Visa backs Twitter co-founder's mobile venture

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LOS ANGELES | Wed Apr 27, 2011 1:57pm EDT

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Visa Inc has thrown its weight behind a mobile payments venture created by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.

The credit-card company has made an unspecified investment in Square, a two-year-old service that helps businesses and consumers pay with credit cards on a mobile phone or Apple Inc iPhone, both companies said in a statement.

In return, a Visa executive gets to sit on the advisory board at Square, which is also backed by Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures.

Square's service employs a miniature magnetic card-reader that plugs into a device, such as an iPhone or Google Android phone. CEO Dorsey in March returned to the microblogging sensation he helped create, taking up the post of executive chairman -- in addition to his responsibilities at Square -- to oversee product development.

(Reporting by Edwin Chan. Editing by Robert MacMillan)
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bobegan wrote:
Visa had a lot of options to pick from.
Why Square? Here is a post about why…http://bit.ly/kjR8CJ

Apr 27, 2011 12:54am EDT  --  Report as abuse
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