Comments on: Who’s Afraid of NFC? Not Square

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Why Did PayPal Buy Fig Card? Find Out: Tech News and Analysis « — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 01:58:49 +0000

[...] Rabois who runs Square and was a key executive during the pre-eBay days at PayPal. recently told us, that, his company was “going after 26 million folks who are not merchants in a classic [...]

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Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:21:41 +0000

[...] with an undisclosed sum of money as well as a new advisory board member. It’s a nice boost for Square, which is on a roll as it tries to ramp up payments via a smartphone. But it also highlights the growing role of credit [...]

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Are You Ready for the New Peer-to-Peer Economy?: Tech News and Analysis « — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 01:00:29 +0000

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By: You — Not Your Competitors — Define Your Destiny: Tech News and Analysis «

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 06:00:55 +0000

[...] focusing too much on their competitors and not focusing on being unique. A few weeks ago, when I stopped by at the Square offices, COO Keith Rabois, in response to a question about his competition, succinctly said it was what he [...]

By: gram

gram — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:03:07 +0000

We need Square up in Canada.

By: pwb

pwb — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:51:51 +0000

Square will be well-positioned to take advantage of NFC when necessary. There’s a lot more to payment processing than transferring a number from a payer to a merchant.

By: Al

Al — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:12:08 +0000

Hey Om! The San Francisco Chronicle is still in the San Francisco Chronicle building!! We have some groundbreaking technology: Gather news and then print it in on dead trees.

By: Funtomas

Funtomas — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:43:35 +0000

NFC is not about payment only as the “C” stands for communication. Yet, it can petty easily establish a P2P connection. So I suspect Google had it in mind when adding support for NFC into android. Got it? Yeah, you can share files with your friends, circumventing carriers. So now, you’ve got clear idea who’s to afraid of NFC, right?