This issue of AnalystPerspectives Weekly Scan covers analyst commentary from the week ending July 25, 2014.

 We begin the News of the Week in Review with analyst dialogs concerning Facebook.  Here are some of the developments you will find in the Social Media section:

• Facebook for your enterprise, again?  | Real Story Group - Wed, 23 Jul 2014  
• Facebook Banking: Don't Bank on it | Celent - Wed, 23 Jul 2014 |Stephen Greer
• Facebook buy button strengthens its hand in advertising and payments | Ovum - Mon, 21 Jul 2014 |Eden Zoller

Analysts are still discussing the impact of the partnership of Apple and IBM.  Here are some of the conversations that can be found in the Enterprise Applications section:

• How Apple and IBM Could Successfully Merge | Enderle Group - Tue, 22 Jul 2014 |Rob Enderle
• Organising to choose Enterprise Mobility Management | Freeform Dynamics - Wed, 23 Jul 2014 |Charles Brett
• Apple Shores Up Its Enterprise Position In Asia With IBM Partnership | Forrester - Tue, 22 Jul 2014 |Tim Sheedy
• Frenemies IBM and Apple Team Up to Shake Up the Enterprise Mobility Space | Sherpas in Blue Shirts | Everest Group - Mon, 21 Jul 2014 |Peter Bendor-Samuel and Nitish Mittal
• News Analysis: Going Deeper Into The Apple And IBM New Business Model Alliance | Constellation Research - Wed, 23 Jul 2014 |R "Ray" Wang
• The Apple and IBM Partnership | The Enterprise Strategy Group - Mon, 21 Jul 2014  

Smartphone news is one of the many topics you will find in the Mobile & Broadband section this week:

• Smartphones Boast Breadth While Tablets Engage — An Introduction To Forrester's Mobile Behavioral Data | Forrester - Thu, 24 Jul 2014 |Nicole Dvorak
• Low Smartphone Usage Hinders China's Mobile Banking Growth | eMarketer - Wed, 23 Jul 2014  
• Smartphones are delivering more value than ever before, both to life science R&D and consumers | IDC Insights - Thu, 24 Jul 2014 |Alan S. Louie

Here are some of the headlines  to be found in the Security and IT Management & Human Resources sections, as analysts offer their insights on the topics::

• Things That Aren't Risk Assessments | Gartner - Thu, 24 Jul 2014 |Ben Tomhave
• User Access – Time for a change? | Freeform Dynamics - Mon, 21 Jul 2014 |Tony Lock
• TI+IR/M: Threat Intelligence + Data Collection = Responding Better | Securosis - Mon, 21 Jul 2014  
• Leading Security ‘People' | Securosis - Sun, 20 Jul 2014  

Here are more noteworthy headlines from this week:

• 3D Gestures for Mobile Devices: IK Multimedia's iRing | Farpoint Group - Tue, 22 Jul 2014 |Craig Mathias
• Former IBMer laments about creeping short-term mentality | Joe McKendrick - Mon, 21 Jul 2014  
• Why We Need Tesla and Google | Strategy Analytics - Wed, 23 Jul 2014  
• A mainframe-based cloud service? Yep, you heard right | Freeform Dynamics - Tue, 22 Jul 2014 |Dale Vile
• The New World After Big Data Changes It | Gartner - Thu, 24 Jul 2014 |Nick Heudecker
• Google Following Microsoft into Regulatory Mess | Enderle Group - Tue, 22 Jul 2014 |Rob Enderle
• Personal Log: Social Media Detox, Not Sure I Like It | Constellation Research - Wed, 23 Jul 2014 |R "Ray" Wang
• Are Data Lakes real? IDC reviews Enterprise Data Lake Platforms | IDC Insights - Thu, 24 Jul 2014 |Ashish Nadkarni
• Another view: Shadow IT has little to do with BYOD | Joe McKendrick - Wed, 23 Jul 2014