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What price for Square's cool features?
Jack Dorsey is trying to make it hip to use Square's new Register and Tabs features, and he's taking a page from Apple on premium pricing.
FORTUNE -- Jack Dorsey's startup, Square, gets a lot of attention from the media. After all, Dorsey is also the co-founder of Twitter, which means plenty of people in Silicon Valley want to know about his every move. But Square's high-profile status doesn't mean its MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - May 24, 2011 1:59 PM ETPosted in: App Store, Card reader, Credit card, Jack Dorsey, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Square, Steve Jobs -
Dorsey's Square tries to eliminate the card swipe by bringing back the tab
Square is announcing two new services -- Card Case and Square Register -- hoping to reduce payment friction even more, on both ends of everyday transactions.
FORTUNE -- Jack Dorsey hates receipts, but fans of his startup, Square, already knew that. Turns out, he kind of hates credit cards, too.
Square, known for its tiny credit card reader that allows businesses to process payments from a smartphone, is announcing its latest product MORE
Mason Cohn, Producer - May 23, 2011 1:32 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Yahoo sells Delicious, Square gets Visa
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"Apple has never done so and has no plans to ever do so."
--Apple on reports that it's tracking iPhone and 3G iPad users (Fortune)All Things D has the skinny from Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller on why the white iPhone 4 took so darned MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 28, 2011 6:30 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Facebook, GodFinger, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Jack Dorsey, Playstation, Square, YouTube -
Today in Tech: what's new in iOS 4.3, LivingSocial's Fandango deal
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Army private Bradley Manning (right), the soldier who reportedly gave WikiLeaks 500,000-plus classified materials like video of a Baghdad helicopter air strike in which 12 people were killed, faces 22 additional charges that accuse him of aiding the enemy. Though such charges could mean the death penalty MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 3, 2011 6:27 AM ETPosted in: Apple, Bradley Manning, Facebook, iOS, iOS 4.3, iPad, iPhone, Jack Dorsey, LivingSocial, Mobile, Square, Steve Jobs, TechCrunch -
Today in Tech: iPad 2 next week, HP's 32-hour battery life
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Cisco named 10-year company vet Gary Moore its first COO. Moore, who's been running the $8 billion-a-year Services business division as executive vice president, will help CEO John Chambers transition the company into new markets, including data center products like servers and consumer products such MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 23, 2011 7:32 AM ETPosted in: All Things Digital, Apple, AppSense, Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, HP EliteBook, iPad, iPad 2, Jack Dorsey, Mobile, new iPad, New York Times, Square, TechCrunch, VentureBeat -
A Twitter guy takes on big banks
Jack Dorsey has a bold idea: make accepting a credit card as easy as sending a tweet.
Until recently Jack Dorsey was best known in the business world as the creator and chairman of Twitter, which has transformed the way millions of people communicate and get information. These days, though, Dorsey, 34, has been garnering bigtime buzz for his latest venture, Square, a service that aims to upend the banking industry MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Jan 31, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: credit card reader, credit cards, Enterprise, Intuit, Jack Dorsey, PayPal, small business, Smartphones, Square, Twitter -
Today in Tech: MySpace layoffs today, Verizon iPhone launch
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
As reported a week ago, MySpace intends to lay off 50%, or between 550 and 600, of its staff today under the guise of restructuring and shedding legacy business divisions. Afterwards, it's expected the struggling social network-turned-entertainment hub will look at sale options. Some possibilities: being picked up by a private equity buyer or even being MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 11, 2011 6:00 AM ET -
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
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