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Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 11:57 am EDT 36 Comments 60 215 103 0 Cyanogen has closed out their C round of investments with a strategic investment from Foxconn.

The team at Cyanogen has ended another round of investments, this time with Foxconn pitching in as well. To date the company has raised $100 million in funding, while pushing forward to break Android away from Google. Foxconn is a leader in contract manufacturing for smartphones for many popular brands, and they hope that the investment will help Cyanogen's commercial adoption and growth in new areas.

In March, Cyanogen announced they had received funding from a variety of other companies, like Twitter, Qualcomm, Telefónica, and others.

Press release:

Cyanogen Receives Strategic Investment from Foxconn

Leading Consumer Electronics Manufacturer Invests in Cyanogen's Open OS Vision

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - May 12, 2015) - Cyanogen Inc. announced the strategic investment from Foxconn and closed out its series C round of funding. With offices in Palo Alto and Seattle, Cyanogen is leveraging the investment to accelerate talent hiring and the development of its open OS platform. The platform will create a more open, level playing field for 3rd party developers, enabling seamlessly integrated experiences within the operating system.

Foxconn is the leader of contract manufacturing and FIH Mobile is the leading end-to-end provider for world's best known handset brands. Along with Cyanogen's other investors, the strategic investment from Foxconn will help advance Cyanogen's commercial adoption and growth in major markets around the world.

"We're evolving Android and creating an open computing platform that will change the way consumers interact with their mobile devices," said Kirt McMaster, CEO of Cyanogen Inc. "Foxconn and our diverse group of strategic investors and partners reflect the mobile value chain, from device manufacturers and mobile network operators to chipset makers and 3rd party developers. They see the great potential of what we're doing in creating the next major paradigm shift in mobile computing."

To date, Cyanogen has raised a total $110 million in funding. As the third leading mobile operating system, Cyanogen is known for its commercial operating system, Cyanogen OS, and open source community distribution CyanogenMod that the company backs.

Jared DiPaneContributing Writer

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aitt

All around CM phone coming soon?

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0 5 hours ago Reply

stabbedintheface

I've learned over the years to never say "Well that will never happen" when it comes to technology. But I have a hard time seeing Android break away from Google and be successful.

0 4 hours ago Reply

brandogg

I'll say it. Never.

2 4 hours ago Reply

lucas710

+1

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2 4 hours ago Reply

NoNexus

Considering they own most of it, never gonna happen.

Cm will never be anything but a cheap knockoff

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2 4 hours ago Reply

htc fan89

Google bought android to the spotlight without Google backing android wouldn't be where it is. Dam Cyanogen forgetting that

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1 4 hours ago Reply

stabbedintheface

Actually...the more I think about this the more I dislike CM. I get it, they want to make a business out of it - but why bite the hand that feeds you? What good will come of bashing Google? Why not partner with them?

3 4 hours ago Reply

Thomas Hand1209

I agree, looks like Cyanogen are looking towards deals with phone manufacturers and mobile operators, can't see many benefits for consumers.

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0 3 hours ago Reply

eric.atx

I agree. I used to be a follower of CM but not anymore. I want them to crash and burn for stupid crap just like this.

0 2 hours ago Reply

curl2k1

Exactly! If AOSP where to go away tomorrow, where would that leave CyanogenInc?

0 1 hour ago Reply

robstyle

Breaking Android away from Google will just end in more fragmentation and bad user experience. Fuck Cyanogen.

2 4 hours ago Reply

Arthur Brownlee IV

"Damn people who want a choice?!"

amiright?

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1 4 hours ago Reply

robstyle

You certainly have a point there. The problem the ecosystem needs to be very well implemented, otherwise it will just frustrate users who will assume that's the case with all Android devices (and spread the word). I just don't really believe in Cyanogen to get it right.
Don't get me wrong, having more choices is great, but I've got a bad feeling about this. See what Amazon did to Android, it's just bad.

0 4 hours ago Reply

l00natic71

However, Amazon calls their implementation "FireOS", they do not try to make people into thinking it's like all the other Android devices. The people I have met that think that, are the ones that listen to their "knowledgeable" friends/family that tells them otherwise.

0 4 hours ago Reply

robstyle

Good point, I hope Cyanogen will do something similar.

0 3 hours ago Reply

aitt

Android AOSP running Bing Search built by Foxconn that will look like an iPhone

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1 4 hours ago Reply

l00natic71

If someone wants that, why shouldn't they have it?

