Last week, when Square started pre-orders for new chip-based card-reading hardware to upgrade the current mag-stripe equipment, we noted that it seemed like only a matter of time before the company would finally turn on more international services, where the newer chip-based system reigns supreme. Now it looks like that’s just what Square has quietly started to do. Updated Square Register apps in the iOS and Google Play’s Android app stores — part of the company’s bigger solution that lets merchants turn their iOS or Android smartphones and tablets into payment processing devices — now say that the point-of-sale app supports 130 currencies and “support for worldwide use of Register, even in countries without integrated Square processing.” But while the app has now been turned on internationally, the hardware has yet to arrive.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/19/square-register-available-globally-android-and-ios/