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Uber Sacks Star Engineer Accused of Spying On Google

Uber has sacked the man at the centre of an ongoing legal scandal in which Google has accused the taxi-hailing company...

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Uber Fires Engineer At Center of Trade Secret Suit

Uber on Tuesday confirmed that it has fired an engineer accused in a trade secrets suit involving files he purportedly...

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Amazon Shares Rise Above $1,000 For the First Time

Shares of Amazon surged above $1,000 for the first time Tuesday, marking another milestone in the rise of the American...

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Ford Shakeup Underscores Detroit’s Tech Dilemmas

Ford's decision to oust its CEO is the latest sign of how Silicon Valley technology firms are shaking the foundation of...

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FCC Votes To Overturn Net Neutrality Rules

The US Federal Communications Commission has voted to overturn rules that force ISPs to treat all data traffic as...

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Uber Extends On-Demand Service To Trucking

Uber is expanding into a new field with a version of its on-demand ride application that lets truckers book cargo hauls...

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Google To Unveil Its Latest Android Updates

Google is unveiling the latest version of its Android software alongside new plans to put the software in cars. The...

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GE Appliances To Get Google Voice Control Option

GE Appliances announced a deal with Google Wednesday enabling the US tech giant's voice control home hub to be used for...

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Judge Curbs Uber Engineer In Trade Secrets Case

A judge on Monday has ordered an Uber engineer at the center of a self-driving car trade secrets suit sidelined and...

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Lyft Partners With Alphabet’s Waymo To Launch Self-Driving Cars

Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, has reached an agreement with ridesharer Lyft to test...

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Lyft, Waymo To Cooperate On Self-Driving Cars

Waymo, the self-driving car unit of Google parent Alphabet, has reached an agreement with ridesharer Lyft to test...

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Judge Seeks Criminal Review of Uber-Alphabet Dispute

A federal judge has asked for a criminal justice review in the case brought by Alphabet self-driving car unit Waymo...

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Google CEO Made Nearly $200 Million Last Year

Google CEO Sundar Pichai received nearly $199.7 million in compensation last year, double the amount he made in 2015,...

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Alphabet’s Verily To Embark On Health-Mapping Study

Alphabet's life sciences unit Verily on Wednesday announced a study to track people for years, right down to their...

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Apple Gets Permit To Test Self-Driving Cars

Apple has joined the list of companies with permits to test self-driving cars in California, according to an updated...

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Google Boycott Could See the End of Automated Ad Placement

The feud sparked by Google's failure to remove extremist content from its site Youtube could lead to the end of...

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Google Ad Boycott Could Aim Ire At Ad-Serving Software

Google's money-making foundation is strong enough to endure a current boycott by advertisers, but the movement could...

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Bill Gates Named the World’s Richest Man Again As Trump Falls To 544

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates once again topped the Forbes magazine list of the world’s richest billionaires, while...

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Uber Vows Not To Trick Regulators With ‘Greyball’ Tool

Uber on Wednesday promised not to use a recently uncovered "Greyball" software program to trick regulators trying to...