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PayPal Here Takes Shape As Square Competitor

Tom Wyrick — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:32:29 +0000

Not to be outdone by startup company Square, Inc.’s popular credit card processing service for the masses, PayPal introduces PayPal Here. The new service, announced just last week, reports over 1,000 new signups per hour. Unlike Square’s service, which requires a plastic cube-shaped dongle to swipe credit cards through (with an option of manually keying […]

Federal Facebook Filing Finds Financial Flexibility

Matt Algren — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:39:43 +0000

The big social media news this week goes to Facebook. Officials from the world’s biggest social network released required financial documents Wednesday in preparation for the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in a few months, which will transition the company from a privately held firm to a publicly traded company. This is the first time […]

Intuit Decides Mac Users Like Being Stuck In 2007

Tom Wyrick — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:38:16 +0000

According to a FAQ updated today, Intuit is proceeding with earlier rumored plans to update their Quicken for Mac 2007 product with OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility. Since it was originally developed for PowerPC based Macs, Quicken required the Rosetta emulator to run on modern Intel-based Macs. Apple removed Rosetta support in Lion. I suppose […]