In 2009, when Square unveiled its original credit-card reader, one meaningful fact about it was the connector it used. The tiny white doohickey commandeered a smartphone’s headphone jack as means of ...

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When a gadget company sells its products for big bucks, it has every reason to refine its designs on an ongoing basis, making them ever more tempting to paying customers. But if the gizmo in question ...

Square, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is all about speed, and today the company announced it has delivered on its promise of making EMV transactions even faster for business owners and buyers in the U.S. Sellers ...

Payment process platform Square announced this week it has updated its Square Reader for contactless and chip and Square Register will now process chip cards in just two seconds (previously 3.6 ...

Square announced that it will reveal new hardware to read microchip-enabled credit cards next year. The new device will cost more than Square's currently free reader, due to the cost of materials. The ...

Down from a 4.2-second milestone in 2016 Down from a 4.2-second milestone in 2016 Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more ...

The 5 Best Credit Card Readers for iPhone in 2024 Your email has been sent The best credit card readers for iPhones are: The statement “iPhones are popular products” might be a bit of a truism, but ...

U.S. banks are steadily shipping more secure chip-embedded credit and debit cards to consumers, but industry attention is also focused on whether merchants have installed updated payment terminals to ...

If you’ve made any payments with a chip card, you’ve probably had awkward moments — those long seconds after you’ve inserted the card and everyone behind you is (literally or metaphorically) tapping ...

Nick Statt is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Square made two small product announcements today that should make ...