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Executive Shuffle at Cyanogen Amid Challenges

Photo: Cyanogen CEO Kirt McMaster. Photo by Flickr/Web Summit.

Cyanogen’s prospects for challenging Google’s domination of the Android mobile operating system are dimming.

Several senior managers have departed the high-profile Android software startup in recent weeks, as the firm struggles to show it can offer a differentiated version of Android of value to app developers. Google has updated Android to offer some features that were once unique to Cyanogen’s version.

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