Ex-Uber employee: We stole from other companies and hid it

Uber’s bad 2017 just got even worse.

A former Uber employee alleged in court on Tuesday that the company had operated a special team that was tasked with finding—or maybe stealing—trade secrets from other companies. 

The team, called “Marketplace Analytics,” helped Uber find people and resources that could help it gain a competitive advantage over other companies, according to Rick Jacobs, a former Uber employee who revealed the existence of the team during testimony in the ongoing lawsuit between Google’s parent company Alphabet and Uber over self-driving car technology.  Read more…

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