Block, the financial services and mobile payments company founded by former Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has laid off 43 workers in Washington, according to a notice from the state’s Employment… Read More
Dan Price, the high-profile co-founder and CEO of Seattle-based credit card processing and financial services company Gravity Payments, has been thinking about coffee shops and fairness since his days growing… Read More
Climate change will take center stage in the technology industry today as thousands of employees at some of the world’s biggest and most influential companies plan to walk off the… Read More
Square is putting down permanent roots in Seattle, scooping up a new downtown office space with room to grow as it looks to take advantage of the region’s deep pool… Read More
Betting that users of its in-store payments hardware and web services want to use Square across their mobile apps as well, the company is launching a mobile software development kit… Read More
Square is just getting settled in Seattle, and it is already planning to grow. GeekWire reported on Square’s Seattle office last week, but at the time the company didn’t say… Read More
There have been a parade of big California-based tech companies coming to Seattle over the past few years, as most GeekWire readers know. Usually, those companies like to announce that… Read More
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) has been working on an intelligent search engine for the past two years. Called Semantic Scholar, the program helps researchers and academics sort… Read More
The power outage in downtown Seattle on Wednesday wasn’t going to keep office workers from eating, and thanks to one bit of technology from the payment service Square, food trucks… Read More
Amazon’s capitulation to Square now appears final. Re/code is reporting that Amazon is giving Square credit-card readers to business owners who once used the online store’s competing product, called Local… Read More
A lot of “unicorns” have been spotted in recent months in the tech industry, but not many IPOs. Despite strong public offerings this week from mobile payments company Square and Tinder… Read More
All eyes were on payments company Square on Thursday morning, as one of the Silicon Valley’s many so-called unicorns ventured out into the public markets. Things got off to a… Read More
Starbucks and Square have officially ended a long standing relationship that we learned earlier this month was costing Square millions. Starbucks says J.P. Morgan will now process transactions at stores… Read More
The world got a glimpse inside payments processing startup Square’s financials on Wednesday, as the company filed for its much anticipated IPO. While things are looking up for the company that… Read More
Choosing the right brand name can be a make-it or break-it experience for a lot of startups. Finding something that defines your brand, gives homage to your core message and… Read More
On its first day of trading as a publicly held company, PayPal’s value soared to $50 billion following its spin-out from eBay. That interest now appears to be fueling a secondary… Read More
Square Cash is launching a new easy-to-use payments platform, targeting small businesses looking to replace cash and checks with debit cards. If you aren’t familiar with it already, Square Cash was built… Read More
Square expanded its Caviar meal delivery service today by launching its first Android app on the Google Play Store. The new app allows users to instantly order food from restaurants… Read More
Two years after Square announced it was offering a virtual gift card service, it’s nixing the program in favor of physical ones. That may sound counter intuitive in today’s digital-first culture, but apparently… Read More
Snapchat released an update to its popular ephemeral messaging app today that enables “Snapcash,” a new service that allows friends to send money alongside their disappearing photos and messages. It’s… Read More
Square plans to announce a new location-based service today that will let customers place coffee orders from their phone and have them ready when they arrive. But the service will not be… Read More
Square has raised an additional $150 million in capital, valuing the six-year-old San Francisco payments company at $6 billion, reports The New York Times. Square, which was co-founded by Twitter’s… Read More
Mobile payment giant Square updated its Cash app today and it may change the way you make payments. The app now allows you to send and request money free of charge from any… Read More
Will book sellers, bike shop owners and electronics stores use Amazon as its payment provider if they are already worried about it stealing their business? Earlier today, Amazon rolled out a new mobile payments service that… Read More
Continuing its quest to dominate nearly every corner of the retail experience, Amazon.com today unveiled a new $10 credit card reading device called Amazon Local Register. The card reader and… Read More
Update, 10:10 a.m.: Now it’s official: Square announced this morning that it has indeed acquired Caviar. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, and Caviar CEO Jason Wang notes in… Read More
Square, the San Francisco-based mobile payments company, is changing course in a major part of its business — giving up on its Square Wallet application and focusing on a… Read More
Square lost at least $20 million as a result of its partnership with Starbucks in 2013, according to a report in the WSJ, which doesn’t paint a very rosy picture for the mobile payments… Read More
—Alyssa Henry has joined Square as its head of Engineering, the company announced today. Prior to her work at the payments company, which is helmed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Henry… Read More
Two years ago, Starbucks promised to change the way people pay for coffee when it invested $25 million into Square, the hot San Francisco-based mobile payments startup. But today, the… Read More