{"id":15748,"date":"2002-07-08T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-08T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/08\/ebay-to-buy-paypal-in-15-billion-stock-deal\/"},"modified":"2002-07-08T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-08T16:57:00","slug":"ebay-to-buy-paypal-in-15-billion-stock-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/08\/ebay-to-buy-paypal-in-15-billion-stock-deal\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/business\/business-tech-paypal.html\" target=\"_blank\">EBay to Buy PayPal in $1.5 Billion Stock Deal<\/a>.  This is a pretty big deal!  It has the potential to greatly simplify transactions on ebay, but by eliminating the &ldquo;competition&rdquo; it may force sellers to use services and\/or features they don&rsquo;t really want, as ebay tried to do with its recent &ldquo;checkout&rdquo; system.  Let&rsquo;s hope they do this right&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-78692265?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EBay to Buy PayPal in $1.5 Billion Stock Deal. This is a pretty big deal! It has the potential to greatly simplify transactions on ebay, but by eliminating the &ldquo;competition&rdquo; it may force sellers to use services and\/or features they don&rsquo;t really want, as ebay tried to do with its recent &ldquo;checkout&rdquo; system. Let&rsquo;s hope &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/08\/ebay-to-buy-paypal-in-15-billion-stock-deal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}