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An expedition to the Amazon by a group of Yale researchers has led to the discovery of a fungus that can utilize and break down polyurethane, one of the most common, and pollutant, industrial plastics in use by man. They hope the plastic-eating fungus can also eat away at the world's waste problems.

Google debuted its Amazon River Street View tour on Wednesday in honor of World Forest Day 2012.

Online retail giant Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced on Monday it plans to buy robotics company Kiva Systems Inc. for $775 million as part of ongoing expansion efforts.

Amazon.com Inc Monday announced that it has reached an agreement to buy Kiva Systems Inc, an innovator of material handling order fulfillment systems, for $775 million.

Chevron on Thursday continued its attempts at not paying billions in environmental fines for pollution the company says it didn't commit.

Apple has confirmed that the new iPad, the third generation of its category, will launch in the U.S. and nine other countries on Friday, March 16, at 8 a.m. local time. Here are all the information on the device's pricing, availability, trade-in offers and roundup of reviews from mainstream publications.

Barnes & Noble Inc. (NYSE: BKS) hired a chief financial officer with extensive experience in cable broadcasting, particularly with that industry's spin-offs as well as mergers and acquisitions, the New York-based company said Monday.

George Buck, a slim, towering American who runs Chevron's operations in Brazil, is often flanked by lawyers these days.

Apple unveiled the new iPad yesterday and decided to keep selling the iPad 2, albeit after dropping the $499 price by $100, making it competitive with the $199 Kindle Fire from Amazon.

The U.S.-based oil giant is questioning the judicial conduct of Nicholas Zambano after the Ecuadorean jurist was dismissed for improperly freeing an alleged drug trafficker.

Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), the world’s biggest e-retailer, said the number of titles for its Kindle owners lending library tablet family now exceeds 100,000, compared with only 5,000 last November.

An international legal panel based in the Netherlands has decided that it has jurisdiction over a pollution case in Ecuador brought by aboriginals against California-based Chevron. The panel could void damages awarded in the case.

eBay Inc., the e-commerce service provider, is all set to acquire WHI Solutions (WHI), a provider of software and digital catalog solutions for auto parts distributors and retailers for over 39,000 North American vehicles. This article tries to find out the five best online car retailers who are there in the USA market for long and doing quite well for themselves.

Six of the world's top consumer technology firms have agreed to provide greater privacy disclosures before users download applications in order to protect the personal data of millions of consumers, California's attorney general said on Wednesday.

Six of the world's top consumer technology firms have agreed to provide greater privacy disclosures before users download applications in order to protect the personal data of millions of consumers, California's attorney general said on Wednesday.

Apple's next generation tablet iPad 3, the successor to Apple's iPad 2, is expected to be launched on March 7. If rumors are to be believed, iPad 3 (or iPad 2S?) will pack such great features that will give the existing tablets like Amazon Kindle Fire and BlackBerry PlayBook run for their money.

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency told software vendors on Tuesday that it plans to revolutionize the way it does business with them as part of a race to keep up with the blazing pace of technology advances.

The Apple iPad 3 is poised to sweep the tablet market and steal more than 50 percent of the Amazon Kindle Fire's customers, according to a new study.

Netflix and the Weinstein Co. announced Tuesday it had entered into a multi-year licensing agreement that will make foreign language, documentary and certain other movies from The Weinstein Company available exclusively to U.S. Netflix subscribers.

The rumors that leaked were true: Barnes & Noble is releasing an 8GB model of the Nook Tablet to compete with the Amazon Kindle Fire. The new 8GB Nook Tablet is $199 and is available for purchase today. Barnes & Noble was fourth in tablet unit shipments during the last quarter of 2011. The company had 7 percent of fourth-quarter market share in unit shipments and sold 1.9 million units.

An Ecuadorean court Monday defied an international arbitration panel's request that the country prevent plaintiffs from collecting on billions of dollars in environmental damages from Chevron Corp.

Barnes & Noble is ready to debut a new 8GB Nook Tablet Feb. 22, and it could even come out at a lower price, but will it be enough to blow away the Amazon Kindle Fire? Kindle Fire is $50 less than the Nook Tablet, and it has more internal storage, but that's about to change when Walmart begins selling the eight gigabyte Nook Tablet Feb. 22, tech blog The Verge reported.

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is continuing its global expansion with a deal that will transform Seattle's skyline. The online retailer has agreed to purchase three development parcels in the city and plans a trio of 1 million square foot office towers.

Chevron, the No. 2 U.S. energy company, won two small legal victories this week that could lessen potential liabilities over alleged pollution in South America. A court in Ecuador had previously levied an $18 billion fine.

While Amazon has carefully protected sales information concerning their low-budget tablet, the Kindle Fire, a new report from iSupply, a market research firm, says that Amazon has nabbed the #2 in tablet market share. Apple shipped 15.4 million iPads and iPad 2s during the fourth quarter of 2011 according to iSuppli. Shipments were up 39 percent from 11.1 million in the third quarter; however, Apple's share of tablet market share dropped from 64 percent in the third quarter to 57 percent in t...

FixYa, the leading product Q&A destination on the Internet, has released a report on the top consumer issues on Apple's iPad 2 and Amazon's Kindle Fire.

Amazon.Com Inc, which has been spending heavily on expansion, said it will spend more than $90 million to open a fulfillment center at Middletown in Delaware.

Speaking to Computerworld, technology analyst Ezra Gottheil said he expects Apple to roll out a smaller 7-inch iPad sometime after debuting the iPad 3.

Rumors are rife that Apple is all set to launch its next generation iPad, but the Android lovers should not lose heart as Amazon is also anticipated to release two versions of its flagship Kindle Fire, one of which will be bigger than the existing Fire, AllThingsD has reported.