TechCrunch has provided an update on its report about Amazon’s acquisition of the mobile POS system provider GoPago. The site now reports that Amazon has bought Pasadena, Calif.-based GoPago’s technology and its engineering team, but that Amazon has not acquired GoPago's business or existing merchant relationships. In a separate deal, these have been acquired by DoubleBeam, a provider of white-labelled mobile payments services.

DoubleBeam said in a press release that it will use its GoPago acquisition to add integrated mobile POS payments to its existing services, which include mobile-based eCheck and remote deposit capture.

GoPago allows customers to order and pay for purchases at bricks-and-mortar stores using their smartphones. Its merchant service works with cloud-based POS software and tablets.

Amazon’s GoPago deal signals the online retailer’s further move into bricks-and-mortar mobile payments, Jordan McKee, a Yankee Group mobile analyst, said in a blog post.

"Many companies with e-commerce roots are now looking at the physical world opportunity," McKee wrote. "With well over 90 percent of all purchases occurring at bricks-and-mortar locations, there's good reason. Players such as PayPal, Shopify and Amazon want to be in physical stores to expand their influence and play a greater role in omni-channel commerce. Given GoPago's history with cloud-based point of sale and Amazon's rapidly evolving Kindle, it would not be surprising to see a POS solution from Amazon in the near future."

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