eBay's payment arm has sued for theft of trade secrets and breach of contract, the same day Google introduced its mobile payment system.PayPal on Thursday sued Google and two ex-employees claiming that its trade secrets had been stolen and contracts had been broken. The two former employees are Stephanie Tilenius and Osama Bedier.
Tilenius was hired by Google toward the end of June 2010, when she became Google VP of commerce and payments. She left PayPal in October 2009 and PayPal claims she was bound by contract not to solicit PayPal employees until March 2011.PayPal further alleged that in July 2010,Tilenius contacted Osama Bedier, then at PayPal, and tried to convince him to join Google. Bedier, after several months of wooing, which included meetings with top Google executives, opted to remain with PayPal in December 2010. But Tilenius apparently persisted and managed to convince him to resign from PayPal in January and join PayPal.
I believe this is the beginning of another Samsung vs Apple drama.
PayPal should take it easy, Paypal monopoly needs to stop...
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