Analysis: Why Hadoop is set to be the next big thing

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Venture capital firms have invested over $1.2bn in Hadoop and big data start-ups. Why are they doing this and what innovations will this funding spur?

Social media is so last decade – at least as far as the venture capital industry is concerned. Today, it is largely eschewing social media start-ups in favour of enterprise software and, in particu...

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