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Jack Dorsey
Jack Patrick Dorsey is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company.
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CoronavirusJack Dorsey Designates $1B In Square Equity To COVID-19 Relief
Square and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he will donate 28 percent of his wealth to help fund coronavirus relief, according to...
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Payment MethodsVenmo, Square Cash Vie For Stimulus Funds Distribution
Venmo and Cash App want to be considered as ways the U.S. government could deliver its stimulus funds to help the coronavirus-wrecked...
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PersonnelDorsey To Remain As Twitter CEO Amid New Investments
A new deal struck by Twitter and investment firms Silver Lake and Elliott Management won’t affect CEO Jack Dorsey’s position with the...
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InternationalCoronavirus Update: US Consumers Hoard Supplies; JPMorgan Moves Its Traders Off Wall St; Retail Impact Shows In Mobile Data Drop
Despite policy banning coronavirus ads, Google is still showing them. The ads, including ones advertising hand sanitizers, gloves, masks and other such...
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BusinessReport: Hedge Fund Wants Twitter CEO Out
Activist fund and hedge fund company Elliott Management Corp. is pressing for changes after acquiring a stake in Twitter, including replacing CEO...
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CryptocurrencySquare Gets Patent For Crypto-Friendly Real-Time Payments System
Square, the payments provider operated by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, won a patent to debut new tech, allowing users with different assets...
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Payment MethodsTwitter Rumored To Be Considering In-Tweet Tipping
Twitter could be working on a way to “tip” people on the social media platform, though the company has so far denied...
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BitcoinBitcoin Daily: China Regulator Eyes Digital Currency Veteran As Chief; Crypto Firm Founder Charged With ICO Fraud
The China Securities Regulatory Commission, China’s security watchdog, is setting up a technology regulation bureau and will announce Yao Qian as its...
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CryptocurrencyJack Dorsey Brushes Off Plans For Square Crypto
There are no plans for Twitter to create its own digital currency similar to Facebook’s Libra. Founder Jack Dorsey said in an interview...
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CryptocurrencySquare 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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CryptocurrencyTwitter’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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PersonnelFamily 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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CryptocurrencyTwitter 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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BitcoinSquare’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 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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Point 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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EarningsTwitter 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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BitcoinSquare 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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BitcoinBitcoin 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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CryptocurrencyJack 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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EarningsLarge 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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Partnerships / 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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EarningsTwitter 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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BitcoinBitcoin 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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EarningsSquare 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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Partnerships / 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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EarningsTargeted 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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PersonnelSoFi 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 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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RetailSquare 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 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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Payment 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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InternationalSquare 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 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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Social 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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EarningsSquare: 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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Mobile 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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Social 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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Mobile 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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NewsDorsey 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 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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Mobile 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...
