Square rolls out new payment features

Square rolls out new payment features

Square rolls out new payment features. First, mobile payments service Square made it easier for merchants to accept credit cards anytime, anywhere, with just a smartphone and a tiny, plastic credit-card reader. Now, the startup led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey hopes to show them they can abandon cash registers, too.

Square already has a smartphone app that allows people to pay for items by swiping their credit card through a tiny reader that plugs into the headphone jack of a phone or iPad. Customers can sign their name on the device's touch screen, and then have a digital receipt sent to them via email or text message. About 500,000 merchants have these credit-card readers, which Square has given away for free since 2009. In return, the company takes a 2.75 percent transaction fee on sales.
On Monday, Square announced new software, Square Register, to do more. The new app takes over many of the sales features that most stores use cash registers for. It lets merchants keep tabs on inventory and change prices. A menu option allows restaurants to post food options and special deals that customers can see on their smartphones, using a companion app called Square Card Case.

Card Case is available for download after paying with Square at one of a number of merchants hand-picked by Square to participate. It acts as a digital wallet and directory and stores digital receipts for everything you've purchased over Square. For merchants, it serves as a replacement for physical rewards cards some merchants give customers to thank them for repeat visits. The app also has a directory listing local Square-accepting businesses that let users buy items on their phones when they're close to a participating shop. Card Case users can also pay at stores that are using the Register app by saying their name to the sales clerk.

So far, Card Case only includes 50 hand-picked cafes, salons, flower shops, restaurants and other retailers in New York, St. Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington. The company plans to gradually add others.

Lenny Kravitz cast in 'Hunger Games'

Lenny Kravitz cast in 'Hunger Games'

Lenny Kravitz cast in 'Hunger Games'. Lenny Kravitz Cast in ‘The Hunger Games’ Lionsgate Films adds site ensemble actor in votes for “the hunger games”. The Studio of your Twitter account to announce that Lenny Kravitz, as the fashion stylist, Cinna assigned for Katniss Everdeen has become.
The Studio Cinna describes as a “mild-mannered first stylist”, to create stunning designs Katniss. The designs created as the costume “girl on fire” for the living TV debut, you can set the public ID and could contribute to the continued existence of “.
“Hit when I saw the work of Lenny in” Precious (based on the novel PUSH by Sapphire) ‘ I was just, “commented the casting decision as Director Gary Ross. “He was quiet and strong and exclusive and open hearted.” all of the properties that define the character. “And really looking forward to the journey.”

“The hunger games” follows 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen panem lives with the mother and her sister in the poorest province, revealing America. When her sister, to take part in a fight to death, an annual event called the hunger games is selected by lottery, the steps that will be in place.

Nobody can accuse me of “the hunger games” casting director Debra Zane forecasts or novel boring for upcoming film adaptation of Suzanne Collins ‘ BEST-SELLING selection results. Case in point: Lionsgate has today in Twitter, Lenny Kravitz rocker Cinna gold is wearing eyeliner.
The dystopian Thriller fans know as Cinna Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) are prudent and introspective stylist responsible for the signature “girl on fire”.

Of course Lenny is known as a musician (I have totally “American woman” stuck in my head as I write this …) and the former love Lisa Bonet (what!) (I’m a “Cosby Show”, okay?), but he has been acting muscles stretch of late, which appeared in the Oscar winning movie “Precious”.

Bob Dylan 70 birthday

Bob Dylan 70 birthday

Bob Dylan 70 birthday. bob dylan is 7o years old today, may 24, 2011 - and for 50+ years of that life, he has been making some incredible music. and dylan is still going strong, putting out albums and continuing to tour the world. not only is dylan touring these days, but his artwork now does it's own touring! and dylan himself shows no signs of slowing down - kicking off a european tour next month.
in one word dylan is iconic. and, to slip in a second word, he is still relevant today. just last month, as an example of how ubiquitous his impact is - fordham law school held a two day conference on dylan and the law! check out this interesting factoid: "According to the National Law Journal, a 2006 study determined that Bob Dylan is the musician most cited in appellate court opinions." as a lawyer, i find that tidbit nothing short of remarkable.

ironically, my all-time favorite dylan song is "joey" - a mid-70's release that dramatized (fictionalized) the life of mobster joey gallo. dylan rarely plays it in concert, but a fantastic live version of the song is on "dylan and the dead," released a decade after he originally recorded it.

another of my favorite dylan connections is his relationship with the beat generation. and that with allen ginsberg, to be specific. here is a poem ginsberg wrote about dylan's work, appropriately titled, "on reading dylan's writings," that he penned in london, during the summer of 1973.

Now that it's dust and ashes
now that it's human skin
Here's to you Bob Dylan
a poem for the laurels you win

Sincerest form of flattery
is imitation they say
I've broke my long line down
to write a song your way

Those "chains of flashing images" that came to you at night
were highest farm boy's day dreams
that glimpse the Angels light.

And tho the dross of wisdom's come
and left you lone on earth
remember when the Angels call
your soul for a new birth

It wasn't dope that gave you truth
nor money that you stole-- was God himself that entered in
shining your heavenly soul.

it was reprinted in rock sessions magazine, hamburg, germany, 1979.

Victoria Beckham shows bump

Victoria Beckham shows bump. VICTORIA Beckham proudly displayed her baby-bump for the first time, having successfully concealed the growing pregnancy in tight trousers and flowing tops until now.
The 36-year-old mother-of three looked relaxed and comfortable as she walked through Los Angeles International Airport in a grey poncho-style dress.

But even though Victoria is six months pregnant, she seems reluctant to give up her much loved killer heels, and strode through the terminal in towering black ankle boots.

The former Spice Girl, who is expecting a longed-for girl, has been careful to cover her growing stomach whenever out and about recently.

At the weekend she was spotted clutching a long black cardigan protectively over her bump as she cheered on son Romeo, eight, at his football game near Los Angeles.

It has been business as usual for designer Victoria with her fourth pregnancy.

She is maintaining a busy schedule running her fashion label, supporting husband David, 35, at his football games and ferrying about Romeo and his brothers Brooklyn, 12, and Cruz, six. It is rumoured that Victoria wants to continue the Beckham tradition of giving their children unusual names.

She is thinking of calling her daughter Santa, after the LA suburb of Santa Monica. Brooklyn was famously named after the New York district where he was conceived.

A source said: "Posh thinks Santa Beckham has a lovely ring to it and wants something unique.

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