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  • Google: Microsoft suit a 'charade'

    Microsoft's lawsuit against its former executive Kai-Fu Lee and his new employer Google is a "charade" meant to frighten other Redmond workers into staying put, Google and Lee said in court papers filed this week.

  • Data-mining pioneer joins Microsoft

    Not every big name in search is going to Google.

  • Judge to consider throwing out Google suit

    The next round in the legal battle between Google and Microsoft over former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee could take place October 14 - unless the companies settle their dispute first.

  • Gmail threatened by UK lawsuit

    A UK company is considering filing a lawsuit against Google over its use of the Gmail name.

  • Google taps legal muscle for Microsoft case

    In its fight with Microsoft over an executive's defection, Google has enlisted attorneys from a small but high-powered law firm.

  • 'Recycled' document could be key to Microsoft case

    Microsoft says it found a potentially important document in its case against its former executive Kai-Fu Lee and Google in the "recycle bin" of one of Lee's computers.

  • Google's ex-Microsoft exec can recruit in China

    A former Microsoft executive can immediately begin recruiting staff for a Google development centre in China, rather than waiting until after a January trial, a Washington state judge ruled on Tuesday.

  • Court docs: Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Google

    Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer vowed to 'kill' Google in an expletive-laced, chair-throwing tirade when a senior engineer told him he was leaving the company to go work for Google, the engineer claimed in court documents made public on Friday.

  • Day two: Microsoft-Google courtroom showdown

    Former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee told a judge in Seattle on Wednesday that he was being honest but not necessarily providing a complete answer when asked by Microsoft officials in June whether he planned to rejoin the software giant after a sabbatical.

  • Google exec rebuffs Microsoft's claims

    Kai-Fu Lee, whose hiring by Google prompted a lawsuit by former employer Microsoft, has denied the software giant's claims about his role in its business.

  • Judge grants Microsoft request in Google case

    A judge has temporarily barred a former Microsoft executive hired by Google from performing any duties at the search giant similar to those he performed at Microsoft.

  • Microsoft sues over Google hire

    Opening a new chapter in its rivalry with Google, Microsoft on Tuesday sued the search giant and a former Microsoft executive that Google had tapped to run its China operations.

  • Courtroom showdown for Microsoft and Google

    Attorneys for Microsoft and Google faced off before a state court judge in Seattle on Tuesday, arguing whether former Microsoft executive Kai-Fu Lee should be allowed to start work for the search company before a trial determines whether he violated a noncompete contract.

  • Google builds an empire to rival Microsoft

    Google's one-of-a-kind computer network gives it a chance to surpass Microsoft to become the most dominant company in tech, according to the author of a recently published book on the search giant.

  • Microsoft Web plan takes aim at Google

    Microsoft plans to open access to MSN and its other public Web sites to let developers assemble new applications that build on those sites -- a technique used successfully at Google and other Web companies to promote their properties.

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