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Borealid • yesterday at 11:19 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

Another way to view this is as metonymy. "Google" is a metonym for "Google Staff", so using "their" to refer to the humans-making-up-the-corporation (as referenced by the metonym) is appropriate.

I agree it's correct English to say "Google have launched their new product".