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Handmade At Amazon: A Crafty Ploy Paving The Way For An Etsy Buyout?
2016-01-12 20:51:30| IT Services - Topix.net
Much has been written about Etsy's fate in the face of new competition from Amazon . While the direct impact of Handmade at Amazon's existence on Etsy's bottom line is reported to be marginal at best , the market's reaction has been unequivocal.
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Report: Smaller, Cheaper Amazon Echo Coming Soon
2016-01-12 20:03:30| PC Magazine Speakers Product Guide
Codenamed "Fox," the scaled-down device is the size a beer can but requires users to press a button to activate.
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BNDES: Corruption guided award huge Amazon dam contracts in Brazil
2016-01-12 04:07:05| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Brazils BNDES (Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social) is the largest development bank in the world. Its annual disbursements of US$50 billion in 2014 were greater than those of the World Bank and Ex-Im Bank (Export-Import Bank of the United States) taken together. Although the bank has played a key role in Brazils development over the decades, its hasty expansion in recent years has created widespread concern that the bank is out of control and causing damage to Brazils people and...
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Amazon pulls 'suicide T-shirts' from website
2016-01-09 20:48:06| IT Services - Topix.net
A selection of T-shirts making light of suicide were no longer available through Amazon.ca on Saturday following the petition of a Toronto man. Mental health advocate Mark Henick, started an online petition calling for Amazon to remove the shirts and issue an apology.
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Soy boom revives Amazon highway
2016-01-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The BR-163 highway, an old dream of the Brazilian military to colonise the Amazon jungle, was revived by agroexporters as part of a plan aimed at cutting costs by shipping soy out of river ports. But the improvement of the road has accentuated problems such as deforestation and land tenure, and is fuelling new social conflicts. The 350-km stretch of road between the cities of Miritituba and Santarem in the northern Brazilian state of Pará look nothing like the popular image of a lush Amazon rainforest,...
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