Attendees walk in front of a PayPal stand at the …

AP FILE PHOTO, FEB. 27, 2013 | published: October 1, 2014

Attendees walk in front of a PayPal stand at the Mobile World Congress, the world’s largest mobile-phone trade show, in Barcelona, Spain. Online marketplace eBay Inc. announced Tuesday it is spinning off its payment business PayPal into a separate, publicly traded company by 2015.