HuaweiTechnologiesCo. reversed course and withdrew its attempt to win U.S. approval for a small but controversial acquisition it completed last summer.
Mr. Massoud reportedly told the Financial Times that the hard drive contained files suggesting that Mr. Todd was working on semiconductor research involving IME and Chinese telecommunications company HuaweiTechnologiesCo.
Diane Myers, a principal analyst with Infonetics Research, says Genband had a 15.2% revenue share of the global VOIP equipment market for telecom providers in 2011, trailing just slightly behind closely held Chinese vendor HuaweiTechnologiesCo.