Microsoft this week suspended MSN Juku, a Twitter-style Web site for Chinese users, after the solution was accused to stealing code from competitor Plurk.

“Plurk this week alleged that MSN Juku, a service where users could share 140-character messages with friends on a scrolling timeline, appeared to have stolen up to 80 percent of its codebase from Plurk,” writes Computerworld’s Owen Fletcher. “In a blog post, Plurk showed screenshots and samples of similar JavaScript and CSS code pulled from both services.”

“Microsoft is looking into the allegations against MSN Juku, which a Microsoft join venture in China hired a third-party vendor to develop,” Fletcher writes.

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