lawsuits

Uber Attorney Admits That Board Members & Ex-CEO Knew Of Letter Stating That Employees Were…

9 years James Ayre 0 Comments

During a testimony on Wednesday, an Uber company attorney admitted that the company’s former CEO and a number of board members were well aware of a letter which seems to have been actively hidden by the company from investigators, but which recently came to light. The letter alleges that Uber employees were trained to steal trade secrets when possible, and to cover their tracks using communications programs with disappearing messages (Wickr; Telegram) and a separate, dedicated computer system.

Alphabet (Google) Has Spent Well Over $1.1 Billion On Self-Driving Vehicle Development To Date

9 years James Ayre 0 Comments

The parent company of Google, Alphabet, has now spent more than $1.1 billion on the development of self-driving vehicle tech — with that figure relating to funding from the start of the moonshot program’s Project Chauffeur in 2009 through the end of 2015 — according to a deposition recently given by Waymo’s Shawn Bananzadeh in relation to the firm’s lawsuit against Uber.

Internal Monsanto Emails Show Scientist Stating: “If Somebody Came To Me & Said They Wanted…

9 years James Ayre 0 Comments

A number of interesting documents were released on Tuesday as part of an ongoing lawsuit against Monsanto. Not our typical beat, this seemed worth drawing attention to here on CleanTechnica anyway. Overall, these documents seem to paint a pretty clear picture of a company working to bend the rules to suit its best interests, and also one where there was clear internal “debate” about the actual safety of its best-selling product, Roundup.