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Google sees fresh growth amid competition woes

Google parent Alphabet's stock price jumped last night after reporting stronger-than-expected results in a quarterly update coming amid growing scrutiny of technology firms by competition regulators.

Business • 26 Jul 19

Hundreds of the company's identical, driverless minivans have been carrying paying riders in Phoenix since December

Waymo offers Wifi and other perks into robotaxis

Waymo is rolling out amenities to entice riders to use its self-driving taxis, creating a potential route to profitability in a money-losing industry.

Business • 08 Jul 19

The Q3 results fanned concerns that big investments in new businesses, more regulatory scrutiny and emerging competition are producing slow and unpredictable returns

Alphabet misses Wall Street revenue estimates

Google parent Alphabet last night missed analysts' quarterly revenue estimates for the first time in at least two years and reported continuing erosion of its operating margin.

Business • 26 Oct 18

US court hears Waymo lawyer accuse then Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, of deciding "winning was more important than obeying the law"

Waymo accuses Uber of cheating - trade-secrets lawsuit

Uber was so driven to "win at all costs" in the race to develop self-driving vehicles that it cheated, a Waymo lawyer told a jury, at an opening salvo in a trade-secrets lawsuit between the technology companies that could help determine who emerges in the forefront of the autonomous car business.

Business • 05 Feb 18

Uber had hired Levandowski to lead its autonomous car project

Self-driving evangelist parts company with Uber

Uber has fired the technology whiz it had hired to lead its self-driving unit, Anthony Levandowski, after he failed to comply with a court order to hand over documents at the centre of a legal dispute between it and Alphabet's Waymo unit.

Technology • 31 May 17

Experts say a substantial amount of Uber's valuation is based on it becoming an autonomous car leader

Uber and Waymo square up for court battle over secrets

Uber will go before a U.S. judge today to fight for the right to continue work on its self-driving car program, the latest phase in a courtroom battle over trade secrets that threatens to topple a central pillar of the firm's growth strategy.

Technology • 03 May 17

Alphabet claims Uber stole intellectual property from its Waymo subsidiary

Alphabet sues Uber over alleged technology theft

Alphabet, has filed a lawsuit accusing Uber and its self-driving vehicle unit Otto of stealing technology from Waymo, a subsidiary of the Google parent company.

Technology • 24 Feb 17

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