A number of recent moves by Google's parent company Alphabet appear to show it is losing interest in moonshot projects. Most recently the company announced that it would be shutting down its ambitious ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Google-parent Alphabet is shutting down its power-generating kites company Makani, the first closure of a ...

Alphabet’s X moonshot factory is shifting how it brings ambitious technology projects to market, increasingly spinning them out as independent companies rather than keeping them within the Alphabet ...

Indian telco Bharti Airtel and Google's parent Alphabet project are planning to use lasers to bring Internet services to remote parts of India. Taara, a project from Alphabet's X moonshot labs, aims ...