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Square stock on fire: Jack Dorsey’s beard sets 3 share price records in 3 days Few stocks have performed better this year than Square Square stock is now up over 1,800% since its IPO in 2015. More recently, this week’s 8% jump was solidified by the company’s acquisition of Credit Karma’s tax wing for $50 million, which traders were pretty into. The move comes as part of Intuit’s $7.1 billion Credit Karma takeover, which until now wasblocked by a civil antitrust lawsuitbrought forward by the US Department of Justice....

According to Jack Dorsey, payment service Square was almost called ‘Squirrel’ and the card reader dongle was made of wood and shaped like an acorn. Until he had lunch at Apple.Update below. Dorsey, Twitters co-founder and the CEO ofSquare, accepted the 21st Century Visionary award, given out by San Francisco’s Commonwealth ClubWednesday night. While he was there he spoke about the future and past of Twitter and Square. Among the statements by Dorsey to come out of the conference was the one above, asTweetedby investor Dan Rosen amongothers....

Social shopping is a rapidly developing area andSqueeqly, launching today atThe Next Web Conference Startup Rally, aims to take a chunk of the market with a plugin that allows e-commerce sites to harness their customers’ social networks to find new customers and find out more about their customers. The plugin enables users to engage conversations around retailers’ products with their friends on Facebook and Twitter. Users can write and publish reviews on social networks and maintain wishlists....

Squid Game, Neftlix’s sensational survival drama, has officially become the platform’s most watched show ever. And rightfully so. If only I could unwatch it and watch it again from the beginning… But Squid Game’s global popularity sadly has a negative side:cybercriminals are ramping up their efforts to scam fans of the show. There are six games in the Squid Game, so we have selected for you the six most prominent related scams....

The great thing about the web these days is that there are tons of places to watch great video. The frustrating thing about the web these days is that there are too many places to watch great video. This is the problem that Squrl wants to solve for you, and they have the best solution I’ve seen. Squrl is a service, currently composed of awebsite,iOS appand HTML5 app that allows people that want to watch and share video from all over the web to do it in one place....