The PayPal Blog

J.P. Morgan’s In-Depth Look at PayPal’s Business

Anuj from the communications team here again. I just read a great in-depth analysis on the PayPal business from investment bank, JP Morgan. The report notes that “among online-only players, PayPal has established a payment brand to compete with incumbent players such as Visa and MasterCard” and examines four key areas ...

Bill Me Later Surveys the “Household CEO”

Hi blog readers, it's Anuj Nayar from the communications team. It's been a busy week here at PayPal but I didn't want to close it out without letting you know about a survey from PayPal's Bill Me Later division and Zappos.com of 645 women from across the United States. It ...

PayPal UK Online Retail Report

Hello everyone, it’s Carl Scheible here, managing director of PayPal in the UK. I’m just back from Bloomberg TV’s studio in London. I was talking about a new report from PayPal that forecasts that British consumers will more than double the amount they spend online by the end of 2011, ...

Checkout Abandonment Results on UStream

Hi! My colleague, Marty Melville, and I conducted our first ever UStream live chat. We discussed the insights from PayPal's second annual Checkout Abandonment Survey and if you weren’t able to view the video live, you can still go to the PayPal’s UStream channel here and view it on the site. Please ...

PayPal’s 2nd Checkout Abadonment Survey Results and New PayPal Instant Update API on Express Checkout

Hello everyone! I’m Eddie Davis, senior director of SMB merchant services. We just completed our second annual Checkout Abandonment Survey that gave great insight into why online shoppers don’t complete purchases at checkout. Through the survey, PayPal found the main reasons why shoppers did not follow through on their purchases were: High ...

PayPal Radio - Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Hello and welcome to summer from PayPal Radio (www.paypal.com/paypalradio)! Jason Miner here, host of the show, with an update on what’s happening in the home stretch of June. First up on tomorrow's PayPal Radio broadcast is Mary Ostermeyer, a Merchant Account Manager with PayPal. Mary’s been compiling advice from her merchants and ...

PayPal Launches DoStuffForMoney

Today at PayPal we kicked off DoStuffForMoney, a new campaign that lets people, well, do stuff for money. It’s a fun way to ask for a favor, motivate people to do the jobs you don’t want to do, or request money for almost anything. Need your roommate Susie to handle ...

PayPal Send Money Updates

Hi all, I’m Heinz Waelchli, director of product marketing. I’m really excited to let you know that, starting today, you can send money via PayPal to friends and family in the US for free. Yup-it’s true, it won’t cost you a thing to send your friends or family the money ...

WIRED Business Conference

It’s Scott Thompson here. I had the distinct honor of taking part in WIRED Magazine’s first Business Conference titled, “Disruptive by Design” in New York on Monday. I was alongside notable industry disruptors such as Shai Agassi of Better Place and PayPal Founder Elon Musk of Tesla Motors. It was ...

PayPal Now Available on American Airlines and Emirates Airlines in the UK

Hi everyone. I¹m Cameron McLean, PayPal¹s General Manager for UK Merchant Services. With the summer holidays fast approaching, many families are planning their summer getaways. While traveling abroad with the family inevitably requires some extra patience, booking your tickets in the first place shouldn¹t, which is why I¹m delighted that ...