Google accused of stealing PayPal's mobile payment secrets

[Archean]

Exec defected for Google 'while brokering Android pact for PayPal'

PayPal has sued Google and two Google executives who defected from PayPal to help the search giant's push into mobile payments. The suit was filed in California on Thursday, the same day Google unveiled its mobile payments system in New York.

The suit alleges that Google and Osama Bedier – the PayPal mobile payments exec who departed the company for Google in late January – misappropriated PayPal trade secrets by sharing them within Google and with "major" retailers. It then claims that Stephanie Tilenius, the Google vice president of electronic commerce who also came from PayPal, violated her contractual obligations by bringing Bedier to Google.

 

[Route44]

The more I read about Google lately the more it is becoming an Evil Empire in its own right.

 

[captaincranky]

C'mon man, you're just figuring that out?

 

[Leeky]

Google or Facebook.... Both equally bad! :haha:

 

[Archean]

The more I read about Google lately the more it is becoming an Evil Empire in its own right.

Exactly, and do you remember the Java code stealing in Android? I know Android fanboys will just jump up and down while coming up with all sort of excuses, but the fact is, Oracle is telling the truth in that case as well. So perhaps we can say, they are 'habitual' thieves ?

 

[Leeky]

They're no different to every other "entity" that wants to rule the world tbh - they don'tc are what they steal, borrow or "find" in the name of total world domination!

I'm becoming more anti-Google every day, just its taking some serious weaning to get off Gmail and google search - grr! :haha:

 

[Archean]

Exactly, and it is true for almost every big corporation out there.

 

[mailpup]

Since we now have a parallel thread on the same subject on TechSpot's front page, I'll close this one.