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Square’s online payments APIs and Square Invoices are adding support for Google Pay, which the mobile point of sale company hopes will streamline checkout for online stores and websites.

If Gov. Jerry Brown signs the legislation headed to his desk, it would be the first law of its kind in the U.S. It is designed to allow small-business owners to make comparisons between offers in the often bewildering world of online business lending.

The Lightning Connector eliminates the need for merchants using the Square Reader to rely on a 3.5mm headphone jack of a smartphone or tablet to operate with its mobile app.

Younger consumers’ intimacy with technology and wariness about traditional financial markets means these demographics have more trust in crypto, writes Csaba Csabai, founder and CEO of Inlock.

For their own sake, GrubHub and Uber should have purchased Caviar when Square reportedly offered it to them for sale in 2016. Instead, they now have a competitor who’s looking to eat their lunch in the restaurant delivery business.

Square Inc. gave an earnings forecast for the current quarter and year that fell short of analysts’ high expectations, a rare miss for the company and a signal its spending on new products and growth are tempering profit.

With just two partnerships, eBay is cutting off a big opportunity for community banks.

The new alliances follow EBay’s February announcement to gradually shift its payments processing business from PayPal to Adyen.

In the era of digital and mobile payments, many banks and tech companies have strived to completely do away with cash, checks and cards. But quite a few have had to concede that the market isn't quite ready to give up the physical trappings of payments.

Morgan Stanley CEO, New York Fed chief caution against failing to remember what caused the financial crisis; Wells Fargo may combine its two big wealth management businesses.