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 ...

Alphabet’s moonshot idea of beaming internet connectivity from giant balloons is floating back down to earth. The Google parent company announced that it’s shutting down the Loon project because the ...

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 ...

Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) has launched its first internet commercial service in Kenya yesterday using a fleet of floating balloons provided by its Loon division. Starting as a project in Alphabet’s X unit ...

Alphabet's Project Loon is running into some figurative turbulence in addition to the literal kind. Tom Moore, the satellite executive who was brought on as CEO to help Project Loon become a ...

Hi, everybody. Do you detect something missing? Like that unease in your gut that everything has gone to hell? Wonder why that is. Oh, and for those of you who are reading this newsletter on WIRED’s ...

Alphabet subsidiary Loon, the Google-originated project to provide Internet access using stratospheric balloons, has launched its first commercial service, in isolated regions in Kenya. The balloons ...

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 ...