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In 2018, before Canadians successfully fought off plans from Google’s sister company Sidewalk Labs to develop Toronto’s waterfront “from the internet up,” a small group of activists halfway across the world also squared off with the tech giant over its development plans. Reporter Josh O’Kane tells the story from Berlin in his new book, Sideways: The City Google Couldn’t Buy: Read the full excerpt today on CityLab: When a Berlin Neighborhood Went to War With Google Source link

There have been plenty of pop-ups over the years, but tomorrow Google’s first store opens in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood. The brick and mortar model finds the company joining peers like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and even Amazon, all of whom have a retail presence in Manhattan, including several just around the corner from Google’s new digs. The new space, which opens tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. local time, fills 5,000 square feet of selling space in Google’s big, pricey West Side… Source link