Square, the mobile payments company founded by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, has scored a real win – placement in the Apple Store. Apple is now selling the Square hardware which hooks into an iPhone/iPod touch and lets anyone process and manage credit card payments.
The Square device is the only payments product featured in US Apple stores. It’s selling for $9.95 but users get $10 of credit when they sign up for an account and the apps are free.
Square, the iPhone payment start-up lead by Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, has grabbed one of the Google engineer’s behind the creation of Google Android. What does that mean for Square’s Android future?
Tech has been dominated by some pretty heavyweight players in 2009. And you can bet that come 2010 the people behind out beloved gadgets will be dominating the headlines once again. So here’s our line up of this year’s top ten tech personalities and ten more to watch out for in 2010.
Twitter founder (and Square head honcho) Jack Dorsey reignited rumours about Google buying the micro-blogging site during a session at stereotypically named Paris-based tech conference Le Web 09.
Square, the new payments service founded by Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, sees Apple as a competitor. Dorsey made the admission today at the LeWeb conference in Paris.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s Square is, nearly, open for business. Clearly not content with having just one world-changing innovation under his belt, his new mobile payment service lets vendors collect cash from a usual credit card using a mobile phone.
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