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Pinterest has unveiled its own Web Analytics tool for owners of verified Pinterest pages. The tool aims to give social media managers insight into how audiences interact with their pins. Read Original Content

Hotwire has developed an in-house analytics platform as it launches data-based services in social media monitoring and influencer relations. The product, called “Listening Post,” allows the firm to track and measure how brands are influencing conversations on social media, as well as to identify online influencers. Read Original Content

Recent surveys suggest 80 percent of marketers worldwide plan to use social media data to enhance their overall marketing efforts. However, more than 40 percent of marketers cite lack of analytics capabilities as a factor that prevents them from effectively collecting social media data. 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.

The Irish Government will pump €1 million into a research program for Big Data analytics in an effort to make Ireland a center for the industry. Read Original Content

The UCLA Department of Neurosurgery in Los Angeles has started testing an experimental system that uses big data analytics software to examine real-time data streams collected from patients' bedside monitors. Read Original Content
Google announced last week it was doubling its office space near Seattle, just miles from the campuses of Amazon and Microsoft, and stepping up the hiring of engineers and others who work on cloud technology. Read Original Content

Cloud infrastructure-as-a-service revenues grew 15 percent in 2012 to a total of $12.5 billion, according to Synergy Research, a Reno, Nevada, market researcher in telecommunications. Read Original Content

With the intent of rounding out its software stack for building hybrid clouds, Oracle is acquiring Nimbula, a provider of private cloud infrastructure management software. Read Original Content

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