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10 hrs ago | Lake Cowichan Gazette

It's hip to to be SQUARE

At one-square inch - not counting the connector post - Square Register is a tiny gizmo that has attracted attention from several Kamloops businesses.

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Related Topix: Facebook, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Twitter, iPhone

21 hrs ago | CHOW

What's the Deal with Juicing?

So juicing is a thing. Practitioners range from DIYers who occasionally liquefy a sheaf of kale to the sort of person who has bottles of cucumber-watercress delivered each morning.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Noe Valley (San Francisco, CA), Chowhound, Jackson Square Group

Sat May 18, 2013

The Tennessean

Dogs patrol Clarksville mall

A Middle Tennessee shopping mall has become among the few nationwide to use canine security patrols, a tactic that's gaining popularity despite disagreement over its effectiveness.

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Related Topix: Clarksville, TN, Cunningham, TN, Real Estate, Cafaro, Nashville, TN

Fri May 17, 2013

Street Fight

Daily: Mason Moves On, Aruba Buys In-Door GPS Firm Meridian

Ex-Groupon CEO Mason Moving to San Francisco to Start New Company Former Groupon Inc.

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Related Topix: Computers, CPU, Mobile Marketing, Google, Startups

ProgrammableWeb.com

Today in APIs: Google's Instant Buy API, Openmind's API for Mobile, and 6 New APIs

Google Wallet Android API. Openmind creates a mobile communications platform API.

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Related Topix: Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Android, Internet, Science / Technology, CPU

San Jose Mercury News

Community outreach continues on project near Sunnyvale-Santa Clara border

A year after collecting feedback from community outreach meetings, the developer of a project on El Camino Real returned to the community with an updated plan to share with neighbors.

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Related Topix: Santa Clara, CA, Real Estate, Essex Property Trust, Retail, KSS Retail, Kohls

Examiner.com

Sqaure Stand turns iPad into full blown point of sale system

A hello to Square , and greetings to their newest innovation, the Square Stand. which turns an ordinary iPad into a complete point of sale system.

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Payments News

Headline News - May 16, 2013

Apple Advances their Future Shopping App Again & More - Patently Apple - "Today's patent application adds at least five major aspects to the "Shopping" apps patent claims." Half of Visa's payments will be via mobile by 2020, says Visa Europe VP - The Drum - "...Hawkett said that Visa views mobile as the opportunity to "redefine" payments." Can ... (more)

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Thu May 16, 2013

Post-gazette.com

American Eagle retools Manhattan operations as part of building global identity

Under construction scaffolding covering the entry of the American Eagle Outfitters store in Times Square recently, temporary signs were set up to alert the crowds that they could still shop at the multi-level emporium packed with the Pittsburgh company's wares.

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Related Topix: Retail, Apparel, American Apparel, American Eagle Outfitters, Liz Claiborne, New York

Internet Retailer

Daily deal provider Groupon adds a payment service

Groupon Inc., whose deal vouchers are designed to drive traffic to local stores and restaurants, is offering a tool that could lower payment processing costs for those merchants.

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Related Topix: Groupon, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, PayPal

Lafferty

Nigeria releases national identity cards branded by MasterCard

The Nigerian National Identity Management Commission and MasterCard have announced the roll-out of 13 million MasterCard-branded National Identity Smart Cards with electronic payment capability as a pilot programme.

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Freshnews

Winners Announced for 2013 Paymetric Customer Innovation Awards

All of the winning companies have best demonstrated how Paymetric's solutions, XiPay On-Demand or XiSecure On-Demand solution helped the organization to: "We are working with the world's most prominent and highly respected brands to implement Paymetric solutions to process electronic payments and secure sensitive data.

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Related Topix: Paymetric

SFGate

Apple to open new store on Union Square

Apple has submitted plans to open a new retail store on Union Square, replacing its nine-year-old store at Stockton and Ellis streets a few blocks away.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA

Nashville Scene

Kings of Leon to Celebrate Food and Tom Petty With Music City Eats...

At a press conference yesterday at revered Germantown eatery City House, Kings of Leon's Caleb and Nathan Followill announced they'll spearhead Music City Eats - a local food and music festival to overtake Nashville's Public Square Park on Sept.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Kings of Leon, Nashville, KS

Wed May 15, 2013

Digital Video Editing

Square expands its hardware push with new cash register

Square Inc, a closely watched payment-processing company, made a significant push into the hardware business on Tuesday, unveiling a new credit-card reader that it claimed could be the centerpiece of the next-generation checkout counter.

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Related Topix: PayPal, Ipad, iPod touch App, Science / Technology, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Twitter

Salt Lake City Weekly

Reinventing the Wheel

Mayor Ralph Becker has a bold new plan to regain the widespread popular support he's squandered the past couple of years with various boneheaded projects, among them plans to impose a vehicle diet on Sunnyside Avenue, shoehorn police headquarters into Library Square and, most recently, shove a streetcar down 11th East.

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Related Topix: Salt Lake City, UT

Tue May 14, 2013

Thegatewaynews.com

Around Ohio

The National Park Service -- which administers the National Register of Historic Places -- rejected the plans for a skywalk from the historic Higbee building, which houses the casino, to a parking garage.

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Related Topix: Ohio, Riot

Forbes.com

Square Stops Gun Sellers From Using Its Payment Technology

Square, a mobile payment startup, last week tweaked its terms of use to prevent gun retailers from using its technology.

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GigaOM

With Square Stand, Jack Dorsey & Co. reimagine the cash register

Square, which started with a small card reader that plugged into an iPhone's audio jack has made an iPad-based point of sale system, that is a warning shot across the bow of competitors such as and Verifone.

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Related Topix: Starbucks, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, eBay, Groupon, Yelp, Twitter

Sys-Con Media

Square Reinvents the Register With Square Stand

With local businesses increasingly tearing out their old point of sale systems to run Square Register, Square Stand gives merchants a remarkable new way to manage and grow their business, all for the price of a cash register.

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Related Topix: Starbucks, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPod touch App, iPhone App, Twitter

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