PayPal sues over Google smartphones

PayPal says Google stole its ideas for a new service that is trying to turn smartphones into digital wallets, reports the Associated Press.

The allegations emerged in a lawsuit filed yesterday in a California court after Google unveiled its mobile payment service in New York.

The complaint alleges Google lured away PayPal executive Osama Bedier earlier this year to obtain trade secrets that are now being used in Google's phone-as-a-wallet service. Bedier, now Google's VP of payments, was among those showing off the technology in New York.

Microsoft shareholder and renowned hedge fund manager David Einhorn has called on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to resign because the company is failing to keep up with its competitors, reveals V3.co.uk.

Ballmer took over from Bill Gates as CEO in 2000, and the firm has since fallen behind rivals like Apple, Google and most recently IBM in market value.

Einhorn made his comments while speaking at the annual Ira Sohn Investment Research Conference, in New York.

Microsoft, Yahoo, and InterActiveCorp have accepted advertisements for overseas pharmacies that sell drugs to US customers without requiring prescriptions, a practice that made Google the target of a federal criminal probe, according to Cnet.

An offshore pharmacy called GoMedStore.com, which advertised on Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing.com Web site this week, and appears to be based in Vietnam, boasts that it ships pills “from our India facility” in unmarked packages designed to clear US Customs without raising suspicions. “Nobody will know what is inside the package,” the Web site says.

Another, the Czech Republic-based iWantMeds.com, places paid listings on a US product search engine operated by IAC. IAC gets paid by iWantMeds.com every time a user clicks on one of its listings for drugs, including Cialis, used to treat erectile dysfunction, on its Pronto.com search site.

Facebook's billionaire boy genius, Mark Zuckerberg, is a confessed killer - and he's proud of it, writes The Register. “The only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself,” Zuckerberg told Fortune. “So far, this has been a good experience.”

Among Zuckerberg's victims have been a lobster, chicken, pig, and goat. His reasoning for eating only animals that he has personally killed falls right into line with the mindful-eating ethos. "I think many people forget that a living being has to die for you to eat meat," he says, "so my goal revolves around not letting myself forget that and being thankful for what I have."

Zuckerberg refers to his kill-then-eat resolution as a goal because "Every year in recent memory, I've taken on a personal challenge - something to learn about the world, expand my interests and teach myself greater discipline."