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Google Giving Life Sciences Unit More Room To Roam

A week after announcing a corporate restructuring to break up the search leader’s wide-ranging operations into smaller, most-focused pieces, Google (GOOGL) said it has separated its life sciences division into a stand-alone entity, giving that division more freedom. The search firm’s 3-year-old life sciences group has graduated from the hush-hush Google X experimental unit dedicated to big technology breakthroughs, or “moonshots,” to reside under

Solar Aircraft Idea Taking Flight; Google In Pursuit

Overheated lithium batteries for the solar-powered Solar Impulse 2 this summer forced the single-seat experimental plane to sit out the winter in a hangar in Hawaii, part-way through its historic round-the-world flight. But dreams of solar-powered flight are taking off despite this grounding. An unlikely, but well-heeled trio of corporate giants has an interest in Swiss-based Solar Impulse’s progress. Google (GOOGL), Facebook (FB) and Airbus Group

Google To Shut Its Two Express Delivery Hubs

Search leader Google (GOOGL) will continue its Google Express same-day delivery service, the company said on Thursday, though it is shuttering delivery hubs in San Francisco and, 45 miles south, in its headquarters city of Mountain View, Calif. A company spokesman described the change as an operational move that won’t affect customers and added that the company will continue adding merchants to the program. With its foray into the competitive