{"id":60925,"date":"2014-10-31T06:46:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=60925"},"modified":"2014-10-31T06:46:12","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:46:12","slug":"android-co-founder-andy-rubin-to-leave-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=60925","title":{"rendered":"Android co-founder Andy Rubin to leave Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"articleLocatio&lt;\/span&gt;n\"><span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\">Google<\/span>\u00a0said on Thursday that Andy Rubin, co-founder of its Android mobile business and head of its nascent robotics effort is leaving the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rubin will start a company to support startups interested in building technology-hardware products, <span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\">Google<\/span> said in an emailed response for comment on a Wall Street Journal report about his move.<\/p>\n<p>James Kuffner, a research scientist at Google and a member of the robotics group, will replace Rubin, the company added.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Google&#8217;s browser and applications chief Sundar Pichai replaced Rubin as head of the Android division, bringing the firm&#8217;s mobile <span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\">software<\/span>, applications and Chrome browser under one roof.<\/p>\n<p>Rubin built Android into a free, open-source <span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\">software<\/span> platform now used by most of the world&#8217;s largest handset manufacturers, from Samsung <span class=\"mandelbrot_refrag\">Electronics<\/span> Co Ltd to HTC Corp.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u00a0said on Thursday that Andy Rubin, co-founder of its Android mobile business and head of its nascent robotics effort is leaving the company. Rubin will start a company to support startups interested in building technology-hardware products, Google said in an emailed response for comment on a Wall Street Journal report about his move. James Kuffner, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":60926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-60925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}