PayPal Surges, eBay Stalls In Earnings Results. 29 Shares Share Tweet Email The eBay and PayPal quarterly earnings — even as two separate companies — are starting to sound like a (half) broken record. PayPal is up, and eBay is down. At least, according to one analyst, who, after seeing that eBay’s marketplace stalled again, was quoted as saying: “EBay has kind of lost its identity. The results of the two-sided earnings evening of the former duo landed them across the spectrum in after-hours trading. But the big news that came out of PayPal was an announcement that got very little play in the earnings call and one sentence in a press release: the formal agreement with First Data. “PayPal signed a strategic agreement with First Data to enable the acceptance of PayPal’s tokenized payments in-store for First Data’s acquiring clients and businesses,” CEO Dan Schulman revealed during the earnings call with analysts.
For PayPal, the story was even sunnier when you started digging into the results. eBay’s Marketplace Stall — And What Lies Ahead. PayPal buys 'contextual commerce' startup Modest. PayPal has bought Modest, a 'contextual commerce' startup run by two former senior tech leads on Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed. Chicago-based Modest was founded in 2012 by Obama for America CTO Harper Reed and lead engineer Dylan Richard. The company has developed a mobile commerce platform that lets merchants create a customised store, integrate stores with other apps and use buy buttons to sell, to give them the "ability to offer an end-to-end experience that makes selling on any platform easier and simpler". Reed, Richard and their small team will join Braintree, the Chicago-based outfit PayPal acquired for $800 million in 2013. In a blog on the acquisition, PayPal's Bill Ready, who was Braintree CEO, cites the example of Buyable Pins on Pinterest, which Braintree powers, as an example of the kind of contextual commerce Modest will help with.
PayPal Ties up With BlackBerry to Provide Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Payments Through BBM Chats. BBM has partnered with PayPal to make sending and receiving money via users’ BBM Chats. Users will now be able to connect a PayPal account to the BBM service by selecting the “Send Money” icon. The service is currently in beta version in select BBM users in Canada. PayPal is a truly global payments platform that is available to people in 203 markets, allowing customers to get paid in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds to their bank accounts in 57 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 26 currencies. User can start sending money to family and friends once they’ve also connected their PayPal accounts to BBM.
“Whether you’re paying a roommate back for rent or splitting dinner with friends, buying a group gift or sending your kid some spending money, sending money with PayPal through BBM is easy because it’s where your conversation is already happening,” Matt Gromada, PayPal’s Director of Consumer Product Marketing, said in the post. Priti. PayPal’s Day One Report Card. PayPal debuted on the NASDAQ stock exchange yesterday (July 20), trading as a separate entity from eBay – and the initial impression was a positive one. During its first full day of trading, with the attendant ticker symbol PYPL, shares were up more than 5 percent, or $2.08 to $40.47. That came on volume of 51 million shares. One byproduct over the excitement tied to the stock: The NASDAQ closed at its third straight record session in a row. Monday’s trading bow marks a return of the company to the public equity realm.
The company previously had been listed on the same exchange under the same ticker, before being acquired by eBay in 2002. The purchase price back then was $1.5 billion. Under the terms of the uncoupling, holders of eBay common stock on record at July 8 of this year received a distribution of one common share of PYPL for every share of common held in eBay. Thus far, the price target ranges on the sell side reports range from about $36 to $48, Reuters said. PayPal’s New T&Cs Raises Concerns for Regulators and Investors. PayPal Ecosystem Tracker. PayPal’s Execs Describe Current Transformation as it Spins off from eBay. PayPal’s Commerce: Rewind event was held on May 21st in San Francisco where the company announced new relationships, product experiences and strategies to be able to deliver faster, safer and provide more elegant buying experiences as it prepares to become an independent, public company.
At the event, Dan Schulman, PayPal’s President and CEO Designee, shared his views on the sweeping technology trends that are revolutionizing financial services and his vision for the role that PayPal is playing in driving this transformation. Several key announcements were made during the event highlighting PayPal’s focus areas for the path ahead. These announcements hint at how PayPal itself is undergoing transformation to further enhance its capabilities to keep up with the payments revolution.
