Google's internet-beaming balloon project gets a new leader
 

Google's internet-beaming balloon project gets a new leader
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Project Loon, Google's high-profile effort to put broadband-emitting balloons into the stratosphere over remote parts of the world, is getting a new leader with practical industry experience.

X, the research division of Google parent company Alphabet Inc., said Tuesday it hired*Tom Moore, co-founder of satellite-based broadband service provider WildBlue Communications Inc. He starts as a vice president at X and general manager of Project Loon in mid-September.

Mike Cassidy, a well-k**wn Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has run Loon since early 2012, will remain at the company's X lab to develop new research projects. Read more...

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