Alphabet is letting the air out of its balloons for good. Google’s parent company said Thursday it’s shutting down its Loon business that used helium balloons to offer internet connectivity. Alphabet ...

Alphabet’s airborne broadband plans no longer include drones, as the company says balloons are a more promising delivery mechanism for bringing Internet access to remote and rural areas. View more ...

Last summer, a small company called Space Data sued Alphabet’s ‘moonshot’ X division. At issue was its effort to deliver internet access to remote areas by balloon, known as Project Loon. At first, ...

Google has been laying down fiber cables for four years, but parent-company Alphabet is already thinking about a future where you don’t have to dig “up your garden” to get high-speed internet access.

Google’s parent company Alphabet has scaled back plans, temporarily at least, for its much-touted Fiber high-speed Internet service and will lay off about 9 percent of the employees engaged in the ...

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (GOOGL) intends to seek outside investment for its Wi-Fi and internet service GFiber in some areas in the U.S., Reuters reported. Google's parent company did not disclose the ...

(Reuters) - Experimental communications balloons provided by Alphabet Inc in collaboration with AT&T Inc will allow some of the carrier's customers in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico to send texts and ...