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1.2KMobileSquare 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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3.2KFaster 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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1.9KMobile 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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1.9KMobile 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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1.8KSizzle/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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1.8KEarningsSquare’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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2.8KCryptocurrencyWith 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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2.6KRetailAppear 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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1.7KNewsFive 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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1.9KPayment MethodsSquare 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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2.0KMobile 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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1.8KPoint 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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1.9KEarnings
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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4.6KEarningsClover 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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4.2KEarnings
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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3.4KSecurity & 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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2.6KMobile 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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4.7KMobile 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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5.6KPayment 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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4.4KBankingSquare 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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7.5KBitcoinAmid 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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3.2KB2B 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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8.7KBitcoinSquare 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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4.8KInvestmentsGoldman 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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2.8KPayment 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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1.2KPayment 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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3.1KDelivery
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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2.9KBitcoin
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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3.6KPartnerships / 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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4.0KBitcoinBitcoin 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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3.3KCryptocurrencyJack 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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8.3KPoint of SaleSquare for Restaurants Gets a Boost from Plate IQ
Plate IQ has cozied up with Square, announcing on Tuesday (May 15) an integration with the new Square for Restaurants service. The...
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4.0KPOS Innovation
Square Launches Fully Integrated POS For Restaurants
Square has announced the launch of Square for Restaurants, a fully integrated point-of-sale platform for full-service restaurants. Square for Restaurants is cloud-based...
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2.0KEarningsLarge 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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5.3KBitcoin
Bitcoin Daily: Square Stocks Drop After Citron’s Bitcoin Critique, Oscar Meyer Launches Bacon Crypto
Square’s stock fell almost 4 percent on Monday (April 30), after a short seller tweeted that the company’s bitcoin efforts might be overhyped,...
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4.8KPartnerships / Acquisitions
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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2.3KPartnerships / AcquisitionsSquare Makes Zesty Catering App Acquisition
Square has acquired “certain assets” of Zesty to strengthen and scale Caviar, its food ordering platform. The acquisition will help grow Caviar’s corporate ordering business,...
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1.7KToday In DataAdjusting To The New Normal
The only constant in the world is change: whether it’s the changing shape of the EU, the resetting of rules on how...
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4.0KMobile PaymentsSquare’s Cash App Comes To The UK
Square announced on Tuesday (April 3) that its peer-to-peer (P2P) Cash app is now available in the U.K. According to news from MarketWatch, the...
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3.2KPayment MethodsSquare On Canadian Merchants And Cash(less) Payments
Today’s average Canadian consumer is more cash-enthused than their average American counterpart. Canadians still make about 51 percent of their purchases in cash,...
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5.0KRetailSquare Woos Millennials With Cash App Coffee Rewards
In an effort to attract millennials to its platform, Square is offering a pilot program that gives its Square Cash Card customers...
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4.1KMobile CommerceSquare Debuts Instant Deposit In UK
Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and Chief Executive of Square announced news on Wednesday (March 21) of the launch of a new Instant...
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4.1KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Square May Bring Bitcoin To The Big Apple, IMF Calls For Bitcoin Crackdown
Bitcoin fell below the $9,000 mark on Tuesday (March 13), MarketWatch reported. With scrutiny from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),...
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6.4KMobile
Square Cash Now Enables Direct Deposit Payroll
Square has just launched the ability for ACH direct deposits, allowing users to put their paychecks and other deposits directly into their...
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3.8KSizzle/FizzleFizzle Of The Week: Bitcoin — The Bad Neighbor
Bitcoin mining, like its real-world counterpart, uses a lot of power. Exactly how much constitutes “a lot” is a bit of a...
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3.8KRetailSMBs Turn To Mobile Devices To Accept Payments In Face-To-Face Environments
The retail point-of-sale (POS) terminal market is no stagnant business. While it is currently a $15 billion industry, Global Market Insights is...
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4.4KEarningsSquare 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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4.3KPersonnelNew Pinterest COO Has Google, Square Roots
Pinterest has named its first-ever chief operating officer, hiring former Google and Square executive Francoise Brougher. According to news from CNBC, landing Brougher...
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2.8KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Square Is Bitcoin’s ‘Ride Or Die,’ Hackers Mined Crypto With Tesla’s Cloud
It was a good Tuesday (Feb. 20) for bitcoin, Bloomberg reported. The popular cryptocurrency climbed by almost 4 percent to $11,502 at...
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2.5KBitcoinBitcoin Daily: Square Gets Cash App Into Bitcoin, Coincheck’s Security Mistake
People across the world could be mining a cryptocurrency – and not even know it, Forbes reported. Hackers are breaking into computers...
