{"id":113195,"date":"2014-10-31T08:12:49","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=113195"},"modified":"2014-10-31T08:14:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T06:14:34","slug":"android-founder-leaves-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/113195-android-founder-leaves-google.html","title":{"rendered":"Android founder leaves Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Thursday confirmed that an executive behind leading mobile device software Android is leaving the company to create an incubator for hardware startups.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Rubin became a Google executive in 2005 when the Internet titan bought Android Inc., which was then a small startup that Rubin co-founded two years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Rubin led the Android team at Google until last year, by which time Android was the most widely used smartphone operating system in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Rubin switched to managing the robotics team at Google.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to wish Andy all the best with what&#8217;s next,&#8221; Google chief executive Larry Page said in a statement emailed to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With Android he created something truly remarkable-with a billion plus happy users. Thank you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Google news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/113133-smartwatches-google-glass-could-be-used-to-pirate-movies.html\">Smartwatches, Google Glass could be used to pirate movies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/113017-google-to-face-internet-copyright-levy.html\">Google to face Internet copyright levy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/112813-google-partners-with-oxford-university-for-ai.html\">Google partners with Oxford University for AI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google on Thursday confirmed that an executive behind leading mobile device software Android is leaving the company to create an incubator for hardware startups<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":73232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[36,397,4592,167],"class_list":["post-113195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-android","tag-andy-rubin","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}