Gold-hungry Peruvian miners are eroding the country's portion of the Amazon rainforest at an alarming rate, according to a new study. Small-scale gold panners in the Andean nation have responded to soaring gold prices by revving up the pace of gold mining, stripping the region of its forests.
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Feed SubscriptioniFive: Apple TV Rumors, UAE Quashing BlackBerry Email, Samsung Selling Drive Biz, Google Music Stumbles, RIM Eyes Nortel Patents
1. Apple TV rumors, of the big-screen rather than plug-in-peripheral kind, have come and gone. But over the last day or so a huge debate on the topic has arrived online with some heavyweight names taking part .
Read More »Game Developers Accuse Amazon Of Ripping Them Off With Unfair Terms
Amazon's bid to earn money by making an Apple -like curated version of the Android Marketplace seems clever, if controversial , and a potential winner for Android users. But according to some, Amazon may be applying unfair restrictions to its software partners.
Read More »Amazon’s Ad-ed Value Kindle, the First Step to Ad-Supported E-Reading
Looking Down on Deforestation: Brazil Sharpens Its Eyes in the Sky to Snag Illegal Rainforest Loggers
Brazil's clear-cut deforestation rate led the world just five years ago.
Read More »Yuck: Ad Subsidized Kindles
Amazon has announced it will begin selling an ad-supported version of its Kindle eReader starting May 3rd. The "Kindle With Special Offers" will sell for $114, an 18% discount from the current $139 sticker price
Read More »Why You Have All the Power
Each day,Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today.
Read More »The 10 Most Innovative Web Companies
01 / Twitter > > For ballooning into a global phenomenon that, finally, has a business model. In 2009, Twitter boasted some 20 million users. Today
Read More »Killer Science Portrayed on Dexter and Breaking Bad
One of the great things about life in 2011 is the technology of television.
Read More »iFive: Microsoft: Google Cheats, Amazon’s Cloud Music Deals, Fox Vs Time Warner’s App, Zite’s C&D, Apple Pays More in Japan
1. Today in Europe Microsoft will file an antitrust complaint against Google with the authorities
Read More »Amazon’s New Cloud Services
Keeping track of the music stored on various computers and mobile devices can be a pain. This week, Amazon unveiled Cloud Drive and Cloud Player, two services that let you store music in the cloud and access it from any Web browser or Android device. You can upload your music library to the Cloud Drive from a Mac or PC, or buy songs on Amazon’s MP3 Store and save it to the drive.
Read More »iFive: Amazon Cloud Music Woes, Windows 8 Hints, Android Gets In-App Purchases, FBI Hunts Comodo Hacker, NFC in Win Phones
1. Amazon has just pulled the veil from its music locker-in-the-cloud system only to run into organizational and potential legal trouble. It's Sony Music this time , angry that Amazon's use of cloud streaming to clients is denying it potential royalty income.
Read More »Behind the Millionaire Crackdown
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today. Watch your backs, millionaires.
Read More »Brazil’s 10 Most Innovative Companies
01 / Azul > > For converting bus riders into frequent fliers. Brazilian-born David Neeleman, founder of Jet Blue, brought the low-cost airline model to his home country and tweaked it to fit its nuances
Read More »iFive: Amazon’s Cloud Music, Twitter’s Spam Retweet, Facebook’s Politicos, Beatles MP3 Fines, Nokia Sues Apple…Again
1. Late yesterday Amazon proved last-minute rumors true and released the Amazon Cloud Player--a cloud-based music "locker" and streaming system that beats Apple to the punch
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