The innovative startup introduces a super-elegant, super-efficient device for taking payments via iPad.
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Starbucks and Square: Imperfect Together
Pay With Square is supposed to make paying with your phone at Starbucks a snap. But it flunked Fast Company’s real-world test.
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Pay with Square at Starbucks: The Biggest Moment Yet for Mobile-Phone Wallets
If you stop by Starbucks regularly for a caffeinated fix, you’re about to have a good excuse to try Pay with Square, Square’s mobile-payment app for iPhone and Android. The coffee chain has struck a deal which will result in …
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Goodbye ‘Card Case’, Hello ‘Pay With Square’
Square’s Card Case app is pretty nifty: It lets iPhone users pay for stuff at over 40,000 retail locations without even removing their phone from their pocket. It may be a sneak peek of the way we’ll all eventually pay for …
Eventbrite’s New Card Reader Lets Small Events Sell Tickets at the Door
If you’re throwing a small event in an independent venue, using Ticketmaster doesn’t make a lot of sense. It takes a long time to set up and the costs are hard to swallow, especially if you’re talking about something like a …
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PayPal Takes On Square with ‘PayPal Here’
Square, the tiny credit-card reader for smartphones and tablets, is the most interesting thing to happen to payments in a long time. Among the people who think it’s interesting are the executives at payment behemoth PayPal. And …
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Ka-Ching! Square’s New App Turns the iPad into a Cash Register
Square, the startup that democratized credit-card transactions with its little plastic doohickey which allows any business (or anyone) to accept plastic as a form of payment, is at it again. It’s built a new iPad application …
Looking Forward to 2012: The Continued Demise of Cash
How mobile payments, NFC and person-to-person apps will change the way that people pay each other in the coming year.
Salvation Army Bell Ringers Now Take Credit Cards Using ‘Square’ Card Readers and Android Phones
While you’ll still hear the Salvation Army’s jingling bells this year, you may hear less change jangling into its red collection buckets.
Read more: Salvation Army Bell Ringers Now Take Credit Cards [Moneyland]
GoPayment Goes ‘Freemium,’ Gets Back in the Mobile Payment Game
Intuit’s mobile payment service, GoPayment, which allows users to accept credit card payments on their smart phones, is trying to swipe its way back into the spotlight this week by going “freemium.”
GoPayment is a downloadable mobile app that works in conjunction with a credit card reader to allow small businesses to accept credit …
BlackBerry Users Get "Roam" Credit Card Reader Attachment
BlackBerry users now have a secure way to quickly capture credit card transactions on their handsets. The newly-announced Roam attachment is “the world’s first encrypted audio coupled card reader for BlackBerry devices,” according to the company’s press release.
The “swiper,” as it’s called, connects to the headphone jack of any …
Square: Your iPhone Now Takes Credit Cards
Internet darling Kevin Rose and Twitter co-founder/CEO/Chairman Jack Dorsey (among many others) have been toiling away at Square – an iPhone credit card payment app coupled with a peripheral. The self-contained system e-mails receipts, donates a penny from every transaction to your charity of choice and unclutters your wallet of customer …
