Square is courting small business with new rules and lower transaction fees.

Last week, Square announced a partnership with Starbucks to provide back-end payment processing and CRM for the coffee mega-company. Today, Square brings news of the other end of the business spectrum. Small businesses who make less than $250,000 per year will no longer have to pay the standard 2.75 percent per swipe processing fee (though they can still opt for this) if they pay one flat rate, currently set at $275 monthly.

If a small businesses chooses the flat rate option, they’ll essentially end up paying 1.3 percent per swipe – a significant savings if they meet the criteria. IF the business goes over the line, they’ll be charged the standard per-swipe rate.

This is Square making sure that it can have as many users as possible, from super corporate giants to small mom and pop shops with a bit of tech savvy.

We simply love wallpapers. They’re one of the first changes we make to our Android devices and often represent our moods, interests, or wicked alter egos. They’re as unique as the individuals who use them and while some people pick one and stick with it, others change them more often than a teenager’s Facebook status. Each day we’re going to feature a free wallpaper for you to download and use on your Android device. Depending on your device, you may want to use your favorite photo editing software to resize the image for a better fit. Once that’s done, apply and enjoy. Your homescreen can thank us later. Cheers!

Discover has become the first card issuer to make use of Google Wallet’s Save to Wallet API for Payment Cards. What exactly does that mean? Well, for Discover card holders, it means they can now add their cards to Google Wallet in two easy steps:

  1. Visit discover.com/googlewallet and sign into your Discover account
  2. Click “Add Your Card”

That’s it!

Someone needs to give the guy naming Sprint’s devices a pink slip already. Anyways, if you’re a physical keyboard devotee and just can’t bring yourself to abandon your trusty slide-out QWERTY, then Wirefly has a deal for you. Wirefly is now taking pre-orders for the Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE as well as offering it for $50 less than Sprint.

City dwellers and tourists are going to appreciate the latest update to Google Maps. Google has beefed up it transit information and now includes the schedules for over 1 million transit stops world wide. Users will have easy access and viewing of the transit schedules of over 500 cities including New York, London, Tokyo and Sydney. Google also made improvements to how you view transit information:

Next Page »