07 Aug, 2008
Amazon extends its “on-demand” offer : cloud computing, crowdsourcing and online-payment solution
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Amazon, one of the initiator of the “on-demand” trend has recently showed it still wanted to innovate in this through several major announcements :
- Mechanical Turk : the crowdsourcing marketplace is now more accesible to nonprogrammers by offering a Web-based editing tool. People are now able to create a task online get their work done.
- Checkout by Amazon : Amazon is challenging eBay and its payment solution Paypal and offer to ecommerce websites a complete payment service handling most of the issues linked with payment (taxes, shipping charges…)
- Amazon Simple Pay : allows Internet users to purchase on third-party websites using their Amazon account.
- $12 Million investment in Elastra : Amazon is part of a Series B financing round of Elastra, which provides services that helps companies to deploy and manage systems in the cloud.
