Amazon calls new French bill 'discriminatory against online consumers'

Amazon calls new French bill 'discriminatory against online consumers'London, Oct 4 : Amazon has reportedly called France's new bill that supports independent bookstores against competition from web-based retailers, as a discrimination against online consumers.

Under the new bill, companies like Amazon are restricted from offering combined 5 percent reductions and free deliveries.

According to the BBC, France's 3,000 independent bookshops had complained they can't compete with cut-price offers online.

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Stone isn't listed among the Twitter stakeholders with 5 percent ownership or more, indicating that he may have unloaded at least a portion of his stake when he quit the company in 2011.

According to the New York Post, 39-year-old Stone made an unceremonious exit from the micro-blogging site, joining co-founder Evan Williams at tech incubator Obvious Corp.

Kate Upton house hunting in NYC to get closer to beau

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Cate Blanchett brands 'Blue Jasmine' her favourite role till date

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Thank god, I'm not in 'Bigg Boss 7': Shweta Tiwari

Shweta-TiwariMumbai, Oct 4 : Actress Shweta Tiwari, winner of "Bigg Boss 4", is horrified after seeing the kind of tasks being given to the inmates in the current season of the reality show.

"After watching 'Bigg Boss' this time, I feel that thank god I was not there. (I am happy that) I participated in the show's earlier season and not this one," Shweta told reporters here Thursday at dancer and vocalist Giaa Khan's Odissi dance rehearsals.

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