eBay and PayPal developer programs will be merged in order to establish a common platform that will allow external programmers to create applications with both e-commerce and payment capabilities for a broad variety of devices. The news comes only weeks after Osama Bedier left his post as chief of the PayPal developer team to take a job at Google. Gartner analyst Ray Valdes said there are two ways to view the decision to fuse the two programs: consolidation and cost optimization, joining together in an uneasy fashion two communities with differing needs.”]
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