Have you tried Square to pay for your coffee at Starbucks? If your experience was anything like what FastCompany’s correspondents and volunteers have gone through, you might not want to try it again. The site today published an extensive piece documenting the futile attempts of various Starbucks baristas across the country to get the much-ballyhooed… Read More…
Many paper products are moving to the digital world. Buck, a Seattle-based mobile payments company, is following suit and helping businesses save time with paperless mobile invoices. The latest product from Buck is called Mobile Invoice, a free service that allows any company to send invoices via mobile phone and receive payments immediately. There is no software… Read More…
Square COO Keith Rabois is departing the mobile payments company due to sexual harassment allegations. Rabois penned a blog post about his decision, denying the allegations but saying that he did not want this situation to be a distraction for the company. He says he was in a physical relationship with another Square employee, but then states these… Read More…
Starbucks offers much more than coffee; food, CD’s and mugs, just to name a few. Now, you’ll be able to buy mobile card readers as well. Less than two months after Starbucks and Square formally rolled out their partnership to allow coffee lovers a new way to pay for their java, customers can now buy Square mobile card readers… Read More…
Zillow has hired Chris Crocker as vice president of strategic partnerships, bringing 16 years of experience to the online real estate company. Crocker, who will develop partnerships with brokers, previously served as regional vice president of operations for the Southwestern U.S. region of NRT, one of the nation’s largest real estate brokerages. Crocker will work alongside Bob Bemis,… Read More…
Are you using Windows Phone but missing a favorite app? Maybe an online petition will do the trick. That’s the strategy being tried by some Windows Phone users in an attempt to get companies such as Square, Google and Instagram to make versions of their apps for Microsoft’s mobile platform. It’s a testament to the loyalty of Windows Phone fans,… Read More…
Typically, around these parts at least, technological innovation is associated with tech titans like Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing. But there’s a bit of a technological revolution brewing at one of Seattle’s other big brands: Starbucks. Make no mistake about it, Starbucks is still very much about the coffee experience. But the world’s best known coffee… Read More…
You’ve now got a new way to pay for that tall vanilla decaf latte. Starbucks and Square today formally rolled out their partnership, allowing coffee lovers a new way to pay for their java. All Things D notes that Square’s mobile payment system is now available at 7,000 stores. Starbucks invested $25 million in Square… Read More…
Purchasing a tall vanilla latte at Starbucks could get a little easier beginning next month thanks in part to the company’s partnership with mobile payments technology provider Square. In a presentation at the Starbucks Global Leadership Conference in Houston today, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz and Square CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the Square technology will be rolled… Read More…
Square, which has developed a portable credit card reader for iPhones, iPads and Android, has closed out its series D financing round from Citi Ventures, Rizvi Traverse Management, Starbucks and others. The company didn’t release the terms of the deal. But Tricia Duryee at All Things D reports that the three-year-old San Francisco payments company raised $200… Read More…
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