Google's parent-company Alphabet is scrapping a company set up to build giant balloons to beam the internet to rural areas. Loon was a long-term experimental bet from the tech giant's "X" business ...

And Alphabet is now a massive corporation that encompasses everything from internet-beaming hot air balloons to self-driving cars to Google Cloud. As the company continues to grow, its divisions ...

another post surfaced that claimed that the drone belonged to a discontinued initiative of Google's parent company Alphabet's effort to provide internet to rural areas using balloons. The project ...

Test trials began in New Zealand in 2013; however, in 2021, Alphabet announced that the project was no longer sustainable. Using helium balloons traveling in wind currents several miles above ...

But experts have warned that the partnership could lead to a communications monopoly. Alphabet balloons connect flood-hit Peru Higher costs hit Google-owner Alphabet Google hit with record €4 ...

Now, Alphabet is a massive corporation - ranking in size behind Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft - that encompasses everything from internet-beaming hot air balloons to self-driving cars to Google Cloud.