This is a timeline of online money transfer and e-commerce service PayPal, owned by eBay from 2002 to 2018 and an independent company before and after that.
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^ Bodow, Steve. “The Money Shot. Ecurrencies have rarely been worth the paper they’re not printed on. But with a potent viral marketing gimmick and a dose of dumb luck, PayPal is making person-to-person transactions pay”. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
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^ “PAYPAL INC (PYPL) IPO”. NASDAQ. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
^ Kane, Margaret (July 8, 2002). “eBay picks up PayPal for $1.5 billion”. CNet. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
^ “EBay Buys PayPal in $1.3 B Stock Deal”. Associated Press. July 8, 2002. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
^ Jackson, Eric M. (October 27, 2012). “How eBay’s purchase of PayPal changed Silicon Valley”. VentureBeat. Retrieved July 8, 2014.
^ “Tagedge.com”. Tagedge.com. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
^ “eBay Completes Acquisition of Bill Me Later” (Press release). Business Wire. November 7, 2008. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
^ “PayPal Student Accounts – Giving Teens Their Own Spending Power”. Student.paypal.com. November 5, 2010. Archived from the original on April 29, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
^ PayPal Creates Student Accounts for Teens. Retrieved October 23, 2010.
^ “PayPal’s (Partially) Open Platform to Usher in New Payment Models & Apps: Tech News and Analysis «”. GigaOM. November 3, 2009. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
^ Wauters, Robin (July 28, 2010). “Short Notice: PayPal Removes Electronic Withdrawal Option For Indian Users”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
^ Rao, Leena (October 26, 2010). “PayPal Unveils Micropayments For Digital Goods, Facebook Signs Up Also, PayPal launches PayPal Apps for Merchants”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
^ Rao, Leena (October 26, 2010). “PayPal Apps Launches With Merchants In Mind”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
^ Rao, Leena (January 28, 2011). “Reserve Bank Of India Restricts PayPal Payments To Merchants To Under $500”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
^ Rao, Leena. “June 27, 2011”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
^ Rao, Leena (September 25, 2011). “PayPal Now Processing $315 Million In Payments Per Day”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
^ Rao, Leena (January 6, 2012). “PayPal’s First In-Store, Brick And Mortar Mobile Payments Integration Is At Home Depot”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
^ Empson, Rip (March 15, 2012). “No Swipe Needed: PayPal Here Is Powered By Mobile Payment Startup Card.io”. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
^ Price, Emily (March 15, 2012). “PayPal Takes On Square, Launches ‘PayPal Here’ Credit Card Reader”. Mashable. Retrieved January 30, 2015.
^ “PayPal Debuts Tiered Suite Of Online, Offline And Mobile Payments Options For Small Businesses”. TechCrunch. April 4, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
^ Lunden, Ingrid (May 30, 2012). “Updated: Baby Steps To NFC: PayPal InStore Hits The UK, With Barcodes, No NFC, In Sight”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
^ Lunden, Ingrid (June 19, 2012). “A Redesigned, Slicker PayPal Is Coming Tomorrow; Some Seeing New Look Today”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
^ Perez, Sarah (December 13, 2012). “PayPal Launches Prepaid “PayPal My Cash Card,” Allowing Cash-Preferred Customers To Shop Online”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
^ Rao, Leena (September 9, 2013). “PayPal Debuts Its Newest Hardware, Beacon, A Bluetooth LE Enabled Device For Hands-Free Check Ins And Payments”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Rao, Leena; Perez, Sarah; Lunden, Ingrid (September 26, 2013). “EBay’s PayPal Acquires Payments Gateway Braintree For $800M In Cash”. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Hardawar, Devindra (September 26, 2013). “PayPal’s dev relations head on why it acquired Braintree: ‘We need to be like them’ (interview)”. VentureBeat. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Geron, Tomio (September 26, 2013). “PayPal Buys Braintree For $800 Million For Mobile Payments”. Forbes. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Thomas, Owen (September 26, 2013). “PayPal Buys Braintree To Get A Foothold In App Payments”. ReadWriteWeb. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Barr, Alistair (September 26, 2013). “PayPal agrees to acquire Braintree for $800 million”. USA Today. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Shu, Catherine (November 27, 2013). “PayPal Adds Support For Prepaid Gift Cards In Time For Holiday Shopping”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Lunden, Ingrid (March 8, 2014). “PayPal Is Rolling Out Its New “Mobile First” Website Globally”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Lardinois, Frederick (May 15, 2014). “Google Play Store Adds Wallet Rival PayPal As A Payments Option”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
