Google’s Android platform has basically become to smartphones what Windows has long been for desktop computers and laptops — that is, it’s the dominant player in terms of raw market share. Microsoft is obviously not happy that it missed the boat on the smartphone revolution but it may have come up with an ingenious way to undermine Google’s control over Android. RELATED:-This man wants to be Google’s new worst nightmare The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft plans to be “a minority investor in a roughly $70 million round of equity financing that values Cyanogen in the high hundreds of millions.” Why is this important, you ask? Because-Cyanogen CEO-Kirt McMaster has openly declared that his company’s goal is to end



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