Apple Inc sued a former employee who worked at the company for more than a decade, claiming he shared its trade secrets with a media contact in exchange for favourable coverage of a startup he invested in.
Simon Lancaster is accused of serving as the reporter’s source of information, a role that allegedly deepened after he left Apple, and of sharing closely guarded details of unreleased hardware, unannounced feature changes and future product announcements, according to the complaint filed Thursday in federal court in San Jose, California.