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YouTube viewing on actual TV sets is up 70 percent in the last year.
David Lawee, a partner at Alphabet’s investment arm CapitalG, is joining the board.
The company has also taught its cars to hear and see sirens and pull over.
Here’s a sense of today’s self-driving ride.
Example: Mark Zuckerberg announced an augmented-reality mapping tool to help the Red Cross.
A judge decided that Alphabet can pursue new evidence it found in a document that was made public on Monday.
Here’s a timeline of events surrounding Uber’s acquisition of Otto based on our own reporting and a newly public document.
First and foremost: It could avoid a big, public mess.
As of today, Waymo is pursuing nine separate trade secret claims.
The first trial is scheduled for October 10.
Alphabet needs time to digest a key report and other data recently turned over by Uber, it told the judge.
Alphabet has been fighting to get hold of this due diligence report for months.
His startup, Aurora, is building software to make cars fully autonomous.
When the self-driving car comes across something it’s never seen, engineers recreate it in simulation.
Amazon is No. 1.
This could hurt Uber’s case.
Benchmark partner and former Uber board member Bill Gurley is scheduled to be deposed by Alphabet attorneys later this month.
Levandowski and his co-founder Lior Ron said they were afraid Google would sue them out of anger, according to an Uber executive’s deposition.
Judge William Alsup told Alphabet attorneys that “he better show up.”
The number shows Google’s cloud business is growing, but doesn’t give us a good sense of how well it’s competing.
Alphabet grew by a 2013-sized Alphabet since 2013.
Despite a $2.7 billion fine, Google’s parent company beat expectations for revenue and profits.
Another vote for Google!
In other news, Google is rebounding from the YouTube ads boycott.
Alphabet says the letter is relevant because shareholders reportedly blamed the former Uber CEO for putting the company at legal risk.
A federal judge has limited the information the Labor Department can request as part of its investigation.
The two companies are in court-mandated settlement talks.
The court has ordered that Uber can depose Page for up to four hours.
Alphabet still claims the designs infringe on its patents.
Wait, Alphabet was working on geothermal energy?
Alphabet says Uber knew it was hiring an engineer who had stolen internal information from Alphabet.
The company says no one knew that Anthony Levandowski allegedly downloaded files from Alphabet before joining Uber.
So big.
An ecosystem for self-driving cars is emerging.
Uber has said Alphabet trade secrets were never transferred to its servers.
Rocky Jacob will become chief product officer for luxury luggage line Rimowa.
Uber has also been ordered to produce a key document in the case.
There are a lot of medical device companies in Orange County. How about some health tech startups?
But it’s still not clear whether Alphabet will get the full due diligence report.
It’s a founders’ company.