Hi everyone, I'm Yeong-Ping Koh, group product manager with PayPal's global platform team. We're responsible for making PayPal available in new countries and markets around the world. Back in 2006, we added 10 new currencies to our service, bringing the total up to 17. And every day we continue to receive requests to add more. So, I'm excited to announce the availability of two new currencies in the PayPal system â€" the Mexican Peso and the Israeli Shekel.

Hi blog readers, I'm Chris George from PayPal's financial products team. I'm excited to announce that Overstock.com is using our promotional financing service, PayPal Pay Later . Now, in addition to the great deals that can be found on brand-name merchandise on Overstock.com, you have the ability to make no payments for 90 days on purchases of $50 or more â€" even if you don't have a PayPal account. To take advantage of this service,

Hi, I am Rahul Bhargava, senior director of merchant solutions at PayPal. I am excited to tell you about new recurring payments functionality for our Website Payments Pro and Express Checkout products that lets you automatically bill your customers. If you sell online magazines, newsletters, digital goods, or any other product or service that requires payment from your customers on a regular basis, this functionality will be useful to you.

Hello blog readers, I'm Mary Anne Gillespie, head of the merchant services division at PayPal . I'm back with more exciting news about new places to shop online with your PayPal account. Starting today, blockbuster .com â€" one of the world's leading providers of in-home entertainment â€" is accepting PayPal . And the news gets better. Until August 31st,

Hi Everyone, I'm Jason Miner and I wanted to give you a quick recap of two more classes that I presented yesterday at eBay Live! Getting Paid with PayPal â€" Interesting trivia note: This selling basics class is almost always our highest attended class every year. Essentially, the class was a soup to nuts crash course on getting paid with PayPal. We also offered an account maintenance checklist for sellers at intervals of a week, 30 and 60 days after implementing PayPal.

Hello PayPal Blog readers, my name is Peggy Pattavina, and I am a legal supervisor within our customer service team. Did you know that online shoppers sometimes take up to three business days to decide on making a purchase? That hesitation can be caused by a variety of factors and at the end of the day it can mean lost revenue for your online business. On Thursday and again today I presented a seminar at eBay Live! called "Turning Browsers into Buyers".

Hi, everyone. I'm Colin Rule, and I work in PayPal's risk management group focusing on dispute resolution and protections coverage. I'm sure it comes as no surprise to anyone who has bought or sold online that, just like in the face-to-face world, an occasional transaction problem is unavoidable. In fact, if you read The Perfect Store, Adam Cohen's book about the earl y days of eBay,

Hi blog readers, I'm Scott Thompson, president of PayPal. I'm writing from our annual eBay Live! conference in Chicago. It's been a blast talking with some of the thousands of customers celebrating with us, and I've already received great feedback about how we can make PayPal even better for our customers. Every year customers tell us that they want their transactions to be more protected when buying and selling on eBay.

Hi Everyone- It's Jason Miner. I'm back, but instead of wearing my PayPal Radio hat, I'm delivering news from eBay Live! 2008. I can't be sure of this, but I think I'm a record-holder for PayPal at eBay Live, as I've presented at every conference since 2003'this is event number six for me and I always enjoy connecting with the thousands of eBay buyers and sellers at the event. I also help plan the educational sessions for PayPal,

Rafael Orozco, lead engineer director of engineering at Eventbrite [ www.eventbrite.com ] and a winner of this year's PayPal Star Developer Awards, joined me today at the seventh annual eBay Developers Conference . Here's an excerpt of our conversation about Rafael's company and his experience monetizing the PayPal platform. Glenn : Congratulations on your Star Developer Award, Rafael. Tell me a bit about Eventbrite.

Our PayPal developer community unleashed their best ideas on us yesterday, the third and final day of the eBay Developers Conference . Damon Hougland's session about the next generation of the PayPal platform was standing-room-only, with PayPal developers packing into conference room to tell us where they would like to see us go next.

Hello, I'm Darrell MacMullin, the country manager for PayPal in Canada. As the value of the Canadian dollar gains on the U.S. dollar, we've taken a closer look at the cost of doing cross-border business for our merchant customers here in Canada. And I'm excited to say that we recently lowered the Canadian dollar transaction fees and foreign exchange rates for U.S. dollar withdrawals to Canadian bank accounts,

It's that time again: the eBay Developers Conference starts in less than two weeks. This year hundreds of eBay, PayPal, Skype, and Shopping.com developers are registered to attend this event, which will take place in Chicago, June 16â€"18. PayPal developers from around the world will hear from peers and industry gurus alike about Web development, Web 2.0, and how to grow their businesses with PayPal and eBay. They'll also hear first-hand what's ahead for eBay Inc.

Hi everyone, I'm Tyler Hoffman, senior director of enterprise merchant services at PayPal. I'm excited to announce that Delta Air Lines has become the latest U.S. airline to join our growing bench of travel partners. Operating service to more destinations than any global airline, Delta is your premiere travel partner. In fact, with more than 60 new international routes added in the last year, Delta is adding international flights at a faster rate than any other major U.S.

Hello! Jason Miner of PayPal Radio here to provide you with some listening material and assistance if you're doing a little spring cleaning for your business and trying to spruce up your sales. We've had a terrific run of PayPal and business guests in the past few weeks, providing a wealth of information. Check out our website at www.paypal.com/paypalradio to see an archive of all of our interviews, or look in the Growing Your Business forum at www.

Hi blog readers, I'm Jim McGuire, vice president of network operations at PayPal. On Thursday, May 29, at 11pm PDT )Friday, May 30, at 6:00 am GMT(, PayPal will be unavailable for approximately one hour while we conduct scheduled maintenance. During this time the PayPal site will be unavailable and the majority of PayPal features will not be functioning. You will not be able to send or receive payments during the scheduled maintenance. In addition,

Hi everyone. I'm Osama Bedier, vice president of product at PayPal. I wanted to give you an update on an issue with a feature of IPN, or Instant Payment Notification. IPN verification has not been working properly for some transactions. Our engineering team has been working around the clock to rectify the problem, as we realize this is a serious issue. We expect to have a fix in place very shortly. Once that happens,

Hi everyone. I'm Judy Chang from the nonprofit team at PayPal. The recent cyclone in Myanmar is reported to have claimed the lives of over 22,000 people, with another 41,000 reported as missing. The United Nations has reported that up to one million people could be left homeless as a result of the disaster. News reports describe heartbreaking scenes of people looking for loved ones amidst devastating wreckage. C lean water, food, medicine and shelter are scarce.

Hi, I'm Michael Barrett, chief information security officer at PayPal. I joined PayPal almost exactly two years ago. Within the first couple of weeks, I sat down with my colleague who runs the team responsible for our anti-phishing programs and we evaluated PayPal's strategy for combating phishing. We realized that our strategy focused on preventing financial loss to our customers' accounts,

Hi, I'm Menekse Gencer from PayPal's Mobile team. Imagine you're at the airport and you get a text message from your sister: "just bought mom flowers from us 4 mothers day. u owe me 20". Or maybe you're at the farmer's market and just ran out of cash, but really want to get those delicious apples. Wouldn't it be great if you could pay without ever reaching for your wallet or searching for an ATM? If you're a Sprint customer, you can do just that.