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Amazon

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/ 23 December 2011

Get your money for nothing and your goodies for free

Every year millions of books, games, TV shows and other items are given away for free.

By Staff Reporter
Consumers win in the techie war
Article
/ 23 December 2011

Consumers win in the techie war

Things can only get better for users as the major players battle over market share and innovation.

By Alistair Fairweather
Amazon kindles its own fire
Article
/ 17 October 2011

Amazon kindles its own fire

At $199, the wireless media player/book reader/web browser/geegaw will be the cheapest of its kind when it is released.

By Dominic Rushe
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/ 20 August 2011

Internet takes “distance-learning” to the Amazon

The internet is letting a school sprout in the Amazon where teachers tend not to linger due to harsh living conditions and a scarcity of students.

By Glenn Chapman
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/ 5 August 2011

Virtual Amazon creates real South African jobs

Online retail giant and Fortune 500 company Amazon is expanding its customer services and development team in Cape Town.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 3 June 2011

Oxi: The catastrophe is lurking

A highly addictive new drug has the potential to become a ‘weapon of mass destruction,’ writes <b>Tom Phillips</b>.

By Tom Phillips
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/ 3 April 2011

The last stand of the Amazon

In the forest, there are no horizons and so the dawn does not break but is instead born in the trees — a wan and smoky blue.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 30 March 2011

Amazon vs the world

Few realise that Amazon doesn’t consider other retailers its big rivals anymore. No, Amazon is competing directly with the likes of Apple and Google.

By Alistair Fairweather
Washington puts washer on WikiLeaks
Article
/ 13 December 2010

Washington puts washer on WikiLeaks

The White House is suspected of coordinating a revenge operation and big firms have severed their WikiLeaks ties, but "mirror sites" multiply.

By Josh Halliday
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/ 4 August 2010

Amazon’s cloud has a silver lining

Half a billion dollars. That’s what online retailer Amazon.com will earn from its cloud computing services this year.

By Staff Reporter
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/ 22 July 2010

Kindling the bonfire

On July 19 a collective shudder of horror swept through the global book-printing industry.

By Alistair Fairweather
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/ 13 August 2008

Amazon threatened by new oil and gas exploration

Vast swathes of the western Amazon are to be opened up for oil and gas exploration, putting some of the planet’s most biodiverse forests at risk.

By Ian Sample
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/ 16 June 2008

Our diet of destruction

Look at a few packets in a typical kitchen cupboard, and you will notice a overlap between the labels of apparently completely different foods.

By Felicity Lawrence
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