PayPal Media Network

Single life nears for PayPal as it approaches its emancipation from parent company eBay, a split ostensibly designed to let each company play to its unique strengths. “PayPal will always be vitally important to the success of eBay and vice versa,” said Robert Clarkson, VP, GM, North America, merchant and retail solutions at PayPal, in […]

Despite investor Carl Icahn’s proposal to spin PayPal off from its parent company, eBay announced plans to allocate “a disproportionate share” of investments to PayPal in 2014, focusing on developing PayPal “ubiquity,” mobile and connections between online and offline commerce. Together, eBay and PayPal create “mutually reinforcing network effects,” eBay CEO John Donahoe declared during […]