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February

A screen with an AI-generated artwork at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

AI shock: Tech companies axe 34,000 since start of year

Microsoft, Snap, eBay and PayPal have each scrapped hundreds or thousands of roles since the start of January.

  • Camilla Hodgson

December 2023

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Customers need to be at the heart of decision-making for telecommunications providers.

How digital payments are fuelling a future of connectivity

Prioritising customer experience is paramount, but for telecommunications providers, who have such regular and consistent engagement with their customers – it is critical.

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September 2023

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Ecommerce provides greater flexibility for both consumers and utility companies.

Ecommerce allows utilities companies to empower cash-strapped consumers

In an era of escalating utility prices, high inflation and rising rates, cash-strapped consumers and the utility companies who serve them are looking at innovative payment solutions to provide greater choice and flexibility.

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ASIC has sued PayPal in the Federal Court alleging an unfair term in its standard contracts.

PayPal targeted by ASIC for contract clause letting it keep wrong fees

The corporate regulator sued PayPal in the Federal Court alleging an unfair clause that let it hold on to overcharged fees if errors weren’t notified to it.

  • James Eyers

August 2023

Adrian Przelozny, CEO of Independent Reserve, and Peter Cowan, managing director at PayPal Australia, in Sydney on Wednesday.

PayPal is shifting Aussie dollars onto crypto exchanges

Major banks remain jittery about crypto but the US payment giant PayPal has struck a deal with Independent Reserve to make it easier to invest in Bitcoin, Ether and Ripple.

  • James Eyers
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July 2023

Banks will hate it, but tourists and expat workers will be cheering as new tech lowers FX fees across SE Asia, while fintechs compete to transform the world’s largest financial market.

Bye bye bank fees, as tech cuts out costly foreign exchange pain

Banks will hate it, but tourists and expat workers will be cheering as new tech lowers FX fees across SE Asia, while fintechs compete to transform the world’s largest financial market.

  • Tom Richardson

April 2023

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How a pun landed an Aussie start-up in a battle with PayPal

Chippit, a fintech that is less than two years old, is tangled in a legal fight with the global tech giant, over what it decided to name a joint savings product.

  • Tess Bennett

August 2022

Edwin Aoki, CTO of PayPal’s blockchain, crypto and digital currencies (BCDC) unit.

PayPal resolute on innovating with crypto

PayPal’s crypto CTO Edwin Aoki says the payment giant is closely monitoring stablecoins and CBDCs.

  • James Eyers
PayPal co-founder and outspoken Trump supporter Peter Thiel is one of the billionaires driving the anti-woke backlash.

Greenies thwart Peter Thiel’s New Zealand luxury lodge plans

The PayPal founder dropped plans for a ‘meditation pod’ on the Wanaka property to unsuccessfully try to ease environmentalists’ concerns.

  • Ainsley Thomson

February 2022

When she returns to the office, Sara Wexler plans to schedule fewer meetings to allow more time for informal incidental conversations.

What getting back to the office should mean for you

Executives are planning their commutes and meeting schedules to make the most of their days in the office.

  • Tess Bennett

January 2022

Melbourne Fashion Festival chief executive Graeme Lewsey, Designer Jackie Wu from Wackie Ju and model  (Brendon).

PayPal is the latest fintech to fall in love with fashion

The sector is backing fashion like never before, as PayPal announces naming rights sponsorship of Melbourne Fashion Festival.

  • Lauren Sams

October 2021

Pinterest has been introducing new tools to help creators make their “pins” shoppable, drawing a more direct connection between content on Pinterest’s site and online purchases.

PayPal is exploring a purchase of Pinterest

PayPal has recently approached Pinterest about a potential deal, at a price that would value the transaction at more than $50 billion.

  • Ed Hammond and Liana Baker
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Retail convergence opens world of possibilities

The COVID-19 lockdowns have been tough on retail. While some are facing unprecedented spikes in demand and online has boomed, for many retailers the abrupt loss of footfall in-store has been nothing short of disastrous

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Retail’s new beginning.

Cross-channel innovation set to shape retail future

Retailers will need to improve their ability to engage and transact with customers across multiple channels as shopper expectations of the digital experience increase, says Peter Cowan, managing director, PayPal Australia.

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September 2021

Peter Thiel has infleunce, but he also craves power.

Why Peter Thiel is such a charismatic influencer

In this exclusive extract from a new unauthorised biography of the Silicon Valley billionaire, author Max Chafkin describes some of the mogul’s contradictions.

  • Max Chafkin
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Peter Thiel

The libertarian who kicked Elon Musk out of PayPal

A biography of venture capitalist Peter Thiel argues he may be the most influential figure in the world’s most influential industry, Silicon Valley.

  • Aaron Patrick

July 2021

PayPal says credit cards still make up a large share of the payment market.

PayPal’s slowdown cements wider reversal

PayPal shares fell in after-hours trade after it warned it was seriously slowing down from the freakish growth rates delivered by lockdowns in 2020.

  • Tom Richardson

June 2021

PayPal says credit cards still make up a large share of the payment market.

PayPal launches credit card to take on Afterpay, big banks

The platform’s quest to become a ‘one-stop payments shop’ will extend to old-school plastic that allows customers to splurge in physical stores.

  • James Eyers

March 2021

Online shopping boomed during the pandemic, accelerating three to five years in the space of months, but the way people paid was pretty much unchanged.

Amid the buy now, pay later boom, PayPal still reigns supreme online

The value of online shopping doubled during the pandemic but the way people paid remained largely unchanged, according to a BigCommerce report.

  • Sue Mitchell

December 2020

The reopening of trade is likely to continue into 2021, BlackRock says.

What stocks the experts are buying in 2021

Eight leading investors select the stocks to watch in the coming year, from fintechs to retirement products to support for electric vehicles.

  • Tony Featherstone

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