Stripe weighs potential takeover of all or parts of struggling PayPal in early, informal talks with no guarantee of a deal.
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Promote with Leviathan News“PayPal has had, obviously, a tough time over the past few years and the landscape has changed quite a bit with Apple Pay and Google Pay and everything like that,” John Collison, Stripe’s president, said in an interview this week. “I can’t talk about any, you know, M&A hypotheticals but they’ve definitely had a tough time.”
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