A Google Project Loon balloon at the Air Force Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand. Alphabet’s internet balloon unit, Loon, has raised $125 million from a SoftBank subsidiary, making it the tech giant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

With both companies understanding the critical link between Internet access and their own earnings, Alphabet's and Facebook's free Internet services hold opportunities and risks alike. As they mature, ...

Alphabet is shuttering its experimental internet-beaming balloon business Loon. Loon could not get costs low enough to sustain the business, the company said Thursday. It's the second "Other Bets" ...

Google parent Alphabet Inc is shutting down its internet balloon business Loon, which aimed to provide a less expensive alternative to cell towers, saying on Thursday that "the road to commercial ...

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 ...

It will no longer be one of Alphabet’s Other Bets It will no longer be one of Alphabet’s Other Bets is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly ...

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