
New York: In a memoir out next month, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen details tensions in his relationship with Bill Gates, including a scene from 1982, when he overheard Gates talking to current CEO Steve Ballmer about reducing Allen's stake in the company while he was undergoing cancer treatment. "Unable to stand it any longer, I burst in on them and shouted, 'This is unbelievable! It shows your true character,...

04:06 PM, Apr 01, 2011

Seattle: Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen relaunched a wide-ranging patent lawsuit against Apple Inc, Google Inc, Facebook and others with specific allegations that the companies are illegally using technology owned by his company. Interval Licensing LLC, a small research company set up by Allen in 1992, originally filed a broad patent suit in federal court in Seattle in August, but Judge Marsha Pechman dismissed it on the grounds that it...

12:25 PM, Dec 30, 2010
San Francisco: A company linked to Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen is suing 11 major corporations, including Apple, Google and Facebook, accusing them of infringing on technology patents. Interval Licensing is asserting four patents against a cluster of defendants, including also AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples, Yahoo and Google's YouTube, according to the suit. Google, Facebook and eBay said they will fight the accusations by Interval, which...

12:20 PM, Aug 28, 2010

Allen co-founded Microsoft in 1975 with Bill Gates; Vulcan Inc in 1986. ...

08:23 AM, Nov 17, 2009