Oct 2002 - Dec 2008
Sep 2013 - now
Ebay and mobile
Paypal is sold to eBay for $ 1.5 billion , it goes on to surpass 100 million enduser accounts . In April 2006 it rolls out its new mobile payment platform for smartphones : PayPal Mobile . Byy the end of the year it hits its tenth birthday and nears the 150 million users mark .
Growth and the future
PayPal splits with eBay in 2014 and its market value reaches $ 49 billion . The next year it buys Xoom and accelerates its international payments handling . In January the next year its subsidiary Venmo surpasses $ 1 billion payments in one month .
In 2017 it launched its first peer-to-peer system . Currently the company is edging into the cryptocurrency market and focusing on Blockchain .