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Update on PayPal accounts for India users

By PayPal

Hi everyone, it’s Dickson Seow, from the Corporate Communications team. I’d like to give you an update on PayPal accounts for our India users. In accordance with regulatory instructions, there will be a change in our withdrawal functionality in India starting on August 1, 2010. At present, you can request for either an electronic or... »

PayPal X Developer Challenge Winner Continues to Thrive

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Hi all – Naveed Anwar here, senior director of PayPal’s Developer Network. I’m pleased to share an update on one of the winners of our first PayPal X Developer Challenge earlier this year. Appbackr is the first wholesale digital marketplace for iPhone and iPad applications. We recognized their potential (they came in second place!),... »

PayPal’s Boss on Meet The Boss TV today

By PayPal

Hi everyone – Anuj Nayar from the PayPal communications team, here. I wanted to let you know about a recent interview in which PayPal president Scott Thompson sat down with Jonathan Spragg, host of Meet The Boss TV. In a broad ranging interview they discussed everything from what it’s like to manage all the innovation in PayPal... »

PayPal and MOL Team Up To Offer Prepaid Card in Malaysia for Online Shopping and Gaming

By PayPal

Hi all. Melanie Tan here, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, PayPal Asia Pacific. We know that many people across the region don’t have a credit card or are uncomfortable using it online, and thus are missing out on all the benefits of using PayPal for faster and safer online shopping. That’s why I’m... »

Study: Online Merchants Getting Serious about Mobile

By PayPal

Bill Zielke here, senior director of merchant services. Forrester Research and Shop.org recently released findings from a study that shines some light onto how rapidly merchants are adopting mobile commerce strategies. The survey revealed that one in five companies currently have a fully-implemented mobile strategy in place. Even more telling, Forrester also found that... »

Join PayPal at MobileBeat 2010

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Hi All – Eric Duprat, General Manager of PayPal Mobile, here. For the third consecutive year, all the major players in the wireless industry will gather for MobileBeat 2010, sponsored by VentureBeat. The two-day conference is set to kick off on Monday, July 12 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, with the overarching... »

How Online Shoppers Make Their Purchasing Decisions

By PayPal

Hi all, I’m Stacy General, online personal shopper for PayPal. A recent study by The Nielsen Company provides some interesting insights on how online shoppers are making their purchasing decisions. According to the survey, one-third of global Internet users and half of North Americans mainly shop at online-only retailers. Based on these findings, it looks... »

PayPal UK Online Retail Report

By PayPal

Hello everyone, it’s Carl Scheible here, managing director of PayPal in the UK. We’ve just released our latest forecasts for the future growth of Britain’s online retail industry. The predictions are from PayPal’s second annual UK Online Retail Report, undertaken for us by Experian and the Future Foundation. The big news is that we expect... »

PayPal Mobile Express Checkout Makes it Easier for Consumers to Shop from their Phones

By PayPal

Bill Zielke here, senior director on the merchant services team. For years, retailers have been talking about the importance of a multichannel strategy. But there’s never been a better time to get this up and running than today – because consumers are shopping not only offline and online but now through their phones. Mobile... »

International football and cross-border shopping – for the love of the game

By PayPal

Hi, it’s Nimish Dwivedi, Head of Asia Pacific Marketing. What an amazing group round for the World Cup in South Africa! Once every four years, over a span of a month, national teams across the world compete for the ultimate prize in international football. The global nature of this tournament is also a reflection... »