{"id":3260,"date":"2014-11-13T19:42:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=3260"},"modified":"2014-11-13T19:42:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T14:12:12","slug":"square%e2%80%99s-plan-to-exploit-the-big-switch-to-next-gen-credit-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/square%e2%80%99s-plan-to-exploit-the-big-switch-to-next-gen-credit-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Square\u2019s Plan to Exploit the Big Switch to Next-Gen Credit Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Square\u2019s Plan to Exploit the Big Switch to Next-Gen Credit Cards\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1xMqvbu\"><\/div>\n<p>By next October, every checkout counter in the U.S. is supposed to look a little bit different. That\u2019s the deadline set by the credit card industry for merchants to upgrade their point-of-sale systems to accept chip-based credit cards, a more secure upgrade to the magnetic-stripe version that much of the rest of the world has already dropped. Whether U.S. merchants balk remains an open question. But the ones who do plan to get on board represent a huge, time-sensitive market for new hardware\u2014a market that Square is hoping to exploit. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/14d33LO\">Square\u2019s Plan to Exploit the Big Switch to Next-Gen Credit Cards<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\">WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1tGJkJ0\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1B8EGgJ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1B8EIoR\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1B8EIoZ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1tGJkZo\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1B8EJck\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1B8EJcn\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1B8EJcu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1B8EJcw\" border=\"0\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/ift.tt\/1tGJn7I\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>via https:\/\/ift.tt\/1tGJnnY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By next October, every checkout counter in the U.S. is supposed to look a little bit different. That\u2019s the deadline set by the credit card industry for merchants to upgrade their point-of-sale systems to accept chip-based credit cards, a more secure upgrade to the magnetic-stripe version that much of the rest of the world has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/square%e2%80%99s-plan-to-exploit-the-big-switch-to-next-gen-credit-cards\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Square\u2019s Plan to Exploit the Big Switch to Next-Gen Credit Cards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-QA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}