Tag: SQUARE

Intuit has had Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's mobile payment startup Square in its sights for some time. Back in August, Intuit teamed up with Mophie to offer a complete hardware and software package for $179 up front, plus a small percentage of every purchase made (smaller than that taken by Square). But Square always offered its card reader for free with the software package. Now, Intuit has ...

If you had told us a few months back that mobile merchant credit card systems would become a serious battleground in the smartphone world, we probably would have told you that you were insane. Surely, the market for credit card-scanning iPhone peripherals would be incredibly small, right? Apparently it's not, and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's 'Square' won't be able to monopolize the ...

The Square hype started back in December when Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced a new mobile payment system. It lets any business plug a small box into a mobile device's headphone jack for fast, easy swiping and payment. Receipts, signatures and accounts are all handled and stored electronically. Square is finally going live today for businesses and customers who use iPhones, iPads or the ...

There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. Business Insider rounds up 12 awesome things you can do on Bloomberg terminals, those financial computers that look drastically different from modern OS's like Windows ...

After changing the way we thought about social-networking with Twitter, co-founder Jack Dorsey needed another system to revolutionize, tackling the tired system of credit and debit cards. Today, Dorsey unveiled his new project, Square, for all the world to see, launching a Web site and giving Tech Crunch a firsthand look at how his new product works. Here's the basic idea: Square is a tiny ...