Alphabet-owned Loon and Peru-based rural mobile infrastructure operator Internet Para Todos Peru (IpT) have signed a deal that will see high-altitude balloons be used to expand mobile internet access ...

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MOUNTAIN VIEW — Loon LLC, an Alphabet moonshot created to bring the internet to remote places, has decided to lay off its workers — but many are being hired in other positions with the tech titan, ...

As they mature, finding new growth drivers will become a hot-button issue for Internet powerhouses Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). So it should be no surprise that ...

Two of Google’s best-known flights of fancy, Project Loon and Project Wing, are being hatched from their X incubator to become independent businesses under the wing of Alphabet, Google’s holding ...

Project Loon might be a strange project with a wacky name, but apparently Google's parent company Alphabet believes in it. It appears as though the project, which began as a part of Google and was ...

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 ...

Loon, the former Google X project and now independent Alphabet company, has formed a network partnership with AT&T that will make it easier for Loon to provide internet connectivity through its ...

Alphabet’s Loon was a stratospheric moonshot that saw the company fly high-altitude balloons to provide cellular network coverage to target areas. The project broke a lot of new ground — including ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Loon LLC, an Alphabet moonshot created to bring the internet to remote places, has decided to lay off its workers — but many are being hired in other positions with the tech titan, ...

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is shutting down Loon, a project that aimed to offer internet from floating balloons, according to a recent blog post from the company’s X moonshot division.