Amazon Files For mPayments Patent, Expands Global Apps

By  |  April 17, 2013
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Online commerce giant Amazon has filed a patent with the US Patent Office for the creation of an “anonymous mobile payments system.”

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    The patent describes a “computer-implemented method of providing an anonymous mobile payment to enable transfer of an electronic payment between a provider and a recipient without an exchange of personal information between the provider and the recipient.”

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    Amazon has also announced that developers can now submit their Android apps for the Appstore in nearly 200 countries.

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