Category: uber atg

Uber’s former self-driving lead pleads guilty to stealing from Google

Post author By Randall
Post date March 19, 2020
Categories In alphabet, anthony levandowski, business, gear, self-driving car, Tech, Uber, uber atg, waymo

[ad_1] After about three years of legal wrangling between Uber and Waymo over self-driving car tech, the engineer at the center of it has agreed to plead guilty to one count of stealing materials from Google. Anthony Levandowski was a lead engineer on the self-driving car project that’s now known as Waymo, until he left […]

Uber’s self-driving unit gets its own CEO and a $1 billion investment

Post author By Randall
Post date April 18, 2019
Categories In autonomous, denso, gear, investment, Ipo, self-driving car, softbank, Tech, toyota, Transportation, Uber, uber atg

[ad_1] As Uber finally closes in on its IPO, its self-driving car unit is getting a big cash infusion and some independence. The company announced tonight that Toyota, Denso and Softbank are investing a total of $1 billion in its Advanced Technologies Group (Uber ATG), in a deal that values that part of the company […]

Uber files for its IPO and faces the past

Post author By Randall
Post date April 11, 2019
Categories In business, dara khosrowshahi, gear, Ipo, ridesharing, Tech, Transportation, Uber, uber atg, uber eats, uber freight, unicorn

[ad_1] Ten years after the company was founded, Uber is finally ready to go public. The company revealed its S-1 filing for an IPO this afternoon, and as such opened up more information to everyone about its finances and concerns going forward. Going through the document, a lot of those concerns involve the past, particularly […]