Tag: Levandowski

08 JUN

Judge orders Uber to hand over report on its acquisition of Levandowski startup

Enlarge / A logo on the wall of an Uber Technologies office in Berlin, Germany. (credit: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Uber has lost two key battles in its trade-secret litigation with Waymo, Google’s self-driving car spinoff. First, a magistrate judge has ruled that Uber must hand over the due diligence report related to its […]

01 JUN

Uber Fires Anthony Levandowski amid Lawsuit over Self-Driving-Car Trade Secrets

– It’s hard to believe, but it was only 10 months ago that Anthony Levandowski ascended to arguably the most enviable position of any engineer pioneering autonomous technology. Uber acquired his months-old self-driving-truck startup in August 2016 for $ 680 million. After enriching him, the company put him in charge of all its autonomous-development efforts, […]

31 MAY

Uber engineer Levandowski, accused of massive theft from Google, has been fired

Enlarge / Anthony Levandowski, VP of engineering at Uber, speaking to reporters at the Uber Advanced Technologies Center on September 13, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (credit: ANGELO MERENDINO/AFP/Getty Images) The Uber engineer at the center of the company’s litigation with Waymo, Anthony Levandowski, has been fired. Levandowski’s termination was made clear in an internal e-mail and […]

19 MAY

Uber threatens to fire Levandowski if he doesn’t comply with court order

Enlarge / Anthony Levandowski, VP of engineering at Uber, speaking to reporters at the Uber Advanced Technologies Center on September 13, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (credit: ANGELO MERENDINO/AFP/Getty Images) Uber has threatened to fire its top self-driving car engineer if he doesn’t comply with a court order and hand over documents in the Waymo v. […]

05 APR

Uber’s Levandowski really doesn’t want to talk about any Waymo documents

Enlarge / A technician sits in an Uber self-driving car on September 13, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (credit: ANGELO MERENDINO/AFP/Getty Images) When Uber bought Anthony Levandowski’s startup Otto for $ 680 million, an unnamed third party conducted a “due diligence review.” Now, Levandowski and his lawyers are fighting hard to keep that review under wraps. Google’s […]