Visa-backed mobile payments service Square recruited Google Wallet co-founder Rob von Behren at the beginning of the month.
Square, a mobile payments company backed by US-based credit card company Visa, has hired Rob von Behren, formerly of Google Wallet, a rival service run by the search engine.
Von Behren, a co-founder of Google Wallet, said he had joined Square on his LinkedIn profile at the beginning of this month.
Square’s backers in a $103m November round (the final number was confirmed in a December Securities and Exchange Commission filing) were venture capital firms Khosla Ventures,…