Project Loon, Alphabet’s balloon-based internet service, might be taking flight in a new way. As per a recent FCC filing, it would appear that Project Loon is being spun out into its very own company.

Google’s parent company Alphabet has decided to ground a venture aimed at bringing internet connectivity to remote corners of the globe through stratospheric balloons. The firm announced today that ...

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 ...

Google‘s plan to beam the internet down from hot air balloons might sound like something out of a futuristic children’s book, but it’s moving closer to reality. Project Loon, part of Google parent ...

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 ...

Project Loon is certainly one of the more “out there” projects that being funded by Google’s parent company Alphabet. The idea is to help areas of the world that have little to no internet service to ...

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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 ...

The Federal Communications Commission has given Alphabet's Moonshot Factory approval to deploy its Project Loon balloon-based communications system to provide cellular connectivity in ...

When Jules Verne wrote Around the World in Eighty Days, this probably isn’t what he had in mind: Google’s Project Loon announced last week one of its balloons had circumnavigated the Earth in 22 days.

Project Loon was an interesting idea to deliver internet access to rural and hard to reach areas of the world. Project Loon launched in 2013 and has been tested in countries like Australia, Brazil, ...

Project Loon, the high-flying internet-delivering balloon subsidiary of Alphabet's X semi-secret skunkworks, has a new boss after the previous one only lasted about six months, reports Bloomberg's ...