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5:23PM

Square: Accept Payments Anywhere

 

We’re living in the digital age, and more and more people are moving towards electronic payment. Well Square is a nifty little product that allows anybody to become a merchant on the go. Square works with iPhone and Android. Downloading the free Square app from the App Store and signing up for an account will allow you to accept payments anywhere for anything. You can use the actual Square Card Reader, which plugs into your phone’s headphone jack, and acts as a credit card reader, which you can just swipe credit cards through. The Square app lets you enter the amount, enter a description or include a picture of the product and lets the buyer sign for their purchase. After the transaction is complete, you can email them a receipt with a map showing where their purchase was made.

In conclusion, Square is a really great service which eliminates the need for cash. As the service becomes more popular, more businesses and entrepreneurs are likely to pick up this service and really make it. So check out Square at SquareUp.com. It’s a really great service that more people should learn about.

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3:39PM

Credit card number found on Google via Blippy

A large number of users who queried site:blippy.com +outstading on Google showed results of a user’s credit card number, owned by a Blippy user.

Blippy is a website aimed for users to see and discuss what other users are buying, either iTunes purchases, or restaurant purchases.  Blippy has confirmed that four users’ credit cards were exposed in Google searches. The company has asked Google to re-index their entire website.

Blippy released a statement Saturday, April 24, and said: “We’re continuing to work with Google to have them remove all sensitive information from their cache.”

“We’re analyzing our backup databases from January & February to understand what additional information the Google cache may have.”

Would you ever sign up for a website that has a potential to expose your credit card number? Of course not. But Blippy has dealt with it, which is a good part to this story.

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