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Dilma Rousseff has dealt a blow to environmental groups by blocking only parts of a forestry bill that critics say will speed up the destruction of Amazon rainforest

Online retail giant Amazon.com has vowed to improve working conditions at its warehouses. The change in policy comes eight months after a report surfaced from an Amazon-owned warehouse where workers were allegedly subjected to unpleasant working conditions.More than 100 protestors, headed by labor rally group Working Washington with the help of advocacy group Color of Change, crashed Amazon's s...

Against all odds, there are people on Earth who haven’t seen Star Wars. And I’m not talking about hunter-gatherers in the Amazon rainfo…

Amazon's traditionally quiet shareholders meeting in Seattle was disrupted by protesters Thursday who questioned the company's support of a conservative group, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and its treatment of workers, the Seattle Times reports. Responding to criticism of poor working conditions in its warehouses, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos showed an aerial photograph of a...

May 2012 marks the twentieth birthday of Brazil's Yanomami Park. It's the largest area of protected rainforest in the world -- it's also the best reply to critics who say that efforts to protect tribal peoples are futile.

Amazon has added thousands of more items, ranging from bars of soap to rice cakes, to its site, which were previously considered uneconomical to ship because of the item's size, weight or low price.

Elektronische Bücher sind ein Geschäft der Zukunft - das zu Apples Ärger vom Rivalen Amazon dominiert wird. Hat der iPad-Hersteller versucht, dem Konkurrenten mit illegalen Preisabsprachen zu schaden? Apple findet den Vorwurf völlig absurd.

… On the Internet! ABC dropped the 60s-inspired drama after its very first season — but the show might not be over yet! Sony (who owns Pan Am) has been shopping the show around, and Amazon is thinking of buying. Apparently, Amazon wants to get into the streaming media business, like Hulu and Netflix, and are [...]

BookBoon's books are free and ad-supported. Oh the humanity. I hope the Department of Justice is happy -- now that ebook monopolists like Amazon can charge whatever the hell they want, the price of books, like all other content, is rapidly approaching zero. The latest broken-down show pony to enter this race to the bottom is BookBoon, which publishes free ebooks that are supported through adver...

In its ongoing mission to become the best streaming movie service around, Amazon Prime now has the Paramount Movies catalog in its backpocket. That means films like Mission Impossible 3, Star Trek, Top Gun, Clueless, and Nacho Libre are now available for members. [Tech Crunch] More »

Amazon is continuing to grow its collection of streaming video titles at Amazon Prime Instant Video, and is today announcing another new agreement with Paramount Pictures bringing "hundreds" of new movies to the service. This deal isn't as large as March's partnership with Discovery, which saw some 3,000 new titles added, but it does introduce what are arguably more big-name movies. Included in...

Thorsten Wiedau zählte zu den Top-Rezensenten des Versandhändlers Amazon. Er stieg aus, weil er das System der Online-Kritik für unmoralisch hält.

Es ist auch Blödsinn, dass, wie hier immer wieder behauptet wird, durch den Wegfall der Hardcopy-Pressung die Produktionskosten gegen 0 gingen. Neben der technischen Erstellung im Tonstudio mit Kosten für die Miete, die Techniker, Musiker für den Background etc. (oder dem Lektorat bei Büchern) kommt die ganze Vermarktungskampagne dazu, die wesentlich teuerer ist. Z.B. haben 2000er-Alben von Hum...

Despite its plan to get behind a big shift to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) with a June 7 launch, Microsoft faces an uphill battle getting U.S. coders to jump from Amazon to its cloud. So it comes as little surprise to see that Microsoft today announced it was launching an accelerator for its Windows Azure cloud in India.

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The 7 inch Amazon Kindle Fire was one of the strongest competitor for Apple ipad. When rumors around the web are circulating about Apple to release a smaller version of iPad, the Apple’s rival is just doing opposite.

Brazil said Monday it was working hard to stop illegal logging in Amazon rainforest land inhabited by the ethnic Awa people, a group said to be threatened with extinction.

