Remember when balloons were something fun you got at a birthday party or an amusement park. Now they are something a giant tech company wants to use to provide internet access to rural areas around ...

Some telecom analysts view Project Loon, Google's effort to beam Internet signals from high-altitude balloons, as a threat to incumbent carriers. But Google wants to partner rather than compete, and ...

Over the weekend Google kicked off Project Loon, its experiment to work out whether it's possible to patch internet connectivity gaps around the world with a string of networked balloons. The project ...

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Three years ago, Google announced plans to provide Internet access to underserved areas of the world via high-flying balloons. Now, Space Data Corporation claims Project Loon is based, at least in ...

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, ...

After a journey of a decade, what started as Project Loon by Google is no more. Promoted as a way to bring communications to the most remote parts of the globe, it used gigantic, high-altitude ...

The end to a partnership between Raven Industries and Google isn't a failure. In the Sioux Falls-based precision agriculture and high-altitude balloon manufacturing company's eyes, it was a success.

Project Loon was an interesting idea to deliver internet access to rural and hard to reach areas of the world. Project Loon launched in 2013 and has been tested in countries like Australia, Brazil, ...

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