{"id":1028859,"date":"2026-08-15T08:08:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028859"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T02:42:42","slug":"paypal-in-talks-with-stripe-and-private-equity-firm-over-sale-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/15\/paypal-in-talks-with-stripe-and-private-equity-firm-over-sale-report\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal in talks with Stripe and private equity firm over sale: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After rejecting a previous offer, payments giant PayPal is considering a new deal to sell itself to a group of investors that includes private financial company Stripe, according to a Wall Street Journal report Friday. <\/p>\n<p>In July, Stripe and private equity firm Advent International made a joint offer to buy the digital payments pioneer for $60.50 a share, which would have valued PayPal at around $53 billion, according to media reports. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s an 85% haircut compared to PayPal&#8217;s peak market value which was near $360 billion in 2021. The company issued disappointing profit guidance for 2026 earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After rejecting a previous offer, payments giant PayPal is considering a new deal to sell itself to a group of investors that includes private financial company Stripe, according to a Wall Street Journal report Friday. In July, Stripe and private equity firm Advent International made a joint offer to buy the digital payments pioneer for $60.50 a share, which would have valued PayPal at around $53 billion, according to media reports. That&#8217;s an 85% haircut compared to PayPal&#8217;s peak market value which was near $360 billion in 2021. The company issued disappointing profit guidance for 2026 earlier this year.<\/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-1028859","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\/1028859","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=1028859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028884,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028859\/revisions\/1028884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}