The design of the new mobile device isn’t like a standard smartphone.

The startup, part of Rubin’s incubator Playground Global, has raised about $300 million from several investors, including Amazon.com., Tenc...

Rubin acknowledges the downsides to the smartphone revolution he helped unleash and says his new hardware company, Essential, is working on...

China’s largest social media company and Foxconn Technology Group took part in a $300-million funding round for Essential alongside Amazon’...

The financing round valued Essential at $900 million to $1 billion, according to an analysis by Equidate, which runs a market for private c...

The phone's display fills most of the front, save for a camera cutout, slim bezels and a small chin at the bottom.

A platform company designed to tie multiple devices together, Essential is working on a suite of consumer hardware products, including ones...

The report says that the company plans to preview the combined new OS in 2016 and launch the final version in 2017.

To grab 85% of the smartphone market, Rubin had to beat the two most valuable, and profitable, technology companies of their era: Microsoft...

"We are letting convergence happen organically. Both platforms are successful and unique," Pichai said.

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt uses a BlackBerry! May be too surprising, but it's true.

Google Inc's Chrome and Android operating systems will remain separate products, although there could be more "commonality" between them, S...

Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the prod mgmt and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including...

Google announced that Andy Rubin, the Android chief, is stepping down and will be replaced by Sundar Pichai, who also heads Chrome division.

Andy Rubin, the man in charge of Google’s Android operations, on Wednesday said that the company was activating 700,000 Android devices eve...

Rubin, who founded Android (which was bought by Google) said the software is profitable, making money through ads on Android devices.

Internet search engine giant Google said it will not sell its Nexus One smartphone through its web store and would rather rely on retail ou...