The part of that article that really sucks is that King went out of their way to purchase the rights to a game that was made in 2004 and had a "Candy" trademark in order to prevent the 2010 registrant from contesting. That's playing dirty.

That aside, it certainly seems to be inspired by CandySwipe plus Bejeweled. Not as bad as FreeCiv, which is a blatant, unashamed clone of Civization (with only minor differences). But I guess nobody complains about that since it's free.