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»
LockerDome's social network for amateur sports clubs and professional players just got a $750,000 capital injection. Square's Jim McKelvey, one of LockerDome's backers, says passion is its competitive advantage.READ»
What's the future of Bump? The popular iPhone and Android app, which enables users to share media simply by "bumping" smartphones together, recently hit 63 million downloads. Now it's time to monetize.READ»
To hell with dongles. Use your own custom QR code to play at hundreds of merchants with Scvngr's new service. Founder and chief ninja Seth Priebatsch gives Fast Company the details in San Francisco at Innovation Uncensored.READ»
The faster tech businesses boom, the faster scam artists see opportunities to exploit them. Two hacks targeting Facebook and credit card service Square offer further lessons in failure at the speed of light. READ»
A big chunk of change dropped into the mobile payments company’s lap this week when Kleiner Perkins signed on as an investor. Square's COO, Keith Rabois, tells us where the dough will go.READ»
Jack Dorsey's Square is on a ($100 million) tear this week, but the competition is heating up--and they have bigger plans for a wireless payment future that could arrive as soon as next year.READ»
After much speculation, MySpace is sold--apparently Justin Timberlake teamed up with Specific Media for the $35M purchase. It's the latest breaking bits from our news-obsessed editors.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»
"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»
