6 posts and columns on dongle

Turning Attention to the Payment Side, Square Rebrands Its Card Case as “Pay With Square”

in News on March 25 at 7:35 pm PT

As the mobile payments race heats up, Square, which has traditionally focused on small businesses, is turning its attention to consumers.
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Square, Now Processing $4 Billion in Payments a Year, Launches Square Register

in Commerce on March 5 at 6:38 am PT

Mobile payments start-up Square, amid increasing competition in the point-of-sale payments race, wants businesses to use its iPad app as a register.
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Boxee to Release Last Software Update for PCs

in Commerce on December 26, 2011 at 4:32 pm PT

Boxee, maker of that irregular-shaped video-streaming device with the nifty Qwerty remote, is turning its focus toward TV boxes and tablets, and away from its PC software.
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You Will Know Jack–Square CEO Dorsey Added to D9 Speaker Lineup

in D9 on May 24, 2011 at 12:58 pm PT

We’ve added Jack Dorsey, one of Silicon Valley’s hottest entrepreneurs, to the D: All Things Digital conference stage. He’s now busy disrupting the online payments space with his Square start-up, and before that invented a little service called Twitter. Heard of it?
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VeriFone's CEO Doug Bergeron Defends Actions Against Square: "It’s a Competitive World."

in Commerce on March 16, 2011 at 5:26 pm PT

In an exclusive interview, VeriFone’s CEO Doug Bergeron explains why he felt it was necessary to launch a campaign against its much smaller rival last week.

Would You Pay $162 a Year for All the Music You Can Eat?

in Media on October 31, 2008 at 9:16 am PT

That’s the offer, sort of, being made by something called Datz Music Lounge. Are there catches? You bet–this is the music business, after all. But it’s a potentially intriguing idea that could work both for music fans and the industry.