Google charged with dirty business

PayPal has filed a lawsuit in California accusing Google and two former PayPal executives who now work at Google of poaching its confidential trade secrets in mobile payment technology. Google recently released a phone-based mobile payment system called Google Wallet in which the stolen technology is said to be incorporated. The lawsuit specifically named former PayPal execs Osama Bedier and Stephanie Tilenius who now oversee Google Wallet. Bedier headed negotiations between the two companies for PayPal to provide the payment system for Google's app store on Android phones. The lawsuit claims Google ditched the deal to "build a competing product with PayPal's former employees and executives at the helm." PayPal says that during those negotiations Bedier was simultaneously interviewing for a job at Google, breaching his responsibilities as an executive. The lawsuit goes on to accuse Bedier of transferring important company documents to his non-PayPal computer just days before leaving PayPal for Google in January. PayPal also mentioned two other employees who joined Google whose names have been withheld. "Silicon Valley was built on the ability of individuals to use their knowledge and expertise to seek better employment opportunities, an idea recognized by both California law and public policy," a Google spokesman wrote in an e-mail to CNNMoney. "We respect trade secrets, and will defend ourselves against these claims."