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142 results about this entity

Period: 08 Dec 2016 - 08 May 2024

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Square and Tencent join €93 million capital raise in Italy's Satispay

Italian mobile payments outfit Satispay has raised €93 million in funding from a share sale to a clutch of international investors, including Square, Tencent, LGT LIghtsone and TIM Ventures.

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Square unboxes Terminal API

Today, at Square’s fourth annual partner and developer conference, Square Unboxed, the company announced the general availability of its newest developer tool: Terminal API.

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Square invests $50m in bitcoin

Square has invested $50 million - about one per cent of its total assets - in bitcoin, arguing that the cryptocurrency is an "instrument of economic empowerment".

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Square rolls out QR-based, self-serve ordering feature for restaurants

Today, more than ever, every sale matters for businesses of all types and sizes. This is especially true for restaurants who face additional challenges like thin margins, reduced capacity limits, and new stricter regulations. Now, with self-serve ordering, Square Online sellers can limit in-person contact, increase safety, improve order accuracy, and adapt to changing consumer preferences - all helping to ensure that they never miss a sale.

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Square Payroll introduces On-Deman Pay and instant payments

Today, Square announced the launch of two new features that enable Square Payroll customers and their employees to more easily and effectively manage their cash flow: On-Demand Pay for employees, and Instant Payments for employers.

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Square forms crypto patent alliance to promote open-source spirit

Square, the US-based payment company owned by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is urging crypto companies to join its newly-formed patent alliance in a bid to maintain an open-source community within the industry and mitigate the malicious use of patents.

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Square and Mastercard touch down in the Falkland island

Launching today as part of London Tech Week, Square, Mastercard and the Falkland Islands Government will announce a new partnership, Connecting the Falklands, solving one of the greatest challenges facing the Islands' small and medium-sized businesses - accepting card and digital payments.

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Square data shows rise of cashless and digital payments across the UK

A new report from payments company Square reveals a shift in business and consumer behaviour towards digital payments and a decline away from cash, greatly accelerated by safety measures put in place to cope with COVID-19.

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Square and Coinbase eye consumer lending market

Square is piloting a feature that lets users of its Cash App P2P payments service get small, short-term loans.

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Square acquires Stitch Labs

We’ve acquired Stitch Labs, an operations management platform for growing commerce brands. Stitch Labs has a strong background in building key tools for businesses such as inventory and order management, channel management, and fulfillment solutions.

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Square veterans score funding for Aussie business banking startup

A pair of former Square executives has raised A$6.3 million in seed funding for an Australian business banking startup.

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CRM startup vcita Integrates with Square to accept payments online

CRM startup vcita has teamed up with Square to help small businesses manage their business online.

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Square acquires Spanish P2P payments app Verse

We’ve acquired Verse, a Spanish P2P payments app that allows customers to send and receive payments from friends and family instantly, safely, and free of charge.

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Square and Venmo offer to deliver stimulus payments

Square and Venmo parent PayPal are talking to the US government about using their apps to deliver Covid-19 stimulus payments to Americans that do not have bank accounts.

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Square wins approval for FDIC loan charter

Payments company Square has won conditional approval from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to become a deposit-taking bank via an Industrial Loan Company (ILC) licence.

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Square acquires Toronto-based machine learning company Dessa

We’ve acquired Dessa, a Toronto-based company building machine learning applications that address significant real-world challenges for all types of businesses.

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Square joins $14m funding round for cryptographic settlement startup Transparent

Transparent Financial Systems, a Seattle-based startup building cryptographic settlement technology has come out of stealth mode after raising more than $14 million in a Series A round led by Patnera Capital and joined by Square.

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Square imposes new fees for instant transfers

Beginning on February 7, 2020, the rate for instant and same-day transfers from your Square balance to your bank account is changing to 1.5% per transfer.

Square sells Caviar to DoorDash

Square, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) (the “Company”) today announced that it has completed its sale of Caviar to DoorDash, Inc. on October 31, 2019, for $410 million in a mix of cash and DoorDash stock.

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TSB offers SME’s 25 months free business banking and free Square reader

TSB is introducing one of the longest free business banking offers currently available in the market by extending its free day-to-day Business Plus Bank Account offer from 18 months to 25 months.