Uber settles Waymo litigation in saga that Drew in Thiel, Trump

The Uber-Google legal saga over the headhunting of the latter's Waymo engineer is close to being settled, with Uber likely having to pay close to RM502.33mil. — Photo: Andrej Sokolow/dpa

Uber Technologies Inc. is close to paying a final price for its troubled recruitment of a star driverless car engineer away from Google.

The ride-hailing firm, which recruited Anthony Levandowski in 2016 from Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car program, has entered into a global settlement requiring it to pay a "substantial portion” of the US$120mil (RM502.33mil) Google clawed back from the engineer, court records show.