Tagged: Square & News
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Interview: Banks must focus on APIs and apps, not applications – Gartner analyst News
11.10.2012 We caught up with Gartner analyst Kristen Moyer when she was in Dublin last week to talk to her about her recent research into banks, and the strategies they need to adopt to...Categories: Financial Services, eCommerce, Data Management, Apps, Application Design and Development, Analyst -
The technology business week: internet drives global growth, Dublin firm Fleetmatics IPOs on NYSE News
08.10.2012 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Tags: Eircom, Nokia, Square, Acquisitions, Vodafone, New York Stock Exchange, IPO, FleetMatics, Jobs -
Jack Dorsey’s Square buys New York design firm 80/20 News
02.10.2012 Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s mobile payments company Square has bought a design company in New York called 80/20, signalling the growing importance of good industrial design in...Categories: Wireless Communications, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Business, Development, Design -
Twitter’s Jack Dorsey named ‘Media Person of the Year’ at Cannes News
15.05.2012 Twitter CEO and chairman Jack Dorsey has been named the Cannes Lions ‘Media Person of the Year'. Previous recipients of the award include Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google...Categories: Web 2.0, Social Media, Media, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech, Communications, Apps -
Eventbrite gets into hardware – launches iPad credit card reader News
21.03.2012 Event ticketing site Eventbrite has launched its first piece of hardware – a nifty little credit card reader that sits on an iPad allows events organisers to collect payments at... -
Seriously? Could m-payments become a US$670bn industry? News
05.07.2011 I have a growing conviction that m-payments stand to be as big a deal for the internet industry in the second decade of the 21st century as advertising was in the first decade.Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Social Media, Phones, Mobility, Mobile, Hardware, eCommerce, Digital Business, CommunicationsTags: M-payments, Samsung, iPhone 5, Apple, iOS, Android, E-commerce, Square, Jack Dorsey, Collison Brothers, Eric Schmidt, NFC -
Jack Dorsey’s Square raises US$100m News
29.06.2011 Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s technology company Square, which enables e-payments anywhere, has raised US$100m in Series C funding, valuing the company at more than US$1bn.Categories: Wireless Communications, Software & Web Development, Mobility, Mobile, Investments, Internet, Hardware, Funding, Financial, eCommerce -
Payment system lets customers buy goods using their names News
24.05.2011 Mobile payment start-up Square has introduced a new system allowing US businesses to accept payment from customers using their names. -
Jack Dorsey returns to Twitter in executive role News
29.03.2011 Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey has announced he will be taking on a more hands-on role at the micro-blogging site going forward as executive chairman.