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Square’s Jack Dorsey Not Worried About Apple Pay
Apple Pay // September 19, 2014

A payment mechanism is not necessarily a payment mechanism. So says the man who founded both Twitter and Square. Jack Dorsey may see Square as a mobile payment device company, but he sees it as going in a fundamentally different direction than Apple. Hence, he...

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Square Valuation Hits $6 Billion

October 06, 2014
Square has closed $150 million in new venture financing, bringing Square’s current value to about $6 billion, the New York Times reported Sunday (Oct. 5). The new financing round was led the Government of Singapore Investment Corp.—a new investor—and included Goldman Sachs and Rizvi Traverse Management. Like all other payments efforts, Square’s new financing move […]