Amazon und der britische Buchhändler Waterstones haben eine Zusammenarbeit beschlossen. Demnach wird in den Filialen von Waterstones künftig der Kindle zum Verkauf angeboten wird.

theodp writes "Eager to host Amazon warehouses and receive a cut of the tax on sales to customers statewide, the LA Times reports that two California cities are offering Amazon most of the tax money they stand to gain. After agreeing to collect California sales taxes beginning in the fall, Amazon is setting up two fulfillment centers in San Bernadino and Patterson, which will gain not only jobs...

Alongside Kindle devices, Waterstones will sell ebooks over the WiFi connection in its shops through a dedicated online store

Struggling high street bookseller is to embrace the electronic revolution by stocking ebooks for the first time, after doing a deal with Amazon to sell its Kindle ebook reader.

UK bookseller Waterstones plans to sell Amazon's Kindle e-book reader and other Kindle digital services.

Das hatte der amerikanische Kapitalist Nick Hanauer (er hat ein Vermögen mit selbstgegründeten Unternehmen ebenso wie mit Beteiligungen, zum Beispiel an Amazon, gemacht) schon öfter erklärt, und ich habe hier unter den Stichworten Kapitalismus und Evolution auch schon darüber geschrieben. Seine Thesen, die im sich Prinzip darum drehen, dass nicht die Unternehmer, sondern die Masse der Verbrauch...

When natives from Peru's Amazon visited Alberta's oil sands, they hoped they weren't seeing their future

A group of students from Yale University, Connecticut, have found a fungus in the Amazon rainforest that can break down the common plastic polyurethane.

Social network's landmark flotation has investors clamouring to buy, but some analysts issue warnings about IPOFacebook has set the final price of shares in its landmark initial public offering at $38 (£24), the top of the price range it gave this week, as investors clamoured to buy into the social network. The move values the company at around $104bn.Facebook had raised the price range to $34-...

Rakuten poursuit ses emplettes. Après avoir déboursé 315 millions de dollars en octobre 2011 afin d'absorber le fabricant de tablettes Kobo pour mieux contrer Amazon, le géant japonais du commerce électronique a été le maître d'oeuvre - et le principal investisseur -du tour de table permettant au...

Future U: The stubborn persistence of textbooksDaunt: library e-lending "disruptive" to high streetA "License to Read": The Effect of E-Books on Publishers, Libraries, and the First Sale DoctrineInside the Georgia State OpinionThe GSU decision -- not an easy road for anyoneThe GSU decisionE-ReservationsThe Greatest Threat to Amazon May Just Be LibrariesTechnology is a Double-Edged Sword In Defe...

Wohl im Versuch den guten alten Ladengeschäften im Wettlauf gegen Online-Stores a la Amazon wieder zu etwas mehr Vortrieb zu verhelfen hat Planar eine neue Form der Produkt-Verpackung kreiert, in denen die auf der CES vertretenen durchsichtigen LCD Displays Verwendung finden. mehr...

Vom Buchhändler zum Komplettanbieter: Amazon bietet fast alles an. Künftig sogar komplette Software-Systeme von SAP. Damit habt der Onlinehändler vor allem Unternehmer im Blick. Ein absolutes Novum.

SAO PAULO (AP) -- A mighty tributary of the Amazon River has hit a record high level after weeks of heavy rains....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Alexandria, Va., is having a love affair with books....

Telegraphing an alleged price-fixing conspiracy 2 years before the DOJ caught up to it FORTUNE -- Paid Content's Laura Hazard Owen, combing through documents newly unredacted in the states' (as opposed to the U.S. Department of Justice's) antitrust complaint against Apple (AAPL) and five book publishers, uncovered a gem: a blunt Steve Jobs e-mail that basically hands the attorneys general thei...

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc will launch new versions of its Kindle e-reader and tablet, including a monochrome e-reader with front lighting, a source who has seen the prototype told Reuters.

Ebay and Amazon have been ordered to surrender tens of thousands of members’ details to HMRC as part of a crackdown on online trading.

