Irish-founded company is now the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley

Seen & Heard: also in the headlines was the charity that has made a windfall from selling Ryanair shares, Aer Lingus and its pilot loans, and refinancing the Square’s debt

Fintech startup founded by John and Patrick Collison could be valued as high as $100bn

Activist investor Elliott Management had pushed for tougher performance goals

CEO of Twitter and Square plans to donate just under one-third of his total wealth to tackling Covid-19

Payments company is valued at $35.3bn, having raised $1.3bn across seven rounds

Step aims to teach ‘pre-banked’ generation financial literacy through app

Former Square finance chief now leads social network company valued at $2.1bn

Leaving the door open for former employees to return makes sense when labour is scarce

Forthcoming auctions and sales

Tyrone-born techie to become chief executive of little-known social network

From The Irish Times’s 2018 guide to the 100 best foodie destinations across Ireland

Irish retail tech firm gives small retailers a new way to make their stock visible online

Low representation of women leaders in top firms is ‘insane’, says Square’s Sarah Friar

Fintech conference at RDS attracts more than 5,000 attendees from 84 countries

Tyrone-born financial boss of payments firm Square told Moneyconf change is afoot with start-ups leading the way

Sum is double the amount Swedish star-up was targeting for IPO

Two Dublin houses sell above asking prices. A Cobh Victorian falls

Moves to bring cryptocurrency into mainstream financial system fuels sharp price rise

US-based tech executive hosts coaching and masterclasses to provide ‘unfair advantage’

Fumbally Square and Fumbally Court developments a short walk from St Stephen’s Green

Idea is if you ‘put smart people together, businesses get better and create more ideas’

On Dublin visit, social network founder says revenue will follow when company does ‘the right things’

Some of the so-called unicorn companies fell in the crisis and left a lesson for others

Erring on the side of caution may have been a good thing for the payments company

Result bucks trend of IPOs which are trading down about 5%

Mobile phone company’s strong opening offered hope to start-ups hoping to go public

Weaker price means company will raise $80m less than initially hoped

Jack Dorsey-headed mobile payments firm to announce share price on Wednesday

Mobile payments firm expects to price at between $11 and $13 per share

Despite exceeding projections for quarterly results, social network continues to struggle

Concerns about another bubble fading as analysis shows valuations stabilising

Square, founded in 2009, was valued at $6bn at its last funding round a year ago

Dorsey, chief executive of Square, is also in the running for the Twitter top job

Micro blogging giant’s innovations include accepting political donations and teaming up with Stripe for in-tweet purchases

Online payment processing firm co-founded by Irish brothers

Wall Street reacts positively to news with shares jumping 3.6 per cent to $37.17

Uber, Airbnb, LinkedIn, Yelp – all are products of a small, elitist cabal with PayPal roots

Snapchat will team up with Square to let users send and receive money quickly

John Collison, co-founder of Stripe, says mobile wallets are “sort of like e-commerce in 1995”