Read Original Content

Curalate, the leading Pinterest analytics and marketing platform, has secured $3 million in Series A financing. Curalate enables brands to measure, monitor and grow brand engagement on visual social media sites such as Pinterest. 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.

Marketers are prepared to increase their spending on Big Data analytics this year, according to a study from Infogroup Targeting Services and Yesmail Interactive, two companies that operate under the Infogroup umbrella. Read Original Content

Research firm IDC is predicting a big data market that will grow revenue at 31.7 percent a year until it hits the $23.8 billion mark in 2016. Read Original Content
IBM announced the company’s main focus would be on the areas of big data, analytics and cognitive computing. IBM already holds more than 300-patented inventions from 2012 that support emerging big data and analytics innovations and technologies like the Watson system. Read Original Content

Cloud-based big data analytics and reporting firm BellaDati has opened its first international office in Seoul, South Korea after an overwhelming response from local businesses. Read Original Content

IBM reported favorable earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012 thanks to year-over-year increases to its cloud services, business analytics, and Smart Planet products. The company reported profits of $5.83 billion for the quarter, which is a six percent increase compared to $5.49 billion during the same period a year ago. Read Original Content

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