But over the past six months, riders may have seen something a little different in the back of taxicabs: An iPad you can swipe your credit card through, installed by the mobile payments start-up Square.
Update: Square has since pulled the plug on a pilot with New York taxi drivers so it can overhaul its iPad-based card payments system to meet new rules. See Finextra’s October 16 report on this development at http://www.finextra.com/News/Fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=24174
