Big Data Explosion Is Big Business For Many

Each minute Google (GOOG) gets more than 2 million search queries, while about 47,000 people download an Apple (AAPL) app. Some 100,000 tweets hit Twitter, and almost 300,000 people log on to Facebook. But that's just a sliver of the data produced daily. Add in e-commerce on Amazon (AMZN) and eBay (EBAY), data collected by Wal-Mart (WMT) and credit card companies, manufacturing and shipping data, economic, weather and population