San Francisco-based mobile payments company Square is testing a new feature that allows users to trade stocks through the company’s Cash App. Square’s employees have been testing out the newly integrated feature, according to Bloomberg. Once it has launched, Cash App users will reportedly be… Read More
Jack Dorsey has reiterated his support for Bitcoin in an interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, and says Twitter has no plans to create a private digital currency for that network. “I think open Internet standards serve every person better than ones controlled or started… Read More
Jack Dorsey, self-taught programmer and co-founder of Twitter and Square gave two interviews this week in which he talked up Square’s recent efforts to coalesce an in-house team of developers that will contribute to coding Bitcoin and possibly other cryptocurrencies. Square began by providing credit… Read More
Mobile payments is one of the hottest sectors in Fintech. Venmo and Square/CashApp have battled for years over the hearts and minds of millennials, with CashApp recently declaring victory– thanks in part, some say, to its pioneering incorporation of Bitcoin trading into the app. In May,… Read More
The CEO of Square and Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has seemed to intimidate the importance of an imminently functioning fast settlement layer for Bitcoin if it is to become the Internet’s native currency. Dorsey was interviewed at the Consensus Conference May 16th in New York by… Read More
Last week, Jack Dorsey’s Square announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Weebly. The company reported it will pay a mix of cash and stock of approximately $365 million, which will include Square restricted stock units for Weebly’s founders and employees that… Read More
Jack Dorsey, founder of Square and Twitter, revealed in a tweet that Square’s Cash App is rolling out Bitcoin for its users; Turning on Bitcoin for a lot more cash app folks right now https://t.co/LrozU7fXps — jack (@jack) December 6, 2017 Blockchaiiiiinnnnn. We’re rolling… Read More
The word on the street is that Jack Dorsey’s Square (NYSE: SQ) is moving into banking business with an application to form a wholly owned bank based in Utah. The unit, to be called Square Financial Services Inc., would offer loans and deposit accounts to small… Read More
In this brief video entitled “FinTech How technology is changing the world of finance,” BBC Newsnight spotlights some problems facing SMEs when it comes to collecting payments. Fees overwhelm. Payments delayed. Fintech maverick, Crowdcube campaigner and Monzo CEO Tom Blomfield addresses how lack of competition allows brick… Read More
Square, the point of sale payment system that many small business now use, reported Q1 earnings results this past week. Square co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey delivered disappointing numbers as the first quarter loss jumped to $98 million up from the year prior number of… Read More
On Thursday, photo-friendly smartphone app, STAND, announced it has raised $2.25 million seed funding round, which was led by Resolute Ventures, with participation from Silicon Valley influencers including Jack Dorsey, Twitter/Square; Greylock Discovery (Josh Elman); Fresco Capital (Tytus Michalski and Stephen Forte); Meng Tan, Google; Doug… Read More
HealthiosXchange is a crowdfunding platform launching this month that focuses on the health care industry. It’s no secret that the health care industry is an important one here in the states. According to the US Census, the US health care sector as a whole garnered… Read More
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