Google's Senior Vice President of Mobile Andy Rubin took it to the Internet to shed some light upon the recent rumors regarding an alleged departure, saying he has no plans to leave the company.
In a post on Sunday, June 10, on Google+, the company's social network, the Android executive put rumors to rest, assuring people he is not leaving Google for the small startup called CloudCar, as the rumors indicated. "Cloudcar are a group of friends who I give free office space to in my incubator in Los Altos," Rubin explained on his Google+ account. "Revel Touch (Mar Hershenson's company: www.reveltouch.com) is another cool company that shares this space. I'm not joining either one and I don't have any plans to leave Google."
In a rather rare occurrence, Rubin also turned to Twitter to further nip the rumor and, while at it, he noted that a whopping 900,000 new Android devices are now being activated daily across the world. "No plans to leave Google. Oh, and just for meme completeness - there are over 900,000 android devices activated each day :-)," tweeted Rubin on Monday, June 11.
How It All Started
The rumor started on Sunday, when Rackspace's Robert Scoble posted on Google+ that he had heard a rumor, according to which Rubin was planning to ditch Google and start working for the startup company. "Today I heard that the head of Android, +Andy Rubin, will soon leave Google and head to a new startup called https://www.cloudcar.com/," wrote Scoble. "Now, that rumor has two purposes: one, it might be true, in which case I start thinking about what that means for Android. I certainly will be looking for those signs when I attend the Google IO conference."
CloudCar is a small company founded in 2010, according to its Facebook page, and makes an app that orders chauffeured cars. The rumor put the small startup in the spotlight, and certainly much more people now know about it than before. "It has another purpose, which makes me interested in +CloudCar - a startup I know nothing about," continued Scoble. "But if you look at the management team that startup has a sizeable list of Silicon Valley stars building up on its team. Definitely one to watch!"
