Alphabet said this time around, it plans to dispatch hundreds of balloons 12 miles high over the island nation. Indonesia is seemingly an excellent candidate for Project Loon testing.

-- Alphabet's Internet-beaming balloons, known as "Project Loon," will be put to the test next year when they're launched into the stratosphere above Indonesia. The balloons are designed to give ...

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After its reorganization in 2015, the project—considered one of Google’s biggest moonshots—was hived off from Google’s core advertising business and is now part of Alphabet.

After first emerging as Project Malta in 2017, the graduate of Alphabet’s experimental X lab is now an independent company called Malta. Alphabet characterized the move announced today as a ...

Alphabet, which announced its Project Loon in 2013 to use solar-powered, high-altitude balloons to provide internet service in remote regions, said in an FCC filing it was working to support ...