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Social media loses its luster

Silicon Valley investors are rapidly losing interest in social media. Social media firms received only 2 percent of the venture capital spent on Internet-based companies last quarter, down from a high of 21 percent in the third quarter of 2011. Big data and cloud-computing businesses appear to be the hot plays now.

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