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 ...

Working with AT&T and T-Mobile, Project Loon is now supporting basic communication and internet activities like sending text messages and accessing information online for some people with LTE enabled ...

Google’s Project Loon was spun off as a corporation and is now called Loon Inc., as revealed by its recent filing with the United States Federal Communications Commission. The Mountain View, ...

Astro Teller, the head of Alphabet’s X unit, is today holding a press conference to discuss the ongoing progress of the Mountain View company’s Project Loon initiative. Among other things, Teller said ...

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 ...

In February, 2017, Google reported that Project Loon’s algorithms can now send small teams of balloons to form a cluster over a specific region where people need internet access. This is a shift from ...

Last week, the Project Loon team revealed that it was exploring the possibility of deploying balloons to provide “emergency connectivity” to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Earlier today, ...

Alphabet has quietly upgraded its internet balloon initiative from a research lab "project" to an official corporation, setting the stage for what could be the latest standalone business to spin out ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. The Federal Communications Commission yesterday granted Alphabet-owned Project ...