Square Mobile Payment System
TechCrunch
No, I’m not talkin’ cigarettes.
The mobile payment system Square is processing $1 million in payments per day, TechCrunch reported in March.
They are signing up 100,000 merchants per month.
That compares to 30,000 monthly signups last Fall.
THOUGHT: Apple selling the card-swiping hardware in their retail outlets at $9.95 a pop should greatly accelerate adoption of the mobile payment system. Couple that with the simplification of the process that Square has figured out, and what this really amounts to is the beginning of the democractization of transactions. They’re removing the barriers for anyone to do business by making the most important aspect of doing business, the transfer of money, simple, easy, and painless.
Considering that the easiest way to employment for many in this tough environment is self-employment, this is no small development.
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