PayPal Founder Slides in New Direction

August 6, 2007 By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Business Writer

(AP) -- Max Levchin already changed electronic commerce as a co-founder of PayPal, an online payment service that is expected to process more than $40 billion in transactions this year.

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