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The Wing company, a Google spinoff, has won federal approval to operate its drone delivery system as an airline in the U.S.

FAA Certifies Google's Wing Drone Delivery Company To Operate As An Airline

Wing's drones are made to deliver a wide range of items — including coffee, chocolate and burritos — from local merchants to their customers.

Judge lets Google keep Chrome but orders other penalties in major antitrust ruling

In a major antitrust ruling, a federal judge stopped short of ordering Google to sell off its popular Chrome browser, but ordered other penalties against the tech giant.

A diagram from the patent, showing the environmental sensing and ad delivery system.

Google patent enables pitching to caller based on background noise

By Todd Bishop at GeekwireGoogle patented system would use noise at games and other settings to determine location and target ads.Picture the sceneYou’re…

Google is facing a class-action lawsuit filed by women who allege systemic underpayment. And the Department of Labor is investigating whether Google pays women less.

Google Pay Study Finds It Underpaid Men For Some Jobs

The tech company disbursed almost $10 million to more than 10,000 employees to try to standardize pay. Google says it will continue studying structural issues to ensure compensation is fair.

One of the four non-profits to benefit from the Google matching campaign is Doctors Without Borders, which held an Ebola training program last week in Amsterdam.

Google Asks Users To Help Fight Ebola — And They Answer With Cash

For the first time ever, Google reached out to users in a matching campaign to help fund Ebola treatment and prevention. The company's philanthropic director explains why.

The women who earned 6 of the Top 10 positions on the Billboard album chart

Women are dominating the charts, from established singers like Taylor Swift, to newer chart topper Charli XCX.

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