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Microsoft To Invest In Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the have-a-pile-of-money dept.

An anonymous reader writes The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft plans to be a minority investor in a roughly $70 million round of equity financing for mobile startup Cyanogen Inc. Neither company is commenting on the plan but last week during a talk in San Francisco, Cyanogen's CEO said the company's goal was to "take Android away from Google." According to Bloomberg: "The talks illustrate how Microsoft is trying to get its applications and services on rival operating systems, which has been a tenet of Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella. Microsoft has in the past complained that Google Inc., which manages Android, has blocked its programs from the operating system."

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  1. why google keeps microsoft away by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    microsoft - we don't want your programs on Android because they suck

    1. Re: why google keeps microsoft away by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I agree that Google's products don't crash; that would interfere with their ability to spy on the user.

  2. Cyanogen 13.0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will use 640k of ram and a delightful assistant named Clippy.

  3. Re:Godzilla v. Mothra by ColdWetDog · · Score: 3, Funny

    Balmer isn't head of Microsoft anymore....

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