Amazon plans Kindle-based payment service - COMPUTER BILD

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By Lydia Ciesluk, 01.30.2014, 15:00 clock

dare the shipping giant leap into the offline world? Amazon wants to offer merchants a POS system has been converted to the tablet.

Amazon’s Fire-HDX Tablets are available with a seven-inch display and the 8.9-inch version.

L aut the Wall Street Journal, Amazon is working on a payment instrument for retailers. The Group wants to sell a Kindle with associated credit card reader. Business-related sources report that you can also play with the idea of ??offering services such as website development and data analysis. Whether the target group puts their customer data willingly into the hands of the online consignor, is questionable. Only in December, the purchase of GoPago had led to speculation about working on an in-house PayPal competitors.

competition for mobile payment systems

Owners of iPads and iPhones use their devices already for payment and billing. Especially gastronomy businesses often rely on the Apple tablet. The company has more than 600 million credit cards and account information. PayPal strain (142 600 000) does not even have a quarter of it. Amazon has some 230 million card data. The three competitors are preparing for the conquest of the market for mobile payment systems. At the end of the system is one step ahead, which has proven itself in the physical sale – this forecast dares Richard Crone, head of the consulting firm Crone Consulting.

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