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PayPal To Open App Store For Developers

Posted by samzenpus on from the if-you-build-it-they-will-pay dept.

angry tapir writes "PayPal will open an applications store this year where developers can offer their wares, the latest step in the company's multi-pronged strategy to deepen its relationship with external programmers. Developers have a big opportunity to offer applications for merchants and consumers that PayPal doesn't have the interest or resources to build itself, according to a PayPal official."

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  1. Hmmm ... by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't this just going to piss off the government of India even more? They're already holding developer's PP accounts under suspicion.

    1. Re:Hmmm ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Wrong kind of Indians. It's the feather one's that live in TP's.

  2. Slashdot to Open App Store for Developers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "If it works out well for them (which it seems to have done for eBay), we may see more of the same sort in the future."

    Maybe apply that to Slashdot's UI?