The current troubles are the result of financial panic and so are more like the 1987 stockmarket crash than the traditional bank-led credit crunch that slowed the economy in 1989-92.

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Skytree is a machine learning program intended to serve as a replacement for SQL databases, and has the ability to take even unstructured sets of data and crunch it faster than traditional methods.

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High fuel prices had driven the poseurs from the sector, while traditional buyers were crushed by the credit crunch and the implosion of the building industry.

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Iain Overton, its editor, reckons that many traditional outlets lack the forensic skills, as well as the cash, to crunch data and hold the powerful to account.

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