PayPal

PayPal
Type of business	Public
Type of site	Financial
Available in	Multilingual
Traded as	NASDAQ: PYPL; NASDAQ-100 component; S&P 100 component; S&P 500 component;
Founded	December 1998; 22 years ago (as Confinity) ; November 1999; 21 years ago (as X.com)
Predecessor(s)	Confinity, X.com
Headquarters	2211 North First Street; San Jose, California, U.S. (corporate headquarters); Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. (operative center)
Area served	Worldwide
Founder(s)	Ken Howery; Luke Nosek; Max Levchin; Peter Thiel; Yu Pan; Russel Simmons; Elon Musk;
Industry	Financial services
Products	Credit cards, payment systems
Revenue	US$17.772 billion (2019)
Operating income	US$2.719 billion (2019)
Net income	US$2.459 billion (2019)
Total assets	US$51.333 billion (2019)
Total equity	US$16.929 billion (2019)
Employees	c. 21,800 (Dec. 2018)
Parent	eBay (2002–2015)
Divisions	PayPal Inc (PPI) ; PayPal Pte. Ltd (3PL) ; PayPal Payments Pte. Holdings (PPLUX) ; PayPal Payments Pte Limited (4PL);
Subsidiaries	Braintree; Paydiant; Honey; Venmo; PayPal Credit; Xoom Corporation; TIO Networks; card.io; iZettle; Tradera;
Website	www.paypal.com
Alexa rank	110 (May 2020)
Advertising	No
Registration	Yes
Users	305 million (2019)
Launched	December 1998
Current status	Active
Native client(s) on	Android; iOS; Windows
Written in	C++, JavaScript (as Node.js), Python

PayPal is a website that allows the transfer of money among people via web services and email. The money can be deposited into a bank account. PayPal was owned by eBay, from 2002^[9]^[10] to 2015.^[11] It can be used in more than 200 countries.^[12]

ReferencesEdit

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 "PayPal Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019 Results" (PDF).
↑ "PayPal (PYPL)". Forbes.com. May 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
↑ "PayPal Goes Public Again". Forbes. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 "EX-10.5". www.sec.gov. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
↑ "Paypal.com Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 13 April 2020.
↑ Lextrait, Vincent (January 2010). "The Programming Languages Beacon, v10.0". Archived from the original on 30 May 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2010.
↑ Jeff Harrell. "Node.js at PayPal". Paypal-engineering.com. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
↑ Hashemi, Mahmoud (December 2014). "10 Myths of Enterprise Python". Retrieved 7 November 2015.
↑ Wolverton, Troy (3 October 2002). "It's official: eBay weds PayPal". CNET News. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
↑ Matt Richtel (9 July 2002). "EBay to Buy PayPal, a Rival in Online Payments". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
↑ Seetharaman, Deepa; Mukherjee, Supantha (30 September 2014). "EBay follows Icahn's advice, plans PayPal spinoff in 2015". Reuters. Archived from the original on 15 November 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2014.
↑ "PayPal Global - All countries and markets". PayPal. Retrieved 28 March 2017.

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[ppc-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 "PayPal Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2019 Results" (PDF).

[Forbes-PYPL-2] "PayPal (PYPL)". Forbes.com. May 2020. Retrieved 20 August 2020.

[PayPal_Goes_Public-3] "PayPal Goes Public Again". Forbes. Retrieved 27 August 2017.

[sec_gov-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 "EX-10.5". www.sec.gov. Retrieved 16 June 2018.

[alexa-5] "Paypal.com Site Overview". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 13 April 2020.

[6] Lextrait, Vincent (January 2010). "The Programming Languages Beacon, v10.0". Archived from the original on 30 May 2012. Retrieved 14 March 2010.

[7] Jeff Harrell. "Node.js at PayPal". Paypal-engineering.com. Retrieved 6 September 2011.

[8] Hashemi, Mahmoud (December 2014). "10 Myths of Enterprise Python". Retrieved 7 November 2015.

[9] Wolverton, Troy (3 October 2002). "It's official: eBay weds PayPal". CNET News. Retrieved 16 March 2014.

[nytimes02-10] Matt Richtel (9 July 2002). "EBay to Buy PayPal, a Rival in Online Payments". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 November 2014.

[reuters2014-11] Seetharaman, Deepa; Mukherjee, Supantha (30 September 2014). "EBay follows Icahn's advice, plans PayPal spinoff in 2015". Reuters. Archived from the original on 15 November 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2014.

[12] "PayPal Global - All countries and markets". PayPal. Retrieved 28 March 2017.

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