(TheStreet) -- Google GOOG leapt into mobile payments Thursday with partners like Citi C and MasterCard MA. Totally outmaneuvered, eBay's EBAY PayPal cried foul.
Instead of firing back with its own pay plan, PayPal -- the giant of ecommerce transactions, the company that practically invented the virtual wallet -- filed a lawsuit saying Google stole its secret recipe.
"The lawsuit at least indicates they still care about mobile payments," says Recon Analytics' Roger Entner. PayPal has built a successful franchise online, and you'd think they should have realized online includes mobile," says Entner.
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