Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering mobile technology news and reviewing the latest gadgets for the last six years. His work can also be found on sister site CNET ...

Square’s popular magnetic stripe card reader plugs into an iPhone headphone jack, giving small business owners who would otherwise go cash only the ability to accept debit and credit cards. But Apple ...

Square‘s card reader has rapidly become one of the go to payment solutions for small businesses across the country, and now the startup is expanding its accessibility thanks to a new deal with AT&T.

Starting today, Verizon Wireless retail stores will start selling Square hardware — the nifty credit card-reading dongle for smartphones and tablets. The craziest part: The iOS and Android dongles are ...

Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Square made two small product announcements today that should make ...

Ten years after Square launched its credit card dongle that plugs into a smartphone, Chase is introducing a competing product. More than ten years after Square introduced its infamous credit card ...

Christine Sharp-Crowe, an artist and owner of downtown shop Made in the Philtower, said credit card payments used to be a pain to accept at craft shows. "You'd use those awkward devices that rubbed on ...

As we approach the one year anniversary of America’s switch from magstripe credit card readers over to EMV chip cards, the track record for them is not good. In fact, as I complained back in July, the ...

VeriFone CEO Doug Bergeron’s appears to have touched a nerve with his statement Wednesday that startup Square should recall all the mobile credit card readers it has distributed for free so far ...

In a highly unusual move, electronic payment vendor VeriFone Wednesday said it found a “gaping” security hole in a free plug-in mobile credit card reader from Square, a startup launched by Twitter ...

Last year we reported how Apple’s former accessory hardware division leader Jesse Dorogusker redesigned the Square reader to make it 45% thinner than the original version. The updated card reader will ...