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=== Association with Android === [[File:A Kitkat bar statue in Googleplex Headquarters.jpg|thumb|A Kit Kat bar statue at Googleplex Headquarters, United States]] In September 2013, it was announced that [[Android KitKat|version 4.4]] of [[Google]]'s [[Android (operating system)|Android]] mobile operating system would be named "KitKat".<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.android.com/kitkat/|title = Android KitKat}}</ref> Google [[brand licensing|licensed]] the name from [[Nestlé]], with no money changing hands.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23926938|title=Android KitKat unveiled in Google surprise move|first=Leo|last=Kelion|work=[[BBC News Online]] |date=3 September 2013|access-date=4 September 2013|quote='This is not a money-changing-hands kind of deal,' John Lagerling, director of Android global partnerships, told the BBC.}}</ref> A promotion ran in numerous countries with specially branded Android Kit Kat bars to win [[Nexus 7 (2013 version)|Nexus 7]] devices and [[Google Play Store]] credit.<ref name="versiondub">{{cite news|title=Google: Next Android mobile software version dubbed 'KitKat' |url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/google-next-android-mobile-software-version-dubbed-kitkat/article5092030.ece |date=4 September 2013 |work=[[Business Line]] |location=Chennai |agency=[[Press Trust of India]] |access-date=4 February 2019|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130904053605/http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/google-next-android-mobile-software-version-dubbed-kitkat/article5092030.ece|archive-date=4 September 2013}}</ref>
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