From Marketplace Tech:
Big advancements are being made to get lattes poured into your mouth faster. Starbucks announced it will use the Square payment system for all credit and debit card transactions starting this fall. Square is best known for little card readers that attach to phones or tablets. But it goes beyond that. Starbucks wants to encourage use of Square's app that lets customers pay for drinks without even taking their phone out of their pockets, using a GPS system. Starbucks is counting on this to catch on, so much that it's invested $25 million  in Square. Bill Maurer runs the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at U.C. Irvine. He says, "The problem that this solves for Starbucks, I think, is that it moves people down the line more quickly. You've got customers who are all basically ordering and buying the same kind of thing, you don't have a lot of diversity of products. And for people who already have a Starbucks card, it's going to add another dimension to their loyalty. It's a cool thing; it fits with the kind of busy professional lifestyle and a certain kind of market niche."

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