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1.4KBitcoinAmid 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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2.1KB2B PaymentsSquare 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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2.5KBitcoinSquare 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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2.6KInvestmentsGoldman 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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1.7KPayment 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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580Payment 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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2.5KDeliverySquare’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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1.9KBitcoin
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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2.4KPartnerships / 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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2.3KBitcoinBitcoin 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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1.8KCryptocurrencyJack 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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7.6KPoint 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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3.4KPOS 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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1.5KEarningsLarge 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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5.0KBitcoinBitcoin 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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4.1KPartnerships / 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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1.7KPartnerships / 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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1.5KToday 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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3.0KMobile 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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2.8KPayment 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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3.8KRetailSquare 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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3.2KMobile 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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3.7KBitcoinBitcoin 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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4.3KMobile
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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3.5KSizzle/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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3.2KRetailSMBs 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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3.9KEarningsSquare 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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4.0KPersonnelNew 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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2.6KBitcoinBitcoin 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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2.3KBitcoinBitcoin 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...
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2.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsSquare Acquires Entrees On Trays For Caviar
Square has made a new acquisition in the on-demand food delivery space: 32-year-old Entrees On Trays. Caviar Product Lead Gokul Rajaram told TechCrunch the...
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4.4KMastercardMastercard Launches Inclusive Futures Project For Gig Workers
Mastercard has announced the Inclusive Futures Project, a new program that will offer specialized products and services for gig workers and next-generation...
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4.3KRegulationFDIC Head Nominee Would Speed Up Issuing ILC Licenses
Jelena McWilliams, nominated by President Donald Trump to head the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), said Tuesday (Jan. 23) that she would...
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7.8KBitcoinSquare Lets Customers Buy Bitcoin
Square, the digital payment company, is getting into bitcoin by reportedly letting some of its customers purchase the cryptocurrency. According to news...
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4.3KeCommerceGoDaddy And Square Recast SMB Payments
As the web hosting provider of choice for literally millions of small- and medium-sized businesses, GoDaddy faces the same challenge that all...
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3.3KEarnings
Square’s Services And Payments Volumes Are Sizzling – So Why Are Investors Skeptical?
Square continued its 2017 run of earnings strength with the release of its latest quarterly results on Wednesday (Nov. 8), notching growth...
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3.2KRegulationSmall Banks Vow To Protect Regulations Keeping Retailers And Tech Giants Off Their Turf
Small banks do not want to compete with the Amazons and Walmarts of the world when it comes to offering financial services...
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5.4KPOS InnovationSquare Supersizes Square Register
Square is rolling out a point-of-sale (POS) device for larger merchants, according to a press release. Priced at $999, the company says its...
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5.8KAlternative FinancesWhy The ICBA Doesn’t Want Square To Be A Bank
Despite the fact that they are currently being hotly pursued by technologists, the Industrial Loan Charter (ILC) is not exactly a new idea. The...
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3.4KBank Regulation
Banking Trade Group Doesn’t Want Square To Be A Bank
The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), the trade group for community banks, is calling on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)...
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3.9KB2B PaymentsDespite Natural Disasters And Late Payments, SMBs Remain Encouraged
A hurricane-sized hiccup in U.S. small business hiring, a generational gap in SMB optimism and a slew of stubborn U.K. small firms:...
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4.8KPartnerships / AcquisitionsSquare Takes $25M Stake In Eventbrite
Square, the payment processing company, has partnered with Eventbrite, the event ticketing service, and will make an investment in the company. According...
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3.6KStock IndexMixed Performance For Payments Stocks
Payments stocks were rather evenly dispersed across winners and declining issues this past week, shortened as it was for Labor Day. Square...
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3.7KData DiveThe Explanations Edition: Equifax, Apple and Square
All eyes were on the sky last week, as most of the Southeastern United States braced for Hurricane Irma. And, as post-Harvey rebuilding...
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7.7KBanking
Square Makes Its Big Move On Banking
It seems Square is interested in becoming something more like a bank. According to WSJ reports, Square intends to submit an application...
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2.8KPOS InnovationAn Appetite For Point-Of-Sale Change
Football season is here, and with it, everyone’s favorite stadium food (and least favorite stadium snack prices). According to The Cheat Sheet,...
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1.3KMobile 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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4.6KB2B PaymentsShopKeep Enters Small Business Lending Market
Like its competitor Square, ShopKeep seems to be stepping closer into its business users’ back offices. On Wednesday (Aug. 29), ShopKeep announced...
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3.2KStock Index
Payments Company Stocks Post Winning Week
Payments stocks performed decidedly to the upside last week, with only one company showing losses, and scant ones at that. Square was...
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4.2KRetailSquare 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...
