The tides have turned on Hadoop, reports Information Age. It is now seen as an obsolete tool and the ‘next big thing’ is event stream processing. 

Big data is probably one of the most misused words of the last decade. It was widely promoted, discussed and spread by business managers, technical experts, and experienced academics

In an important step toward establishing a single interoperable industry standard for financial data sharing, the Open Financial Exchange (OFX) will join the Financial Data Exchange (FDX) effective immediately. With this milestone, the industry continues to align around the FDX standards, which spell out how consumer-permissioned financial data is securely shared, and clarifies the security and authentication protocol requirements for financial institutions and fintechs.

According to the BBC, health authorities in Bangladesh have found that they can use mobile phone data to stop the spread of malaria. 

Every year, malaria kills more than 400,000 people globally - most of them children.

Menpaw Mro lifted his young daughter on to his shoulders and began the long journey to the nearest hospital, in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, first on foot, then by boat and finally in a small motorised rickshaw