PayPal Here's launch in the UK shows that our smart phones are evidently not secure enough to be cleared for a Square-like credit card acceptance use in Europe....
Square is giving big retailers what they want, at a price they can tolerate, and is signing up small businesses, even as it charges more than they are used to....
For it to stand any chance of survival, any Square-like start-up would have to embark on a huge marketing offensive, which no investor is likely to fund....
How is Square threatening the existence of Visa and MasterCard when it is, in fact, actively promoting the acceptance of their credit and debit cards?...
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....