In January, John Donahoe, the C.E.O. of eBay, declared that he and his company’s board were resoundingly opposed to the idea, floated by Carl Icahn, the activist investor, to spin off PayPal. The ...

In just a couple of weeks, eBay and PayPal will no longer be bound together at the hip, ending a 13-year corporate marriage. The plan was originally announced last year, and last week, the company ...

EBay Inc said it would spin off PayPal, its fast-growing payments business, into a publicly traded company in the second half of 2015, marking an about-face for the company. The news of the tax-free ...

eBay's acquisition of PayPal on Monday follows a long, costly and ultimately futile attempt to make its first bill payment system succeed. Three years ago, the online auction giant bought Billpoint, a ...

PayPal and its prospective owner, eBay, are under new scrutiny from federal regulators. PayPal received two federal grand jury subpoenas last month concerning its processing of online gambling ...

It’s hard to believe that a decade has passed since eBay’s purchase of PayPal for $1.5 billion closed in October 2002. At the time, eBay was the dominant e-commerce player on the web, and PayPal was ...

eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) may be spinning off its electronic payment division, PayPal Inc., but it is not completely abandoning the company it once bought at took private. According to a report by ...

For eBay, life after PayPal could get lonely in a hurry. Not only is the company tasked with taking on e-commerce giant Amazon.com, but it has to find a way to keep its prized merchants, who are ...

PayPal and eBay are officially breaking up and will start trading as individual companies next month. On Friday, eBay's board of directors approved the completion of PayPal's separation from the ...

eBay and PayPal‘s almost two decades-long relationship has come to an end. The e-commerce giant updated its terms of service on Monday to inform sellers that any ...

If it weren't for one small, eensy-weensy, tiny detail, PayPal Holdings Inc. (PYPL 0.68%) would be basking in the glow of another wonderful quarter. After all, when the online payment platform ...