Google plans to deploy hundreds of Project Loon balloons in an effort to make fast internet more accessible to the citizens of Indonesia. The company will collaborate with Indonesian network operators ...

Mobile data might seem near-ubiquitous, but the world still has major dead zones and huge expanses with poor coverage. Anyone that has fervently and consistently checked the availability of Verizon's ...

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, today announced that its X lab for “moonshots” has devised a new method of providing internet connectivity to certain places that will require fewer balloons and so ...

REUTERS - Google Inc has launched a small network of balloons over the Southern Hemisphere in an experiment it hopes could bring reliable Internet access to the world's most remote regions, the ...

Filling the skies with whimsical, internet-providing balloons is bound to have the occasional hitch—and down in New Zealand, one of Google’s Project Loon balloons was just mistaken for an airplane ...

The news that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is winding down its subsidiary Loon has dealt a blow to efforts to provide affordable Internet to under-served areas of the country. Loon Chief ...

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 ...