{"id":5807,"date":"2013-02-07T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2532057"},"modified":"2013-02-07T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T15:00:00","slug":"amazon-mints-its-own-coins-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/amazon-mints-its-own-coins-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Mints Its Own Coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is going to use a virtual currency it calls Amazon Coins to stimulate the development and sale of games, applications and in-app virtual goods for its Kindle Fire tablet.<br \/>\nOne Amazon Coin is worth a penny and Amazon means to shower shoppers with tens of millions of dollars in free Amazon Coins in May. Consumers can also buy their own Amazon Coins.<br \/>\nThe scheme will only be available in the US at the Amazon Appstore and can\u2019t be used to pay for subscription services.<br \/>\nDevelopers will still get their regular 70% cut.<br \/>\nDevelopers have to submit any new apps and have them approved by April 25 to qualify for the gimmick. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2532057\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon is going to use a virtual currency it calls Amazon Coins to stimulate the development and sale of games, applications and in-app virtual goods for its Kindle Fire tablet.<br \/>\nOne Amazon Coin is worth a penny and Amazon means to shower shoppers with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}