Here are some key announcements that were made during the event: PayPal China Connect Easy Payments Leveraging the Acquisition of Paydiant One Touch Across any Device Other Announcements: Amit. PayPal To Pay CFPB-Imposed Fine Of $25M For Deceptive Credit Accusations. Following an order from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Tuesday (May 19), PayPal has agreed to pay the imposed fine of $25 million related to deceptive credit accusations from the agency.
As part of a consent order from CFPB against PayPal, the payments company will refund $15 million to PayPal Credit customers and pay a $10 million fine in connection with alleged illegal business practices. A consent order is not an actual finding or ruling of unlawful activity. CFPB’s allegations and proposed remedy would have the force of law only if approved by the presiding judge for the U.S.
District Court for the District of Maryland. PayPal Credit has been around since 2008, and like many credit products, has late fee charges, interest rate penalties and other penalties tied to late or missed payments. This is just among the latest legal spats for PayPal. In March, the company agreed to pay the U.S. PayPal begins piloting NFC and records 40% growth in mobile payments. By Rian Boden • nfcworld.com • Published 27 April 2015, 13:24 • Last updated 27 April 2015, 13:24 Online payments giant PayPal has revealed it is again testing NFC, though the company’s president has made clear that he’d like the company’s platform to be technology agnostic and he doesn’t see the long-term success of NFC as assured.
TECHNOLOGY AGNOSTIC: Dan Schulman, CEO at PayPal “We are obviously doing trials around NFC ourselves at this point, but I think the real key and the thing I believe in is that any great open technology payments platform has to have, at its heart, this idea of being technology agnostic at the point-of-sale,” PayPal president Dan Schulman told investors during eBay’s first quarter earnings call as the company recorded a 40% year-over-year growth in mobile payment transactions. “I think if you bet on a single technology it’s a risky proposition and it takes a lot longer to move into the marketplace,” says Schulman.
PayPal Brings Its Instant Checkout Service “One Touch” Across The Web. PayPal is rolling out seamless, one-touch payments across the web, allowing customers to checkout from a merchant’s website without having to enter in their user ID and password again. The system, called One Touch for Web, is an expansion of PayPal’s earlier efforts on mobile. Last fall, the company announced the general availability of One Touch mobile payments at TechCrunch Disrupt, which then introduced an easier way for consumers to shop and pay on mobile devices. On mobile, the platform was built using technology from PayPal acquisition Braintree, and was initially found in a number of applications including those from Jane.com, ParkWhiz, StubHub and Threadless, for example. Today, others such as Airbnb, Lyft and Munchery, are also using the system with some reporting a 50 percent increase in conversion.
One Touch made sense as a mobile-first product, because entering in information on smartphone’s small screens is even more tedious than than it is on the desktop web. PayPal explains why it's buying mobile wallet provider Paydiant. By Rian Boden • nfcworld.com • Published 20 March 2015, 13:41 • Last updated 24 March 2015, 15:34 “What Paydiant has is a clarity of focus on mobile and how large merchants need to utilise mobile to connect with their customers — they’re a small company doing that very successfully with some really cool brands,” Anuj Nayar, senior director of global initiatives at PayPal, has told NFC World as the payment giant prepares to complete its acquisition of the payments platform provider for a reported US$280m. ANUJ NAYAR: Taking a different approach to mobile payments “Paydiant is a 70-person company that has two things; incredible technology that’s been battle-tested with large merchants,” Nayar adds.
The company has built a cloud-based mobile wallet platform that includes mobile payments, loyalty, offers and ATM cash-access functionality. Paydiant’s involvement with MCX is not the main reason for the acquisition, however, Nayar says. “We’ve taken a different approach. News: PayPal buys mobile payments firm Paydiant. PayPal has agreed to buy Paydiant, a Boston-based startup that helps the likes of Subway, Capital One and retailer joint venture MCX build mobile payments, offers and loyalty into their apps.
