BNET Industries
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$299.9M
- Private
- US
Dow Jones Description
Founded in 1998, PayPal, an eBay Company, enables any individual or business with an email address to securely, easily and quickly send and receive payments online. PayPal's service builds on the existing financial infrastructure of bank accounts and credit cards and utilizes the world's most advanced proprietary fraud prevention systems to create a safe, global, real-time payment solution.
President
Scott ThompsonNumber of Employees 500
Peer Companies
NAICS Code All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services: 541990
Recent Events
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Carlson Marketing, PayPal Team for Rewards
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Panasonic LUMIX DMC-FS15K 12.1MP 5x Zoom Digital Camera from $110 + free shipping
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PayPal, Amazon Up Ante in Online Payments
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Storenvy.com Launches Today: Groundbreaking Social Shopping Site Supporting Independent Merchants
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PayPal growing steadily despite poor economy
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CORRECTING and REPLACING PayPal Launches PayPal X Developer
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PayPal Launches PayPal X Developer Challenge
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PayPal Unveils Plans To Open Payment Service
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FIS Chooses PayPal To Facilitate Person-To-Person Payments
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FIS Chooses PayPal To Facilitate Person-To-Person Payments
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UPDATE: EBay's PayPal Launches Open Payments System
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S1 Teams With PayPal to Deliver Fast, Convenient Mobile Personal Payments Solution...
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Super Rewards Launches New Virtual Currency Offer Platform Enhancements
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PayPal Opens Its Global Payments Platform
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PayPal launches Web site for holiday deals
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First Data partners with PayPal to link debit cards to PayPal accounts
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First Data and PayPal Team up to Offer New Online Payment Services for STARR Network...
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PayPal Survey Reveals Indians are Expected to Spend More this Diwali than they did Last...
News & Analysis
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American Express Acquires Revolution Money: Challenges PayPal
American Express just announced that it plans to acquire Revolution Money for $300 million. The deal is still subject to regulatory approval. Revolution Money, which was founded by AOL's co-founder Steve Case , launched in 2007. The company offers a number of services, including...
Sun Teams with PayPal for Java Store Payments
At the PayPal X Innovate 2009 developer conference, Sun Microsystems announced an alliance with PayPal to support application payment in the Java Store Beta and enhancements to the beta user experience.At the PayPal X Innovate 2009 developer conference, Sun Microsystems announced an alliance with PayPal to support application payment in...
New APIs Could Increase PayPal's Share of Virtual Currency Transactions in Facebook Apps
With nearly 80 million active users in 190 countries and 19 currencies, and a strong record of fraud prevention, PayPal is still the single largest payment processor of virtual currency microtransactions inside Facebook applications – despite not having created any special payment products for app developers. Today, however, the company...
PayPal to Take Over Mobile and Social Apps
PayPal has opened its global payments platform called PayPal X, providing new APIs, a new developer portal, and some introductory services pricing to help developers take advantage of PayPal X to build businesses."The whole world is going digital, and the future of how we communicate, how we get information, and...
PayPal Unveils Plans To Open Payment Service
The API will allow developers to write programs that use PayPal for payments, without users having to leave the application. Today, people who use PayPal on a third-party application are taken to a separate window to complete the transaction. Beginning in the second quarter of next year,...
PayPal's X: A Platform to Pick Your Pocket
After waiting for two months for PayPal to release its much-anticipated platform, the day has finally arrived for PayPal X. ReadWriteWeb first covered the company's announcement in late July and today, at San Francisco's Concourse Exhibition Center, developers and press people waited with bated breath...
PayPal's (Partially) Open Platform to Usher in New Payment Models & Apps
PayPal is opening up substantial parts of its global transactional engine, with the new open platform dubbed "PayPal X," company executives announced this morning at PayPal's X Innovate 2009 developer conference in San Francisco. PayPal developers and users now have access to a slew of new APIs, ranging from an...
