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Square launches new hardware-free tap-to-pay service

Payment companies are unveiling options to turn smartphones into tap-and-go payment devices.

AAP · Apr 19, 2023

How Yishan Wong rose to become Reddit CEO

Yishan Wong talks Fortune through his résumé including the advice former boss Mark Zuckerberg gave him at Facebook, and nearly founding WeWork before WeWork.

Fortune · Apr 17, 2023

Square launches new hardware-free tap-to-pay service

Square Australia has launched a new tap-to-pay service that will let merchants accept payments simply via a smartphone.

AAP · Apr 17, 2023

Bob Lee: Police say it’s ‘too early’ to tell if Cash App founder’s fatal stabbing was a random attack

San Francisco police chief William Scott says he is ‘100 per cent confident’ brutal murder of tech executive will be solved

The Independent UK · Apr 8, 2023

Cash App founder Bob Lee called 911 and said he was bleeding out as he lay dying on a San Francisco street

‘There’s a male screaming “help,” saying, “someone stabbed me”. Advised he is bleeding out,’ 911 dispatcher says

The Independent UK · Apr 7, 2023

Billionaire Cash App founder ‘begged for help’ after being fatally stabbed in San Francisco

He reportedly tried showing his stab wounds to a driver, who then drove away

Evening Standard · Apr 7, 2023

Bob Lee stabbing: Everything we know from callous bystander to San Francisco criticisms

Tech guru Bob Lee, the founder of Cash App who helped launch Android, died after being stabbed twice in the chest in San Francisco, with tributes pouring in across social media including fromElon Musk - and concerns raised over the rate of violent crime in the city which Mr Lee…

Daily Mirror · Apr 6, 2023

Few details in SF stabbing death of Cash App founder Bob Lee

There is little information from police on how technology executive Bob Lee came to be fatally stabbed in downtown San Francisco early Tuesday

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2023

Bob Lee: A genius tech visionary killed in a ‘horrifying act of violence’

Bob Lee’s creations helped to change the world. In touching online eulogies, friends say his work as a software developer and digital payment pioneer was only part of his brilliance. Bevan Hurley reports.

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2023

Timeline of Bob Lee murder – Cash App founder who moved out of San Francisco due to rising crime rate

Lee, a much loved member of the San Francisco tech community, was known as ‘Crazy Bob’

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2023