{"id":1022660,"date":"2026-07-22T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022660"},"modified":"2026-07-22T08:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:31:19","slug":"how-paypal-went-from-wall-street-favorite-to-unwilling-merger-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/22\/how-paypal-went-from-wall-street-favorite-to-unwilling-merger-target\/","title":{"rendered":"How PayPal went from Wall Street favorite to unwilling merger target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago PayPal was a Wall Street favorite and a leader in digital payments. Since then the stock has plunged, Apple Pay dominates payment services in the U.S. and PayPal is facing a takeover bid it does not like. What happens next? <\/p>\n<p>The company synonymous with digital payments this past week got a $53 billion offer to be taken private by upstart rival Stripe and buyout shop Advent International. \u200bPayPal&#8217;s board is discussing the bid but believes $60.50 a share is not enough, people familiar with the company said. The board is expected to meet on Monday, said the people familiar with PayPal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago PayPal was a Wall Street favorite and a leader in digital payments. Since then the stock has plunged, Apple Pay dominates payment services in the U.S. and PayPal is facing a takeover bid it does not like. What happens next? The company synonymous with digital payments this past week got a $53 billion offer to be taken private by upstart rival Stripe and buyout shop Advent International. \u200bPayPal&#8217;s board is discussing the bid but believes $60.50 a share is not enough, people familiar with the company said. The board is expected to meet on Monday, said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022678,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022660\/revisions\/1022678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}