In 2009, when Square unveiled its original credit-card reader, one meaningful fact about it was the connector it used. The tiny white doohickey commandeered a smartphone’s headphone jack as means of ...

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Mobile credit card payment processing apps for Android include PayPal, Square, SumUp, QuickBooks and Shopify, offering varied ...

Think of the Square Reader as an argument for ruthless simplicity. "It's iconic, it's simple, it does exactly what it's supposed to do and nothing more." Or so says Jesse Dorogusker, head of hardware ...

Square credit card readers are in thousands of stores and restaurants, but the company realizes there are industries where its software isn’t appropriate. That’s why today it introduced the Square ...

You can now start using Apple Pay at independent shops across the country, if they are set up with Square’s newest device. On Monday, Square began rolling out its new contactless reader to 100 local ...

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Is Apple preparing to take on the mobile payment company, Square, Inc.? A recent purchase suggests as much. Apple has reportedly acquired Mobeewave, a Montreal-based tech startup that empowers ...