Mobile wallet taken down by Square

Square Inc. mobile payments nfc technology

That said, the company has not given up on mobile payments and intends to try again with a new app. Square has announced that it is giving up on its mobile wallet app and that it is taking the app down because it simply didn’t catch on among consumers, despite the fact that it was first introduced back in 2011. The app was designed to help local merchants to offer a fast and easy mobile payments solution to customers. However, even among the merchants that did adopt the use of…

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Mobile payments from Square slowing down at Starbucks

Starbucks Mobile Payments

The smartphone wallet program is not growing at the same rate that it had once enjoyed. According to the latest reports that have been published, the mobile payments system from Square is starting to lose steam at the massive Starbucks coffee chain, which has always been recognized for considerable smartphone transaction successes. There appear to be some issues that are getting in the way of usage of the transactions. Among the primary reported struggles for this mobile payments program is that baristas at Starbucks are struggling to complete some of…

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