PayPal adopts innovative path to growth
PayPal today opens its doors to third-party software developers to use its online payments technology in everything from an application on a social network to a web-connected television set.PayPal hopes the move will see it double in size over the next two years, drawing on the same community of...
PayPal Hopes Open Platform Will Spur Innovation
PayPal imagines a future in which cash is obsolete, as are wallets. We will buy movie tickets by touching a movie poster on the street and order drinks from a touchscreen embedded in the bar. In PayPal's futuristic world, software developers outside the company will create these alternate ways to...
I would rather cut bait than be phished in Hotmail's waters
By Joe Wilcox , Betanews Nagging Capital One credit card commercials ask, "What's in your wallet?" Perhaps for the connected age, the question should be "What's in your digital wallet?" If the answer is a password used at Windows Live Hotmail and pretty much...
Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Scott Thompson | President |
| Chuck Geiger | Vice President, Chief Technical Officer |
| Max R. Levchin | CTO |
| Michael Barrett | Chief Information Security Officer |
| David Sacks | Executive Vice President, Product |
| Ryan D. Downs | Senior Vice President, Global Operations |
| Amy E. Rowe | Vice President, Product |
| Amy R. Klement | Vice President, Product |
| Dana Stalder | Vice President, Marketing |
| Dilip Venkatachari | Vice President, Operations |
| John C. Muller | General Counsel & Vice President |
| Julie Anderson | Vice President, Public Relations |
| Ken Miller | Vice President, Risk Management |
| Mary M. Hentges | Vice President, Finance |
| Salvatore J. Giambanco | Vice President, Human Resources & Administration |
| Dave Deming | Product Manager |
| Scott Khanna | Executive Recruiter |
Scott Thompson is President of PayPal with overall responsibility for growing the global leader in online payments. Succeeding Rajiv Dutta in 2008, Scott previously served as PayPal's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer where he oversaw information technology, product development, and architecture for PayPal. Prior to PayPal, Scott worked for Inovant, a subsidiary of Visa formed to oversee global technology for the organization. As Executive Vice President of Technology Solutions at Inovant, he was responsible for all development, support and maintenance of Visa's global payment system. Scott was also Chief Information Officer of Barclays Global Investors, where he implemented a new strategic technology platform and global infrastructure. In addition, he has worked with Coopers and Lybrand, delivering information technology solutions to leading financial services clients such as Wells Fargo. Scott received a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting and Computer Science from Stonehill College.
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | President | Current |
| eBay Inc. | President, PayPal | Current |
| Ignite Venture Partners | Senior Vice President of Product Development, Technology and Operations at Paypal | Current |
| F5 Networks, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Ignite Venture Partners | Board of Directors | Current |
| eBay Inc. | CTO, PayPal & Senior Vice President | Former |
| Barclays Global Investors | Chief Information Officer | Former |
| Visa International | Chief Technology Officer | Former |
| PayPal, Inc. | CTO & Senior Vice President | Former |
| Visa International | Executive Vice President, Systems Group | Former |
| Inovant, LLC | Executive Vice President of Technology | Former |
| Cooper's Inc. | Partner | Former |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers | Partner | Former |
| Stonehill College | Bachelor's Degree In Accounting | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Vice President, Chief Technical Officer | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | CTO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Chief Information Security Officer | Current |
| Cso Interchange | Current | |
| StopBadware.org | Board of Advisors | Current |
| Liberty Alliance | President | Former |
| American Express Company | Vice President, Security & Utility Strategy | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Executive Vice President, Product | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Global Operations | Current |
| LiveOps, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| PayPal, Inc. | Vice President, Operations | Former |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Vice President, Product | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Vice President, Product | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Vice President, Marketing | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Vice President, Operations | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | General Counsel & Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Vice President, Public Relations | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Vice President, Risk Management | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Vice President, Finance | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Vice President, Human Resources & Administration | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Product Manager | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
|---|---|---|
| PayPal, Inc. | Executive Recruiter | Current |
| eBay Inc. | Manager, Executive Search | Former |
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