During the holiday season, the Salvation Army usually rings bells and collects donations in front of restaurants and grocery stores. One of the problems I have is that I always use my credit card and almost never have spare change or cash. The Salvation Army is solving that problem for me by accepting credit cards by using Square credit card readers.

Mobile payments company Square has added a new feature to the Card Case digital wallet application. This allows users to walk into a store and pay without having to take out their phone. All they have to do is say their name and their order.

Square, the mobile payments service company, has launched a store locator to help consumers find out where to buy the Square device from. The Square device is being sold at Apple, Best Buy, RadioShack, Target, and Wal-Mart retail stores.

Mobile payment company Square has updated its iPhone and iPad applications today. The company also redesigned their website. The mobile applications are faster in speed and the number of screens for transactions have been reduced.

Mobile payments company Square recently raised $100 million in a new round of funding. The company has now reached $4 million in mobile payments made per day. This puts the company on track to hitting $100 million in monthly transactions starting this July.

Mobile payment services company Square is raising a new round of funding that would give them a billion dollar valuation. It is believed that Square is raising $50 million or more. The talks of the new round of funding is in early stages as of right now. Square is processing about $3 million per day in mobile payments. Square is also working on a cash register service. Square has raised over $37.5 million in funding thus far from multiple venture capital companies and Visa. [TechCrunch]

When accepting the award at the 21st Century Visionary award at San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club earlier this week, Jack Dorsey spoke about Twitter and Square. Dorsey is a co-founder at Twitter and founded Square. Dorsey said that the company name Square was almost named “Squirrel” and the card reader dongle was made of wood and shaped like an acorn.

Square is a mobile payments startup company that has shipped about 500,000 card readers. Square reported about 1 million transactions in May and the company is processing about $3 million in mobile payments per day. Square has announced a new service today called Square Register.