{"id":9607,"date":"2015-11-20T03:01:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T11:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=9607"},"modified":"2023-06-05T17:05:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T15:05:49","slug":"carl-icahn-out-of-ebay-all-in-paypal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/carl-icahn-out-of-ebay-all-in-paypal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon of the Week \u2013 Carl Icahn: Out of eBay, All-in PayPal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/carl-icahn-out-of-ebay-all-in-paypal\/#more-9607\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9608 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cartoon-carl-icahn-ebay-paypal.png\" alt=\"Carl Icahn: Out of eBay, All-in PayPal\" width=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cartoon-carl-icahn-ebay-paypal.png 750w, https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cartoon-carl-icahn-ebay-paypal-300x266.png 300w, https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cartoon-carl-icahn-ebay-paypal-534x473.png 534w, https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cartoon-carl-icahn-ebay-paypal-370x328.png 370w, https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cartoon-carl-icahn-ebay-paypal-267x236.png 267w, https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cartoon-carl-icahn-ebay-paypal-148x131.png 148w, https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cartoon-carl-icahn-ebay-paypal-100x90.png 100w, https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cartoon-carl-icahn-ebay-paypal-34x30.png 34w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A real poker strike was made by the <strong>American investor<\/strong> and casino owner, <strong>Carl Icahn<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<!--more-->After actively advocating for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/petercohan\/2014\/09\/30\/3-reasons-to-avoid-ebay-shares-post-paypal-spinoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">separation<\/a><\/strong> of <strong>PayPal<\/strong> from <strong>eBay<\/strong>, and having repeatedly highlighted the serious flaw in the governance of eBay, claiming that eBay\u2019s Executive Director John Donahoe was overlooking major conflicts of interest within the management board, Carl Icahn has finally been victorious, selling his <strong>46.3 million<\/strong> eBay shares to buy the exact same value of shares in PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>He now owns 3.8% of the payment service\u2019s capital. All-in!<\/p>\n<p>After this masterful coup, one may wonder if this move were not actually very well orchestrated by Mr Icahn, as PayPal is worth <strong>$45 billion<\/strong> and is indeed growing faster than eBay, valued at <strong>$34 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The chips are down!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Explore more eXo Cartoons on Pinterest:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/exoplatform\/cartoon-of-the-week\/\" data-pin-do=\"embedBoard\" data-pin-scale-width=\"80\" data-pin-scale-height=\"200\" data-pin-board-width=\"400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow eXo Platform&#8217;s board Cartoon of the Week on Pinterest.<\/a><!-- Please call pinit.js only once per page --><script src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\" async=\"\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A real poker strike was made by the American investor and casino owner, Carl Icahn.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[813],"tags":[817],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":9607},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-upgrade.exoplatform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}