Thu Jul 02, 2009 1:23 am
Online retail giant Amazon.com plans to develop smartphones apps to expand its Kindle e-book reader -- making digital titles available to more platforms and generating additional revenue from sales of software.
Amazon, the world's biggest Internet retailer, has been expanding its team of mobile engineers in the past few months, listing several jobs on its Web site for software engineers, a senior product manager for mobile payments and a director of mobile applications.
The Seattle, Wash.-based company has also been acquiring companies whose products and services would help Amazon turn out new software for mobile phones.
In April, the e-tailer bought Lexcycle, a software maker that turns the iPhone into an e-book reader.
Last month, it purchased SnapTell, a software maker that lets iPhone users take photos of CDs, DVDs, books and video games and then compare their prices with Amazon's online store.
"We don't discuss future plans or developments," said an Amazon spokeswoman.
Amazon entered the mobile arena last February when it announced plans to sell Kindle books on mobile phones.
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