LIMA : At least 19 people were killed and seven injured on Friday when a bus plunged off a cliff into a ravine in a remote area of the Amazon region in northeastern Peru, police said. Theaccident occurred near the city of Rodriguez de Mendoza, 850 kilometers (530 miles) northeast of the capital Lima, said regional police official Carlos Mego, who confirmed the death toll and casualty numbers....

Amazon said it has signed a deal for the electronic books rights to all seven Harry Potter titles English, French, Italian, German and Spanish for its Kindle lending library.

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Looming over the northern edge of the Amazon rain forest are some of the most remarkable mountains on earth. Known as tepuis, or tabletop mountains, they are typically ringed by sheer cliffs that rise thousands of feet from the surrounding lowland jungles. Instead of peaks, tepuis have enormous flat expanses at their tops. To reach the tops of many tepuis, the only choices are scaling the cliff...

Amazon is taking on the high-end clothing business in its typical way: go big and spare no expense.

The tabletop mountains near the Amazon rain forest can be isolated, but they support a wide diversity of species that are found nowhere else on the planet.

Amazon.com, king of books, toys and other retail categories, is now using its vast resources to become a major seller of high-end clothing.

Charles Moore reviews Patriots by David Frum (Amazon or Kobo).

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple et Dropbox se battent pour stocker les photos, musiques et autres données personnelles du grand public.

It was started by a handful of isolated enthusiasts, gradually became a cult craze, and is now threatening to become a commercial enterprise.

Severe flooding hits Brazil's Amazon region, while the north-east of the country faces drought.

Amazon and Apple dominate the e-reader market. But Microsoft and Barnes & Noble are teaming up to make a serious run at the leaders. Microsoft is investing more than $600 million in Barnes & Noble's efforts to launch a digital book and textbook subsidiary called Newco , and to help the bookseller to expand its online business globally. [More]

Brazil has begun a weeks-long military operation to patrol its northern border, seeking out clandestine airstrips and illegal logging and mining operations in the Amazon jungle.

For the first time ever bankers have launched an EFTPOS advertising campaign. Could this be an indication that they are becoming worried about the competition they are getting from internet companies such as PayPal, Amazon, Google and Apple (iTunes)? The digital economy is growing much faster than the bricks-and-mortar economy and, while EFTPOS is not going away anytime soon, an increasingly ...

Shares of Atmel (AMTL) were down more than 15% to $7.57 after its first-quarter report. However, Canaccord analyst Bobby Burleson thinks there’s more than 70% upside in the stock, ahead of the mid-year seven-inch Kindle Fire refresh from Amazon (AMZN), as well as what he sees is the likely introduction of a new model with [...]

Alles unterschrieben, alles perfekt! Holland-Star Arjen Robben (28) hat seinen Vertrag bei den Bayern vorzeitig um zwei Jahre bis zum 30. Juni 2015 verlängert.Foto: Dennis BrosdaMehr zum ThemaVor Gericht - Matthäus soll 140 000 Euro zahlenAbflug aus Stuttgart - Gebhart zum Club, auch Boulahoruz geht+++ Digitalticker +++ - Amazon will eigene TV-Shows produzierenOrganspende - Zuckerberg über sei...

Michael Hickling's work mate doesn't get in a flap when the tree surgeon's on the job, but then again he is a yellow headed Amazon parrot.

Amazon Kindle e-readers will no longer be sold at Target as the discount retailer prepares to launch Apple mini-shops inside Target stores.

You can get just about anything on Amazon these days. Pretty soon that may include original sitcoms, with the rollout of Amazon Studios. “We’re now developing original programming for Amazon Instant Video. Submit your children’s series or comedy series idea — it could be the next hit show,” says a message on the company’s Web site. Read full article >>

Bis zu 30 Prozent der Produktbewertungen im Internet seien manipuliert, berichtet das Magazin "Auto Video Foto Bild" unter Berufung auf Branchenkenner. Demnach würden positive Nutzerkommentare in Onlineshops von Agenturen verfasst, die sich dafür bezahlen lassen. Die Sicherungssysteme von Amazon und anderen Firmen seien dagegen machtlos.

