VeriFone is the first high-profile victim of the war of the Square clones that has been raging with an ever-increasing intensity for more than two years now....
Whereas Square demands exclusivity, Cardfree allows merchants to accept mobile payments, even as they keep their existing pricing arrangements and hardware....
Square's new gift card program is designed in the company's characteristically eye-pleasing style and puts the processor even farther ahead of its rivals....
Kenya's banks have been busy developing mobile money services to challenge M-Pesa, but the latter is unlikely to give up its dominant position anytime soon....