Amazon.com announced its online payment service that was rumored to be coming soon, and it's a web service aimed at letting developers create applications that utilize the payment service. The company said Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS) is in limited beta and "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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