PayPal Inc. services went down for about two hours in two separate instances last Friday, a spokesman for the payment processor says. PayPal could not process payments for online shoppers around the world that wanted to pay with PayPal during that time. PayPal.com remained live, although customers who logged in could not complete transactions.

Despite the outage, retailers that use PayPal Merchant Services to process purchases made with credit and debit cards could still complete those transactions; it was only payments with PayPal that were affected, PayPal says.

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