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Twitters vd Jack Dorsey vid börsnoteringen av hans andra bolag: Square. Arkivbild (Richard Drew / TT / NTB Scanpix)

Analys: Vd:n får välja – kvar på heltid eller lämna?

Det var ingen dålig rapport Twitter redovisade för det senaste kvartalet, men att bolaget är i stort behov av att repareras är vid det här laget axiomatiskt, skriver Bloombergs Shira Ovide i en analys. Ett problem, enligt henne, är att bolagets vd Jack Dorsey inte ägnar allt sitt fokus åt Twitter.

”Det är dags för Jack Dorsey att välja ett av sina vd-jobb, antingen Twitter eller Square. Annars bör Twitters styrelse fatta beslutet åt honom”, skriver Shira Ovide.

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Square
Wikipedia (en)
Square, Inc. is a financial services, merchant services aggregator and mobile payment company based in San Francisco, California. The company markets several software and hardware payments products, including Square Register and Square Reader, and has expanded into small business services such as Square Capital, a financing program, and Square Payroll. The company was founded in 2009 by Jack Dorsey and Jim McKelvey and launched its first app and service in 2010. It has been traded as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange since November 2015 with the ticker symbol SQ. Square Register allows individuals and merchants in the United States, Canada, Japan and Australia to accept offline debit and credit cards on their iOS or Android smartphone or tablet computer. The application software ("app") supports manually entering the card details or swiping the card through the Square Reader, a small plastic device that plugs into the audio jack of a supported smartphone or tablet and reads the magnetic stripe. On the iPad version of the Square Register app, the interface resembles a traditional cash register.
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Twitter
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Twitter (/ˈtwɪtər/) is an online news and social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS or mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco and has more than 25 offices around the world. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass and launched in July 2006. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with more than 100 million users posting 340 million tweets a day in 2012. The service also handled 1.6 billion search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten most-visited websites and has been described as "the SMS of the Internet". As of March 2016, Twitter has more than 310 million monthly active users.
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