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2.0KMobile ApplicationsUS Tech Stocks Sink And Square Down 10 Percent
Square’s shares fell 10 percent on Monday (November 19), bringing its one-month losses to 14 percent. According to CNBC, the S&P technology sector...
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4.2KB2B PaymentsSquare Adds Benefits To Payroll Platform
Square is enhancing its payroll platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) by integrating benefits solutions, the company announced on Wednesday (Nov....
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3.4KRetailRetailers Team With Providers For eCommerce Payments’ Tear
Online shopping is on a tear, and marketplaces are reaping the rewards. Some sites are seeing more active buyers and higher gross...
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3.2KEarningsSquare GPV Gains Amid Larger Sellers, Capital Loans Surge 34 Pct
Square's gross payment volumes surged 29 percent year over year and larger sellers, at volumes $125K and above, were a larger percent...
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2.9KRetailAEVI Software Launch Targets SMB Checkout Improvements
It’s never easy being a mom-and-pop merchant, or a similarly small retailer, given the resources of the bigger rivals out there, along...
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2.7KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Oracle Unveils ‘Blockchain Applications Cloud’; Coinbase And Circle Start ‘CENTRE Consortium’
HTC is bringing an early iteration of its Exodus 1 blockchain phone to “cryptographers and developers from all over the world,” according...
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2.8KDigital PaymentsSquare Launches Terminal To Replace Legacy Keypad Terminals
Square, the payments company, announced Thursday (Oct. 18) the launch of an integrated all-in-one card processing device dubbed Square Terminal. The company...
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2.8KData 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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2.1KPoint 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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4.2KPersonnelSquare CFO Departs, Shares Sink
Square announced that its CFO is stepping down, which caused the company’s shares to fall in after-hours trading. Square’s CEO Jack Dorsey...
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6.6KPlatform PaymentsTRENDING: Recreational Athletics’ Payments-Powered Assist
What’s the key to a great customer experience? For a growing group of online and mobile platforms, the answer lies in the...
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3.2KEarningsWill Square’s Stock Drop Shift Attention To Credit Risk?
Shares of Square dropped more than 8 percent on Monday (Oct. 8), as a bear on the Street said the firm is...
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1.9KData DiveData Dive, Columbus Edition: Square, PayPal And One Brave Bank Teller
Today is Columbus Day, a celebration of Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of Americas 526 years ago. The “discovery” is in quotes for three...
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2.9KNewsFive At Five: Square’s New Payments Program
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes a look at Square’s newest...
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3.8KPayment MethodsSquare Debuts Merchant Installment Payments
Square announced Thursday (October 4) the launch of Square Installments, a new service that provides sellers with access to a tool for...
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4.5KRegulationWePay’s Aberman On Why Compliance Capability Is Better Bought Than Built
Sending a payment looks easy from the front end — so easy, in fact, that it can be hard to believe how complicated...
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3.2KMobile Applications
Square Launches Payroll Services
Square has announced the launch of the Square Payroll App, a self-serve tool that makes it easier for employers to manage the...
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2.1KData DiveData Dive, Trying New Things Edition: Stripe, Square And Amazon
Despite the thousands of articles and books written by self-help experts over the years extolling the benefits of embracing change and incorporating...
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3.3KSMBs
Square Now Connects SMBs With Certified Partners
Square has announced the launch of its Square Solutions Partner Program, which will allow business owners to easily identify Square-approved agencies, resellers, or...
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4.2KMobile Applications
Square Eyes Banking Services Via Cash App
Square is in consideration of offering traditional banking services through its peer-to-peer (P2P) payment app. At Recode’s annual Code Commerce conference in...
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1.8KMobileSquare Offers eGift Cards In UK
Square has announced that it will be offering eGift cards in the U.K. to help small businesses boost revenue during the upcoming holiday...
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5.0KFaster PaymentsTRENDING: Challenger Bank Finds Instant Rewards In Faster Payments
Around the globe, new payment schemes are on the rise. In the Eurozone, the Eurosystem’s new process for settling instant payments is...
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2.8KMobile PaymentsSquare Integrates With Apple Desktop, Chromebook
Square has announced that it is releasing two new ways for businesses to take payments on their Apple devices and Google Chromebook. “We...
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2.7KMobile ApplicationsWeebly Unveils New Features For Mobile App
In an update to its standalone product, Weebly unveiled multiple eCommerce features for its mobile app. The rollout comes as Weebly seeks to...
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2.3KSizzle/Fizzle
Square And India Commerce Sizzle While The Krona And US Debt Fizzle
Sizzle Square: The firm, touted by some on the sell side as “FinTech’s best idea,” had a stock boost this week. At...
