However, Loon balloons need a backhaul connection from ... was spun out as the independent company Loon in July alongside Alphabet's drone business, Wing.

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 hurricane ...

Astro Teller, who heads X and was also the chair of the Loon board, recommended that Alphabet no longer fund it, effectively letting the air out of the division’s balloon. “No one wanted to ...

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 ...

Alphabet, says it's reached a new milestone in its ambitious plan to beam the internet to remote populations. The project, called Loon, would send giant, high-flying balloons into the stratosphere ...

Google parent Alphabet Inc. shut down Loon, an audacious project to beam internet service from high-altitude balloons, after the unit failed to develop a viable business model. “While we’ve ...

But Alphabet’s Loon is still in the game, utilizing massive balloons to beam connectivity to the ground. Today, Loon announced it has achieved a new milestone by creating a linked network that ...

Alphabet has announced Loon's first commercial ... According to Reuters, the new subsidiary will deploy internet-relaying balloons in Kenya starting next year in partnership with local provider ...

The Loon balloon project is part of X, the experimental division of Alphabet, Google’s parent company. Now in its fourth year, the engineers at Loon say their new machine learning techniques ...

the Federal Communications Commission on Friday night granted an experimental license for Alphabet Inc.’s Project Loon to create a network of balloons that could provide connectivity.

It has its origins in an Alphabet-created concept called Loon. This was a modified version of the same idea that shot beams of light to and from groups of balloons floating on the edge of space.