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Pricing and support for European expansion remain a mystery.
The fact that Africa skipped landlines -- and will skip PCs in favor of smartphones -- is a fascinating statement about technological evolution.
The coffee giant’s digital chief calls a forthcoming order-ahead feature “the most important project I’ve ever worked on.”
“Starting a company is now acceptable to the parents. That’s very new.”
Call it big-data house-flipping.
Plus, Eric Schmidt and the right to be forgotten.
The new initiative should pit the deals company more squarely against Square.
The week in review, Re/code style.
The exec had been with Square for more than four years.
Plus, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has great things to say about Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.
Square introduces a new consumer app. It might be its last chance.
Lead investors are BlackRock and Passport Capital.
“It all manifests in the user interface,” says the well-known Silicon Valley product design exec.
The company is looking for a head of product and head of business development for a new payments initiative.
Henry will oversee engineering for the company’s infrastructure and payments platform.
The week in review, Re/code style.
The debt financing raised by Jack Dorsey’s payments company has only ratcheted up talk of how the startup is faring.
Later-stage Internet startups are developing a taste for a different flavor of money.
Bottom line: Bitcoin is deeply flawed as an alternative currency for mainstream consumers.
Jack Dorsey’s company launches a pilot for offering what are essentially unregulated loans.
It’s like an OpenTable for everything except restaurants.
Does Yahoo’s small board need tech or turnaround experience?
The TV ad campaign is Square’s second since its founding.
Pile o’ money in, money exec out.
Another high-profile customer for Jack Dorsey’s payments company.
The e-commerce giant envisions building the equivalent of AWS for brick-and-mortar stores.
He is being being replaced by Mariam Naficy, founder and CEO of Minted.com.
John Donahoe argues that now is the time when commerce companies want to get into payments and vice versa. He’s not wrong.
Up next: Disrupting “disruption.”
The drop in price from $299 for the company’s iPad stand indicates sales haven’t lived up to Square’s expectations.