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2.5KEarnings
Square’s Stock Rises 6 Percent After Analysts Say It’s FinTech’s ‘Best Idea’
Square‘s shares jumped 6 percent on Wednesday (Aug. 29) after an analyst raised its price on the company’s stock to $100 from...
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3.8KCryptocurrencyWith Patent Filing, Square Circles Cryptos For Payments At POS
Much has been made about cryptocurrencies and the speculation that has marked trading activity in that arena. Much has been made about...
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3.4KRetailAppear Here, Now With Square
When Ross Bailey, founder and CEO of Appear Here, first came up with his business concept, he wasn’t thinking about building the...
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2.2KNewsFive At Five: Faster EMV Comes To The US
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today’s coverage includes news about faster chip...
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2.5KPayment Methods
Square Makes EMV Transactions Faster In The US
Square, the digital payments company, announced on Wednesday (Aug. 15) that it delivered on its pledge to make EMV transactions faster in the...
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2.7KMobile Payments
Square Cash Downloads Top Venmo
Cumulative downloads of Square‘s Cash App surpassed PayPal‘s Venmo for the first time ever after Square’s service grew three times faster than its...
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2.2KPoint of Sale
Square Opens Reader Hardware To Developers
Square announced it is opening its Reader hardware to developers, enabling them to build their own custom checkout and point of sale...
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3.0KEarnings
Transaction Volumes, Subscription Services Boost Square’s Q2 Earnings
Square managed to beat Wall Street estimates on both earnings and revenue when second quarter earnings went live yesterday — powered largely...
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6.7KEarningsClover Vs. Square: What’s Next In This POS Competition?
Clover, the point-of-sale operation owned by First Data, keeps growing, and that could present more challenges for Square. First Data reported its...
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4.8KEarnings
Square Stock Nosedives
Ahead of the company’s earnings call this week, Square’s stock fell 6 percent. According to TheStreet, financial services firm William Blair released...
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5.3KSecurity & FraudPhishing Scam Masquerades As Square To Target Businesses
A phishing scam making the rounds and targeting businesses is using the Square name to fool its targets. Reports in the Victoria Advocate...
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3.2KMobile PaymentsSnapchat Exits P2P
Snapchat is closing down Snapcash, its peer-to-peer payment space, on August 30. According to reports, there is code buried in Snapchat’s Android...
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5.5KMobile PaymentsSquare Cash Crypto Trading Soars Despite Bitcoin’s Decline
Despite bitcoin’s fall, Square‘s mobile payment app, which launched crypto trading in late January, is surging. In fact, Square Cash is growing...
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6.4KPayment MethodsGlobal Payments Industry Sees Surge In Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions in the global payments industry have hit record highs in 2018, especially in the payments technology market. Financial Times (FT) reported...
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5.0KBankingSquare Pulls Banking Application
Though Square has reportedly withdrawn its application to create a deposit-taking bank, the payments processor intends to file the application again in the...
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7.7KBitcoinAmid Hacks, Bitcoin Is Still Not Ready For Primetime
What’s a currency to do when it can take down the internet? Gain in price, amid growing clamor for it, of course....
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3.7KB2B Payments
Square Enters Procurement Payments Space With Handshake
Payments company Square has made several initiatives in the past to expand its presence in the back-office and B2B payments space. Now,...
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9.0KBitcoinSquare 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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5.5KInvestmentsGoldman Sachs Employees’ Second Job: Venture Capitalists
The bankers at Goldman Sachs have been moonlighting as venture capitalists, investing in many startups that eventually became household names and overseeing...
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3.4KPayment MethodsMezu: What It Would Take To Replace Cash
When Yuval Brisker landed in Tel Aviv for a family function, he didn’t have time to stop at a bank and exchange...
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1.7KPayment MethodsWells Fargo Merchant Services SMB Pricing Not At Parity With Square
Wells Fargo Merchant Services has decided to simplify the prices it charges small businesses (SMBs) to accept credit and debit card transactions...
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3.5KDelivery
Square’s Caviar Settles Gratuity Lawsuit With $2.2M Payout
Square, Jack Dorsey’s digital payments company, has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit lodged at Caviar, its on-demand food delivery service, reported TechCrunch....
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3.2KBitcoin
M&A, Bitcoin Trading Adds $8B In Market Cap To Square
Shares of Square have risen almost 50 percent, adding about $8 billion in market value, since the company launched bitcoin trading last...
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4.4KPartnerships / AcquisitionsWho Wins And Loses In PayPal’s iZettle Deal
PayPal last week announced it will acquire Swedish payments company iZettle in a cash deal valued at $2.2 billion, which is expected...
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4.4KBitcoinBitcoin 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...
