{"id":66606,"date":"2014-08-25T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T10:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=66606"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T10:50:31","slug":"paypal-hits-1-million-accounts-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/66606\/paypal-hits-1-million-accounts-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"PayPal hits 1 million accounts in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal, an online payments company, says it has opened up in excess of 1 million accounts in South Africa, since its launch in deal with First National Bank (FNB), in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnline commerce creates a world of opportunities for buyers and sellers, but entering card details on an overseas website or accepting a payment from someone overseas can be concerning,\u201d said Malvina Goldfeld of PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat PayPal represents is trust, which is why we process over nine million payments every day, including 2.4 million international payments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PayPal&#8217;s clients in South Africa include Mr. Price, Netflorist and Singita.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on PayPal<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Icahn digs into eBay over Skype sale\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/53847\/icahn-digs-into-ebay-over-skype-sale\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Icahn digs into eBay over Skype sale<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to EBay founder rejects Icahn\u2019s PayPal plans\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/53735\/ebay-founder-rejects-icahns-paypal-plans\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">EBay founder rejects Icahn\u2019s PayPal plans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to EBay and Icahn get vocal over PayPal\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/53697\/ebay-and-icahn-get-vocal-over-paypal\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">EBay and Icahn get vocal over PayPal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PayPal says it has opened up in excess of 1 million accounts in South Africa, since its launch in deal with First National Bank (FNB), in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,76,2910,8672,149,8670],"class_list":["post-66606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-fnb","tag-mr-price","tag-netflorist","tag-paypal","tag-singita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66606"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66612,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606\/revisions\/66612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}