Yahoo! spins off big data analytics engineers

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Hadoop team create new business focused on helping firms grapple with big data

Yahoo! has spun off its Apache Hadoop engineering team to create a new company, known as Hortonworks, which will focus on helping firms deal with brain-busting volumes of data. Internet firm Yah...

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