^ Lunden, Ingrid (June 12, 2014). “PayPal Launches PassPort To Lure More International Sales From Merchants”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Perez, Sarah (July 30, 2014). “PayPal’s “Bill Me Later” Service Becomes “PayPal Credit,” As Company Expands Credit Products Globally”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Cutler, Kim-Mai (September 23, 2014). “PayPal Enables Bitcoin Transactions For Merchants Selling Digital Goods”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
^ Jeffries, Adrianne (September 23, 2014). “PayPal adds limited Bitcoin support”. The Verge. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ “Bitcoin’s Price Skyrockets Following PayPal’s Hug”. TechCrunch. September 23, 2014. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
^ Etherington, Darrell (September 30, 2014). “eBay And PayPal To Split Into Two Separate Companies”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Biggs, John (September 30, 2014). “Ebay’s Dark Binary Star Is Finally Exploding”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Faber, David (September 30, 2014). “EBay and PayPal to split into two separately traded companies”. CNBC. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Bertoni, Steven (September 30, 2014). “Ebay And PayPal To Split: Carl Icahn And Elon Musk Wish Comes True”. Forbes. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Soper, Spencer (September 30, 2014). “EBay to Split Off PayPal as Mobile Payments Gain Ground”. Bloomberg News. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Rushton, Katherine (October 1, 2014). “The five reasons behind PayPal’s split from eBay”. The Telegraph. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Lunden, Ingrid (September 30, 2014). “Dan Schulman To Lead Newly Independent PayPal, Devin Wenig Will Be CEO Of eBay Inc”. TechCrunch. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
^ Lunden, Ingrid (March 2, 2015). “PayPal Buys Paydiant, The Mobile Wallet Behind CurrentC, To Raise Its Game v. Google + Apple”. TechCrunch. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
^ Lunden, Ingrid (March 10, 2015). “PayPal Doubles Down On Israel: Confirms CyActive Acquisition, New Security Hub”. TechCrunch. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
^ Barrese, James (March 10, 2015). “PayPal Establishes New Security Center”. PayPal. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
^ Brinkmann, Martin. “PayPal: accept robocalls and automated texts, or close your account”. gHacks. gHacks Technology News. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
^ Heisler, Yoni. “PayPal responds to Internet fury over its new terms of service”. BGR. BGR Media, LLC. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
^ Loizos, Connie (July 1, 2015). “PayPal Agrees to Buy Xoom for $890 Million”. TechCrunch. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
^ “PayPal Acquires Digital Money Transfer Company Xoom Before eBay Split”. Forbes. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
^ “Here Are The 15 New Companies Joining The Fortune 500”. fortune.com. 2016-06-06. Retrieved 2016-06-07.
^ Sarah Perez (7 February 2017). “PayPal’s first payments bot is a Slack app”. TechCrunch. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
^ Khari Johnson (7 February 2017). “PayPal launches Slack bot for peer-to-peer payments”. VentureBeat. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
^ Ryan Lawler (11 July 2017). “PayPal makes it easier for its merchants to sell products globally”. TechCrunch. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
^ Robert Krol (11 July 2017). “Webinterpret and PayPal launch newest cross-border solution”. Webinterpret. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
^ Shannon Liao (11 July 2017). “PayPal’s new plugin helps merchants sell and ship their items internationally”. The Verge. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
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