Remember when balloons were something fun you got at a birthday party or an amusement park. Now they are something a giant tech company wants to use to provide internet access to rural areas around ...

Some telecom analysts view Project Loon, Google's effort to beam Internet signals from high-altitude balloons, as a threat to incumbent carriers. But Google wants to partner rather than compete, and ...

Google's Internet-beaming balloons are ready to take off on the next phase of their mission to deliver online access in regions where most people live offline, according to the company's blog. The ...

Google's parent company is shutting down its balloon internet project. Alphabet's Loon is known for its internet balloons, but it worked on an entirely balloon-less project as part of its partnership ...

Google's ambitious Project Loon, which aims to deliver internet access via floating balloons, is still going strong after its first year. The web giant is investing further resources into the ...

Loon, the Google spinout that hoped to make broadband more accessible using solar-powered balloons, has been shut down by parent company Alphabet. The startup - which enthusiasts once believed could ...

Google has launched a project that aims to deliver internet access via balloons floating around the earth in stratospheric winds. What to Read Next Titled "Project Loon" and originating from Google X ...

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Alphabet, Google’s parent company, today announced that its X lab for “moonshots” has devised a new method of providing internet connectivity to certain places that will require fewer balloons and so ...

Balloon network test will help Google figure out how to actually make it work. Say what you want about Google (and everybody will), they do come up with some pretty cool, ambitious projects. I'm not ...

Rich DeVaul is the leader of the Google[x] Rapid Evaluation Team and Design Kitchen, two small groups inside Google[x] who prototype, build, and test ideas, searching for the Next Big Thing for Google ...

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