VIDEO: Square Puts Greater Focus on Building Hardware
Don't think of Square as a payments company anymore. That's the central message from Square's newly released recruiting video, which ...
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CardFlight Appears to Be a Dongle with a Difference
There is a profusion of dongles on the market to allow merchants or individuals to accept credit card payments with ...
USA – world’s largest closed loop payments system?
Last year the US contributed close to 20% of the world's GDP despite coming off the back of the biggest economic downturn ...
FinTech Accelerator SixThirty Adds Two Directors
SixThirty, the new FinTech accelerator based in St. Louis and launched by Square's co-founder, has added two directors to its ...
A Bad Week for Square?
Was this a really bad week for Square? Square's announcement that it had partnered with Intuit to share data between ...
A New Dongle for Chip-and-PIN Cards May Ease EMV Adoption Pains in US
Finally there’s a dongle for the chip and PIN set. Actually, it's a bit big to be called a dongle. ...
If You Have $1 Billion, You Can Buy Braintree
In mid-July, a PayPal employee told Bank Innovation, off the record, that Braintree was "quietly being shopped around." It's not so ...
VIDEO: SixThirty’s Founder on the New FinTech Accelerator’s Strategy via CNBC
Jim McKelvey, Square's co-founder, discusses his newest venture, SixThirty, an accelerator program that helps financial tech companies launch, with CNBC. ...
Plug and Pay: A Gallery of 26 Mobile Card Readers
Dongles, dongles everywhere. Since the launch of Square's lozenge-shaped credit card reader in 2010, dongles to process credit card transactions ...
Chase Paymentech Looks Downmarket to Small and Midsize Businesses
Chase Paymentech, which processed a cool $655.2 billion in transactions in 2012 -- about 5x as much as PayPal -- is ...
