Online payments giant PayPal have announced their intention to create 150 new jobs at their Blanchardstown Offices, Dublin. PayPal currently employ 1,200 people in its European operations and customer services headquarters in the capital. The new positions in customer service and operations will bolster PayPals European Centre of Excellence which provides all direct customer contact to PayPal customers in Europe. Applicants should speak fluent English and a second European language.

Founded in Palo Alto, California in 1998, the current corporation resulted from the 2002 merger of Confinity and X.com. PayPal was the first dot-com to issue an IPO after the September 11th WTC attacks in 2001 and were acquired by eBay in October 2002 for USD $1.5B having been the choice of payment system for more than half of eBay acutions since the early 00's.

PayPal opened its European Operations Centre in Dublin in 2003 with 25 staff and quickly expanded over the following 6 years to 1,100 employees. In March 2009, following an IDA-supported EUR15M investment, PayPal officially announced their Dublin headquarters as "The European Centre of Excellence". In October 2009, 100 similar positions were announced in their customer services and operations centre. In January of last year 100 new jobs were announced bringing their current total workforce to 1,200. 

Ultan.

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Last week WorldNet TPS launched a new corporate website. The new site has a modern look and feel, provides detailed information about the services provided by WorldNet and includes a partner’s section and a developer’s lounge. As well as an integrated twitter feed the new site also features a corporate blog. It's not yet clear if this blog will be used as a platform issuing press releases or if it will be used for discussions relating to online payments or a combination of both. Hopefully it is a combination of both :)

The new website contains a labs section that details research and experimental projects that WorldNet are working on. Currently there are four projects listed, two in particular I find interesting.

An iPhone Payments Library that allows developers to build credit and debit card payments into their iPhone applications. WorldNet will be hot on the heels of PayPal who recently released a beta version of their own mobile payments library to US merchants.

The Payments Analytics Application is a data visualisation tool that will allow WorldNet clients to view their payment data in real-time. Google Analytics and Statcounter are two useful tools for gaining an insight in your visitors browsing habits. Information gained from such analytic tools allow website owners to optimise their sites to best meet needs and expectations of their visitors. If the equivalent information could be provided about online payments in real-time then it could be very useful for Irish e-commerce sites.

I will be bookmarking the labs page so I can follow the progression of these projects.

Dave

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