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. 

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Ebay announced successful end of year results. Revenue from their payments business which includes PayPal showed an increase of 28%. Chief executive John Donahoe said that he expects PayPal revenue to overtake eBay market place in the next few years.

In 2009 PayPal announced that they would be creating 150 new jobs at their European Centre of Excellence in Dublin. Earlier this week they announced that they will be creating a further 100 jobs in Dublin.

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