Amazon is the sleeper of the second generation tech weapons race. Most conversations about buyouts and investment in the tech industry have Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! mentioned but you rarely hear much buzz around what Amazon is plotting.
‘undisclosed amount’ is how much they’re putting into Amie ST.
The news via VentureBeat is typical Amazon… “close to the vest’
We know music is social, and finding new music needs to be fun. Music discovery is best served by communication between people, so we reward fans when they recommend songs to their friends by giving them credit to buy more music. Whether you spend two minutes or two hours on Amie Street you are connected to a world of music lovers discovering new music together.
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We support our artists by giving them 70% of song sales and never taking ownership of their creative work. We want all artists on Amie Street to be successful and we believe that our unique marketplace will accomplish this goal to a degree never achieved before.
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I mentioned
clipmarks on
Twitter a while back and have always thought it would make a great “rapid publishing” tool for full time bloggers. I’m going to give it a shot, and to lead off this experiment is some info on Amazon’s FPS. Not first person shooter but Flexible Payments Service.
I’m not sure yet what it means to bloggers but I’ll be watching.
| Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) – Limited Beta |
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Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) is the first payments service designed from the ground up specifically for developers. The set of web services APIs allows the movement of money between any two entities, humans or computers. It is built on top of Amazon’s reliable and scalable payment infrastructure.
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