‘European Square’ iZettle Now Works With Android; Visa Europe Dispute Drags On

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iZettle, the mobile payments startup that wants to be the Square of Europe, today passed an important milestone: the company says its dongle-based card processing system now works with Android devices. This makes iZettle, which in June picked up a $31.4 million round of funding, the first company to commercially offer a plug-and-play, mini chip-card dongle for Android, the dominant smartphone platform in the region, accounting some 60% of all devices. Before today, iZettle’s payment platform only worked on iOS-based iPhone smartphones and iPad tablets.

But as iZettle continues to grow its ubiquity on one level, it’s still working on compatability on another: the news comes as iZettle continues to try to find a resolution with Visa Europe, which last month stopped supporting iZettle payments on its network in the region, a move that affects some 15,000 of the 50,000 small merchants already using iZettle.

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