Jack Dorsey’s Square is still far from seeing the transaction volume of PayPal or any of the major financial companies, but it’s certainly no longer the scrappy payments startup it was… Read more »
First Data’s slick new payments terminal is going mobile. The handheld slate is one of several new point-of-sale systems we’re seeing emerging from the banking industry. Read more »
Amazon’s Local Register has a lot in common in Square’s Reader, but Amazon is hoping to set itself apart from its rival by dropping its transaction fees to 1.75 percent for… Read more »
Square’s retail finance ambitions led it to create its own prototype credit card, but the company killed the project off, according to Fast Company. Read more »
The EMV transition is only a year away in the U.S. Square’s merchants will be required to accept credit cards verified by embedded chips, and that means they’ll need a new… Read more »
Square current Reader, launched nearly two years ago, was a huge hit among Square’s merchant customers. But a few things have always bugged Square about Reader’s design. Now it’s fixed them. Read more »
Coin isn’t trying to replace the physical wallet with a digital one. Instead it’s trying to reduce all of the credit, debit, gift and loyalty cards that clutter up our wallets… Read more »
Square is leveling the playing field for merchants who take their credit cards over the phone rather than swipe them with Reader. Instead of waiting a month to get paid, they’ll… Read more »
Square’s hardware lead details how Stand will be the centerpiece of a redesigned sales counter experience as it begins to work with more peripheral makers. Read more »