Visa Investment in Square May Mean Big Things for Industry

Visa Investment in Square May Mean Big Things for Industry May 1, 2011 http://www.SmallBusinessNewz.com What are your thoughts Visa's collaborative partnership? Tell Us Here

Visa Investment in Square May Mean Big Things for Industry Chris Crum | Staff Writer Square has received a substantial (though undisclosed) investment from Visa. This is huge news for both Visa and for Square. If you're not familiar with Square, it's a startup from Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, which allows anyone with a smartphone to accept credit card payments via a dongle that plugs in and allows consumers to swipe their cards. The investment from Visa in some ways validates the service, which makes it a great deal easier for anyone to accept a credit card free from any substantial hassle. Last month, Square announced that it was already processing over a million dollars a day. Prior to that, they had eliminated a transaction fee - a 15 cent fee on credit card payments. Obviously that went over pretty well with customers. Facebook Calls Man "Spammer" and Gets Sued - Watch Now Jack Dorsey recently returned to Twitter after several years away from day-to-day operations at the company. He's now leading product at the company, while maintaining his role as CEO at Square. The new investment from Visa, which is said to be in the millions, comes at an interesting time for the company as its leader juggles two major companies. Twitter is used in revolutions, and Square is often accompanied by the term "revolution" in media coverage about the payments industry. Square COO Keith Rabbois told the Wall Street Journal that he has had the same amount of interaction with Dorsey since his return to Twitter that he had beforehand. That's a good sign. Rabbois also said that Square will continue to look for collaborative partnerships that "might make sense," adding that Square's and Visa's visions were "aligning". Matt Cutts on How to Report a Problem with Google Search Tiffany Doughty | Staff Writer Matt Cutts recently posted a video answering one guy's problem where his website pages were showing up wrong in Google. The exact question was: "A few pages on our site are incorrectly being returned as video results (they are regular pages). How do we fix this?" Here is Matt's answer: Basically, Matt's general answer (while somewhat unsatisfactory) is to go to the Webmaster Help forum. He says... "If you have something that's really visible like that, where you can take a picture and say, hey this is being treated as a video result and it's a regular web page, and just click through to verify that, thats the kind of thing people notice pretty quickly." Matt includes that posting to the forum will help you identify what is going on and coach you through the problem. And if you want to search for other helpful videos from Matt Cutts, check out Google Webmaster's Channel on YouTube. Also, if that isn't satisfactory, you can also search on Google.com itself for problems with results not showing up correctly and find even more solutions. Discuss this article.

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