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Amazon families split over lure of oil money

2013-03-06 00:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: While they were growing up in their remote community deep in the Ecuadorean Amazon, Blanca Tapuy and her sister Innes were inseparable. As children, they would play together while their parents hunted monkeys and tapir with blowpipes and spears. After they married, they regularly met to drink chicha and keep up with the latest gossip as western modernity crept ever closer to their indigenous Kichwa community. Today, however, the sisters are at loggerheads, divided by an offer from the country's...

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Google+ Sign-in aims to lure users and developers away from Facebook

2013-02-27 21:41:55| InfoWorld: Top News

In a move to wrest a bigger hunk of social networking cake away from Facebook, Google has introduced Google+ Sign-in, which lets users log into a website or application with a single click using their Google+ credentials. At a basic level, the technology is an obvious copycat of Facebook's sign-in tool, but Google is dangling features to make its keys more desirable to users and developers.

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Ford shelled out big bucks to lure away Farley, SEC filing says

2013-02-20 19:09:33| Automakers - Topix.net

Ford Motor Co. paid a hefty sum to lure Jim Farley away from Toyota Motor Corp. in 2007, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Tuesday.

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Oil and gas industry seeks billion-dollar tax break to lure LNG plants

2013-02-08 12:08:48| Oil & Gas - Topix.net

For those eager to own a home instead of paying rent to a landlord, here are current real estate listings for the cheapest two-bedroom condos for sale in the city.

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