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A Few Thoughts on Spotify and Continued Innovation Around Digital Music

If you’re like me, you’re probably planning to spend this Labor Day weekend barbequing, relaxing and listening to your favorite tunes. It seems that music always tends to play a central role during holidays, events and family gatherings. Here at PayPal, we’ve talked a lot about the continued innovation around digital music and as the music [...]

Rupert Keeley Joins PayPal from Visa to Head Asia Pacific Region

I’m thrilled to tell you that Rupert Keeley, one of the top executives in the payments industry, will join PayPal to run our business in Asia Pacific. I’ve known Rupert for many years, and I consider him one of the best executives that I’ve ever worked with. With 30 years of experience in the payments space, [...]

What do TOMS Shoes, John Donahoe, Facebook, The Shins and a Bus Tour Have in Common?

The answer is that all of them will have a part at the X.commerce Innovate Conference 2011, October 12 – 13 at Moscone West in San Francisco. As Naveed shared back in July, X.commerce is eBay Inc.’s newly created open commerce platform group. X.commerce is not part of PayPal, it’s an entirely new division that’s focused [...]

PayPal Community Video #2: Paytron

By now, you may have seen the first in a series of videos produced by the PayPal community called “Zombie Apocalypse.” Today, another community member takes a funny swipe at some of the new entrants to the payments space in the newest community-made video, “Paytron.” What we loved about this video – besides that it’s hilarious [...]

PayPal Inspires Innovation – And Our Developer Community Continues to Inspire Us

When we first opened our API to developers in 2009 we wanted to not only help companies better monetize their applications, but also inspire entirely new business models — and that’s exactly what we’re continuing to see today, even two years later. Kabbage, last year’s PayPal X Developer Challenge audience choice award winner, built a platform [...]

And the Winner(s) are…

Not so long ago we made the bold prediction that by 2015, physical wallets will be a thing of the past as digital currency will be accepted everywhere in the United States. As we continue to strive to “eat our own dogfood,” we launched the Digital Currency Employee Challenge, asking five, dedicated Bay Area PayPal [...]

Research: Who’s Playing and Paying in Online Gaming?

Back when we launched PayPal for digital goods we described it as the online equivalent to dropping a quarter in the slot to buy a gumball. We could have also said it was like dropping a quarter in the slot to play an arcade game. Today, everyone from FT.com to Xbox, Facebook, News International and beyond [...]

Winners of PayPal’s Third Developer Challenge Revealed!

Originally posted on the X.commerce Developer Blog. What an exciting time it’s been since we first announced the opening of our third Developer Challenge! As I stated back in March, the team here was thrilled to focus this particular challenge on the fast-growing Android ecosystem and it’s been great seeing the positive response from our community. [...]

PayPal is Hiring 300 New Employees in Chandler, AZ and Omaha, NE

I count myself a lucky man, because I get to come to work every day with thousands of talented employees who are passionate about changing the way the world pays. Today, I’m excited to announce that we’re adding to this amazing team — hiring more than 300 new employees in both our Chandler, Arizona and [...]

East Africa Famine Relief

Hi everyone, I’m Clam Lorenz and I’ve just joined PayPal to lead our efforts supporting the nonprofit community. The worst drought in East Africa in 60 years is creating a famine emergency in Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia. Right now, 11 million people – two million of them children – are at risk, and entire families [...]