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Has Amazon become the bully in the alley?

Amazon has reportedly turned to dirty browbeating amid a contract battle with top publisher Hachette. The internet retailer has subjected many books from Hachette to artificial purchase delays, suspended pre-orders of new titles, increased prices and stopped re-stocking existing ones.


Social inclusion in mining policy in Columbia gets boost from Ford Foundation research grant

Social scientists at the University of Queensland - Centre of Social Responsibility in Mining received a grant from the Ford Foundation amounting to $US254,000 to improve inclusion and engagement opportunities in Columbia as the resources industry develops.

Google waxes poetic in Chromebook’s arrival to nine new countries

Google on Monday announced through a poem the arrival of Chromebooks to nine more nations: New Zealand, the Philippines, Norway, Denmark, Mexico, Chile, Belgium, Spain, and Italy.

Turkey lifts block on access to YouTube: official

Turkey's telecoms regulator removed an official order blocking access to YouTube (GOOGL.O) from its website on Tuesday after the country's top court ruled last week that the ban was a breach of human rights.


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Chinese software companies such as Neusoft Corp and China National Software & Service Co Ltd (ChinaSoft) are picking up sales and expanding their marketing as China trades cyber spying accusations with the United States.
Google has taken the first steps to meet a European ruling that citizens can have objectionable links removed from Internet search results, a ruling that pleased privacy campaigners but raised fears that the right can be abused to hide negative information.
New technologies in digital media services and an industry shift towards outsourcing will bring strong growth opportunities in the coming years, said Avi Cohen, chief executive of Israel's RRsat Global Communications Network.
A cloud software boom has nudged startups into unlikely realms such as dairy farms, yoga studios and back-of-the-building loading docks, leading venture capitalists to hope for stratospheric returns.
Iran should embrace the Internet rather than see it as a threat, President Hassan Rouhani has said, in remarks that challenge hardliners who have stepped up measures to censor the Web.
More than a decade ago, the late Steve Jobs pulled one of his trademark reality distorting maneuvers, browbeating music label executives into selling songs on Apple Inc's then-nascent iTunes digital store for a mere 99 cents apiece.
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Marks & Spencer Plc is making a new push to expand abroad, hoping e-commerce will give Britain's biggest clothing retailer a better chance to succeed than earlier attempts to enter new markets.
American billionaire Ronald Lauder through Pan African Investment Company (PIC) funds an undisclosed amount in convertible debt to Kenyan car manufacturing startup Mobius to produce Africa's cheapest car.
Six months ago the U.S. oil industry scored a surprise win against farm groups when the Obama administration proposed slashing the amount of ethanol refiners must blend into gasoline, a move that could save them billions of dollars.