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

A small team will stay on to wrap up Loon's pilot service in Kenya. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from ...

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 ...

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Alphabet has announced that Loon will soon provide its balloon-powered 4G internet service to several regions in Mozambique. The company has teamed with local carrier Vodacom to serve the Cabo Delgado ...

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 ...

BADASS BALLOONS. In 2013, Google unveiled Project Loon, a plan to send a fleet of balloons into the stratosphere that could then beam internet service back down to people on Earth. And it worked! Just ...

When Google launched Project Loon a few years ago, the plan was to provide internet access to underserved areas with the help of a series of balloons that would constantly circumnavigate the earth.

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