∞ Yahoo to Spin Out Hadoop Engineering Group for $1 Billion Opportunity
From Read Write Cloud :
Yahoo has invested considerable resources into Apache Hadoop over the past several years. And now it is considering spinning out the engineering group responsible for the data analysis software into a separate company that it believes has the potential to be a $1 billion business.
Hadoop is the open source distributed data technology that is now used by Web companies and increasingly by enterprise providers. It’s an analytics and optimization tool that Yahoo uses to personalize content and optimize advertising.
