JackDorsey Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Square's name, design influenced by a meeting at Apple

by Michael Grothaus (May 26th, 2011)

For a while now it's been known that the popular iPhone credit card payment system known as Square was originally known by a different name and had a very different look. The familiar white plastic square-shaped plug-in dongle was originally made of wood and shaped like an acorn (no joke) and ...

Square and Apple have plans for Monday

by Steven Sande (May 21st, 2011)

If you follow @jack, otherwise known as Twitter co-founder and current Square CEO Jack Dorsey, then you'll know that at about 2 PM EDT today, he tweeted the cryptic Instagram (a company he's invested in) message and photo shown at right. A square with apples in it -- that's pretty obvious there, ...

What do you do after you start Twitter? Invent a credit card reader.

by Steven Sande (Oct 19th, 2009)

If you were Jack Dorsey, one of the co-founders and current chairman of Twitter, you'd want to think about something else big to follow up on your huge success. While it doesn't sound like anything groundbreaking, Dorsey's new company Square is developing a tiny white cube (see photo above) that ...