7/29/2016 12:42:33 PM Kenya’s PesaPal is moving into the physical world with its first point-of-sale system By Gareth Jones PesaPal, a Nairobi-based aggregator for online and mobile payments, is set to launch its own POS to rival similar products from PayPal,...
7/21/2016 1:59:51 PM Square quietly sets up for a UK launch, now takes payments in pounds on Square Register By Gareth Jones Square, the mobile payments company run by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has incorporated a business called Squareup Europe Ltd in Britain,...
11/11/2015 2:33:49 AM ShopKeep, the ‘Anti-Square,’ Rounds Out C-Suite With Eye on an IPO By Gareth Jones Unlike Square, ShopKeep charges a monthly fee for its core product, which makes the CEO Norm Merritt confident his business will be way...
11/8/2015 11:40:34 PM Square's IPO is not as discounted as it first seems, and the revenues are not as high By Gareth Jones Is the Square IPO at a discount to the last round that valued the payments start-up at $6bn? The FT provides some interesting perspective...
11/6/2015 8:15:03 PM Square’s IPO Terms Put Valuation Below Latest Funding Round By Gareth Jones Square could soon be a case study on what happens to tech startups that can’t support their unicorn private market valuations ($6b) in...
10/16/2015 1:30:56 AM Square’s IPO Filing: It’s Complicated - The reason? The Starbucks Deal By Gareth Jones As Jason Del Ray digs in, it becomes clear that the Starbucks deal Square signed 3.5yrs ago didn't turn out so well.Tthe deal involved...
8/6/2015 8:12:17 AM Square Capital is advancing $1 million per day to small businesses By Gareth Jones A business taking a loan from Square pays the loan off automatically from future daily sales using Square. Interestingly, Square says it...
7/31/2015 11:17:01 AM Square’s IPO Filing turns talk to Dorsey’s Juggling Skills By Gareth Jones Square filed to IPO this week, but the press focused less on Squares opaque performance and more on the ability of it's co-founder, Jack...
6/12/2015 3:21:11 AM European Mobile PaymentStartup SumUp Discloses A Total $45M In Funding By Gareth Jones SumUp, based in Berlin and competing with the likes of iZettle and Rocket Internet’s Payleven, has raised an undisclosed amount led by...
4/17/2015 2:58:59 AM India’s Restaurant Search App Zomato Raises $50M At $1B+ Valuation, Buys MaplePOS By Gareth Jones Zomato's world domination continues with the Indian restaurant search app now operating in 22 countries. Competitors should be worried as...
8/15/2014 12:30:07 PM New Amazon mPOS undercuts Square and PayPal By Gareth Jones Amazon, a competitor to almost every merchant, has rolled out it's own small merchant mobile point of sale solution. It will be...
8/6/2014 3:24:39 AM New Square Reader Accepts EMV Chip-Enabled Credit Cards By Gareth Jones In an effort to get American merchants onboard with the new (EMV) technology, Visa and MasterCard have set an October 2015 deadline for...
5/30/2014 2:40:51 AM Payments Firm Swipely Raises $20M More As Its Processing Tally Crosses The $2B Mark By Gareth Jones Swipely (a Square competitor) just raised $20M to expand product and marketing. Swipely offers merchants a simple way to understand...
4/30/2014 10:27:27 PM Square Now Lets Merchants Collect Payments Offline And In Advance For Order Pickup By Gareth Jones I need to test drive this...
4/6/2014 12:27:29 PM How Did Square Grow So Quickly? By Gareth Jones Some folks are now saying Square's growth is starting to plateau (the IPO has been put on hold). However, no one can deny however that...
3/28/2014 4:19:14 AM I just used Cover to buy drinks and I LOVE it.. By Gareth Jones My business partner Brooks and I had drinks with one of our investors this evening.. We split the bill using a new NYC built payments app...