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Amazon, Viacom close to Web video deal

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc (VIAB.O).

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Amazon.com launches India specific shopping service

Amazon.com today launched a new service for Indian consumers, claiming to offer 1.2 crore products.

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Amazon to set up 1st `fulfillment center` in India

Amazon.com Inc is setting up its first "fulfillment center" in India as the world`s largest Internet...

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24 million customer accounts hacked at Zappos

Online shoe retailer Zappos told customers this weekend that it has been the victim of a cyber attac...

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eBook pirates cash in on Kindle boom

Profits could be hit by the sheer number of pirate eBooks available for free download.

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Amazon sells over 4 mn Kindle devices in Dec

Amazon announced that it has sold over one million Kindle devices per week throughout December.

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RIM rejects Amazon buyout offer: Report

Research In Motion Ltd has turned down takeover overtures from Amazon.com Inc and other potential bu...

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Amazon sells over one mn Kindles per week

US online retail giant Amazon announced Thursday that it has been selling over one million Kindle de...

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Amazon forest loss at lowest in 23 years: Brazil

Deforestation in Brazil`s Amazon region fell to its lowest in 23 years in the year through July, the...

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Amazon`s advertising push gains steam

Amazon.com Inc is known as the world`s largest online retailer, but the company is aggressively expa...

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Amazon tablet has chips from TI, Samsung, Hynix

Samsung supplied the 8 gigabyte flash memory chip, while Hynix made a DDR 2 RAM component for the de...

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Nook Tablet expected to be unveiled Monday

When Amazon unveiled its first tablet, the Kindle Fire, in September, most tech experts and analysts...

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Amazon.com launches digital book library service

US online retailer Amazon.com said Kindle owners with an Amazon Prime membership will now get access...

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Aliens in Amazon jungle!

A still from a video apparently taken in Amazon jungle showing an alien-like creature standing in th...

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Amazon ignites tablet war with Fire

Amazon.com Inc took the wraps off its long-awaited "Kindle Fire" on Wednesday, tacking on a mass mar...

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Brazil police arrest suspects in Amazon killings

Para is where activists Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife were killed in May while trying t...

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Amazon to launch digital-book library service

Amazon is in talks with publishers for launching a Netflix like service for digital books, where cus...

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Amazon steps up social media efforts

The company is also building a Social Games Group to take on Zynga.

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Amazon tablet coming in November at $250

Amazon.com Inc plans to unveil a cheaper, smaller $250 rival to Apple Inc`s iPad tablet device in No...

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Brazil scientists find signs of underground river

A huge underground river appears to be flowing thousands of feet beneath the Amazon River.

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Google maps Amazon rainforest

The project is to let Internet users virtually explore the world`s largest river, its wildlife and i...

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Amazon deforestation on the rise again in Brazil

Deforestation in Brazil`s Amazon accelerated in June, with more than 300 square kilometers destroyed...

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Amazon.com to acquire British Book Depository

The Book Depository last year had an operating profit of 2.3 million pounds.

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Amazon deforestation increases six-fold

A sharp increase in forest destruction has led Brazil to announce creation of an emergency task forc...

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Amazon to build its eight logistics base in China

Amazon.com, a US-based e-commerce operator, will establish its eighth logistics base in China, auth...

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Amazon opens Appstore, Apple files suit

Apple, which uses "App Store," has filed a lawsuit to bar Amazon from using the same name.

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Study shows weakened trade winds in Tropical Atlantic

The equatorial Amazon and the Guinea Coast are seeing more rainfall and the Sahel less.

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Amazon websites outage was due to hardware failure

A loose grouping of activists had urged online attack to crash the site.

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Biodiversity in Amazon is over 20mn yrs old

The biodiversity of the Amazon region is over 20 mn years older than thought.

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Amazon pulls pedophile book, offers no explanation

Amazon, after a deluge of criticism and boycott threats, withdrew a digital book called "The Pedophi...

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Amazon under fire for sale of paedophile book

The book had received over 305 "reviews" with 297 giving it a 1-star rating.

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Amazon wipes up diapers for $540 mn

Amazon.com has swooped up company that owns website diapers.com for $540 mn, the web retailer announ...

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Spectacular species found in Amazon

Spectacular species previously unknown to the outside world are being discovered in the Amazon rainf...

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Drought shrinks Amazon River to lowest level in 47 years

A severe drought parching northern Brazil this year has shrunk the mighty Amazon River.

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British man walks entire Amazon river in 2 years

It was a journey of 859 days, thousands of miles, "50,000 mosquito bites”.

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Brit to complete record-breaking Amazon trek

After being bitten by 50,000 mosquito bites, eating 15 piranhas and chased by Indians with bows and ...

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Amazon introduces two new Kindles: Report

Amazon will introduce two new versions of its Kindle electronic reader on Thursday, including a mode...

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Amazon losing 1,500 sq km each year

Around 1,500 sq km of the Amazon forest is lost each year due to deforestation in Peru.

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Amazon again cuts Kindle price as iPad raises heat

Amazon.com cut price on its most expensive Kindle electronic reader, the latest salvo in a price war...

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Sunday Times apologises for disputing Amazon rainforest claim

The Sunday Times has apologised for dubbing as “unsubstantiated” the claim that 40% of Amazon rainfo...

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Amazon cuts price of Kindle e-book reader

Online retail giant Amazon.com has joined the price war of e-book readers, and has slashed the price...

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Sting voices opposition to Amazon dam in Brazil

Sting is speaking out against Brazil`s renewed plan for a huge dam in the Amazon that he helped halt...

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Scientists uncover deep ocean current near Antarctica

Scientists have discovered a fast-moving deep ocean current with the volume of 40 Amazon Rivers near...

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Indigenous groups sent to occupy Amazon dam site: Chief

Indigenous activists threatened a clash with Brazil`s government as they dispatched boats carrying 1...

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Brazil Amazon dam project gets new go-ahead

A Brazilian federal court has overturned a judge`s ruling halting moves towards construction of a hu...

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Tender process for construction of dam in the Amazon cancelled

A Brazilian judge has cancelled tender process for construction of world`s 3rd biggest hydroelectric...

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Amazon reshelf Macmillan titles but not e-books

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc resumed selling hardcover and paperback books from Macmillan Publishe...

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IPCC’s Amazon theory falls flat too!

RK Pachauri-led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)is in the midst of yet another contr...

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Amazon unveils global version of Kindle DX

Amazon.com Inc will start selling an international version of its larger-screen e-reader, Kindle DX,...

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Giant Amazon arapaima fish may be threatened by overfishing

Reports indicate that the arapaima, a giant species of fish that lurks in the Amazon river, may be t...

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