OfferPal Sues Former Customer Kickflip For Starting Competitive Service

Offerpal Media , an advertising platform concentrated on helping developers monetize social networks by offering virtual currency in exchange for participating in 'offers' like online surveys, has filed suit against Kickflip, the company behind the Gambit payment engine. As first reported in GigaOm , the suit alleges that Kickflip temporarily used Offerpal's services for the purpose of stealing knowledge of how the service worked, which it then used to start a competitor. From the suit: [Kickflip] misrepresented its intentions in forming a relationship with Offerpal, and then used the information and trade secrets learned in the course of the relationship to develop and improve Defendant’s own competing service. Kickflip responds that the suit has "absolutely no merit". The company originally started off as a game developer in 2007 (you can see a list of their old games here ). The company says that during that time it has tried to use OfferPal and SuperRewards (an OfferPal competitor) to monetize their games but that both were unable to meet their needs, so they built their own service. The company's 'about' page offers a similar background:
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