document: Amazon set to dabble in mobile payments , report suggests According to a report filed by Bloomberg , online retail giant Amazon is toying with the idea of launching a mobile payments service . Citing two anonymous sources , the publication notes that the service would '' `` let consumers pay for goods in brick-and-mortar stores using their mobile phones . '' '' Amazon is purportedly testing payment technologies based on NFC -LRB- Near Field Communications -RRB- in an effort to expand its Payments service . This is the company 's latest venture into the mobile world . Amazon officially opened its Appstore for Android on March 22nd and its Cloud Drive music storage/streaming service on March 29th . The company has not made any public statements about future plans involving mobile payments or NFC . Read
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