After eight years, Google’s parent couldn’t see a way to turn a profit off its effort to bring the internet to remote places via high-altitude balloons. A balloon of Google's "Project Loon" to supply ...

Over the weekend Google kicked off Project Loon, its experiment to work out whether it's possible to patch internet connectivity gaps around the world with a string of networked balloons. The project ...

A small team will stay on to wrap up Loon's pilot service in Kenya. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from ...

A futuristic project by Google’s (GOOGL) parent company Alphabet to provide internet from high flying balloons has burst. Loon, the Alphabet subsidiary that used giant balloons to beam internet to ...

Google today shared an update from Project Loon, the company’s initiative to bring high-speed Internet access to remote areas of the world via hot air balloons. Google says it now has the ability to ...

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Google’s parent firm, Alphabet, is done exploring the idea of using a fleet of balloons to beam high-speed internet in remote parts of the world. The firm said on Thursday evening that it was winding ...

Google parent Alphabet has announced that it is letting the air out of its internet-beaming balloon project — the latest of the tech giant’s “moonshot” programs to get scrapped. Loon, which used ...

The end to a partnership between Raven Industries and Google isn't a failure. In the Sioux Falls-based precision agriculture and high-altitude balloon manufacturing company's eyes, it was a success.

Google parent company Alphabet is shutting down Loon, an ambitious service aimed at delivering internet access to remote areas using balloons. In a blog post published Thursday, Astro Teller, the ...

The truth may be out there, but it isn’t in a jungle in the Democratic Republic of Congo. What was mistaken for a UFO after it wound up in a dense jungle in the African nation turned out to be an ...

Google has notched up its first national deployment of Loon, signing a deal with the Sri Lankan government to deliver internet access across the country. Sri Lanka on Wednesday announced it intends to ...