Financial terms of the deal, which is slated to close in the next month, have not been disclosed, although, citing sources, Re/code puts the price at around $280 million. The acquisition represents PayPal's latest attempt to crack the high street. With Paydiant’s platform merchants can create their own branded wallets using any mobile payment technology - QR codes or NFC - they want. The platform also lets retailers prioritise preferred payment types, such as store branded credit cards and gift cards. Dan Schulman, president and CEO designee, PayPal, says: "Together, I believe PayPal and Paydiant will enable merchants to create beautiful mobile experiences that make it easier and safer for their customers to shop and pay.
" PayPal's offline chief quits. The man behind PayPal's move into the bricks and mortar world, Don Kingsborough, has quit the firm, admitting it has come up short in its efforts to move beyond online payments. Kingsborough told Re/code he leaves the eBay unit "a little frustrated" and wished the executive team "would have done more". After stints at Atari and prepaid specialist Blackhawk Network, Kingsborough joined PayPal in 2011 to head up retail and prepaid products, taking the company into the offline world and challenging Visa and MasterCard. He managed to strike deals with some major retailers, such as Home Depot, to get PayPal accepted at the point-of-sale and also got some large POS manufactures onboard. In 2012 a tie-up with Discover saw PayPal tap into the card firm's network to bring acceptance of mobile wallet payments to millions of US stores. Venmo Quarterly Growth Slows Down, as the Base Grows. Faster and easier to navigate with a crisp new look and exciting new features.
Be the first to be notified when the new LTP is launched. Subscribe now! Venmo, the popular peer-to-peer payment app, processed more than $900 Mn in transactions during the fourth quarter of 2014. However, Venmo showed a slower quarter-over-quarter growth. While the company witnessed a growth rate of 50% between Q2 and Q3 of 2014, the growth rate between Q3 and Q4 was 29% only. As reported by BI Intelligence, there are a few possible explanations for this stagnation towards the end of the year. Venmo has gained significant popularity over the past year. The following illustration shows the mobile transaction volume trend in Venmo along with quarter wise growth rates.
It’s not just about the comparison between the two recent quarters as highlighted. Ray Ray has keen interest in the area of devices, OS and wireless technologies. Latest posts by Ray (see all) PayPal Revs Up Retail Services. The National Retail Federation’s “Big Show” came with big announcements for PayPal as it unveiled its new retail services aimed at increasing merchant revenue and adding customer value through new credit options and business consulting. PayPal said the new services announced Monday (Jan. 12) help the company “move credit more towards the center of [its] brand” of offering payment solutions.
PayPal Credit allows merchants the ability to offer its consumers the ability to pay for their purchases in flexible monthly installments and helps merchants create better credit offerings for their customer base. PayPal Credit is available for purchases of $99 and more and is most often used in the purchase of appliances, electronics and high-end retail. “PayPal is making payments simpler than ever, delivering more value to retailers and driving significant revenue to their bottom lines. More Shoppers Go Global. Cross-border e-commerce has grown so quickly that 25 percent of PayPal’s transactions are now international, with about 2,000 cross-border transactions per minute, according to the Associated Press.
A PayPal report estimates that by 2018, about 130 million shoppers will be spending over $300 billion a year across the border, up from $105 billion in 2013. Online retailers are working on fixing the biggest hurdles for international shopping: The perception that it costs a lot and takes a long time. They are handling the conversion of currency behind the scenes and giving shoppers the prices in their own currency, as well as tariffs and customs duties in the overall price of an item. And they’re being transparent about shipping times and enabling shoppers track packages online. Some, like Alibaba’s AliExpress, also offer features like free international shipping. 7 Moves PayPal Made that Shows Who’s The Boss. This is the season of giving and gifting. Happy Holidays! We will give you a set of 3 whitepapers, with our compliments. Gift yourselves some great content by subscribing to our free daily newsletter.
Now, that's a sweet deal! PayPal is indeed the good old pal helps us pay. PayPal Android App & Fingerprint Support The official android app for PayPal in the Google Play store has been updated to include biometric authentication support. PayPal & One Touch Payments Braintree, the mobile payments platform owned by PayPal, is rolling out the One Touch payment experience in countries like Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and UK.
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