Zwei Verlierer der Digitalisierung tun sich zusammen: Microsoft steigt bei der Buchhandelskette Barnes&Noble ein. Der Deal zeigt, wie dramatisch sich die Welt der Bücher verändert hat. Für Amazons Kindle bedeutet er Konkurrenz.

The company’s investments in its growing number of physical warehouses could give it the ammunition it needs when all its sales are ultimately subject to tax

Apple und Amazon bekommen bei den elektronischen Büchern Konkurrenz: Microsoft kauft sich bei einer Tochterfirma der Buchladen-Kette Barnes & Noble ein. Das Barnes-Papier stürmt nach oben.

Amazon.com stock surges, as gross margins jump.

Come July, Texans will start paying state sales tax at Amazon.com. The online retailer will now add 2,500 jobs and invest $200 million.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Online retailer Amazon.com reached an agreement with Texas officials Friday to settle a sales tax dispute by expanding operations in the state and starting to collect sales taxes....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks advanced for a fourth day on Friday, led by gains in technology after stronger-than-expected earnings from Amazon.com Inc and Expedia Inc offset a weaker-than-expected reading on economic growth.

The stock is up strongly Tuesday on a Street-beating earnings report. But Nomura thinks it can gain an additional 25%.

La tablette d'Amazon a conquis plus de la moitié du marché en à peine quatre mois aux États-Unis, selon comScore.Articles en rapportLes ventes de tablettes vont doubler en France cette annéeLe streaming illégal n'a pas digéré l'arrêt de Megaupload

Die US-Börsen verzeichnen in den ersten Handelsminuten leichte Kursgewinne. Ermutigende Unternehmenszahlen drängen die europäische Schuldenkrise in den Hintergrund. Die Papiere von Amazon legen kräftig zu.

Stock futures were slightly higher early Friday, but the release at 8:30 a.m. of a disappointing first quarter GDP growth rate caused the market to retreat. The government said GDP rose 2.2% in the quarter, below expectations for 2.6% and the fourth quarter growth rate of 3%. In addition, Standard & Poor’s downgraded Spain’s debt [...]

Amazon's gamble is paying off, as Fire owners buy huge amounts of books, films and games via the tablet - essentially a 'shop window for Amazon's digital books, films and music.

Amazon.com's quarterly results beat Wall Street's most bullish expectations as heavy spending by the world's largest internet retailer began to pay off through sales of more digital products on its new Kindle Fire tablet.

<img style="float:left; margin-right:5px" src="http://images.zeit.de/news/../publishedPictures/amazzy_36272462_onlineBild.jpg-148x84.jpg"/>Seattle (dpa) - Amazon wächst was das Zeug hält. Mit günstigen Preisen, kostenlosem Versand und neuen Produkten lockt der weltgrößte Onlinehändler die Kunden an und sichert sich damit Marktanteile. D...

Le groupe américain de distribution en ligne Amazon a publié jeudi des résultats très au-delà des attentes, même si le bénéfice net du premier trimestre accuse ...lire la suite

AMAZON promised to cut the cost of ebooks after US authorities broke up an alleged plot by Apple and publishers to push up prices.

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Deputies in Brazil’s lower house of Congress decided late Tuesday to delay a vote on a bill that would revamp the nation’s tough environmental law, which activists warn would stoke destruction of the Amazon rainforest and other areas.

Brazil's Congress delays a final vote on controversial changes to the country's forest code which enviromentalists say will spur Amazon deforestation.

Amazon.com has agreed to collect a sales tax on items sold in Nevada beginning in 2014.

Domain registrations hinted at Amazon’s plans. Today Amazon.com officially unveiled AmazonSupply.com, billed as “the hardware store for researchers and developers”. Last month I caught wind of this new shop from an inside connection called whois. Here are some of the related domains Amazon registered that tipped me off that the e-commerce giant was up to [...]

