ANDY RUBIN

The Essential PH-1, or the Essential Phone, comes with a premium design and flagship specs for $699. Andy Rubin's phone is available to pre order now but an official release date, or shipping target, has not been revealed.

Essential, the company from Android co-founder Andy Rubin, may reveal its upcoming smartphone later this month.

The smartphone on the ad bears a striking resemblance to Andy Rubin's upcoming bezel-less smartphone.

The purported benchmark of Andy Rubin's Essential smartphone reveals that it's specs are up to par with most of 2017's flagships.

Andy Rubin, one of the co-creators of the Android operating system, is building his own smartphone under his new startup Essential Products Inc.

Essential, run by former Google executive Andy Rubin, will also produce a product family of home consumer electronics.

The CyanogenMod team announced Saturday it will continue its work for community-created Android device ROMs under a new banner, Lineage OS.

The tech giant is looking to sell Boston Dynamics, the unit that became a YouTube darling for its human- and animal-like creations.

Google took over Android in 2005, and under Rubin's leadership, it has become the world's most popular mobile operating system.

Nike proved it can grow business and reduce dependence on labor. This doesn't bode well for low-wage factory workers in Asia, or anywhere.

The Google SCHAFT robot will compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals 2014 while three more teams were added to the competition.

The Android co-founder in charge of Google's robotics program is reportedly discussing automating assembly at Foxconn.

Google (GOOG) has announced its intention to build robots, in a moonshot project spearheaded by Android creator Andy Rubin.

Hugo Barra, VP of Android for Google, is leaving the company for Chinese manufacturer Xioami Global. Google has not announced a replacement, leading to speculation that the move was related to an inter-office romance involving company founder Sergey Brin.

As action heats up in the tablet market with news of Apple gearing up to launch iPad mini in response to competition, it appears that Google's Nexus may well take home some neat profits as there is a good difference between cost of manufacture and sale.

Google's former CEO told jurors that he was confident that the Android smartphone platform was developed legally, and that top executives at Sun Microsystems did not object to the project now at the center of a high-stakes court battle.

Google's former chief executive, Eric Schmidt, is slated to testify on Tuesday as Oracle's final witness in the first part of a high stakes trial over smartphone technology, attorneys said in court.

Industry sources have confirmed that Google is developing a low-budget tablet in an attempt to bolster a floundering stable of Android-based tablets. The rumored 7-inch tablet, dubbed the Nexus Tablet, could cost the same price as the Amazon Kindle Fire, $199, or even better -- $149.

On Christmas Day of this year, activations of new Apple's iOS and Google's Android devices surged 353 percent over the baseline (the average from the first 20 days of December) of 1.5 million to 6.8 million, and more than 142 percent increase over last Christmas, according to mobile application analytics firm Flurry.

This year saw Android smartphones grow by leaps and bounds and Google Inc. release the latest version of its Operating System - Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich - in the latter half of the year.

HTC Corp has begun testing new phone models that work around technology cited in a patent lawsuit won by arch-rival Apple Inc, and HTC's chief executive voiced optimism over the company's ability to meet challenging market conditions.