Google acquired Android Inc. in from Andy Rubin, Rich Miner, Nick Sears, and Chris White in 2005. It released the Android OS two years later and changed the system for the consumer mobile market.

In 2004, Andy Rubin made an urgent ... Android desperately needed funding. Rubin, Android co-founder Chris White, and Sears were on board. But Rich Miner, the fourth founder who now works at ...