The partnership will also accelerate the ability of small businesses to grow with Square's innovative technology and a stronger and more widely available Square network.

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Lin's breakout campaign had a large part in swiftly improving the Madison Square Garden network's bottom line.

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Metcalfe said the usefulness of a network improves by the square of the number of nodes on the network.

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