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NEW YORK (Reuters) – EBay and its online commercialism unit, PayPal Inc, on weekday sued Google Inc and digit executives for concealing change secrets attendant to ambulatory commercialism systems.

The digit executives, Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius, were formerly with PayPal and led the start on weekday of Google's possess ambulatory commercialism system in partnership with MasterCard, Citigroup and phone consort Sprint.

The meet highlights the ontogeny effort by a wide arrange of companies from tralatitious direction to Silicon Valley disagreeable to verify a major stake in what has been described as a $1 trillion possibleness in ambulatory payments. The ambulatory phone is seen as the digital personal notecase of the future.

The eBay meet said Bedier worked for nine eld at PayPal, most fresh serving as evilness chair of platform, ambulatory and newborn ventures. He connected Google on Jan 24 this year.

Tilenius was at eBay from 2001 to Oct 2009 and served as a consultant to the consort until March 2010. The meet says Tilenius connected Google in February 2010 as evilness chair of e-commerce.

Bedier is accused in the meet of having "misappropriated PayPal change secrets by disclosing them within Google and to major retailers."

The meet accused Tilenius of recruiting Bedier, thereby breaking a contractual agreement with eBay. It also claims Bedier attempted to enlist time colleagues still at PayPal.

Ebay said PayPal and Google worked intimately unitedly for threesome eld until this assemblage on nonindustrial a commercial care where PayPal would help as a commercialism choice for ambulatory covering purchases on Google's Android phones.

It said Bedier was the senior PayPal chief directive and finalizing negotiations with Google on Android during this period.

It also claimed Bedier transferred up-to-date versions of documents outlining PayPal's ambulatory commercialism strategies to his non-PayPal computer just days before leaving PayPal for Google.

"By hiring Bedier, with his change secret noesis of PayPal's plans and understanding of Google's weaknesses as viewed by the business leader (PayPal), Google bought the most comprehensive and worldly critique of its possess problems available," the meet said.

Google spokesman ballplayer Zamost said the consort had not still received a double of the complaint would not be able to interpret until it has had a quantity to analyse it.

Google and PayPal hit finished effort in the time past in online payments via computers with the start of Google Checkout in 2006, but Checkout has had a bottom impact on PayPal's market dominance.

The meet was filed at Superior Court of the State of California, county of Santa Clara, Case No: CV20l863.

(Reporting by Yinka Adegoke, added news by Jennifer Saba; Editing by Gary Hill, physiologist Orr and Matt Driskill)

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