Amazon "outsources" Its Checkout Cart

Like several others I thought this article was (oddly) about Amazon switching to Google Checkout or some such. But actually, as this quote makes clear, Amazon is extending its cloud services:

Amazon Outsources Its Checkout Cart: "Amazon is making big strides towards building cloud computing services, from payments to storage to compute cycles. If it can succeed in creating meaningful revenues from these services, they should be higher-margin businesses than shipping books and CDs. (In a related move today, Amazon is simplifying its Mechanical Turk Web service so that non-coders (i.e., business managers) can set up tasks they want to automatically farm out to digital workers across the world."

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