{"id":242669,"date":"2026-08-13T13:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/paypal-board-calls-stripe-and-advents-53bn-bid-inadequate"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T18:06:48","slug":"paypal-board-calls-stripe-and-advents-53bn-bid-inadequate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/paypal-board-calls-stripe-and-advents-53bn-bid-inadequate","title":{"rendered":"PayPal Board Calls Stripe and Advent\u2019s $53bn Bid Inadequate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/paypal-board-calls-stripe-and-advents-53bn-bid-inadequate.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Payments experts say a potential Stripe\u2013PayPal deal could accelerate digital payments innovation, but regulatory hurdles, integration complexity and valuation remain the biggest obstacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payments experts say a potential Stripe\u2013PayPal deal could accelerate digital payments innovation, but regulatory hurdles, integration complexity and valuation remain the biggest obstacles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}