Gavin Clarke: Google lands Microsoftie to head China R&D

From the Register:

Google has poached the founder of Microsoft Research’s Chinese facility to set-up and run its own Chinese R&D operations.

Dr Kai-Fu Lee was Tuesday morning named head of a planned product and research development center in China, due to open in the third quarter, with Lee also planned to head-up Google’s Chinese operations.

The Google press release is here.