More specifically, Bloomberg is reporting that Amazon is exploring a mobile payment service based on NFC technology, which would let you pay for items and receive things like loyalty points using nothing other than an NFC-equipped cellphone.

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Payment services like Google and Amazon take a small cut of the transaction, but they allow customers to skip all the form fields simply by entering a password.

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He was previously co-founder and CEO of Accept.com, a consumer-to-consumer payment services company acquired by Amazon in 1999, and Good Technology, a provider of secure mobility solutions, which Motorola bought in 2007.

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Google for search marketing, PayPal for online payment, DHL and UPS for delivery, Amazon for cloud computing, and Akami for web content distribution.

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Online payment service providers like PayPal, AliPay, Amazon, etc.

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Users are already accustomed to its online payment system for buying goods, which gives an advantage to Amazon.

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