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Henry, who previously ran a huge chunk of Amazon’s AWS unit, now runs Square’s largest division.
To be or not to be -- the CEO.
Amazon, Apple, Qualcomm and Yahoo earnings, and Square’s potential IPO, led the news this week.
Twitter and Square employees have been left in limbo on the topic. Dorsey now has a chance to change that.
The check’s in the mail? Try again. Peer-to-peer payment apps like Venmo and Square Cash mean no more excuses.
Sorry, Jack. Also: Can you believe Twitter is a public company?
“I’m Square CEO and that won’t change.”
Twitter to Wall Street: Remain calm.
“I am grateful for the talented team at Square, which I will continue to lead,” Dorsey said.
Mary Kay Bowman is Square’s new head of payments partnerships and operations.
The neighborhood social network has a new VP of Design.
Beardageddon? The mythic lumbersexual has merged with the tech elite.
The move helps explain why Square launched what was initially a free consumer product in Square Cash in the first place.
Also, Ellen Pao took the stand for four days in the Kleiner Perkins gender discrimination trial this week.
Square’s obsession with being a consumer business in addition to its focus on serving small businesses appears closer to an end.
Engineering leaders Gokul Rajaram and Alyssa Henry take on new responsibilities.
Snapcash allows users to send each other money via private messages on Snapchat.
Etsy wants a cut at the craft sale.
Square Payroll is the latest in a string of new paid products being rolled out by Jack Dorsey’s company that fall outside of its main payment processing business.
Plus, poor Mark Zuckerberg, what happened to Windows 9 and the iOS Autocomplete Song.
All the week’s big funding news, now in one place.
The split should improve hiring and fortify the company amid a recent onslaught of competition.
Nick Talwar is “leading Amazon’s global expansion into the lending industry.”
Plus, Regina Dugan steps in some epic DARPA shit and David Attenborough on Homo screamius.
The long-awaited release of the device will mark just the beginning of Amazon’s expansion into offline commerce.
Plus, pneumatic fish tubes and more bad optics for Uber.
Also this week in Re/code, real-life Transformers and a chip that works like the brain.
Plus, a Square meal of Caviar, and Elon Musk worries about Skynet.
Caviar will become the latest bet Square is making on new revenue streams.