X has announced that its Loon and Wing projects are being spun off into their own companies under Alphabet. X will now focus its attention and start new projects to begin working on.
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Project Loon could very well be coming to Kenya to provide connectivity for those in rural areas. Alphabet is currently in talks with telecoms in the country working out contracts.
Alphabet took to Wall Street with what can be called blockbuster earnings and surprised analysts with a 'beat', also noting that the latest in its smartphone line-up, the Pixel 2's pre-orders doubled
Google has only been trialing its Project Loon balloons. But the internet-delivering devices may soon become a commercial reality thanks to a recent breakthrough involving machine-learning.
Google, and its parent company Alphabet, are asking countries for access to their airspace, in an effort to get the internet-delivering Project Loon balloons to work across wide areas of the world.
Google is being accused that it stole the idea and technology behind its Project Loon balloons, which deliver internet. The company suing had shown off this technology in 2007 to Google's co-founders.
In delivering internet access, Microsoft isn't going along with the big projects with flashy tech that some of its competitors have announced. Instead it will partner with local companies.
Several balloons will provide internet to remote townships in India as part of Google's Project Loon. Read our story to discover where Google's Indian branch is heading in the future.
Google is reportedly spending $1bn to bring internet access to unconnected areas of the Earth via satellites. The project will use high capacity low-orbiting satellites to bring internet worldwide.
Facebook is looking to buy drone maker Titan Aerospace to provide internet access to the billions of people worldwide who live in remote regions disconnected from the modern technologies.
In a new interview, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates questions whether Google's plan to offer Internet access via balloons, Project Loon, will help kids in low income countries who are sick.
Google has unveiled an ambitious new project, to provide Internet access to a greater portion of the world by floating balloons over it. The concept will be trialled tomorrow, in New Zealand.
