Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ) generates frequent news across its ecosystem of brands, including Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, Proto, Spiral, and TBD. Company announcements often highlight how its technology supports sellers, consumers, and developers in accessing the modern economy, with a particular focus on financial services, commerce, and bitcoin-related products.
News about Square commonly covers product integrations and partnerships that affect how sellers manage in-store and online operations. For example, Block has announced an expanded partnership between Square and Thrive, an inventory management reporting system, to sync catalogs, inventory, and sales across channels such as Shopify while keeping Square as the source of truth. Such updates are relevant for retailers seeking to coordinate multi-channel commerce.
Coverage of Cash App and Afterpay often centers on new features, pilots, and consumer behavior trends. Recent releases describe the Cash App Score pilot, which surfaces a near real-time measure of financial health for select customers, and the upcoming Afterpay on Cash App Card pilot, which lets eligible Cash App Card holders convert eligible purchases into pay-over-time loans. Afterpay-related news also includes data on payment performance and expansions of its merchant network across fashion, lifestyle, and home categories.
Block also issues news on broader ecosystem themes, such as its “Bitcoin is Everyday Money” campaign advocating for a de minimis tax exemption to facilitate everyday bitcoin payments, and reports on transaction volumes across Square, Cash App, and Afterpay during major shopping periods like Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
Investors and followers of XYZ stock can use this news feed to track product launches, partnerships, consumer usage trends, credit and bitcoin initiatives, and corporate updates that Block discloses through press releases.
Square (XYZ) announced that customer Live by the Sword opened a Times Square tattoo and piercing location on October 31, 2026.
The location uses Square’s commerce platform. Live by the Sword has used Square since its founding in 2017 and uses its tools for payments, appointments, loyalty and marketing across its tattoo, piercing and salon operations. The customer’s gross payment volume—the value of payments processed—grew 10x in six years; that figure is not Square’s company-wide growth.
Block (NYSE: XYZ) has posted its financial results for the third quarter of 2026 on its Investor Relations website. The results are available in the Financials section at investors.block.xyz. A conference call and earnings webcast to discuss the results are scheduled for 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on November 3, 2026.
Square (XYZ) announced that Sydney deli Salumerie uses its platform across an expanding network of shops. Founded in Potts Point in 2024, Salumerie now operates five Sydney sites, with around 50 people making roughly 1,000 focaccias a day.
The deli uses Square for Restaurants, Register, Kiosk and Online, alongside tools for reporting, loyalty and staff scheduling. Its newest location, in Martin Place, introduces Salumerie Express, a smaller format the deli is refining for possible future franchising.
Square (XYZ) is powering a live transaction-linked dashboard at Old Spike’s newly opened café on Great Suffolk Street in Southwark. The dashboard uses purchase data from Old Spike’s seven cafés to show contributions to training and paid work placements for people experiencing homelessness. Old Spike plans to extend the dashboard to all its sites.
Square (XYZ) unveiled its new Square Kiosk, a self-service ordering device for quick-service restaurants, available immediately for $1,999.
The kiosk requires a Square Plus or Premium subscription and carries a $99 monthly software fee per device. It combines conversational artificial intelligence, which responds to spoken requests, with touchscreen ordering and integrated payments. Square says the system is designed to answer menu questions, suggest add-ons and help restaurants increase average order value.
Square is also rolling out tools for franchises to manage menus, reporting and gift cards across multiple accounts while retaining franchisee autonomy.
Square (XYZ) has been selected by Pike Place Fish Market as its unified commerce platform for payments and operations. The Seattle seafood retailer now uses Square Plus and Square Terminal, replacing a system it had used for more than a decade. Pike Place Fish Market chose the platform to update daily operations and streamline in-person payments while retaining its customer experience.
The retailer is also building a customer database through automatic data capture at checkout, with plans to use it to reach customers directly after their visits.
Block (NYSE: XYZ) will release its third-quarter 2026 financial results on November 3, 2026, after market close. A conference call and earnings webcast will follow that day at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time to discuss the results. A replay will be available on Block’s Investor Relations website following the call.
Square (XYZ) announced that Los Angeles sister restaurants Ètra and Café Telegrama have moved onto its unified commerce platform. The Melrose Hill restaurants share one kitchen, with Café Telegrama offering daytime quick service and Ètra providing full-service Italian dining at night.
Both use Square devices for order entry and payments, sending orders directly to the shared kitchen’s printers. At Ètra, Square’s integration with Resy automatically updates course status in the reservation system, giving front-of-house staff visibility into each table’s progress.
Block (XYZ) said Cash App will appear as a direct deposit option in Workday's Enhanced Direct Deposit experience on October 1. Eligible U.S. employees will be able to choose Cash App as the destination for their pay when making a direct deposit election through that experience.
The integration is intended to make it easier to route paychecks into Cash App. Cash App had 9.4 million Primary Banking Actives in Q2 2026, up 17% year over year. Block's research found that 65% of adult Modern Earners nationally receive a traditional ACH direct deposit to any bank account.
Square (XYZ) launched an Apple Business integration on September 24, 2026, letting eligible sellers manage Apple Maps listings from Square Dashboard.
Sellers with physical locations can connect their accounts, sync hours, addresses and phone numbers, add logos, and place links for ordering, booking and other actions on Apple Maps. The integration is available across Square’s eight supported regions: Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. Connected location details also appear across Siri AI, Apple Wallet and other Apple apps.