Alphabet’s Loon was a stratospheric moonshot that saw the company fly high-altitude balloons to provide cellular network coverage to target areas. The project broke a lot of new ground — including ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW — Loon LLC, an Alphabet moonshot created to bring the internet to remote places, has decided to lay off its workers — but many are being hired in other positions with the tech titan, ...

Alphabet, parent company of Google, is shutting down Loon, its subsidiary dedicated to providing broadband from balloons in the stratosphere. Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth announced the news in a Medium ...

Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its division to make high-speed internet more accessible using solar-powered balloons. “The road to commercial viability has proven much longer and riskier than hoped,” ...

Google parent company Alphabet is shutting down Loon, an ambitious service aimed at delivering internet access to remote areas using balloons. In a blog post published Thursday, Astro Teller, the ...

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 to ...

Google parent Alphabet has announced that it is letting the air out of its internet-beaming balloon project — the latest of the tech giant’s “moonshot” programs to get scrapped. Loon, which used ...

Bottom line: Loon, the Alphabet subsidiary tasked with bringing Internet access to some of the most remote parts of the world, is shutting down. The project was risky from the get go and ultimately, ...

Alphabet's Loon company will be winding up in the coming months after the firm failed to become commercially viable. Alphabet will share what it learned from Loon and continue to use some of the tech.