Jack Dorsey

Square’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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Data Dive

Putting 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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Point of Sale

Square 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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Twitter 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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Square 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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Bitcoin 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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Cryptocurrency

Jack 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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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Large 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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Square 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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Twitter 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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Bitcoin 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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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Square 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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Jack 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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Targeted 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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Personnel

SoFi 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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Mobile Payments

Square 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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Retail

Square 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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Data Dive

Independence 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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Payment Methods

Square 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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MPOS Tracker

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...

Oberthur Partners On Mobile Payment Platform

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International

Square 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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Payment Methods

Square 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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Social Commerce

Twitter’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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Square: 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...

eCommerce

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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Twitter 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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Social Commerce

Twitter 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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Are 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...

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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News

Dorsey 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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Payment Methods

An 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 —...

News

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...