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Square IPO to test Dorsey's ability to run two companies

October 14, 2015 4:33 PM EDT

By Heather Somerville

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Mobile payments company Square Inc filed for its long-expected initial public offering on Wednesday in a test of Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey's ability to take the company public as he grapples with a turnaround at Twitter Inc.

Square's filing on Wednesday comes little more than a week after Twitter appointed Dorsey to head the microblogging site. To address concerns about Dorsey's two jobs, Twitter also on Wednesday named Google Inc executive Omid Kordestani as its executive chairman.

The filing also gave potential investors their first peek at Square's... More

Twitter (TWTR) on Watch as Dorsey's Square Files for an IPO

October 14, 2015 4:23 PM EDT

Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) shares are modestly lower following news that Sqaure will look to go public.

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Square (SQ) Files for $275M Common Stock IPO

October 14, 2015 4:12 PM EDT

(Updated - October 14, 2015 4:14 PM EDT)

Square (NYSE: SQ) filed a registration with the U.S. SEC for an IPO of its Common Stock. The proposed maximum offering price is $275 million. The company plans to list on the NYSE under the symbol, "SQ."

Underwriters are Goldman, Sachs & Co., Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, Barclays, Deutsche Bank Securities, Jefferies, RBC Capital Markets, and Stifel.

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