Square’s Number Of Transactions Now Top One Billion
Taking a page from McDonald’s legendary XX billions of hamburgers served signs, Square founder Jack Dorsey tweeted on Wednesday (Nov. 5) that a Sacramento merchant has recently accepted Square’s...
View ArticleWith No IPO/Acquisition Plans, Square Free To Operate Very Differently
Jack Dorsey, the founder of both Twitter and Square, rebels against the Wall Street quarter-to-quarter mindset and plans to keep investing in Square until he sees fit to shift it to profitability. In...
View ArticleWhy Jack Likely Won’t Be Back At Twitter For Long
When it was announced last week (June 11) that Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo would be stepping down and Twitter-co founder Jack Dorsey would be stepping in as interim CEO, the Twitter community embraced...
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Costolo Leaving Twitter’s Board — But Is Dorsey Staying?
Twitter’s former CEO is leaving the company’s board … but the question remains as to who will replace him. Not long after Bloomberg first reported on the possibility of Dick Costolo’s exit from...
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Dorsey Increases Twitter Stake Amid CEO Rumors
While more reports suggest that Twitter’s Interim CEO Jack Dorsey might eventually takeover the permanent role, it appears the executive has taken a larger share of the social media company. Reports...
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Will Jack Actually Stay Back? Dorsey Top Twitter CEO Candidate
For those paying attention to the Twitter CEO rumors, there’s only one question on everyone’s mind: Will Jack actually be back? The hashtag #JackIsBack started trending on Twitter in June once it was...
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Can Jack Dorsey Handle Two CEO Jobs At Once?
Twitter gets an interim CEO and investor Chris Sacca gets what he wants, but is everyone happy? As Square, the payments company Jack Dorsey founded in 2009, prepares for an IPO (perhaps in Q4), the...
View ArticleSquare IPO Inching Closer
Square may finally stop circling the public equity markets and file its IPO as early as within the next two weeks, Fortune reported Friday (Sept. 25). That would mean that Jack Dorsey may wind up at...
View ArticleTwitter Board Shows Change Of Heart For Dorsey
Jack Dorsey may be able to hold tightly to his title of CEO at two mammoth tech companies. Dorsey is the chief executive of mobile payments company Square, which reportedly may finally stop circling...
View ArticleJack Will Stay Back As Twitter’s CEO, Sources Say
The long-time coming news that Twitter founder Jack Dorsey will officially be named Twitter’s permanent CEO will happen as early as tomorrow (Oct. 1), Re/code reported, citing anonymous sources. But,...
View ArticleCould Twitter’s Dorsey Gain Be Square’s IPO Slump?
Just when talks of Square’s IPO are gaining momentum, its CEO Jack Dorsey is finding himself at a crossroads — to be or not to be the head of his payments startup Square and Twitter, which reportedly...
View ArticleDorsey Officially Named Twitter’s CEO, Bain To Serve As COO
It’s official: Jack is back. Twitter confirmed the news Monday morning (Oct. 5) that the decision to appoint Jack Dorsey — Twitter’s founder — as permanent CEO was approved by the board on Sept. 30....
View ArticleDual Square, Twitter Roles For Dorsey Raises Concerns
One man, two very big hats. As the social media and payments worlds (and much of the rest of the globe) know by now, Jack Dorsey has been appointed the permanent chief executive of Twitter. The move...
View ArticleTwitter Planning To Lay Off Employees
Jack Dorsey’s second inning at Twitter is coming with a whole lot of changes, such as adding character length to tweets, editing tweets and laying off a good chunk of its employees this week. According...
View ArticleLayoffs Ahead For Twitter — And Snapchat, Too
The layoff plan is officially in place for Twitter. And Snapchat. CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed the Twitter news in a memo which was filed with the SEC and sent out to employees yesterday (Oct. 13). The...
View ArticleIPO Watch: Square…A Bloated Unicorn?
The news the payments community has been waiting for has hit the wires: Square has filed for its IPO. The mobile payments startup officially announced the plans yesterday (Oct. 14) on its blog, which...
View ArticleYahoo’s Chief Development Officer Jumps Ship To Square
Jacqueline Reses, currently Yahoo’s chief development officer, is reportedly leaving Yahoo for Square. Reses’ main focus recently at Yahoo has been spinning off the firm’s stake in the Alibaba Group —...
View ArticleAn Insider’s Perspective: What Square’s IPO Really Means
There has been plenty of controversy over Square and its valuation, particularly after it priced its IPO at $9 a share — about half the valuation it had at its last capital raise — on Wednesday...
View ArticleDorsey Says Square Wallet Could Be Back
Everyone wants to be in the mobile wallet space — even companies that once failed in the sector. That’s the case for Square and Jack Dorsey’s vision for his new, publicly traded company, based on a...
View ArticleShort Sellers Circling Square
It’s a truism on Wall Street that when a stock moves up and to the right, sharply, posting strong gains in a brief time — the short sellers begin to salivate. So it is with Square, the payments tech...
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