Square is buying swish meal delivery service Caviar. The San Francisco startup could be what Square was missing to make its mark with independent restaurants. Read more »
The mobile payment sector is evolving quickly and chaotically, with incumbents and startups competing for not only market share but also the ability to establish the business’ rules and technological standards. Read more »
Square has a lot of merchants on its online and mobile shopping portal Square Market, but few are actually selling goods there. Its new Pickup feature could prompt more of them… Read more »
Having raised a $1 million seed round, PayStand isn’t just offering bitcoin as an option. It’s trying to drive consumers toward the crypto-currency by making it cheaper to buy goods with… Read more »
Square turns on bitcoin as a payment option for all Square Market purchases. Merchants still get their payout in dollars, but like other payments platform providers, Square is courting the increasing… Read more »
In what Fortune described as an “uncommon move,” Square CEO Jack Dorsey has voluntarily given back 10 percent of his shares in Square back to the mobile payments company. Dorsey currently owns… Read more »
Jack Dorsey may not have known much about being a merchant when he founded Square, but he did know a lot about being a buyer. According to Dorsey, that was the… Read more »
While Square is known for its hardware, it’s starting to build up an e-commerce business. A fifth of the 500,000 merchants listed on Square’s new internet marketplace are using Square solely… Read more »
The New Yorker has published a long, languid look at the entrepreneurial talents of Twitter and Square creator Jack Dorsey, following him from an upstart college dropout in the ’90s to single-minded… Read more »