Saturday, May 20, 2017

Uber Threatens to Fire Exec Involved in Self-Driving Lawsuit

Uber has threatened to fire the engineer at the center of a lawsuit alleging theft of trade secrets from Alphabet's self-driving car unit, Waymo. 

Waymo sued Uber alleging former Waymo executive Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14 thousand confidential documents before leaving Waymo and subsequently joining Uber.And as Technology Correspondent Rachel Silverman reports, Uber says if Levandowski doesn't comply with court orders he risks losing his job. 

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