Hello I'm Mary Anne Gillespie, vice president of sales for our merchant services division at PayPal.  I'm delighted to let you know that Continental Airlines is now accepting PayPal for online ticket purchases. Continental is the world's fifth largest airline and has more than 3,000 daily departures around the world to .

Hi again, I'm Jim Hunt, senior director of PayPal merchant services.   We've reached the end of our August webinar series and will be wrapping up tomorrow with a topic that is sure to be top of mind with almost any online business â€" reducing shopping cart abandonment. Many online retailers have .

Hi again, I'm Jim Hunt, senior director of PayPal merchant services.  We're continuing with our webinar series tomorrow with "Building loyal customers to increase profitability." With the economy softening, many online retailers are working harder for every dollar.  Many of them are telling me that they are concentrating their efforts on .

Hi PayPal blog readers and friends, I'm Jim Hunt, senior director of PayPal merchant services.  We're continuing our Wednesday webinar series tomorrow with a webinar entitled "Using social media and networking to boost sales." With 80% of young adults between the ages of 18-21, and 59% of teenagers using social .

Hi Everyone, it's Jason Miner here with PayPal Radio.  After a couple of weeks away for summer vacation, PayPal Radio is back this Tuesday, August 12th with some big PayPal news.  My first guest will be Ken Swab, PayPal's senior federal government relations officer.  You might have read Ken's post .

Hi again, I'm Jim Hunt, senior director of PayPal merchant services.  Tomorrow's webinar, the first in our weekly series, is entitled "Capturing the voice of your customer to drive ROI". This topic is particularly interesting because leading online retailers are evolving the ways in which they reach and communicate with .

Hi everyone, I'm Don Fotsch, Vice President of User Experience and Design at PayPal.  As a father of six children, ages 7-18, I know that back-to-school season can be a stressful time for both parents and students. Whether you're looking for this season's hottest new laptop or struggling to find .

Hi, I'm Ken Swab, senior federal government relations officer at PayPal.  You might have heard that Congress recently passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, a major housing bill that the President signed into law on July 30.  The bill contains a provision impacting PayPal and our merchant .

I'm Jim Hunt, senior director of PayPal merchant services. My team and I talk with our merchants every day, and I'm always fascinated by how innovative they are about their businesses, products and brands.  So, we thought others would benefit from their expertise as well.  This month, we'll bring together .

Hello blog readers, It's Scott Thompson here again, president of PayPal. For those of you joined us at the eBay Live! conference in Chicago, you already know that PayPal is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year.  But for many of you that weren't able to make it, we've created a .

Hi blog readers, I'm Tyler Hoffman, senior director of enterprise merchant services at PayPal.  How time flies!  Just over a year ago, we announced that Northwest Airlines was the first airline to accept PayPal payments for online ticket purchases.  Today, Northwest is the first airline to accept PayPal Pay Later .

Hello it's Mary Anne Gillespie again, vice president of sales for our merchant services division at PayPal.  We recently added two new merchants to the growing list of places to shop online with your PayPal account: OfficeMax and American Eagle Outfitters. OfficeMax is a great way to equip your business or .

Hello again, I'm Michael Barrett, the chief information security officer for PayPal.  If you've been following my posts here in the Online Safety category of our blog, you may remember that our "A Practical Approach to Managing Phishing" whitepaper calls for industry collaboration to help fight phishing and keep you .

Hi everyone, I'm Michael Oldenburg, the managing editor of The PayPal Blog.  If you're a regular reader, you may have noticed that the site looks a bit different than it did the last time you were here.  That's because we've made some improvements including upgrading the look and feel of .

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".