Mobile payments startup Square is announcing big numbers today-500,000 Square card readers shipped, 1 million Square transactions in May, and the startup is now processing $3 million in mobile payments per day. Clearly the company is on a roll in terms of traction and usage. And CEO Jack Dorsey is also revealing the next generation of Square. And [...]

Tumblr officially rolled out its share button today, joining the ranks of many other social platforms. True to Tumblr, the button can be adapted to share links, quotes, photos or embedded video, carrying over the source attribution. More here. On Thursday, Quora’s Marc Bodnick, famous for leaving Elevation Partners, where he is a cofounder, to [...]

Want an example of a company running a promotion on Facebook? I’ve got one you should watch in real time as they roll out their strategy over the next few weeks. Jackson Hewitt Tax Service is launching a contest asking taxpayers how use their tax refund. The contest includes a “Big Check” page on Facebook. [...]

Suddenly there are a lot of moving parts on the media landscape. And what’s really interesting is that they all seem to be moving in the same direction. We have old media coming toward new media: Rupert Murdoch and Steve Jobs building an IPad-only newspaper. The future of media. Steve Yelvington wrote a follow up [...]

Google’s $6 billion bid for Groupon, an online coupon start-up, is an aggressive move by the company to dominate local online advertising and help with its long-sought move into social networking. More from Dealbook and Analysts on Groupon Deal: Google Upping Its Fight with Facebook? Yep, you read that right. Today, YouTube is officially launching [...]

Word of mouth is powerful and we talk about a great case study from GrassHopper.com mentioned on WOMMA.org. Social news app Flipboard was yesterday’s hot new app, despite—or perhaps because of—technical problems preventing some features from working. But there might be a bigger snag: Is Flipboard scraping content it doesn’t have the rights to? check [...]

from Mark Cuban’s blog where he talks about just investing in a new company that… takes video of an area and can tell you exactly how many people are in the capture area at any given time. It’s great for traffic patterns, security, and much more. view more here or round up from MarketingVox. You’ve [...]

Rather than searching town to town for a product and being unable to find it, consumers can now log on to the Internet, conduct a search and obtain several resources where a purchase can be made. From ease of shopping to product information and reviews, consumers have taken to the Internet to make more informed [...]

Weather HD, a $0.99 weather application for the iPad, is currently the number three most popular application in the App Store. It reached those heights even though there are a bunch of great free weather apps available for the iPad. More on Weather HD here >> Business blogs begin generating significantly more leads when they [...]

Ning is making some major changes: It has just announced that it is killing off its free product, forcing existing free networks to either make the change to premium accounts or migrate their networks elsewhere. Rosenthal has also just announced that the company has cut nearly 70 people — over 40% of its staff. Here’s [...]