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Twitter creator Dorsey’s Square counts Mayer, Rose, Dyson among angels

Twitter creator Dorsey’s Square counts Mayer, Rose, Dyson among angels

Square

Square, the mobile payments startup from Twitter creator Jack Dorsey, revealed an impressive roster of angel investors today.

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Among them: Google’s Marissa Mayer and husband and private equity executive Zachary Bogue, Foursquare and Dodgeball co-founder Dennis Crowley, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, prolific angel investor Ron Conway, Napster creator Shawn Fanning, Digg creator Kevin Rose, Delicious creator Joshua Schachter, Personal Democracy Forum founder Andrew Rasiej, a producing director of the TV show ‘House’ Greg Yaitanes, First Round Capital, XPD founder Robin Chan and Esther Dyson.

Square offers a tiny white piece of hardware that you can plug into the audio jack of an iPhone, which lets you process credit card payments through a mobile app instead of through a machine. The vision is to allow small business owners or even friends to easily engage in transactions without paying the high upfront cost of buying machines to process payments. A video demo is embedded below.

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