As Starbucks Adopts ‘Square’ Payments, Will Other Merchants Follow?

You could soon pay for a latte at Starbucks simply by walking into the store with a smartphone in your pocket and giving the cashier your name.

Square, a San Francisco-based payments startup unveiled a deal Wednesday with the world’s largest coffee chain that will move its mobile payments products into Starbucks stores around the U.S. starting this fall.

— NPR