“Apple Inc. said it’s exploring a potential resolution of a lawsuit in which it’s accused of poaching employees from a lithium-ion battery maker amid reports that it’s trying to develop an electric car,” Edvard Pettersson and Tim Higgins report for Bloomberg.
“The maker of the iPad asked a federal judge in Boston for more time to respond to A123 Systems LLC’s request for a court order barring one of its former employees from breaking his employment agreement and preventing Apple from encouraging him to do so,” Pettersson and Higgins report. “In its lawsuit last month, Waltham, Massachusetts-based A123 also accused five former employees of violating nondisclosure agreements as they either went to work for Cupertino, California-based Apple or planned to go.”
Pettersson and Higgins report, “Apple is pushing its team to begin production of a car as early as 2020, people familiar with the effort have said.”
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