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Amazon has had some pretty great deals as part of its Free App of the Day, but apparently that's over now. The prolific retailer is replacing it with Amazon Underground, which includes "over $10,000 of app and games that are actually free." Specifically, Amazon is giving away paid apps and in-app purchases with an agreement that reimburses app developers based on the amount of time the apps are actually used. It's very much like Amazon Kindle Unlimited, without the extra charge.

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Even as it is making deep inroads into the Indian ecommerce market, Amazon India is piloting in-home beauty services in the country, the most viable segment among home services that offers high frequency of transactions, better margins and repeat business.

By stepping into services marketplace, the ecommerce major is opening a new front where it will find itself competing with a number of home-grown players, including Quikr and UrbanClap.

Amazon will offer a number of services, including pedicure, manicure, waxing and threading across 15 localities in Bangalore where users can order and schedule professional in-home beauty services. The professionals are sourced through third-party service providers. Users have to pay upfront for the service and can schedule the appointment between 9AM to 6PM. The company currently provides only online payment options, but said cash on delivery will be introduced later.

The services are currently available only for women customers.

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Building the systems that enable Amazon’s workforce

Amazon has helped rethink how our customers shop – how they use the cloud – how they read books. And we want to rethink how we empower our employees. We are the team that brought you Career Choice – which pre-pays 95% of tuition and fees for our associates to earn degrees in high-demand fields like nursing and aircraft mechanics. And now we want to build and scale our next great employee program – pioneering a completely new system that will empower our 250,000+ employees to choose their own adventure.

We are empowered to think big at Amazon, and the People Technology team is doing just that. Instead of using third-party systems, we are building new ways for employees to connect with one another. This is a terrific opportunity for someone who wants to impact – on a large scale – the way employees interact with one another.

We’re building the tools to enable our fast-moving businesses to make use of workforce data at high transaction rates and with low latency. To do that, we are solving hard problems in identity and authentication, building distributed systems that can meet Amazon’s exacting needs for round-the-clock availability and immediate responsiveness, and creating reactive event processing systems that let us turn our firehose of data into instant visualizations.

It’s a big challenge, and it’s not simple. We’re innovating one of the most complex employee systems in the world – ensuring that our employees have a secure, responsive and user-friendly way of connecting to Amazon and one another. We need big thinkers and pioneers – technologists who are ready to innovate in this space. We hope you’ll join us.

Interested in part-time opportunities on the People Technology team? Learn more about our Part-Time Tech program here: www.amazon.jobs/part-time-tech

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Amazon is also discussing the launch of UPI with a few banks.Hota said the global ecommerce company will not be developing its own app, but will use a pay button for UPI on its portal. The testing process is still going on, he said.

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