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A major Silicon Valley VC is set to return to South Africa, the country of his birth, to deliver a lecture at Stellenbosch University.Roelof Botha made his name as one of the people fundamental to the early development of ecommerce payments system PayPal. He was named CFO in ...

PayPal is going after mobile payment service Square in big way. The ecommerce giant announced that it is looking to go global with its new payment app and card reader.They new product, called PayPal Here, (not quite as catchy as Square right?) reportedly allows merchants to accept payments by swiping cards in ...

Google has announced that it will be shutting down Slide, the social gaming company it bought for around US$200 million less than a year ago. Slide produces social gaming apps for Facebook and MySpace such as SuperPoke! Pets and Top Fish.Max Levchin, CEO of Slide is to leave ...

I've been pondering small business, payments and incentives quite a bit recently. Partly because of the web startups I've been seeing crop up locally, partly due to the inefficiencies in the system, and also because I'm a bit of a merchant at heart.Specifically, I think that small business in Africa ...

Hackers have shown how to turn mobile payment service Square into a convenient tool that allows criminals to pump cash from stolen credit card numbers.Adam Laurie and Zac Franken of computer security firm Aperture Labs used home made software and an easily bought iPad audio wire to trick Square in ...

Mobile payments may be the next big tech gold rush, depending on who you listen to. For something getting so much hype, and with so many start-ups popping up in the field, it is a surprisingly vague term.There are at least a half dozen different approaches competing to become ...

Twitter's seesaw problems with product development entered a new phase this morning as the company brought back former CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey.He will take over product development from co-founder Evan Williams, as Executive Chairman, but also run his own startup, Square.The move makes sense. Evan Williams involvement in Twitter ...