Alphabet Inc.’s Project Wing, the drone delivery team that began as part of the Google X “moonshot” factory, has canceled a tentative partnership with Starbucks, according to Bloomberg. Members of Project Wing and Starbucks apparently clashed over the handling of consumer data, Bloomberg reports, straining the partnership and ultimately pushing both companies out of an air-delivered coffee venture.
The deal would have marked Project Wing’s second high-profile food and beverage delivery pilot program, after a deal with Chipotle was finalized back in September. That partnership culminated in burrito deliveries by drone to a small number of students and faculty at Virginia Tech, though the minds behind the project have said the burrito...
via The Verge
