Friday, July 29, 2005
A Washington state judge temporarily blocked a former Microsoft Corp. vice-president from heading up rival Google Inc.'s new research center in China.
The ruling marked a small victory in a wider battle to keep Kai-Fu Lee from working at Google. Microsoft sued Lee and Google last week, claiming the former head of its Beijing research and development center had violated his employment contract by agreeing to take a job at Google.
Google plans to open a new facility in China later this year to develop new technologies and attract computer science researchers. A final location has not yet been chosen.
The world's largest software maker claimed Lee was privy to propriety information regarding the company's search technologies and business strategies in China.
By: DocMemory
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