Microsoft loses bid to block Kai-Fu Lee from working
14th Sep 2005, 10:10 GMT
In a setback for Microsoft, a Redmond, Wash., defector and high-ranking Google executive will be able to help the Mountain View, Calif., company set up a research and development facility in China in the coming months while a case over his hiring comes to trial in January 2006, a judge decided Tuesday.
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