Send a Payment With Square Cash, the Service That’s Free, for Now

Send a Payment With Square Cash, the Service That’s Free, for Now:

By RON LIEBER, nytimes.com

It’s rare that any new prod­uct or ser­vice quick­ly and sim­ply makes our finan­cial lives a whole lot eas­i­er. It’s rarer still that the offer­ing is free.

So behold the mys­tery of Square Cash. It allows peo­ple to email money to other…

How MasterCard and Visa Just Made Banks the Next Big Players in...

How MasterCard and Visa Just Made Banks the Next Big Players in Mobile Payments

Jason Del Rey, recode.net

Tyler Olson/ShutterstockMasterCard and Visa announced on Wednesday a plan to endorse a new mobile payments technology that could bring the idea of using your phone to tap-to-pay for purchases back from the dead.The technology is built into the lat…