BuzzFeed - In results announced today, the company's PayPal unit, which includes Venmo, reported larger revenues than the core auctions business, for the first time in eBay's history. Matt Cardy / Getty Images While eBay managed to beat Wall Street's expectations for the first quarter of this year, its auctions business continued to lose ground to its payments business. And that's a problem for eBay, because the 20-year-old e-commerce pioneer will soon be split in two, with the faster-growing PayPal unit becoming a separate company. That means eBay's core auctions business will have to stand on its own, even though its revenues shrunk to $2.07 billion during the quarter, down 4% from the same period last year. The payments unit, including PayPal and Venmo, had revenue of $2.11 billion, up 14%. It was the first quarter the payments business pulled in more revenue than the auctions site. The company said the rising value of the U.S. dollar hammered the total amount of co
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