Vox

Cyanogen is chopping its staff after its alternative Android has failed to catch on with phone makers

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Forbes

Cyanogen Wanted To Kill Google's Android, But Instead Killed Itself

Cyanogen, the company responsible for the commercialisation of CyanogenMod is to cease all operations by the end of 2016. There will be no further updates to the OS, no more nightly builds and no ...
Ars Technica

Cyanogen Inc. reportedly fires OS development arm, switches to apps

Cyanogen Inc. seems to be in trouble. A report from Android Police cites “several sources” that say the three-year-old Android software house will be laying off 20 percent of its workforce. One source ...
Business Insider

How a startup called Cyanogen could put 'a bullet through Google's head'

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Android Authority

Cyanogen CEO: We’re putting a bullet through Google’s head

You may have heard Cyanogen’s name around the web today, after the company announced it had received $80 million in funding from Twitter Ventures, Qualcomm, Telefónica Ventures, Rupert Murdoch and ...
TechCrunch

Cyanogen’s New MOD Platform Will Allow Developers To Deeply Integrate Their Apps Into Its OS

Typically, mobile apps are stand-alone experiences that play nicely with the operating system but aren’t fully integrated in it. Cyanogen — the company best known for its Android-based Cyanogen OS — ...
Digital Trends

Cyanogen is ditching its mobile operating system in favor of more modular approach

CyanogenMod is putting a heavier emphasis on the “mod” part of its name. It looks like the company is giving up on becoming a big mobile presence in favor of taking a more modular approach to ...
Fast Company

Cyanogen’s Surprisingly Sensible Plan To Steal Android Away From Google

If you were to plot an elaborate heist on one of the world’s largest technology companies, you probably wouldn’t start by letting everyone know you were coming. Yet that’s not stopping Cyanogen, a ...
Engadget

Cyanogen's 'MOD' platform is a whole new level of Android tweaking

Android has always been the mobile platform of choice for tinkerers, a trend that also directly led to Cyanogen's success as a custom version of the OS. Now Cyanogen is launching a platform called ...
Engadget

Cyanogen is now a company, aims to be third major mobile ecosystem

CyanogenMod has grown unusually quickly in the past several months, polishing its custom Android firmware and introducing new services. We now know why the team has been so busy -- it's quietly been ...
Android Authority

Cyanogen receives $80 million in funding from Qualcomm, Twitter, and others

Cyanogen is scaling up in a big way. The company led by Steve Kondik and Kirt McMaster announced it secured funding totaling $80 million from a group of investors including Twitter Ventures, Qualcomm, ...