Google’s senior vice president of mobile and all round Android chief, Andy Rubin, says over 900,000 Android devices are activated each day around the world. This means 27 million Android devices are activated every month.

According to Gartner, over 81 million Android smartphones were sold during the first quarter of 2012, with just over 33 million iPhones selling during the same period.

Rubin also dismissed a rumour that he was leaving Google to work full time with the start-up Cloudcar. He took to Twitter, posting: “How a rumor gets factualized: Cloudcar are a group of friends who I give free office space to in my incubator in Los Altos. Revel Touch (Mar Hershenson’s company: www.reveltouch.com) is another cool company that shares this space. I’m not joining either one and I don’t have any plans to leave Google.”

Good way to quash a rumour and also publicise two start-ups he has an interest in.