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eBay Buys PayPal: The $1.5 Billion Acquisition That Made Marketplace Payments Strategic

eBay’s $1.5 billion PayPal acquisition turned an external payment network already embedded in its marketplace into strategic infrastructure for online commerce.

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PayPal and X.com: Funding the Online-Payments War That Produced a Financial Platform

X.com and Confinity burned venture capital competing for online payments, then merged and focused on PayPal, creating a network that eBay later bought for about $1.5 billion.

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