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Online commerce titan Amazon.com on Tuesday said it doubted that it would soon bury the hatchet with book publisher Hachette.

• 29 мая 2014, 00:49

A group led by China's State Grip Corp. Friday won rights to build power lines to the huge Belo Monte dam in Brazil's Amazon.

• 08 февраля 2014, 16:21

The robots are coming, and they're here to help.

• 09 января 2014, 11:24

Amazon Thursday said it would give $20 gift cards and pay shipping costs for customers affected by problems at UPS and FedEx that delayed some Christmas package deliveries.

• 28 декабря 2013, 10:18

Germany's service-sector union Verdi is planning strike action at the online retail giant Amazon over the busy Christmas holiday period.

• 18 ноября 2013, 16:03

Organisers of the world's biggest book fair warned Tuesday against the domination of Internet giants as the publishing world grapples to blend old and new forms of reading.

• 10 октября 2013, 10:02

Fighting deforestation of the Amazon for cattle raising and farming is one of the great rallying cries of the world's conservationists.

• 17 сентября 2013, 15:47

Online retail titan Amazon on Tuesday began letting developers sell wares in games or other applications tailored for Android-powered gadgets.

• 29 августа 2013, 11:40

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is on the rise sharply, sparking alarm over the future of the world's biggest rainforest.

• 21 августа 2013, 12:40

With the shift to mobile Internet gaining pace, some of the big tech firms are adapting and others are not.

• 27 июля 2013, 20:23

Deforestation has soared in the Brazilian Amazon since a new forestry code was passed last year at the urging of the agribusiness lobby.

• 19 июля 2013, 16:10

A top US official was heading to Cairo on Sunday for talks with interim government leaders, the first high-ranking administration member to visit Egypt since the ouster of Mohamed Morsi.

• 15 июля 2013, 13:46

Apple dropped its lawsuit Tuesday against rival Amazon for using the term "Appstore" for its online shop for mobile gadget applications.

• 11 июля 2013, 10:30

Apple attorneys in the US antitrust case on e-books went on the offensive Thursday, attacking the credibility of government witnesses and seeking to debunk key elements of the government's case.

• 07 июня 2013, 17:01

Amazon.com on Thursday announced that it is buying book lovers social network Goodreads in a move that could give Kindle tablets an edge over rival electronic readers.

• 29 марта 2013, 14:07

Groups representing US authors and publishers called Monday on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to deny online retailer Amazon exclusive rights to websites ending with .book, .author, or .read.

• 12 марта 2013, 14:29

A T-shirt company has issued an apology for advertising tops with slogans such as "Keep Calm and Rape A Lot" and "Keep Calm and Kill Her", with its founder saying Wednesday the firm may go under.

• 06 марта 2013, 12:21

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Apple's claim of false advertising for Amazon.com to refer to its online shop for mobile gadget applications as an "app store."

• 03 января 2013, 12:25

The iPad mini made its low-key debut Friday when sales began in Asia, as Apple hurled the latest salvo in its battle against rivals Amazon, Google and Samsung.

• 02 ноября 2012, 13:54

Online retail giant Amazon has come under fire over the sale of a jigsaw puzzle that depicts ovens at the crematorium at the Nazi death camp of Dachau, a media report said Sunday.

• 01 октября 2012, 15:28