Disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin’s Essential shuts down

Essential Products, an Android smartphone peddler founded by disgraced Google executive Andy Rubin is shutting down, the company confirmed Wednesday in a blog post.
Daisuke Wakabayashi and Erin Griffith for The New York Times:Essential Products, a consumer electronics start-up founded by the former Google executive Andy Rubin, said on Wednesday that it was ceasing operations.
Once considered one of Silicon Valley’s most promising hardware technology start-ups, Essential had raised $330 mil