Lyft Claims Ex-Executive Took Confidential Data to Uber
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Lyft Inc. escalated the battle to crack the taxi and limousine market overseas with a lawsuit accusing a former executive of defecting to Uber Technologies Inc. with proprietary documents about Lyft’s international expansion plans.
Lyft sued Travis VanderZanden, who stepped down as chief operating officer in August and joined Uber last month as vice president of international growth, for breach of contract in a complaint filed yesterday in state court in San Francisco. VanderZanden denied taking confidential Lyft data to Uber in a posting on his Twitter account.