https://www.recode.net/2017/9/22/16334656/uber-sense-why-settle-lawsuit-alphabet-waymo

Dara Khosrowshahi is less than a month into his job as the new CEO of Uber, and he already has a number of difficult decisions to make. First among them is whether to settle the lawsuit Alphabet filed against the ride-hailing company earlier this year.

Alphabet is suing Uber for trade secret misappropriation, alleging that one of its former executives, Anthony Levandowski, downloaded 14,000 files and took them to Uber after it acquired his self-driving startup, Otto. Uber denies this serious allegation of theft, noting that none of the files have made it to the company’s servers and that it is not using Alphabet technology.