Ex-Google executive Anthony Levandowski sent to prison for stealing robocar secretsBefore leaving Google, Levandowski downloaded a trove of Google's self-driving car technology, resulting in him being facing 33 counts of i...
05 Aug, 2020, 09.02 AM IST
Uber says Levandowski is on his own for $180 million to GoogleUber’s filing fills in gaps of a dispute that largely played out behind the closed doors of private arbitration. The ride-hailing company s...
20 Apr, 2020, 11.40 AM IST
Former Google engineer agrees to plead guilty to secrets theftAnthony Levandowski began negotiating with ridesharing giant Uber to invest in or buy Otto while he was still working at Google, and admits...
21 Mar, 2020, 10.09 AM IST
Former Uber self-driving head, Anthony Levandowski, declares bankruptcy after $179 million loss to GoogleLevandowski filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, enabling him to negotiate debts. He has $50 million to $100 million in estimated assets, compa...
06 Mar, 2020, 09.33 AM IST
What if Silicon Valley’s ‘brilliant jerks’ are just jerks?People like Levandowski, Travis Kalanick and Elizabeth Holmes are regarded as scrappy, visionary entrepreneurs, until they go too far, rece...
30 Aug, 2019, 09.36 AM IST
Uber open to outside investment for self-driving unitUber is competing with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo, Tesla Inc., and the world’s traditional auto manufacturers and startups, in the race to devel...
24 Jan, 2019, 11.40 AM IST
The key engineer in Uber and Google self-driving lawsuit is backThe company plans to start shipping a $4,999, seven-camera system that helps keeps commercial trucks in their lane in the first half of 201...
19 Dec, 2018, 11.03 AM IST
Uber settles Waymo driverless car suit, said to pay $245 millionDara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s CEO, said in a letter his job is to set the course for the future of the company expressed regret for actions tha...
09 Feb, 2018, 11.12 PM IST
Former Uber engineer Anthony Levandowski's nanny also says he stole dataLevandowski helped start Google’s autonomous vehicle program, left to form astartup focused on autonomous trucks, then joined Uber.
18 Jan, 2018, 08.50 AM IST
US judge says Uber withheld evidence, delays Waymo trialThe trial had been scheduled to begin on Dec. 4. Waymo said it learned of the new evidence last week after the US Department of Justice sha...
28 Nov, 2017, 11.59 PM IST
Waymo drops most patent claims in car tech fight with UberWaymo's decision to include patent claims in its complaint against Uber was a surprise move for Google parent Alphabet, which normally prid...
08 Jul, 2017, 01.07 PM IST
Uber fires executive at center of driverless car legal fightLevandowski joined the ride-hailing startup in 2016 after several years at Google's autonomous driving project, which is now called Waymo.
31 May, 2017, 10.10 AM IST
Uber threatens to fire engineer in the midst of driverless car court caseLevandowski, who isn't a defendant in the lawsuit brought by Waymo, has refused to testify in the case, citing his Fifth Amendment right to...
20 May, 2017, 11.27 AM IST
Uber faces significant setback in its driverless-car programmeAlsup wrote that Waymo, "has made a strong showing that Levandowski absconded with over 14,000 files" from the company when he left last ye...
16 May, 2017, 04.28 PM IST
Did Uber steal the driverless future from Google?Self-driving technology has become a fixation for Kalanick. Developing a driverless car, he’s often said, is “existential” to Uber.
18 Mar, 2017, 12.03 PM IST
Google’s Waymo sues Uber over 'theft' of self-driving technologyAnthony Levandowski, a former manager at Waymo, in December 2015 downloaded more than 14,000 proprietary and confidential files, including ...
25 Feb, 2017, 08.30 AM IST
Google's former star employee is now its enemy number oneAnthony Levandowski is accused of taking incredibly valuable intellectual property from Alphabet to his current company, Uber Technologies ...
25 Feb, 2017, 12.57 AM IST