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by Julie CHARPENTRAT / with Rob Lever in Washington Agence France-Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Waymo and Uber announced an agreement Friday in the blockbuster federal lawsuit over allegedly stolen trade secrets from the former Google self-driving car project. The surprise agreement ends a trial between the two Silicon Valley rivals competing in a race to develop autonomous cars, after four days of testimony before a federal judge in San Francisco. A source […]
by Julie Charpentrat Agence France-Presse SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) – Former Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick on Wednesday denied conspiring to steal autonomous driving technology in a tense courtroom appearance that could be key to a blockbuster trial over allegedly ill-gotten trade secrets. In a second day of testimony in the trial pitting former Google car division Waymo against Uber, Kalanick maintained he did not ask for proprietary data when he hired a star engineer from […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Uber said late Tuesday that it has hired Expedia boss Dara Khosrowshahi as its new chief executive. Khosrowshahi will be at Uber’s headquarters in San Francisco for an ‘all-hands’ gathering to meet workers at the controversy-battered company. “We are delighted to announce that Uber’s Board has voted unanimously to appoint Dara Khosrowshahi to be our new CEO,” Uber executives said in an email sent to employees late Tuesday. Khosrowshahi […]
