Team Obama is gearing up for a big reelection battle this year, and to bolster its chances against its future Republican rival, the campaign is streamlining its fundraising efforts by adopting Square, the mobile credit card reader for ...READ»
Twitter is experiencing growing pains. Last week, the company said it would integrate Promoted Tweets into user Twitter streams, placing them at the top of one's timeline. Here's expert opinion on how or if the once-breezy service can follow in the footsteps of ubiquitous ad machine Facebook.READ»
In just nine months, the photo-sharing startup hit 150 million pix and more than 7 million users who upload about 1.3 million photos daily (15 per second). Founder Kevin Systrom tells Fast Company what's next. READ»
It looks like Square's ambitions are growing. Just recently, it added VC superstar Vinod Khosla to its board of directors. Now comes an announcement that former Obama Chief Economic Advisor (and former Harvard president) Larry Summers is also coming on board.READ»
That Kevin Systrom would be involved with one of the most buzzed-about social networks today is perhaps unsurprising. His career pre-Instagram foreshadowed his success: interactions with Facebook founders long before Facebook was Facebook; an internship at Twitter before Twitter was Twitter. But he left it all behind to start Instagram.READ»
For the third year in a row we have put together a list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. This year had the most Twitter users yet, with 36. Here's our Top Ten tweeters of 2011's MCP. READ»
"Existing models don't go away until they are replaced by models that work better," PayPal's Anuj Nayar tells us. "The consumer needs to see the benefit beyond, 'This is just cool.'"READ»
Square promises to put an end to the headaches of traditional purchases: having to fumble with your wallet, exchange and swipe the credit card, wait for a paper receipt. But someone still needs to convince merchants. READ»
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»
Jack Dorsey's Square has just created that for offline payments--the transactions you do with your local coffee shop, your favorite boutique, even your dog walker--anyone who uses the Square payment system.READ»
Jack Dorsey is the co-founder of Twitter and Square. He has since rejoined Twitter as Executive Chairman and will focus on product development to further Twitter’s mainstream appeal.READ»
New branded pages and sales of tweet data and analytics, coupled with the company's Promoted Tweets and Trends, could help bolster Twitter's revenues, which have been pegged anywhere from $45 million to $150 million.READ»
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Electronic payment firm VeriFone launched a surprise attack on competitor and hot mobile-payment startup Square today, with CEO Douglas Bergeron penning an open letter chastising what he says are Square's security flaws. Is this just a bold PR move, or does Square actually have security loopholes to close?READ»
Hot photo-sharing startup Instagram achieved a faster rate of growth than Foursquare, Facebook, and Twitter by a running with a strategy of simplicity. READ»
Hot mobile payment startup Square is shooting for the moon after recently closing a $27 million funding round. As the service enters its second year, co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted out the above photo of four gargantuan posters dominating the Times Square skyline at 49th and Broadway.READ»
"Literally, in three minutes you can be ready to go and accept your first credit card payment," says Keith Rabois, COO of Square, the mobile card swiping tool for iPhones, iPads, and Android devices. "We have a joke internally where ...READ»
