Amazon ditches Wallet mobile payment service

Amazon has pulled the plug on its Wallet app, a service the company launched in beta six months ago to dip its toes into the burgeoning area of mobile payments.Amazon is removing the Wallet app from the Amazon and Google Play app stores Wednesday, it said. People will still be able to use cards they added to the app but their balances will no longer be updated in the wallet, so they’ll have to keep track some other way.“We’ve learned a great deal from the Amazon Wallet beta program and