Less than two months after its rollout, One Touch for Web is expanding to merchants and consumers internationally, starting with Canada and the U.K. The next countries to experience One Touch are not known yet, but the rollout will continue over the summer. This is great...
Square has closed $150 million in new venture financing, bringing Square’s current value to about $6 billion, the New York Times reported Sunday (Oct. 5). The new financing round was led the Government of Singapore Investment Corp.—a new investor—and included Goldman Sachs and Rizvi Traverse...
A payment mechanism is not necessarily a payment mechanism. So says the man who founded both Twitter and Square. Jack Dorsey may see Square as a mobile payment device company, but he sees it as going in a fundamentally different direction than Apple. Hence, he...
There’s little debate that Apple Pay is going to sharply boost mobile payment security. After all, replacing signature or a 4-digit shoulder-surfing-vulnerable PIN with a biometric authentication is a big step in the right direction. No authentication system is perfect, but being more secure than...
October 10, 2023
The Apple iPhone is reportedly on track to remain the mobile device of choice of nearly nine in 10 teens. Eighty-seven percent of teens own an iPhone and 88% of teens expect to have one as their next mobile device, investment bank Piper Sandler Companies said in a Tuesday (Oct. 10) press release. Reporting on a variety […]
June 10, 2015
Less than two months after its rollout, One Touch for Web is expanding to merchants and consumers internationally, starting with Canada and the U.K. The next countries to experience One Touch...
October 06, 2014
Square has closed $150 million in new venture financing, bringing Square’s current value to about $6 billion, the New York Times reported Sunday (Oct. 5). The new financing round was...
