Square, run by billionaire Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, hopes to make cash registers obsolete.
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"That would've been enough money for him to live on for a month, " says Dorsey.
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The company has shipped about 500, 000 of the free card readers to customers, Dorsey said.
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Dorsey sees that fluidity of financial exchange as a critical capability for cities of the future.
Jack Dorsey invented Twitter out of his conviction that cities can work more efficiently.
Some were in attendance Tuesday, including former Green Bay Packers Pro Bowl running back Dorsey Levens.
Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey and Bix Beiderbecke all launched their careers at the Sunset.
Additional competition for PayPal will come from Square, the brainchild of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey.
"If you have a family or tribal connection it becomes very personal, " Dorsey said.
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Mr. Kidd says Mr. Dorsey agreed to help take care of Mr. Kidd's first-born daughter.
Of course, design is a focus for Square, which starts from CEO Jack Dorsey.
Kidd immediately offered Dorsey a job, and he bolted Missouri for the Big Apple.
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Both companies have made Dorsey a billionaire, a first-time member of The Forbes 400.
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Like Jobs, Dorsey is a disrupter on an epic scale and a repeat offender.
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For a while Dorsey stuck to this schedule every week at both Twitter and Square.
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Twitter emerged from Dorsey's teenage obsession with the unruly urban tangle of his hometown, St.
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Jack Dorsey, Square cofounder and CEO, unveiled the new hardware at an event in San Francisco Tuesday.
In March, Mr. Costolo brought back Jack Dorsey, Twitter's creator and CEO of mobile-payments company Square Inc.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey became a billionaire before 40, and worked 80-hour weeks to get there.
Meanwhile, co-founder Jack Dorsey is still chairman at Twitter, while he is also CEO at payments start-up Square.
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Stores would ideally mount the iPad on the counter and place cash in a drawer, Dorsey has said.
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Jack Dorsey, the man behind Silicon Valley darlings Twitter and Square, is reportedly dating British supermodel Lily Cole.
Mr. Brouk says he lost touch with Mr. Dorsey in college but recently reconnected with him on Twitter.
Square, a startup led by Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey, is also trying to rework the point-of-sale process.
Twitter was started when Jack Dorsey sent an SMS message at 9:50pm PT on March 21, 2006.
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On Tuesday, CEO Jack Dorsey unveiled the Square iPad stand, which the company hopes will replace traditional cash registers.
He breaks from work to dine with Jack Dorsey, the chief of Facebook rival Twitter and payment service Square.
Hardiman said his grandmother had also been a soloist in the church choir when Thomas Dorsey was the director.
He currently sits on the board of Jack Dorsey's mobile payment company, Square.
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