PayPal

PayPal Holdings, Inc. is an American company operatin a warldwide online payments seestem. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives tae tradeetional paper methods lik checks an money orders. PayPal is ane o the warld's lairgest Internet payment companies.^[6] The company operates as a payment processor for online vendors, unction steids an ither commercial uisers, for which it chairges a fee.

PayPal Holdings, Inc.

Available in	Multilingual
Tradit as	NASDAQ: PYPL
Foondit	December 1998; 25 years ago (1998-12) (as Confinity)
Predecessor(s)	Confinity
Heidquarters	2211 North First Street, San Jose, Californie, United States 95131
Coordinates	37°22′37″N 121°55′21″W / 37.3770°N 121.9226°W / 37.3770; -121.9226 121°55′21″W / 37.3770°N 121.9226°W / 37.3770; -121.9226
Area served	Warldwide
Foonder(s)	Max Levchin Peter Thiel Luke Nosek Ken Howery
Key fowk	John Donahoe (Chairman) Daniel Schulman (CEO)
Industry	Financial Services
Products	Credit Cards, payment seestems
Revenue	US$9.24 billion (2015)[1]
Operatin income	US$1.46 billion (2015)[1]
Profit	US$1.22 billion (2015)[1]
Tot assets	US$28.88 billion (2015)[1]
Total equity	US$13.75 billion (2015)[1]
Employees	15,800 (2015)[1]
Parent	eBay (2002–2014)
Subsidiaries	Braintree Paydiant Venmo PayPal Credit Xoom Corporation
Wabsteid	www.paypal.com
Alexa rank	45 (August 2016[update])[2]
Advertisin	No
Registration	Yes
Users	173 million (2015)
Launched	December 1998 (1998-12)
Current status	Active
Native client(s) on	iOS Android Windows
Written in	C++,[3] JavaScript (as Node.js),[4] Python[5]