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 »
ShopKeep is selling a host of cloud-based tools for handling cash and card transactions, managing employees and tracking inventory — all accessed from an iPad screen. Unlike its competitors, though, ShopKeep… Read more »
Bitcoin will one day be subject to global treaties and central bank interventions, predicts Jeremy Allaire, one of the virtual currencies’ biggest backers. 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 »
As the price continues to fall, bitcoin owners will now need to to monitor their capital gains and losses as the tax deadline looms closer. Read more »
Stripe, a payments provider for emerging startups, is exploring new types of currency transactions starting with bitcoin. It’s launched a bitcoin pilot among its customers, which it plans to expand into… Read more »
Bitcoin is still in its growing phase, and it’s now Silicon Valley and the bitcoin community’s responsibility to explain it, said Marc Andreessen in a panel at CoinSummit. Read more »
Once a startup establishes itself in San Francisco, you don’t see many of them moving into Silicon Valley, but Square is bucking that trend. This spring it’s opening up a satellite… Read more »