0 4 hours ago Reply

aitt

Of course they should. This would be the perfect Frankenstein phone.

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0 3 hours ago Reply

S4Rs

Foxconn has pledged 1000 13 year old or younger coders to work 20 hours a day fixing bugs and change requests in the CM code base.

0 4 hours ago Reply

l00natic71

Dey took err jebbs!!!

0 4 hours ago Reply

Cole Tague

I'm going to be so pissed if Google gets mad from cm and makes android no longer open source. Like android wear and auto

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0 4 hours ago Reply

NoNexus

They absolutely should at this point. I am not sure if they can with the licence, but this aosp stuff needs to stop unless it is from them.

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1 3 hours ago Reply

aitt

I'm not necessarily against that if it means to protect the integrity of the AOSP. But closed source would suck

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1 3 hours ago Reply

NoNexus

Android has come to the point where custom roms are a waste of time and effort. I would rather see closed source with a metric ton of ways to hook into it.

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1 2 hours ago Reply

Infinite7154

Really good custom roms are far from a waste of time and effort. Paranoid Android, LIquidsmooth and CM provide many options that stock Android or the other OEM skins don't offer. And isn't that the beauty of Android, choices?

0 2 hours ago Reply

NoNexus

Unless it is for a nexus, those roms all have serious issues depending on the phone. I used PA and liquid fora longtime.

Cm is always broken, unless it is made for a device.

It comes down to something simple. Oems have a ROM that is tailored to the device, carrier, region. You cannot beat it anymore

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0 11 min ago Reply

katnapper421

NoNexus, you hate ROM's, you hate open source, and you hate Nexus devices. You sure you aren't an Apple Fanboy or Google turncoat? Let me guess, next you only want 1-3 phone choices for all users (Samsungs, of course). Hopefully for you and the rest of us who end up reading your trolling posts, Tizen OS will produce something to get you out of our ecosystem and bitching about a different OS's flaws.

0 43 min ago Reply

NoNexus

I who said I hate any of those things? I used roms for a long time, I use and sometimes program with open source and the Nexus 6 I have is a vast improvement.

You were saying?

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0 14 min ago Reply

Pirate Arr

Once a fanboy of Apple or Google get thrown in you loose a legitimacy. Closed Source doesn't mean bad, look at Windows for one example or even iOS where all the updates are released the same day

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0 2 sec ago Reply

eric.atx

I think I'd actually like that. Close it up and do it for the integrity of the code just to lock out CM and others.

0 2 hours ago Reply

l00natic71

Androidwear is still open source
http://www.androidcentral.com/android-wear-source-code-uploaded-aosp

0 1 hour ago Reply

joshuarayer

"to break Android away from Google" is the dumbest statement to make about this. Cyanogen would be nothing without Google. If they want to "break away" they should quit using the work of Google as a base and just build their own OS from scratch. All they are doing is providing some of the same backend features that Google provides, adding new skins and preference options. And every time Google releases a new version of Android, it takes Cyanogen weeks or even months to have a stable version of their bastardized Android "creation". Im fine with providing users with more options and features for the power-user, but quit talking like you are making something better when your just building your work off the backs of others. I know someone is going to take that last sentence and apply it to Google since they just bought Android, but it has been 6 years now since the first Android phone was available and you cant honestly say that through all the updates since then that Google hasnt made Android their own product.

0 1 hour ago Reply

Versed

I like CM, I don't like the idea of them seperating it from the use of the Google Apps and eco-system. If it comes to that, then I'm off CM on my OPO and move to oxygenOS or some other rom.

0 1 hour ago Reply

uansari1

Yeah, I switched to Oxygen OS after McMaster's bullet through the head comment, and I couldn't be happier. I've played with CM for years, and it's never been as smooth as vanilla Android, and the same holds true for it and Oxygen.

0 44 min ago Reply

twolastnames

If you look at their point from a coders point of view it makes sense. Android is just a version of linux, and is supposed to be open source. But with Google making certain parts closed, and never updating certain open parts of the os, it has to be frustrating from a developers pov.

Nobody is above the open source rules either. President Obama got in some hot water for his campaign using open sourced software to build his re-election software, and didn't or wasn't going to give back code they modified. The programmers were pretty miffed about it. I never heard what came of it, but the point is the same, open sourced means open sourced.

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1 1 hour ago Reply

NoNexus

If Google ever yanks the closed parts, roms would die quick

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