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3.7KCryptocurrencySquare To Pay Bitcoin Engineering Team In Bitcoin
Square, the digital payments company owned by Jack Dorsey, is boosting the number of engineers it hires to work on cryptocurrency efforts....
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5.8KCryptocurrencyTwitter’s Dorsey Buys Thousands Of Dollars In Weekly Bitcoin
Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey is spending thousands of dollars per week to purchase bitcoin, betting the digital currency’s value will rise...
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9.9KPersonnelFamily Announces Death Of Square Co-founder O’Tierney At 35
Tristan O’Tierney, who helped found payments firm Square before leaving the company in 2013, died on Feb. 23. O’Tierney was 35, and...
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4.4KCryptocurrencyTwitter CEO Supports Instant Bitcoin Payments
Jack Dorsey, billionaire tech founder and current CEO of Twitter, said he only owns bitcoin and that he supports the Lightning Network,...
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4.2KBitcoinSquare’s Dorsey Renews Prediction Of Internet-Native Currency
Twitter and Square founder Jack Dorsey expects there to be an internet currency, although he’s not sure if it will be bitcoin...
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4.0KData DivePutting On The Brakes Edition: Marcus, Square, Google (and Amazon)
When the world of payments and technology can feel like an all-forward-motion all of the time kind of an environment, it can...
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3.2KPoint of SaleSquare Share Price Sinks Further Post-CFO Departure
Square is dealing with fallout from its CFO’s upcoming departure, with shares in the company falling again on Thursday (October 12). The...
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Square Vs. Clover: How Their POS Growth Differs
Restaurants and food ordering, along with hardware sales, boosted the point-of-sale strength of Square in the second quarter — trends that could help...
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2.6KEarningsTwitter Shares Slide After Platform Warns Of Lower Monthly Users
Twitter shares fell sharply during trading early Friday morning, after the social media company warned that the number of monthly active users...
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10.3KBitcoinSquare Gets License From New York To Enable Bitcoin Trading
Square, the payments company founded by Jack Dorsey, has received a license to enable residents in New York state to buy and...
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5.5KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Causes Internal Issues For Square, Jennifer Aniston Unwillingly Caught Up In Crypto Scam
Monaco has rolled out its Monaco Wallet App to its cryptocurrency platform, the company said in an announcement. The app allows users...
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3.9KCryptocurrencyJack Dorsey Advocates Internet Currency
In the future, Square CEO Jack Dorsey thinks that the internet deserves a “native currency.” If that were to happen, he is...
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2.9KEarningsLarge Merchants Drive 47 Percent Of Square’s GPV In Q1
Bitcoin, subscriptions and services all played a part in Square’s 45 percent year-over-year total revenue growth in the first quarter of 2018....
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6.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsSquare Invests In Website Building With Weebly Acquisition
Square has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Weebly, a San Francisco–based technology company that provides tools to easily build...
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4.8KEarningsTwitter 1Q Delivers 69 Pct Growth In Ad Engagements
Twitter’s revenue growth continued in the first quarter of 2018, with its investments in personalized content and video advertising helping the social...
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5.3KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Coinbase Bug Gives Out Free Ether, Jack Dorsey Sees Bitcoin As World’s ‘Single Currency’
Bitcoin has moved past the $9,000 mark for the first time in a week, CCN reported. The price of bitcoin was $9,018.25...
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5.3KEarningsSquare Circles $1B Annual Top Line, Larger Sellers, Cash App, Bitcoin Beckon
Bitcoin. There. We said it. But all that aside -- and yes, cryptos made an appearance -- Square's diversifying model saw 4Q...
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3.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsJack Dorsey Says No Sale Now For Twitter
Despite rumors about it being a possible acquisition target, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says he wants the company to remain independent. “I’ve...
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3.0KEarningsTargeted Ads Drive Twitter Earnings Beat
Twitter beat out analyst estimates to deliver its first quarterly profit and an unexpected return to revenue growth. According to Reuters, revenue...
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6.9KPersonnelSoFi Taps Twitter For Next CEO
Twitter executive Anthony Noto could become the next CEO of Social Finance, the FinTech lender. According to a report in The Wall...
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1.9KMobile PaymentsSquare Debuts U.K. Pop-Up Store To Help High Street Merchants Boost Sales
Square has opened its first pop-up store in the U.K., following the company’s first store opening in New York City last month....
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5.2KRetailSquare Goes Brick-And-Mortar In New York
Square, the mobile payments processor run by Jack Dorsey, opened its first physical, brick-and-mortar store to offer hands-on support for merchants, as...
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4.8KData DiveIndependence Edition: Square, Amazon And LendUp
With just a day left ‘til the fireworks officially start in celebration of the 4th of July here in the U.S., we thought we’d offer...
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2.7KPayment MethodsSquare Could Be Gearing Up To Launch A Debit Card
Square, the payment company founded by Jack Dorsey, is expanding its Square Cash service into more bank-like services. According to a report...
