Yahoo Accused Of Raiding Workers

wellington map writes "Nuance Communications, a Menlo Park maker of speech-recognition software, has sued Yahoo for unfair competition and theft of trade secrets, accusing the Internet giant of raiding all but one of Nuance's research and development engineers. Nuance said 13 engineers from its Menlo Park and Montreal offices were 75 percent finished with a project that would allow people to search the Internet by speaking their queries into a telephone, rather than typing them on a computer keyboard. Nuance planned to sell the technology to companies like Yahoo."

I wonder what happend to the one engineer...

[xquark]

I feel sorry for the guy, yahoo should pick him up too and be done with it.

Arash

Raided?

[halcyon1234]

Okay, I must be behind on the current lingo... because when I read "Yahoo raided 12 engineers", I get an image of them hooking 12 engineers together to make some sort of Super Redundant Engineer.

I'll bet Nuance's HR manager....

[stygar]

...is really regretting the number of times he used the "I think 3% is a pretty good raise in the current business climate" line during the last performance review cycle.

Hmm, an HR drone on pogey - I like the sound of that.

Dogbert!

[lheal]

Dogbert, evil HR manager, finally gets his due. Gotta love that!

75% Business Plan

[Dachannien]

I think I've figured out where their "75%" figure comes from:

1. Purchase speech recognition software
2. Purchase telephone
3. ???
4. Profit!

Re:75% Business Plan

[The Clockwork Troll]

3. Implement real-time interactive phone sex engine based on vocal likeness of Jenna Jameson

Stop whining

[oman_]

Oh come on. This just gives them an excuse to get even CHEAPER engineering talent from places like India and Russia! These self-important engineers are doing them a favor by leaving. I mean they still have all the money-counting talent in house which is what's really important right?