EBay and PayPal Developer Merge programs

The PayPal Developer program and eBay will be merged in order to establish a common platform that will allow external programmers to create applications with features of both e-commerce and payment for a wide range of devices.

"Trade online and offline are converging in a ' new retail experience, powered by innovation, mobile, digital, social and local. In this new environment, people want a seamless shopping and integrated payments solution and that works anytime, anywhere--on any connected device, "Matthew Mengerink, who will lead the combined developer program, wrote in a blog post.

Mengerink did not provide specific details about the process of combining programs and platforms, but said more details will be forthcoming and that eBay will hold a single developer conference this year, innovate, in October.

Developer programs provide a variety of tools and resources for third-party programmers create applications complementary to PayPal and eBay merchants. Over the years, eBay, which owns PayPal, said that these external programmers are the key to the success of your eBay and PayPal online payment system.

Gartner analyst Ray Valdes has said there are two ways to view the decision to merge the developer programs.

"The first is that it is optimizing costs and consolidation, join a community of developers two fashion uncomfortable with different needs," said via e-mail.

The other possibility is that the combination is "synergy" and an opportunity to inexpensively through a wide-ranging, integrated in uppercase.

"I think there's a kernel of truth in both interpretations, and the final result depends on how well the team combined running," says Valdes.

The news comes just weeks after Osama Bedier left his post as head of PayPal Developer team to take a job at Google. Mengerink was appointed as his successor.

Last year, PayPal has taken a bigger profile in the financial framework of eBay, driving a lot of growth of the company, while the revenue from core business marketplace eBay seems stuck on a plateau.