A high-profile legal fight is underway in a San Francisco courthouse between Uber and Google-spin-off Waymo, which accuses the ride-hailing company of stealing its self-driving car technology. Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick leaves the Phillip Burton Federal Building on day three of the trial between Waymo and Uber Technologies on February 7, 2018 in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO -- Uber settled a lawsuit Friday that was brought against it by Waymo, Google's self-driving car company, ending a year-long skirmish over stolen trade secrets at the heart of autonomous car technology. After a week of testimony that shined a spotlight on often aggressive competitive tactics taken by former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, new uber boss Dara Khosrowshahi apologized to its competitor. He agreed to pay a fine and promised that Uber would continue to clean up its act.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned from the ride-sharing service he co-founded, another twist in a rough year for the company. Uber has faced scandals on multiple fronts. The company launched two investigations into allegations of harassment. Kalanick, who took an indefinite leave of absence last week, was at the center of controversy over a profanity-laced outburst with an Uber driver that was caught on video. There's also a court battle stemming from allegations that Uber stole trade secrets from Waymo, Alphabet's (GOOGL) self-driving car development company.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned. His successor will have to manage a myriad of troubles for the company. "The thing that made him and the company successful is now causing havoc," Brad Stone, author of The Upstarts, which chronicles category-altering companies such as Uber and Airbnb, says of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. SAN FRANCISCO -- Want to run Uber? You'd better have a steel constitution for cleaning up cultural rot and the insight to make the leaky business profitable.

Uber's discrimination investigation recommends dozens of reforms within their company walls. A sign marks a pick-up point for the Uber car service at LaGuardia Airport in New York on March 15, 2017. Travis Kalanick, the combative and embattled CEO of ride-hailing giant Uber, resigned June 20, 2017 under pressure from investors at a pivotal time for the company. SAN FRANCISCO -- In the tumultuous months leading up to Uber CEO and co-founder Travis Kalanick's resignation, the ride-hailing company lost U.S. market share and saw its brand image tarnished, most notably by a former engineer's blog post blasting the ride-hailing company for its sexist work environment. Among several surveys tracking the company's decline: one based on credit card spending, which found over the past two years, Uber's share of rides has dropped to 75% from 90%, according to TXN Solutions.

For much of the past year, Uber has been caught up in increasing waves of scandal. Earlier this week, the backlash against Uber finally came to a head for the ride-hailing company. CEO Travis Kalanick announced Tuesday he plans to take an indefinite leave of absence from the company, saying in an internal email he needed "to work on myself" and "focus on building out a world-class leadership team." Last month, Kalanick's mother died in a boating accident that also sent his father to the hospital. For the moment, Kalanick leaves behind a company that is reeling from a string of public embarrassments and now is without its central driver.

More than a third of U.S. jobs could be at "high risk" of automation by the early 2030s, a percentage that's greater than in Britain, Germany and Japan, according to a report released Friday. The analysis, by accounting and consulting firm PwC, emphasized that its estimates are based on the anticipated capabilities of robotics and artificial intelligence, and that the pace and direction of technological progress are "uncertain." It said that in the U.S., 38% of jobs could be at risk of automation, compared with 30% in Britain, 35% in Germany and 21% in Japan. The main reason is not that the U.S. has more jobs in sectors that are universally ripe for automation, the report says; rather, it's that more U.S. jobs in certain sectors are potentially vulnerable than, say, British jobs in the same sectors. For example, the report says the financial and insurance sector has much higher possibility of automation in the U.S. than in Britain.

Uber, the global ride-sharing transportation company, has named two replacements to recover from the recent firing of Anthony Levandowski who headed their Advanced Technologies Group, their OTTO trucking unit, and their self-driving team. Levandowski was fired May 30th. Meyhofer, who before coming to Uber was the co-founder of Carnegie Robotics and a CMU robotics professor, was also part of the group that came to Uber from CMU (see below). He has now been named to head Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) self-driving group and will report directly to Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. The ATG group is charged with developing the self-driving technologies of mapping, perception, safety, data collection and learning, and self-driving for cars and trucks.

Tesla and Uber may be competitors in the self driving car race now, but according to a new book, the pair were almost teammates. The book, called'Wild Ride', has revealed that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick approached CEO Elon Musk with a proposition to form a partnership in self-driving cars last year. However, Kalanick's idea was deemed unrealistic by Musk, who advised the Uber founder to focus on his own platform, according to Bloomberg. The book, called'Wild Ride', has revealed that Uber CEO Travis Kalanick approached CEO Elon Musk (pictured) with a proposition to form a partnership in self-driving cars last year. However, Kalanick's idea was deemed unrealistic by Musk, who also advised the Uber founder to focus on his own platform'Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination', written by Adam Lashinsky, claims to highlight the'full story behind Uber' that'has never been told'.

Soon after Apple announced in May 2016 it was investing $1 billion in Chinese ride-hailing service, Didi Chuxing, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick called up Elon Musk and proposed a self-driving partnership between his company and Tesla. But Musk turned down the offer to team up against Apple, calling it unrealistic, according to a new book to be released May 23. The book by Adam Lashinsky, who writes for Fortune magazine, is titled "Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination." In it, Lashinsky writes about Kalanick recounting the call to Musk: "I said, 'Look man, we should partner. Elon spent the rest of the call convincing me that it's too far out, and it's not realistic, that I should just stick to what we do best and be focused, or I'm going to f--- it all up. That's when I knew Tesla was competing."

Uber is putting the brakes on its driverless car pilot program after one of its self-driving cars got into a high speed crash in Arizona. Sean Dowling (@seandowlingtv) has more. Uber is scaling back its expansion plans in Oakland, Calif. SAN FRANCISCO -- Uber's first ever diversity report confirms that the embattled ride-hailing company faces the same workforce challenges as its tech world peers. While the company does employ a good number of women, African-Americans and Hispanics, those groups are not well represented among Uber's top leadership and technical positions and instead skew heavily toward the company's preponderance of support and operational roles.