Amazon.com Offers Its Own Toy, Baby Items

Amazon.com Inc. said Wednesday it had begun offering its own toys and baby items following a judge's ruling that ended its retail partnership with Toys R Us Inc.

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Amazon.com Begins Selling Groceries

Customers shopping for books, DVDs, clothing and toys on Internet powerhouse Amazon.com can now add groceries like canned tuna to their shopping cart.

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U.S. Agency Re-Examines Amazon.com Patent

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is re-examining Amazon.com Inc.'s patent for "one-click" online shopping at the request of a New Zealand actor who says he's upset over slow book delivery.

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Major Logging Operation Shut in the Amazon

Environmental authorities shut down an illegal logging operation in the Amazon on Monday, confiscating dozens of felled tropical hardwood trees in an area that only recently was pristine rain forest.

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Amazon.com Jumps Gun on NCAA Winner

College basketball fans may have been surprised to turn on their computers Monday morning and find an e-mail from Amazon.com Inc. proclaiming, "UCLA Wins."

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Fidelity to Pitch Services on Amazon.com

Fidelity Investments said Friday it will sponsor an online financial services "store" on Amazon.com Inc.'s Web site in the company's first such deal with a major online retail distributor.

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Judge Rules Amazon Breached Contract

Amazon.com Inc. breached a deal with Toys R Us that was supposed to give the toy seller exclusive rights to supply some products on the Seattle-based Web site, a New Jersey judge ruled Thursday as she allowed the companies to sever their online partnership.

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Brazil's President Creates Forest Reserves

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has created two new national parks in the Amazon rain forest and expanded another to protect an environmentally sensitive region where the government plans a major highway project.

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Amazon.com Unit Exec Takes Post at Google

The head of Amazon.com Inc.'s online search effort is leaving to join Google Inc., the latest in a series of high-profile hires for the search engine leader.

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Self-published Author Continues to Climb Amazon.com's Best-Seller List.....

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Nine-year-old girl gives birth in Brazilian Amazon

From the page: -- A 9-year-old girl of the Apurina tribe in Brazil's Amazon rain forest gave birth to a baby earlier this week and doctors said on Friday police were investigating whether she was raped. --

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Blog Pre-Launch Checklist

This article was cross posted on DennisBullock.com

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Deal for Americans … Your Nukes for Our Rainforests

From the page:

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Google tests a killer marketing tool

Seeking Alpha founder David Jackson noted yesterday that Google has just launched a cost-per-action ad service, and John Battelle, author of "The Search", has noted the implications of the service as well (that is notable since John has his own ad network, FederatedMedia.net).

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Fingers in every market

It seems Amazon are after a slice of action in just about every market. They are now trialling selling a limited range of groceries over the Internet. This is a gamble by Amazon but one that if successfully could produce a big payday for them.

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MusicGremlin 8 GB portable Wi-Fi audio player

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Amazon launches online grocery store

Amazon.com has taken yet another step towards one-stop-shopping nirvana: groceries.

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Amazon starts selling groceries online

Amazon starts selling groceries online Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has started selling groceries on its Web site, a cautious step into a business that was one of the biggest casualties of the dot-com collapse.

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Messing around with Amazon S3 access on Mac OS X

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Goodbye eBay, here comes GBuy

In another step toward world domination, Google is launching GBuy, to compete directly with the likes of PayPal, Amazon Marketplace, and the like.

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Biosphere facing man-made mass extinction

Biological world undergoing a sixth mass extinction - but this one is man-made; annual value of nature's services to Man $33 trillion; 1.5 million species identified, possibly 5-30 million in total, 27,000 extinctions per year

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Defeat for net neutrality backers

US politicians have rejected attempts to enshrine the principle of net neutrality in legislation. The vote is a defeat for Google, eBay and Amazon which wanted the net neutrality principle protected by law. Critics of the amendment said it would bring in unnecessary government  …

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Mashup -web application hybrids- the idea-factories of Web 2.0

Outsourcing the company’s idea-factories and basic development to bright minded individuals – phase 2 of Web 2.0?

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Conspicuous Cobrandification

I went to Amazon today and was greeted by this thing at the top of the homepage. Apparently it's a "show" hoster by Bill Maher, produced by Amazon, to move product.

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Media Frenzy: From a Small Stream, A Gusher of Movie Facts

"As the founder and managing director of the Internet Movie Database, Mr. Needham might just be the archetype of the telecommuting Web-head. The site he founded and runs, www.imdb.com, ranks as the 10th-most-popular entertainment spot online, according to ComScore Media Metrix.

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Google Ads only for Ebay and Amazon

John X Cringley has been around for years; first as one of Apple's earliest employees and then as an incredibly insightful technology journalist.

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Kiwi actor v Amazon.com - Technology - smh.com.au

One of world's largest online retailers, Amazon.com, might yet live to rue the day it took an order from New Zealand actor Peter Calveley.

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Microsoft left jabs Google with Amazon deal

From the article -- "In what looks like the first serious shot across Google's bow, Microsoft has signed a deal with online retail giant Amazon to replace Google's search engine with its Windows Live search on the Amazon site."

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Intel Supports Proposed Net Neutrality Legislation

Web companies like Google, eBay and Amazon, as well as consumer groups, have opposed the idea of prioritizing Internet traffic, saying equal treatment is one of the reasons the Internet has been such a success.

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Democrats lose House vote on Net neutrality

A hotly contested Democratic bid to enshrine extensive Net neutrality regulations in the law books failed Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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Bloomberg.com: Amazon.com 1st-Qtr Net Falls; Shares Rise on Forecast

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Get the most of your local library -- online - Lifehacker

Not only are most card catalogs available online, but you can often reserve and renew materials, access online databases, ask reference questions, and more. All without leaving your computer.

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Google, eBay And Amazon To AT&T;: We'll Build Our Own Network

Ah, the free market always taking care of us. Keep spending people!

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Amazon Price Change Notification (APCN) - Service to monitor Amazon Prices

Amazon Price Change Notification (APCN) is a service to monitor Amazon prices to catch desired item at the lowest, or to get a refund on purchased item. How it works: Amazon changes prices frequently, and very often the price is greatly reduced.

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