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NYSE Technologies, the technology division of NYSE Euronext recently announced an agreement with Social Market Analytics that will allow NYSE Technologies to distribute sentiment statistics from SMA’s social media monitoring engine to its financial services community. Read Original Content

The Securities and Exchange Commission is now collecting 400 gigabytes of market data daily, including information on every trade across numerous exchanges, as part of what SEC chairman Elisse Walter on Tuesday called an "unprecedented" push to use data to better understand how the market works. Read Original Content

According to CN Insights, big data investment has been gaining momentum seeing nearly $5 billion of funding over the last five years.  2012 was the biggest year of deals and saw year over year growth of 19.5 percent over 2011. 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.

Curalate has released a visual analytics product that analyzes user activity for both Instagram and Pinterest. “We’re helping brands see the bigger picture — to engage audiences across networks based on what’s most relevant rather than what’s most recent.” Apu Gupta, Curalate’s CEO and co-founder said in a statement. Read Original Content

Amazon Web Services recently made its low-cost big data analysis service Redshift available to a limited number of users. You can think of Redshift as a public cloud meeting a big, honking relational database, designed to support a data warehouse. Read Original Content
Google recently announced multi-currency e-commerce support for Google Analytics, saying the feature “will be rolling out to all users over the next few weeks.” The move is being made in response to user feedback, according to the company. Read Original Content

Less than 30 percent of potential users in an organization adopt CIO-sponsored analytics tools, despite the fact that business intelligence and analytics continues to be a top CIO investment priority, according to a report by IT research firm Gartner. Read Original Content

A system from U.S. defense contractor Raytheon that analyses social media data to profile individuals has been described as "the greatest challenge to civil liberties and digital freedom of our age" in a recent Guardian article. Read Original Content

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