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 everything. But the name is -- how do I put this? -- lousy.
Traditionally, the problem with ticketing sites like Eventbrite was that, while buying tickets online was easy, the process of buying them at the door was the same as it’s always been: cash only. Thus the introduction of the company’s new “At The Door” card reader — a thin, plastic reader that attaches to the iPad.
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 at a press event this morning in San Francisco, the eBay-owned company unveiled its own mobile-payments gizmo and accompanying apps and services: PayPal Here.
Square, the startup that democratized credit-card transactions with its little plastic doohickey that allows any business (or anyone) to accept plastic as a form of payment, is at it again with a new iPad application called Square Register.
Okay, so cash isn’t going to disappear anytime soon, but 2012 looks to be a pivotal year in the transition towards a world where we have options besides just cash and credit.
While you’ll still hear the Salvation Army’s jingling bells this year, you may hear less change jangling into its red collection buckets.
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.”
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.
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 appreciation cards. The dongle [...]
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey previewed his new tech start up “Square” Wednesday in Paris – a device that allows iPhone and iPod Touch users to accept credit card payments.
