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What is paypal
The number one digital wallet
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What is Apple pay, or Samsung pay
What is the current number one 'competitor's to Paypal?
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What is Citibank
This popular bank shut down its online payment system due to its conservative view on financial practice.
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What is U.S. currency?
The use of this currency allowed for Paypals early acceptance.
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What is 1999
This is the year in which Paypal was founded
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What is a digital wallet
A virtual place which stores information required to complete a purchase.
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What is Ebay
This company was the platform which launched Paypal.
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What is online gambling
This gray-market practice was excluded once Paypal merged with Ebay.
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What is the Paypal Mobile App?
The creation of this in 2006 led to an increase of use and access to Paypal among mobile users.
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Who are Max Levchin and Peter Thiel
These are the two people who founded Paypal
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What are online payments
This popular method of virtual interaction between businesses and customers was solidified by Paypal's rise to prominence.
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What is Field Link
This is the name of the company created by Paypal's founders prior to Paypals success which ultimately failed.
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What is red-lined groups
This term is applied to countries Paypal refuses to do business with.
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What is Identity Theft?
This practice still causes reluctance when using online payment platforms.
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Who is Elon Musk
This prominent business mogul lead Paypal to its success
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What is the dot-com boom
This occurred in the 90's as markets moved into the digital realm.
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What is established standards of monetary transactions.
These concepts, detailed by Bowker and Star, had great inertia which Paypal railed against in order to become and industry leader.
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What are new types of online currencies
Merchants and consumers were reluctant to get on board with this new idea due to its unproven status, leading to the fall of many other forms of digital wallets.
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What is a black box?
This is an expression detailed by Latour can be applied to online transaction, with regards to its inner workings and emergence in today's society.
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What is Confitity
This is the name Paypal threw off before assuming its current identity
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What is Secure Socket Layers or SSL
This type of web technology was established as a norm when dealing with sensitive information across the internet.
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What is buying out competitors
This method was employed by Paypal to eliminate competition and secure its position as an industry standard.
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What is explicit political technology
Paypal use of its authority to 'blacklist' certain countries can be compared to this concept from Winner's article of "Artifacts have politics"
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