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'Members of the PayPal Government Relations team hosted a merchant fly-in at the Parliament House of Australia, Canberra, with some of the region’s most impressive PayPal-enabled merchants. The event gave the small business owners, including Shoes of Prey, Envato and Deals Direct, the opportunity to share with Ministers and Shadow Ministers how small business innovation is impacting the online retail space in Australia.'

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to take part in one of the PayPal Fly-ins? Check out Shoes of Prey owner Jodie Fox’s blog on the event. Jodie gives an overview of her experience in the March 3rd fly-in that took place in Canberra, Austrailia. Click Here to read her post.

Top row, left to right: Vahid Ta\'eed from Envato, Mark Van Der Zant and Andrew Rechtman from PayPal. Front row, left to right, PayPal merchant Jodie Fox (Shoes of Prey), Paul Greenberg from Deals Direct; PayPal’s Traci Cornaglia, Katherine Store and Michelle Peacock. Click here to read more.

'eBay Philippines announced its support for local entrepreneurs, particularly women, during the Go Negosyo Women Entrepreneurship Summit which was held from 4-6 March 2011 at the World Trade Centre in Manila.'

eBay Philippines announced its support for local entrepreneurs, particularly women, during the Go Negosyo Women Entrepreneurship Summit which was held from 4-6 March 2011 at the World Trade Centre in Manila.

PayPal’s Bill Zielke has written an article on why credit cards are not the future of online payments. Looking at a Javelin Strategy & Research report from 2010, 91% of polled consumers had used PayPal. Click Here

StubHub’s Dusty Brighton testified this week before the Minnesota Senate along with representatives from the National Consumers League (NCL), TicketNetwork and other groups interested in preserving a vibrant, competitive secondary ticket market for live events. Click here to see local news coverage of the Senate committee hearing and our efforts to aggressively advocate for the right of fans to buy, sell or share tickets – when they want; where they want; at whatever price they want; and to whom they want.

Congratulations to our eBay Inc. legal colleagues, Associate General Counsel Scott Shipman and Senior Litigation Counsel Edward Torpoco, who were recognized with impressive honors at the 2011 Best Bay Area Corporate Counsel awards, sponsored by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal and the San Francisco Business Times. Tod Cohen, VP of eBay Inc. Government Relations, applauded the lawyers saying, “I speak on behalf of the entire eBay community in recognizing both Eddie and Scott for their enormous personal contributions to our business and our community. It is always nice to see their work recognized by others.” Learn more about the awards.

PayPal has officially opened the doors to its new customer service and operations center in Chandler, Ariz. The new facility, located at 3000 West One Payment Way, will employ up to 2,000 new employees – which will help to support PayPal customers around the world. Click here to read more about the new operations center!

eBay Inc. has submitted written comments to the Department of Commerce (DOC) and to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in response to the agency reports released in December related to consumer privacy protection. Over the years, eBay has fought tirelessly for greater protections for consumer privacy and has called for federal lawmakers to move forward on enacting omnibus federal consumer privacy legislation. Click here to read more.