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  • Mountain View, California, U.S.
    Jul, 2005
    Android

    Google acquired Android

    Mountain View, California, U.S.
    Jul, 2005

    Google acquired Android Inc in July 2005. for at least $50 million. Its key employees, including Rubin, Miner, and White, joined Google as part of the acquisition. Not much was known about the secretive Android at the time, with the company having provided few details other than that it was making software for mobile phones. At Google, the team led by Rubin developed a mobile device platform powered by the Linux kernel. Google marketed the platform to handset makers and carriers on the promise of providing a flexible, upgradeable system. Google had "lined up a series of hardware components and software partners and signaled to carriers that it was open to various degrees of cooperation".




  • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Wednesday Jul 6, 2005
    Angelina Jolie

    Zahara Marley

    Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Wednesday Jul 6, 2005

    Jolie adopted a daughter, six-month-old Zahara Marley, from an orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 6 July 2005. Jolie initially believed Zahara to be an AIDS orphan, based on official testimony from her grandmother, but her birth mother later came forward in the media. She explained that she had abandoned her family when Zahara became sick and said she thought Zahara was "very fortunate" to have been adopted by Jolie.




  • Spain
    Monday Jul 25, 2005
    Rafael Nadal

    Rankin no.2

    Spain
    Monday Jul 25, 2005

    Nadal won 16 consecutive matches and three consecutive tournaments, bringing his ranking to No. 2 on 25 July 2005.




  • Cambodia
    Sunday Jul 31, 2005
    Angelina Jolie

    Cambodian Citizenship

    Cambodia
    Sunday Jul 31, 2005

    In recognition of Jolie's conservation efforts in Cambodia, King Norodom Sihamoni awarded her Cambodian citizenship on July 31, 2005.




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