CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand’s South Island ...

Mobile data might seem near-ubiquitous, but the world still has major dead zones and huge expanses with poor coverage. Anyone that has fervently and consistently checked the availability of Verizon's ...

The video was uploaded to the Project Loon Google+ page. It sees Loon’s project leader Mike Cassidy giving a behind-the-scenes look at how Project Loon has progressed from its earliest stages to the ...

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CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online.

Google plans to deploy hundreds of Project Loon balloons in an effort to make fast internet more accessible to the citizens of Indonesia. The company will collaborate with Indonesian network operators ...

(NEW YORK) — Sri Lanka is set to become the first country with universal Internet access after the island nation signed on to use Google’s stratospheric internet beaming balloons to cover the country.

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) — Google’s “Project Loon” experiment, which uses balloons to bring high-speed Internet access to people, has taken flight this week in Sri Lanka. The first balloons entered Sri ...

A Google Loon balloon was tracking east over central North Carolina Tuesday morning. At 4:30 a.m., balloon HBAL227 was west of Chapel Hill moving at about 40 mph at an altitude of just over 51,000 ...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand -- Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened ...