Reuters: Mergers News: Angry Birds maker buys Finnish gaming studio

Reuters: Mergers News Reuters.com is your source for breaking news, business, financial and investing news, including personal finance and stocks. Reuters is the leading global provider of news, financial information and technology solutions to the world's media, financial institutions, businesses and individuals. // via fulltextrssfeed.com

Angry Birds maker buys Finnish gaming studio Mar 27th 2012, 10:30 March 27 | Tue Mar 27, 2012 6:30am EDT March 27 (Reuters) - Angry Birds maker Rovio said on Tuesday it had bought Futuremark Games Studio, the gaming arm of Finnish benchmarking software firm Futuremark, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of the studio - known for its space-games Unstoppable Gorg and Shattered Horizon - comes a week after Rovio launched its latest Angry Birds Space game. Its new game was downloaded more than 10 million times within first three days, topping the sales charts on Apple platforms in 104 countries. Rovio, the Finnish company behind the world's most downloaded mobile game, has been valued at up to $9 billion little more than two years after it first launched Angry Birds for Apple's iPhone. Angry Birds games have been downloaded more than 700 million times and are the fastest-growing games on Facebook.

You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions