The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth (ISBN 0-9746701-0-3) is a book by former PayPal

PayPal

PayPal is an American-based global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. Online money transfers serve as electronic alternatives to paying with traditional paper methods, such as checks and money orders....

 marketing executive Eric M. Jackson

Eric M. Jackson

Eric M. Jackson is the co-founder of CapLinked, focused on linking companies and investors. He was founder and former CEO of WND Books and a former vice president of marketing at PayPal...

 that was published in 2004 by World Ahead Publishing.ISBN 0-9746701-0-3

Today PayPal has over 100 million users and in 2005 PayPal processed over $27 billion in payments.http://www.shareholder.com/paypal/releaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=187407&Category=US Its alumni have gone on to start companies like LinkedIn

LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a business-related social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. , LinkedIn reports more than 120 million registered users in more than 200 countries and territories. The site is available in English, French,...

, YouTube

YouTube

YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....

, and Yelp, Inc.. http://www.forbes.com/business/businesstech/2006/07/12/paypal-ebay-youtube_cx_rr_0712paypal.html The PayPal Wars provides an insider's perspective into the people and events that helped create this company and ultimately lead to its acquisition by eBay

EBay

eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...

 in 2002. The book recounts PayPal's many clashes with lawyers, regulators, and the Mafia

Mafia

The Mafia is a criminal syndicate that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century in Sicily, Italy. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct, and whose common enterprise is protection racketeering...

. http://www.worldaheadpublishing.com/titles/ppw.php It also provides background information on PayPal's current battle with the Google Checkout

Google Checkout

Google Checkout is an online payment processing service provided by Google aimed at simplifying the process of paying for online purchases. Users store their credit or debit card and shipping information in their Google Account, so that they can purchase at participating stores by clicking an...

 payments system from search engine company Google

Google

Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...

. http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060731/BUSINESS/60729105/1149

The PayPal Wars has received awards and acclaim for its writing style and personal narrative. It won the Writers Notes Book Awards as the best business book of the year http://hopepubs.home.comcast.net/winners.html#business and it was the runner-up in the USA Book News “Best Books 2004” Awards for business.http://www.worldaheadpublishing.com/news/ppw_press3.php The Washington Times

The Washington Times

The Washington Times is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. It was founded in 1982 by Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, and until 2010 was owned by News World Communications, an international media conglomerate associated with the...

 said the book is "an absorbing insider's story." http://washingtontimes.com/books/20050212-093435-4698r.htm Reason Magazine said that it "reads like a spy novel." http://www.reason.com/0508/cr.rb.who.shtml Tech Central Station said that "It's rare that a business book is a page turner, but The PayPal Wars is." http://www.techcentralstation.com/031405F.html Tom Peters

Tom Peters

Thomas J. "Tom" Peters is an American writer on business management practices, best-known for In Search of Excellence .-Life and career:Peters was born in Baltimore, Maryland...

said The PayPal Wars "gives the best description of 'business strategy' unfolding in a world changing at warp speed" http://www.tompeters.com/entries.php?note=008205.php.