Almost in parallel with the premiere of Google's payment service (known as Google Wallet, which uses the NFC chip equipped in the Google Nexus S), the Mountain View giant has already grown dwarfs. It turns out that a few hours after Google introduced this new service, the eBay company, responsible for PayPal, filed a complaint in the California courts, in which it accuses the search engine's company, directly and openly, of having stolen business secrets.
The lawsuit, moreover, does not focus only on Google, but also on two of those responsible for Google Wallet, Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius, who, in addition, it so happens that they previously worked for eBay. And it is more: they were directors precisely of PayPal. The soap opera is served.
According to the chronology proposed by eBay in its complaint, the defendants would have taken advantage of their situation of dominance, having negotiated with Google a position in the company (in the case of Bedier, who have signed the Tilenius after joining the ranks of the company Mountain View) and putting into practice some of the information available to them for the time spent on eBay (after nearly nine years of experience in the company).
But the story does not stop there. PayPal was anticipated as one of the candidates to focus Google's attention as a secure payment platform that could be used with the NFC systems that have ended up being released as Google Wallet.
For three years, Google worked closely with eBay's payments division to develop a system appropriate to their aspirations. And Osama Bedier was precisely one of the key pieces in that context, something that, according to the open demand, seems like one of the main indications of the possible cause.
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