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Organic Cacao Farmers Help Reforest Brazils Amazon Jungle
2015-06-11 20:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: "Now we realise what a paradise we live in," said Darcirio Wronski, a leader of the organic cacao producers in the region where the Trans-Amazonian highway cuts across the Xingú river basin in northern Brazil. Besides cacao, on their 100 hectares of land he grows bananas, passion fruit, cupuazú (Theobroma grandiflorum), pineapples and other native or exotic fruit with which his wife, Rosalina Brighanti, makes preserves that she sells as jams or jellies or uses as filling in homemade chocolate...
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Amazon to Build Largest Solar Farm in Virginia in Move to Clean the Cloud
2015-06-11 17:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: If you go to Amazon.com to shop for solar panels, your purchase is going to get greener. Amazon Web Services (AWS), the worlds largest online retailer and provider of cloud computing services, announced this week that it will partner with Community Energy Inc. to build an 80 megawatt solar farm in Accomack County on the eastern shore of Virginia. It will be the largest solar farm in the state and will quintuple the amount of solar currently being generated there. It is projected to deliver about...
EU opens antitrust probe into Amazon e-book distribution
2015-06-11 15:43:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) The European Commission (EC) has opened a formal antitrust investigation into certain business practices by Amazon in the distribution of e-books. The EC will in particular investigate certain clauses included in Amazon's contracts which require publishers to ensure that Amazon is offered terms at least as good as its competitors. The EC said it will investigate whether such clauses may limit competition between different e-book distributors and may reduce choice for consumers. If confirmed, such behaviour could violate EU antitrust rules that prohibit abuses of a dominant market position and restrictive business practices. Amazon is currently the largest distributor of e-books in Europe. Initially, the investigation will focus on the largest markets for e-books in the European Economic Area, namely e-books in English and German. Separately the Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon said it was confident that its contract with publishers were legal and in readers' best interests, adding that it would cooperate with the investigation fully.
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Amazon in European e-book probe
2015-06-11 13:35:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The European Commission open a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon's e-book business amid concern the online retailer stifles competition.
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Amazon Prepping Live, Daily Web Show
2015-06-10 22:01:55| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
A job listing briefly posted to Amazon.com, and spotted by USA Today, appears to have outed the company's ambitions.
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