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Could Andy Rubin be headed to Facebook?

By Shane McGlaun
on 29 Mar, 2013

If you follow Android, you know that the father of the operating system, Andy Rubin, is no longer overseeing Android at Google. It has remained unclear exactly what Rubin will be doing after stepping away from leading Android. Forbes writer Jean-Baptiste Su has an interesting theory on what Rubin might be doing.

Andy Rubin sends letter to partners in light of Android departure

By Cory Gunther
on 13 Mar, 2013

This afternoon Google's own Larry Page informed the world of the shocking news that Andy Rubin was stepping down as head of the Android team, and now Andy has shared a few comments himself. In an email to partners and the Open Handset Alliance Rubin talks about his departure, and that he's an "entrepreneur at heart" among other things. Read on for more details.

Android leadership: Andy Rubin out, Sundar Pichai in

By Robert Nelson
on 13 Mar, 2013

Coming as rather surprising news, Google has announced that Andy Rubin will be stepping down. Keeping in mind, he is not leaving Google, but rather stepping down as the lead of Android. Google has announced that Sundar Pichai will be replacing Rubin as the Android lead. And just in case anyone wanted to get into the crazy thoughts, Pichai will assume the lead for Android along with his existing work with Chrome and Apps.

Google’s Andy Rubin shoots down rumors of their own retail stores

By Cory Gunther
on 26 Feb, 2013

Sadness! Recently we've been hearing a flurry of reports and rumors that good old Google will be opening up their own retail stores to compete with the likes of Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft in the real world. Reports suggested Google had multiple plans and they'd be opening retail stores before the end of 2013 for their devices, and Project Glass.

New Nexus phone reportedly arriving this month with Android 4.2 in tow

By Eric Abent
on 1 Oct, 2012

Heading into the holiday season, the rumors of a new Nexus device are in surprisingly short supply. That all changes today, with Android and Me reporting a whopper of a rumor. According to various unnamed industry sources, Google will be revealing a new Nexus device within the next 30 days, and it won't be alone when Google removes the veil.

Andy Rubin denies leaving Google, brags on Android activations

By Shane McGlaun
on 11 Jun, 2012

A Rumor has been making the rounds the Google's Andy Rubin was leaving Google to work at a startup called CloudCar. Robert Scoble apparently started the rumor on Google's own social network, Google+. The rumor pushed Andy Rubin to take to Twitter where he denied he would be leaving the company.

Google has built a ‘firewall’ between Android and Motorola

By Sam Koutroulakis
on 27 Feb, 2012

Since before Google's deal to buy out Motorola was approved by both the US and EU, they had stated that each company would remain completely separate from on another. And had stressed that Motorola wouldn't be 'favored' by Google in any way. Recently here at MWC, Google's Andy Rubin had a few words to say on the subject, as many people have been asking why Motorola's CEO Sanjay Jha would be replaced by Google employee Dennis Woodside.

Android activations grow to 700,000 a day

By Sam Koutroulakis
on 20 Dec, 2011

According to Andy Rubin, Android smartphones are now being activated 700,000 times in a single day. In the big scheme of things, that shows amazing growth. The OS is quite popular, but growing from 550,000 daily activations in July to 700K is incredible! It was estimated that we may be at 1 million activations a day by October 20th, but it undoubtedly digressed from the projected path.

Google Music Store will have “Google in it” says Rubin

By Shane McGlaun
on 19 Oct, 2011

We have been hearing rumors for a while now that Google was hard at work on its own MP3 music store. Google does have its music streaming cloud service that lets the user upload tunes they already have to the cloud. We also know that Google had worked to get a music store open in the past, but that ultimately failed to happen.

Andy Rubin shared his first multi-million dollar bonus check with employees

By Shane McGlaun
on 18 Aug, 2011

Fans of Android are likely familiar with the name Andy Rubin. Rubin has been around the tech world in a big way and is famous as the founder of Danger and then as the dude that is responsible for Android. It took a long time for this to surface, but apparently, back in 2008 Rubin shared the wealth when he got his first big bonus check from Google.