Square Will Soon Let You Order Food And Book Appointments
Soon you’ll be able to order food or book an appointment by using a Square app. On Wednesday, the payments company announced the acquisition of BookFresh, a booking tool for services businesses. It is...
View ArticleIn A Bid To Boost Sales, Square Is Moving Beyond The Swipe
Square announced on Monday a handful of new tools that let business owners offer pickup services, accept payments while offline, and track their inventory. As ReadWrite predicted earlier this year,...
View ArticleTwitter’s Plan To Appeal To The Masses: Demolish The “Town Square”
Reports of Twitter’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, the social network is experiencing slow growth. Sure, Twitter is implementing a slew of changes that will transform it into a website...
View ArticleChina Blocks Google Ahead of Tiananmen Square 25th Anniversary
As early as last Friday, Google reported slower levels of activity from China. It is speculated that the disruption is due to the 25th anniversary of the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations...
View ArticleSquare Beware! Amazon Goes In For The Kill
Amazon wants small businesses to use its payments system for in-person transactions, too. The online retail giant released Amazon Local Register on Wednesday, a card reader that lets merchants accept...
View ArticleBlackBerry’s New Square Passport Is A Ticket To Weirdness
BlackBerry’s claim to fame used to hang on amazing physical hardware keyboards, a rarity in today’s smartphone scene. Now the former darling of the work world wants to recapture those glory days....
View ArticleSnapchat Partners With Square To Introduce Snapcash, A Money Sending Service...
Snapchat announced they have partnered with Square to introduce a new service called Snapcash, which marks Snapchat’s first partnership of any kind with another company. The service is said to be...
View ArticleSquare Is Resurrecting Wallet, Its Pay-By-Name Mobile App, And Giving It Away
Wallet, the pay-by-name app that payments company Square introduced in 2011 and discontinued earlier this year, is back, according to an email Square sent to users Thursday. Square is “retiring” Wallet...
View ArticleStarbucks To Square: It’s Over
You won’t be able to pay for that latte with Square. Starbucks will soon no longer take Square’s mobile payments in its stores, unwinding a key aspect of the partnership the companies announced in...
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