Amazon is building a Kindle-based point-of-sale payments service

Amazon might still be working away on its far-out delivery drone project, but it’s also reportedly cooking up something else, admittedly a little tamer, too: a Kindle checkout system and a P2P payment service. Yes, the former’s exactly what it sounds like, a Kindle tablet equipped with proprietary software and a credit card reader. Amazon supposedly acquired GoPago in 2013 to nudge this venture forward, though TechCrunch says it’s not the only payment solution the firm’s developing.