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What’s Going on Inside Android? Another Major Player Leaves Google

By Matt Buchanan Published May 13, 2010, 1:22 pm ET

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Uh, what’s up with the water at Google right now? Android Senior Software Engineer Cedric Beust is following chief Android Erick Tseng out the door, also to a social networking site—though it’s the comparatively drab LinkedIn, in Cedric’s case.

https://gizmodo.com/chief-android-erick-tseng-abandons-google-for-facebook-5537479

Coincidence, or is something more serious happening inside of Android? [Beust via TechCrunch]

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