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How Jack Dorsey's Square Is Accidentally Disrupting The Entire Payments Industry

Dorsey and Square COO Keith Rabois talk to Fast Company about their unintentional, design-driven revolution, what it means for the cash register space, the deals space, and the future of buying ... everything.READ»

iPhone Credit Card Gizmo Square Sparks Legal IP Spat

The innovative iPhone peripheral Square, designed to bring credit card accepting skills to the smallest vendor is now, surprise surprise, the subject of an IP battle centered around the initial invention of the idea.READ»

Swipely Lets You Overshare Everything You Buy

Social network purchase-info site Swipely launches today. Its aim: to reward you for telling others what you've just bought. READ»

Square Planning Big Mobile Payment Rollout, Could Be Bumped by Newer Tech

A stutter in the rollout of Jack Dorsey's novel Square cellphone credit card system may mean it'll get swallowed soon by emerging tech.READ»

A Smartphone Payment App? For That There's MasterCard

Piqued by Visa's latest efforts at contactless payment goodness with an iPhone case, MasterCard really wants in on the same game. Only the card for "everything else" wants developers to actually write apps for it, leveraging ...READ»

Today's Vision of Tomorrow: iPhones Accepting Credit Cards

Last week we wrote about Twitter creator Jack Dorsey's credit card-reading gizmo Square for the iPhone. It looks like it's just the beginning, though: In the future you're pretty likely to be paying for stuff at an iPhone cash ...READ»

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Square Payments System Gets a Free Hardware Boost

Square--that plastic gizmo that plugs into your iPhone and reads magnetic stripes--may, or may not, revolutionize the credit-card system. Inventor Jack Dorsey has, however, removed one big barrier to success: He wants to give it ...READ»

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Wal-Mart Hacked: Is Credit Card Data Safe?

Source code for Wal-Mart's point-of-sale computer system was hacked and siphoned into Eastern European computers in 2005 and 2006, Wired.com reported today. The scale of the attack calls into question whether major retailers have been ...READ»

Forget Netbooks: Credit Card-Sized PCs Are the Future

I've suggested several times that in the near future computers will penetrate nearly every aspect of your daily life: After all, netbooks are relatively new tech and they're small enough to slip into a purse or (large) pocket in the ...READ»