Exec Sued Over Google Job (AP)AP - Microsoft Corp. sued (Internet advertising)

Exec Sued Over Google Job (AP)AP - Microsoft Corp. sued (Internet advertising)

Ex-Microsoft Exec Sued Over Google Job (AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. sued Google Inc. on Tuesday, accusing it of poaching a top executive the search engine company had wooed away to head a new research lab in China.

'E.T. blog home': US firm to send Internet diaries into space (AFP)
AFP - Is there anybody out there? And if there is, what will alien lifeforms make of bloggers signed up to a new service to beam their online rantings into outer space?

Microsoft sues as Google snags former exec to open China research center (AFP)
AFP - Microsoft is suing one of its former executives hired away by Internet rival Google to run a new research center in China, the US software giant announced.

Yahoo revenue disappoints, shares drop (Reuters)
Reuters - Yahoo Inc. posted a morethan 40 percent rise in quarterly revenue on Tuesday but failedto meet Wall Street expectations, raising concerns about thepace of growth of online advertising and sending the company'sshares down 10 percent.

Microsoft Will Swallow RSS (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - History shows that Longhorn and IE's embrace of RSS will leave little room for competitors.