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Ex-employees should realise that it does not pay to take data from their employers when they leave.
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SINGAPORE - Who owns what can be a simple issue in many workplaces where equipment and so on are easily defined, but as a local tech firm discovered, it can be horrendously complicated when it is something as intangible as software that could potentially be worth millions.
The company had developed a software that would make the calculation and transfer of money for various types of payments easier. The complications arose after some of its employees resigned and left with that software without the firm’s knowledge.
