Pricing Disclosures, Straightforwardness and Intuit GoPayment vs. Square
GoPayment has now integrated QuickBooks - the most powerful accounting software for small businesses -- but Square Register may be the better choice.
View ArticleSquaring up Loyalty Cards
Square Register users can now give loyalty cards to regular customers and have other cool features to work with, but the service comes at a cost.
View ArticleYet another Square Look-Alike Enters the U.S., Aims Higher
mPowa -- a British start-up that has just launched in the US -- thinks that we need another Square-like mobile payments service and it may have a point.
View ArticleWhat PayPal’s Latest Acquisition Tells Us about Square’s Dominance
Mobile payments start-up Card.io initially started out as a Square competitor, but could never gain any traction and has now been acquired by PayPal.
View ArticlePayPal Here vs. Square Revisited
Square may have already won the mobile payments war, while everyone else, including PayPal, may be left to scramble for the leftovers.
View ArticleThe Square Supremacy
Its card reader is now so ubiquitous that it's hard to believe that Square only went live in October 2010; but the start-up fully dominates its niche.
View ArticleSquare’s Coming-of-Age Party Is On
You are invited to Square's coming-of-age party! It's going to be held at a Starbucks near you. Bring your own phone, but you can leave your wallet at home.
View ArticleSquaring up Credit Card Processing Fees, Again
Square is now offering merchants a flat-fee monthly payment plan, but a traditional interchange-plus pricing plan would still be the best option for most.
View ArticlePayPal’s Chase of Square Takes It to McDonald’s in France
McDonald's is testing PayPal's mobile payments app in France, but Square remains the mobile payments leader and PayPal still has its work cut out for it.
View ArticleSquare Gets $200M, Plans to Go Global
Having grown exponentially in the U.S. over the past year, Square has raised $200M at a $3.25B valuation to bankroll an international expansion later this year.
View ArticleSquare or PayPal: Who Will You Bet On?
Square has built a sizable lead over its competitors, which keeps widening as the start-up is aggressively upgrading its products to appeal to larger merchants.
View ArticleGroupOn Takes on Square
GroupOn is the latest company to launch a Square-like mobile payments service and its payment processing proposal looks quite compelling.
View ArticleWhat the British Empire Can Teach Us about Mobile Payments
The empire on which the sun never sets may be long gone, but British start-up mPowa aims to replicate its glorious past in the mobile payments field.
View ArticleSquare Tightens Chokehold on Mobile Payments with Merchant Directory
The number of would-be Square-killers may still be growing, but the processor's chokehold on its section of the mobile payments industry is stronger than ever.
View ArticleGrab-and-Go, Tablets, Square and GoPago
GoPago's biggest handicap in its quest to nuke the country's cash registers and, eventually, slay Square itself, is that it is limited to San Francisco.
View ArticleSquare vs. mPowa or Who Is the Ideal Mobile Payment Customer
Each of the two companies' approaches is perfectly sensible, but Square still has a sizable advantage over mPowa, just as it does over any other competitor.
View ArticleBranson, Jobs, Dorsey, Societal Roadblocks and Bread and Circuses
The entrepreneurial success of Richard Branson, Steve Jobs and Jack Dorsey deserves celebrating, but the men themselves should not be idolized.
View ArticleSquare Does a Starbucks at… Starbucks
Square Wallet can now be used at Starbucks, but its payment process is identical to the way Starbucks' own mobile payments app works.
View ArticleOn BofA’s Joke and Square’s ‘Nifty Software’
Mobile Pay on Demand, as BofA's Square clone is called, looks every bit the underdeveloped, uncool and secretive copycat you would expect a big bank to produce.
View ArticlePayAnywhere’s ‘Massive Roll-out’ and Square’s Dominance
PayAnywhere's new strategy of spending big on marketing comes more than a bit too late. Square has now become synonymous with mobile credit card acceptance.
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