Yesterday, we announced Amazon Mobile Payments Service extending the Amazon Payments experience, including 1-Click confirmation to mobile phones and providing mobile developers and merchants an easy way to accept payments. You can now monetize your mobile applications with Amazon Mobile Payments Service to provide your customers a simple and trusted way to pay on your mobile website or application. Learn more about Amazon MPS at www.amazonpayments.com/mps
Make it easy for tens of millions of Amazon customers to use the existing payment and shipping information in their Amazon.com accounts to make purchases from their mobile devices. Amazon MPS also allows you to extend the ease and convenience of 1-Click checkout to your customers.
After signing in from an Amazon MPS enabled device or mobile application, customers are automatically able to make future purchases from their mobile devices using 1-Click functionality. Through a simple set of API’s and an optimized mobile browser experience, you can easily extend single or multi-use payment options to your customers.
Few perspectives on how Amazon Mobile Payments Service will contribute to the mobile customer experience:
- "Amazon gets into mobile payments" - Financial Times/techblog - http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2009/10/amazon-gets-into-mobile-payments/
- "Amazon launches mobile payment service" - CNet / Software, Interrupted - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10367485-62.html
- "Amazon Announces Mobile Payments Service" - ReadWriteWeb -
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