Die Zukunft der Buchbranche liegt in den Händen der US-Digitalkonzerne. Für sie ist das Buch nur ein Geschäft unter vielen. Für die Verlage aber geht es um die Existenz.

What's buzzing? The 'Fifty Shades of Grey' author made Time's list of 100 Most Influential People and Amazon will publish Bond e-books this ...

THE world’s largest online retailer is looking for massive warehouses in Australia - and it's scaring local retailers.

Thirty-six construction contractors kidnapped for five days by rebels in the Amazon jungle have been freed.

Company will soon be able to resume its deep discounting and maintain its role as the market leader

Used CDs have just been added to the list of goods accepted by Amazoncom's Trade-In program Smartmoney reports On Wednesday the online retail giant announced that users can mail in used CDs in exchange for store credit Amazon's trade-in program has previously accepted a variety of media and electronics including...

Lawsuit may lead to lower prices for consumers as some publishers settle and Amazon gets more leeway on pricing.

Fast-growing social curation site Pinterest has hit another online milestone: Amazon.com and eBay have added buttons to their sites that allow users to easily share anything from vintage lunch boxes to power tools on their virtual pinboards.

In the face of mass deforestation of the Amazon, recent findings indicate that we could learn from its earliest inhabitants who managed their farmland sustainably. Research shows for the first time that indigenous people, living in the savannas around the Amazonian forest, farmed without using fire. Instead early inhabitants practiced 'raised-field' farming, which involved constructing small ag...

(Reuters) - Microsoft trumped Amazon, eBay and other tech giants with its more than $1 billion purchase of the majority of AOL Inc's patent trove.

When sailing downriver on the Amazon, the first place one encounters a buoy in the water is at the large port city of Manaus.

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The booming Brazilian economy has brought a new lease of life to the remote city of Manaus, on the banks of the Amazon river.

Handschriften als Print-on-demand: Faksimile-Ausgaben von Kafka finden Schnäppchenjäger im Internet weit unter dem Originalpreis. Der Stroemfeld Verlag verklagt jetzt Amazon.

The titan behind online retail powerhouse Amazon.com on Wednesday revealed a quest to retrieve Apollo 11 moon mission engines that plunged into the ocean decades ago.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says the five rocket booster engines that launched Apollo 11 to the moon in July 1969 have been found at the bottom ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The huge engines that helped boost the Apollo 11 mission to the moon have been in the Atlantic for more than four decades....

E-Book-Marktführer Amazon legt im Geschäft mit digitalen Lesegeräten nach: Zwei Kindle-Reader, die man per Fingerzeig bedienen kann, werden seit heute auch in Deutschland verkauft. Doch Kindle-Touch-Käufer müssen lange auf die Auslieferung warten.

(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc and Barnes & Noble Inc unveiled Harry Potter e-books on Tuesday in deals that suggest the companies made big concessions with author J.K. Rowling for electronic access to...

Amazon announced in May 2011 that its e-book sales had surpassed those of paperbacks and hard covers combined, but it will be a while before Chinese publishers can make such a declaration.

Peru's private investment promotion agency ProInversión last year dropped a plant for Iquitos in Loreto region from a call for 30-year standby power concessions in the Amazon, which left Pucallpa (35-...

For years, Amazon.com battled against efforts to make online retailers collect sales taxes. Now that it has yielded, investors may learn why it fought so hard for so long.

Dan Everett, a linguist who studies Pirahã, the language of a small tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, is raising academic hackles again with a new book, and a documentary is on the way.

For three decades, Bernie Krause has collected the sounds of nature, from Amazon jungles to Antarctic glaciers and even ant colonies. For Krause, the sounds aren't ambience, but biological orchestras of extraordinary beauty and complexity. In this gallery, you can hear some of his favorite recordings.

Francoise Barbira-Freedman, medical anthropologist at Cambridge University, talks about a herbal remedy for toothache, used for centuries by a remote Incan tribe in the Amazon which is being turned into a commercial treatment for dental pain.

