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Local Advertising Startup Yodle Sues Former Employees Over Alleged Data Theft

By: Robin Wauters Former Yodle employees Daniel Mousetis, Christopher Esgro and Ronald Pousson, who once ran Yodle's Philadelphia operations, allegedly helped competitor Local Internet Doctors (LID) to 'hack' Yodle's systems and steal proprietary data. LID was founded by Pousson together with his partner Frank Norris, who is the fourth defendant in the suit and the alleged 'hacking' involved using an old user name and password to gain access to the system. Fired June 5, 2009, Pousson allegedly began soliciting other Yodle employees, saying he had found work at a Yodle competitor, WebVisible. In reality, Pousson had founded Local Internet Doctors along with Norris, according to the complaint, to compete with Yodle directly. To read this complete news article from TechCrunch, click here.

Full post as published by The Trade Secrets Vault on December 19, 2009 (boomark / email).