No matter your personal preference, there's no denying that money has gone increasingly digital in the past decade. If you're an avid gamer or you make a lot of in-app purchases, you may have heard of ...

Amazon has thrown a handful of its online coins at its US customers. The bookseller has handed 500 "Amazon Coins" to each of its Kindle Fire customers. 500 coins are worth $5 and can be used to buy ...

Retailer and tablet maker Amazon has launched its digital currency, Amazon Coins, in the UK. The coins can be spent on Amazon.co.uk and within the company’s range of tablet devices, with the aim being ...

That jingling sound you hear is the arrival of Amazon Coins for Kindle Fire users. Amazon on Monday announced that customers can use its new coins to purchase apps, games, and in-app items in the ...

Donna Tam covers Amazon and other fun stuff for CNET News. She is a San Francisco native who enjoys feasting, merrymaking, checking her Gmail and reading her Kindle. Amazon's app store customers can ...

Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as ...