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PayPal Holdings Inc Seeking To Purchase Digital Pinboard Website Pinterest In $45 Billion Deal: Report

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PayPal made an offer to buy digital pinboard site Pinterest IncPayPal Holdings Inc has made an offer to buy digital pinboard site Pinterest Inc for $45 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, a combination that could herald more tie-ups between financial technology and social media companies in e-ecommerce.The per share price would represent a 26 per cent premium to Pinterest's closing price of $55.58 on Tuesday.

PayPal plans to finance the acquisition mostly through stock, the sources said.The payments behemoth was among the big winners of the pandemic as more people used its services to shop online and pay bills to avoid stepping out.

The pandemic boost over the past 12 months have driven up its shares by about 36 per cent, giving it a market capitalization of nearly $320 billion.PayPal's shares were down about 3.5 per cent on Wednesday, while Pinterest was up over 10 per cent at $61.55.

Pinterest's shares, which had jumped over 13 per cent earlier in the day forcing trading to be halted briefly, have shed about 16 per cent of their value this year.San Jose, California-based PayPal and Pinterest did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.

The sources requested anonymity as the discussions are confidential.News of the potential deal comes less than a week after Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp announced plans to leave the company to join LoveFrom, a firm led by Jony Ive, the designer of many iconic Apple products.Sharp founded the San Francisco, California-based online scrapbook and photo-sharing platform along with Ben Silbermann, who is the company's chief executive officer, and Paul Sciarra, who left in 2012.Over the past few years, PayPal has displayed growing ambitions to increase its footprint in online shopping through a series of acquisitions, including a $4 billion deal to buy online coupon finder Honey Science in 2019, a $2.7-billion deal to buy Japanese buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) firm Paidy in September this year, and a deal to buy return-service provider Happy Returns in May.




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