As they mature, finding new growth drivers will become a hot-button issue for Internet powerhouses Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB). So it should be no surprise that ...

Google X is home to the company's ambitious "moonshot" projects, and includes self-driving car project Waymo. Google X director Astro Teller said Loon had suffered a "longer and riskier" path to ...

The stratospheric balloons are now delivering limited mobile Internet services to remote areas of Puerto Rico where cellphone towers were knocked out by Hurricane Maria. In a company blog written by ...

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, 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 ...

Loon, the Google spinout that hoped to make broadband more accessible using solar-powered balloons, has been shut down by parent company Alphabet. The startup - which enthusiasts once believed could ...