Nature481, 321–328 (2012)In the ‘Natural and anthropogenic climatic variation’ section of this Review, we incorrectly referred to the North Atlantic Oscillation as a contributor to the 2005 Amazonian droughts. We should instead have referred to the Atlantic

Her second cookbook, Fay Ripley, What’s For Dinner?, was published last week and shot straight to No 1 on the Amazon bestseller list.

Apple Inc is hosting a media event next week where it is expected to unveil the latest version of its popular iPad tablet as it looks to thwart increasing competition from deep-pocketed rivals such as Amazon Inc.

La publication par Médiamétrie des Tops audiences de janvier confirme le trafic significatifs dont bénéficient les sites des distributeurs, en même temps qu'elle met particulièrement en évidence les bons résultats d'Amazon, du groupe Casino (et de sa filiale CDiscount)...

The recent success of Jeremy Lin has spawned seven insta-books for the Amazon Kindle.

Der Volvo Amazon Kombi gilt als der erste moderne Kombi auf Pkw-Basis. Vor 50 Jahren feierte der schnittige Schwede Premiere.Mehr zum ThemaPorsches Baby-Cayenne - Macan statt CajunBMW 1er GT - Zwischen Van und KombiFortschritte bei der Sprachsteuerung - Entwickler wollen Siri ins Auto holenLada Niva - Der Preisbrecher wird noch billiger85 Jahre Citroen Deutschland - Anders als alle anderen

Amazon.cn has announced the formal launch of its new operating center in Tianjin, which is the B2C e-commerce retailer's eleventh operations center in China. Amazon.cn said that during 2012, the company will focus more on the warehousing and logistics sector, and the total area of its operating centers in China is expected to increase. The [...]

Florian Freistetter hat ein Buch geschrieben. Ich hab's produziert. Wie sich das für eine moderne Medienproduktion gehört, erzähle ich hier, wie das Endprodukt entstand. Hier also das "Making of '2012 - Keine Panik''.Bevor ich das im Detail erkläre, hier die Kurzversion: Ich wollte nicht mehr nur über all diese neuen Medienkram-Möglichkeiten lesen und Links sammeln (wa...

Actress Eloise Mumford her role in ABC's spooky new drama, 'The River' - from 'Paranormal Activity' director Oren Peli, about an expedition up the Amazon to find a missing famed wildlife explorer.

If Facebook's initial valuation pushes $100 billion, it would be far bigger than many established American companies, including Amazon, Caterpillar, Kraft Foods, Goldman Sachs and Ford Motor.

Online retail giant Amazon enters the Indian market with the launch of its shopping website junglee.com.

American online retail giant Amazon.com has made an entry into the Indian market with Junglee.com, an online shopping site powered by the $48 billion company.

AMAZON shares plunged ten per cent today, the first session since the online retailer reported a sharp decline in earnings.

Shares in Amazon.com fell today after sales missed estimates, signalling that its investments in media services, Kindle devices and shipping promotions have been slow to pay off.

Authorities are struggling to keep outsiders away from the clan of Amazon Indians who began appearing near a river popular with tourists.

Berlin (ots) - Amazon.de ist der umsatzstärkste Onlineshop der Welt und setzt ca. 2,5 Mrd. EUR pro Jahr alleine in Deutschland um. Der weltweite Umsatz von Amazon im Jahr 2010 betrug 35 Mrd. US$. An einem einzigen Tag gingen 2,8 Mio. Bestellungen nur auf der deutschen Website des ...

Barnes & Noble, the giant that put so many independent booksellers out of business, now finds itself locked in the fight of its life, with Amazon.com lurking in the background.

Il ne devait être présenté officiellement que le 29 janvier sur le site de France3 mais le morceau qu'Anggun compte chanter à l'Eurovision peut d'ores et déjà être écouté sur le site Amazon.

Bradshaw's Handbook was first published in 1863 but has now been catapulted into the top ten UK Amazon sales after being featured on Great British Railway Journeys, currently being screened on BBC2.