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Squaring The Circle That Is Square
Big ideas often start by solving a seemingly small problem. In the case of Square — the payments innovator that launched hundreds of...
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3.6KInternationalSquare Heads To The UK, Wells Fargo Hearts NFC And Ant Financial Finds Some Fighting Words
Samsung managed to take up most of the oxygen in the mobile room this week — and the big show included the world’s introduction to...
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3.9KPayment MethodsSquare Now In UK, To Use UK As A Launch Pad For European Expansion
Square, Jack Dorsey’s payment company, is now available in the U.K. as of Tuesday (March 28), reported CNBC. According to a report...
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2.8KSocial CommerceTwitter’s Trump Kerfuffle
While it is arguably almost impossible for Americans to avoid the tweets of Donald Trump at this point, unless they are willing...
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4.6KEarningsSquare: Moving Upmarket And Into Lending
It’s been nearly one year since Square IPO’d, and the market shrugged its collective shoulders. Yesterday’s earnings call showed a very different...
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Magic Johnson Leaves Square’s Board
It seems that after a rocky first six months as a publicly traded company, Jack Dorsey may be bracing for more rough...
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Twitter Brings Ex-Amex Exec Aboard
The Twitter executive saga continues as the company said on Tuesday (Jan. 26) that it has named Leslie Berland as the new...
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5.8KMobile CommerceTwitter Exec Shakeup Storm Keeps Brewing
In the wake of Twitter’s weekend announcement that heads rolled and heads were replaced, deeper questions are being asked as to whether the company...
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7.2KSocial CommerceTwitter Takeover Looking Increasingly Likely
Over the weekend, the social media company confirmed CEO Jack Dorsey is shaking up the leadership ranks as four top executives plan...
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4.7KMobile CommerceAre Dorsey’s Dual CEO Roles Working Out?
Jack Dorsey is leading a double life, though, unfortunately, it does not involve being Batman. Every morning, Monday through Friday, he is...
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Short Sellers Circling Square
It’s a truism on Wall Street that when a stock moves up and to the right, sharply, posting strong gains in a...
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4.2KNewsDorsey Says Square Wallet Could Be Back
Everyone wants to be in the mobile wallet space — even companies that once failed in the sector. That’s the case for Square...
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3.7KPayment MethodsAn Insider’s Perspective: What Square’s IPO Really Means
There has been plenty of controversy over Square and its valuation, particularly after it priced its IPO at $9 a share —...
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Yahoo’s Chief Development Officer Jumps Ship To Square
Jacqueline Reses, currently Yahoo’s chief development officer, is reportedly leaving Yahoo for Square. Reses’ main focus recently at Yahoo has been spinning...
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IPO Watch: Square…A Bloated Unicorn?
The news the payments community has been waiting for has hit the wires: Square has filed for its IPO. The mobile payments...
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1.8KMobile CommerceLayoffs Ahead For Twitter — And Snapchat, Too
The layoff plan is officially in place for Twitter. And Snapchat. CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed the Twitter news in a memo which...
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Twitter Planning To Lay Off Employees
Jack Dorsey’s second inning at Twitter is coming with a whole lot of changes, such as adding character length to tweets, editing...
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Dual Square, Twitter Roles For Dorsey Raises Concerns
One man, two very big hats. As the social media and payments worlds (and much of the rest of the globe) know...
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Dorsey Officially Named Twitter’s CEO, Bain To Serve As COO
It’s official: Jack is back. Twitter confirmed the news Monday morning (Oct. 5) that the decision to appoint Jack Dorsey — Twitter’s...
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Could Twitter’s Dorsey Gain Be Square’s IPO Slump?
Just when talks of Square’s IPO are gaining momentum, its CEO Jack Dorsey is finding himself at a crossroads — to be...
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Jack Will Stay Back As Twitter’s CEO, Sources Say
The long-time coming news that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey will officially be named Twitter’s permanent CEO will happen as early as tomorrow (Oct....
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Twitter Board Shows Change Of Heart For Dorsey
Jack Dorsey may be able to hold tightly to his title of CEO at two mammoth tech companies. Dorsey is the chief executive...
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Square IPO Inching Closer
Square may finally stop circling the public equity markets and file its IPO as early as within the next two weeks, Fortune...
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Can Jack Dorsey Handle Two CEO Jobs At Once?
Square CEO Jack Dorsey hinted that he would not step down from Square’s top management, even if it means running two mammoth...
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Will Jack Actually Stay Back? Dorsey Top Twitter CEO Candidate
For those paying attention to the Twitter CEO rumors, there’s only one question on everyone’s mind: Will Jack actually be back? The...
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Dorsey Increases Twitter Stake Amid CEO Rumors
While more reports suggest that Twitter’s Interim CEO Jack Dorsey might eventually takeover the permanent role, it appears the executive has taken...
