Tech: PayPal Goes Shopping, and the Competition Heats Up
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2018
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
It's been a busy few months for PayPal. The company just spent $2.2B on "the Square of Europe" and competitors are starting to mount an attack against the company's One Touch approach. How should investors be feeling about it all? Stocks: PYPL, SQ, MA.
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| 0:12.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:18.0 | It's Friday, May 25th and we're talking payments news and PayPal. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm your host Dylan Lewis and I'm joined on |
| 0:24.0 | Skype by fool.com's Matthew Cochran Matthew how's it going? It's going all right Dylan |
| 0:29.3 | how's it going with you you got planned for Memorial Day? I do. I'm going to be doing some prep. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm going to be taking a cross-country road trip |
| 0:37.4 | with my girlfriend. |
| 0:38.6 | She lives out in LA and is moving to DC. |
| 0:41.8 | And so I need to work on our itinerary a little bit because we're |
| 0:46.0 | leaving on Wednesday. Yeah that's a long trip. Good luck with that. Yeah I think |
| 0:50.0 | it's going to be an interesting test of our relationship, but I think it should be pretty good. |
| 0:55.2 | Austin, man behind the glass, what are you up to this weekend? |
| 0:58.4 | I don't have any crazy plans, mostly just trying to keep it light and maybe get some yard work done clean |
| 1:05.5 | a car out or something. It's a life of a homeowner you know enjoying your holiday |
| 1:09.0 | weekends by doing some yard work. Matt what about about you? Anything fun? |
| 1:13.0 | Well, as you might know, my wife and I, we have four kids together, but this weekend, all four kids are |
| 1:18.8 | camping with the grandparents. So my wife and I have a whole weekend to ourselves. |
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