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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 related to ambulatory commercialism systems.

The digit executives, Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius, were erst with PayPal and led the start on weekday of Google's possess ambulatory commercialism grouping 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 take a field stake in what has been described as a $1 trillion opportunity in ambulatory payments. The ambulatory phone is seen as the digital individualized wallet of the future.

The eBay meet said Bedier worked for figure eld at PayPal, most fresh serving as evilness chair of platform, ambulatory and newborn ventures. He connected Google on January 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 field retailers."

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

Ebay said PayPal and Google worked closely together for threesome eld until this assemblage on nonindustrial a advertizement care where PayPal would serve as a commercialism choice for ambulatory application 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 life before leaving PayPal for Google.

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

Google spokesman ballplayer Zamost said the consort had not yet conventional a double of the complaint would not be healthy to comment 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 effect on PayPal's mart dominance.

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

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

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