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by Alex Dobie
May 15, 2013
At the Google I/O keynote in San Francisco, Android and Chrome head Sundar Pichai has just revealed that Android has passed the milestone of 900 million activations, up from 400 million in 2012 and ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 11, 2012
Hugo Barra, Google's director of product management for Android, just announced on Google+ that Android devices have officially hit the 500 million install milestone. That number sounds huge unt...
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by Richard Devine
Jun 27, 2012
Literally moments into the Google I/O Day 1 keynote, a huge milestone for the Android platform has been announced. In total, 400 million Android devices have been activated, an astonishing 300 milli...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jun 10, 2012
Gotta love a good unfounded rumor on a slow Sunday afternoon. Or not.
Regardless, Robert Scoble this afternoon set up a trial balloon to see what folks though about the possibility of An...
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by Chris Parsons
Feb 27, 2012
Andy Rubin has just laid some Android numbers out for everyone as only he can. The last time we heard numbers from Google was on Q4 2011 conference call where it was announced that 700,000 Android a...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 19, 2012
Google today announced its Q4 2011 earnings. Money-wise, Google say $2.71 billion in profit on $8.13 billion in revenue.
For our purposes, the news is that El Goog announced that some 250 mil...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 28, 2011
With Christmas all said and done for yet another year, it's time for those at Google to start looking at the number of devices that got activated over the Holidays. Luckily, Andy Rubin anticipat...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 21, 2011
Google's Andy Rubin tonight on Google+ announced that more than 700,000 Android devices are being activated every day. That's 29,166 devices (more or less) activated every hour. Or 486 devic...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 16, 2011
At the Google music event this afternoon, Google announced that they have activated their 200 millionth device. That's a 100 million more than just six months ago. That's a whole heck ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jul 14, 2011
You read that right. Today, during Google's second-quarter earnings call, CEO Larry Page announced that some 550,000 devices are being activated every day.That's about 382 devices being activate...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 28, 2011
Wow. Let there be no doubt that Android's taking over, folks. Andy Rubin (he's the cat in charge of the whole thing, if you didn't know), tweeted this morning that "There are now over 500,00...
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by Andrew Melnizek
May 10, 2011
We're live at Google's I/O Keynote 2011 and Google just filled us in with an incredible number. Everyday there is more than 400,000 Android devices activated. Wow! That's 100k more than what we were s...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 04, 2011
Youtube link for mobile viewingIf you liked that previous visual look at how Android activations -- at more than 300,000 a day now -- you're going to love this one. Greek blogger Stefanos Kofopoulos w...
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by Alex Dobie
Feb 23, 2011
A new video on the official Android Developers' YouTube channel offers a fascinating look at the rise of Android since the release of the first handsets running the OS. The data spans the entire glo...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 20, 2011
Google today in its fourth-quarter earnings call confirmed Andy Rubin's statement in December that some 300,000 Android devices are being activated every day. That's 9 million or so a month, folks. Go...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 09, 2010
Andy Rubin, the person at the top of the Android project, just tweeted that there are over 300,000 activations of Android phones per day, up a full 100k per day since Aug 2010. Let's have a look...
