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Intuit takes a swipe at Square
Intuit's GoPayment is going freemium to battle Jack Dorsey's Square, but is the mobile payment pie worth fighting over?
Intuit, best known for its Quicken, QuickBooks and TurboTax accounting software, is making a big push into the burgeoning mobile payments business with the launch today of a free version of its nearly two-year-old GoPayment service.
GoPayment, designed for small businesses that don't yet accept credit cards — think babysitters, plumbers, dogwalkers and MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 9, 2011 10:00 PM ET -
Today in Tech: MySpace layoffs, Facebook worth $50 billion?
A curated selection of the holiday weekend's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Cheap flat-panel maker Vizio intends to make a splash today by unveiling two notable products that marks a company first: the Via Phone with a 4-inch screen, front-facing camera for video calls, and a 5 megapixel rear cam, as well as the Via Tablet, sporting a 8-inch high-res screen, WiFi (of course), three speakers, and a MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 3, 2011 6:00 AM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Android, Apple, Facebook, Google, iTunes, Jack Dorsey, Mobile, MySpace, Samsung, Sequoia Capital, Square, TechCrunch, Verizon, Vizio, Vodaphone, Wall Street Journal, Wi-Fi -
App developers on Windows phone 7: "Wait and see"
The new smartphone OS from Microsoft is receiving praise for usability on par with iPhone and Android's experiences. But to reel consumers in, Microsoft will have to court app developers first.
In an exploding market where an estimated $6.2 billion will be spent on 4.5 billion mobile apps this year alone, consumers find themselves essentially deluged with a large selection of smartphones powered by an increasing number of mobile operating systems MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 21, 2010 11:39 AM ETPosted in: Alex Nerst, Android, Apple, Boaz Zilberman, Fring, iPhone, Jack Dorsey, Jake Levant, Layar, Microsoft, Mobile, Mobile operating system, Pulse News Reader, Square, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7 -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
In Bloomberg Businessweek's profile of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, the publication declares, "Thank heavens." Despite smack-talking HP's board for letting Mark Hurd go and questioning the choice MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 8, 2010 7:45 AM ET -
Inside new CEO Costolo's plans for Twitter
Fortune spoke with then COO Costolo earlier this year to find out about the tech veteran's plans for monetizing Twitter. Describing the company as at a "juncture," it's now his job as CEO to navigate the company Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams founded, through it.
According to a company blog post, current COO Dick Costolo will replace Evan Williams as Twitter CEO. Williams, who stepped in for creator Jack Dorsey in MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 4, 2010 4:44 PM ETPosted in: blog post, Dick Costolo, Evan Williams, FeedBurner, Google, Jack Dorsey, social media, Twitter -
Twitter's Dorsey: Fixing credit cards with Square. Health records next?
With Square, the entrepreneur wants to bypass middlemen and empower small merchants. But can he revolutionize an industry wedded to decades of status quo?
When Jack Dorsey's friend, a glassmaker based in San Francisco, failed to sell one of his pieces on the street simply because he couldn't accept credit cards, he saw an opportunity. They invented Square, Dorsey's new company that transforms mobile device into a credit card readers, letting MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 4, 2010 2:52 PM ETPosted in: Credit card, credit cards, credit industry, iPhone, Jack Dorsey, New York City, PayPal, San Francisco, Square, Twitter
