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 sells its line of Kindle Fire tablets (roughly) at cost, betting that each owner will buy enough books, music, movies, and apps to make a tidy profit. With digital spending playing such a huge ...

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 ...

Amazon made its Coins virtual currency available in France, Spain and Italy, offering Amazon Appstore users in these markets 500 free Coins to promote the launch. First introduced in the US, UK and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Charles Edward Hudson is a venture partner with SoftTech VC and the CEO and co-founder of San Francisco-based, mobile games company Bionic Panda Games. Follow him on Twitter @chudson. I ...