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The Next Big Thing co-written by Sigrun Lilja of Gydja Collection hits amazon.com ‘Best Seller’ list


The recently published business and trends book co-written by Sigrun Lilja of Gydja Collection, ‘The Next Big Thing’ has made it on to the amazon.com ‘Best Seller’ list after only twenty-four hours of being on sale. Read the full story

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Icelandic company feels heat from Visa and Mastercard over Wikileaks service


Datacell, a website hosting company in Iceland and Switzerland, says it is under increasing pressure from outside sources including Visa and Mastercard, to stop hosting the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks. This despite the fact that it is just one of many companies hosting Wikileaks around the world, and that Datacell has thousands of other customers besides Wikileaks. Read the full story

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E-reader from Amazon released in Denmark


amazon-e-readerThe popularity of E-reading is expected to increase following Amazon’s decision to launch their best-selling model internationally. The Kindle program is an electronic paper display which requires no computer, synching or cables and offers hundreds of thousands of best-selling titles which can be downloaded in less than a minute. Read the full story

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Norway offers Brazil a billion to save the Amazon


brazilA new Amazon conservation fund initiated by Brazil’s government in August has received its first major donation from Norway, which offered USD 1 billion to protect this essential biosphere. The Norwegian donation is the beginning of what Brazil hopes will eventually amount to a USD 21 billion fund to protect the Amazon and stop loggers and farmers from Read the full story

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