Google parent Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) pulled the plug on its eight-year-old Loon project, the gigantic balloons that beam internet to the underserved areas. What Happened: Loon was ...

Google's parent company, Alphabet, has revealed that one of its internet-broadcasting Loon high-altitude balloons broke the record for stratospheric flight after spending 312 days aloft and traveling ...

Google is notorious for retiring apps and services, whether those were in wide use or not. That doesn't apply to just software either and the company has sunset more than a handful of unsuccessful ...

Alphabet is to shut down Internet balloon company Project Loon. The company announced the news on Friday morning after nine years in development, saying that the project hadn’t found a way to lower ...

BARINGO, Kenya, July 8 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc began offering the world's first commercial high-speed internet using balloons to villagers in remote regions of Kenya's Rift Valley on Wednesday. The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google’s dream of delivering global internet access with a fleet of balloons floating on the edge of space came ...

A new project is utilizing the bones of Alphabet’s abandoned Loon project. The project had plans to provide internet access through a series of balloons. Now, Aalyria is using most of the pieces and ...