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For Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Washington Post represents new frontier

2013-08-18 15:54:40| IT Services - Topix.net

One summer day as a kid riding in the back seat of his grandparents' car, the young Jeff Bezos, a natural at math, made a morbid calculation.

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Ecuador to open Amazon's Yasuni basin to oil drilling

2013-08-16 05:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Ecuador will open up part of the Amazon rainforest to oil drilling after rich nations failed to back a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to explore in the area, President Rafael Correa said on Thursday. Correa launched the initiative in 2007 to protect the Yasuni area of the Amazon basin, which boasts some of the planet's most diverse wildlife, but said he had now scrapped it after it attracted only a small fraction of the sum it aimed to raise. "I have signed the executive...

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Ecuador expected to open Amazon's Yasuni basin to oil drilling -sources

2013-08-15 22:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Ecuador is expected to open part of the Amazon rainforest to oil drilling on Thursday after rich nations failed to back a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to explore in the area, government sources said. In 2007 Ecuador's President Rafael Correa launched an initiative to protect the Yasuni area of the Amazon basin, which boasts one of the planet's richest ranges of wildlife. However, the sources said that decision has been reversed and an announcement on the plan's future...

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Developers can now sell Web apps in Amazon's Appstore

2013-08-07 20:25:58| InfoWorld: Top News

Developers can now submit Web apps and offer them alongside native Android-based programs on Amazon's Appstore. The change will make it easier for developers to distribute HTML5-based apps via Amazon's store without having to convert them to Android-specific versions.

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