Rain forest could go from sink to source

Offenburg/München (ots) - Bereits zum vierten Mal findet am 24. Januar 2012 das Technologiesymposium TES (Technology Enabled Success) im Rahmen der Innovationskonferenz DLD (Digital Life Design) von Hubert Burda Media statt. Vertreter namhafter internationaler Unternehmen werden in zwei ...

Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer, will set up a major distribution center in the southwestern city of Nanning, local authorities said Tuesday.

(Reuters) - A federal court judge on Friday denied a Chevron Corp bid to prevent Ecuadorean plaintiffs from collecting on an $18 billion damages award against the U.S. oil giant over pollution in the Amazon jungle.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos demonstrates the Kindle DX at Pace University, in New York City.

Detrás de las pilas de cajas de Amazon.com que llegarán a las puertas de los hogares estadounidenses hay cientos de empleados estacionales que se mudan temporalmente a Fernley, en el desierto de Nevada, donde está uno de los depósitos de Amazon. Allí ayudan al gigante minorista en línea a cumplir con sus pedidos durante las fiestas.

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A United Nations book released today aims to provide people in the developing world with accessible knowledge of Amazon plants and foods they can use to improve their livelihoods.

Ranchers prove they can raise beef cattle without increasing deforestation

Angelina Jolie gesteht, dass vor kurzem ihr Versuch, Weihnachtsgeschenke auf 'Amazon' zu bestellen, kläglich fehlschlug.

WITHOUT MUCH stronger safeguards, the deal on the table here to protect forests – the world’s most important carbon sinks – will only “intensify and worsen” existing conflicts in regions such as the Amazon, according to critics.

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon region fell to its lowest in 23 years in the year through July, the government said Monday, attributing the drop to its tougher stance against illegal logging.

Revela el diario The Wall Street Journal que el buscador estaría negociando ya en EU con almacenes Macy"s, Gap y Office Max

It didn’t happen often and in many cases the outcome was not terribly satisfying but Steve Jobs did speak directly to Apple customers, either by phone or email, in response to complaints and inquiries. Now CNN tech writer Mark Milian has compiled many of these exchanges in a book called “Letters to Steve: Inside the E-mail Inbox of Apple’s Steve Jobs,” which he has published as a $2.99 Kind...

The market of slate computers is going to become smaller. Such companies as HP, Acer, Asustek and Dell may leave the market already in the near future. The companies are incapable of struggling with Apple, the market leader, and the producers of inexpensive devices, such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Nach einer heftigen kircheninternen Debatte über den Verkauf von Erotik-Literatur will sich die katholische Kirche in Deutschland nun vom Augsburger Weltbild-Verlag trennen. Eine Veräußerung des hinter Amazon zweitgrößten Buch-Versandhändlers Deutschlands solle "ohne jeden Verzug" in die Wege geleitet werden, teilte der Verband der Diözesen Deutschlands am Dienstag mit. Denn Bücher wie "Das neu...

Avec son Android Market, le géant américain d'internet va tenter de rattraper son énorme retard sur ses concurrents iTunes et Amazon qui bénéficient…

Filed under: Tito Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Celebrity Justice Three of Michael Jackson's brothers -- Marlon, Jackie, and Tito (left to right) -- have filed a lawsuit against a guy who they say duped them into signing 1,000 replicas of the famous Michael Jackson "Thriller" and ...

Table Mountain has been provisionally named one of the new seven wonders of nature by a global poll, alongside the Amazon and the Iguazu Falls.

Today in the Lowdown at DNJournal.com:: Marc Ostrofsky's new book "Get Rich Click!" has soared to #1 on charts at BarnesAndNoble.com and Amazon. Also in the news; DomainConvergence, a Future Trends Domains Auction, FMA's Launch of Arabs.com, the Evan Ross - President Obama Connection & Ray Hackney.

Amazon hopes its latest payment technology will steal its competitors' thunder.

My Newsweek op-ed of a few weeks ago urged Amazon to share their best product with the rest of the world and make Kindles available elsewhere, if only to help advance American interests abroad (free and unencumbered access to information is definitely one of them). Today Amazon unveiled an international version of their basic Kindle model, which would be able to wirelessly download books in mor...