Angry Birds, fat pigs and the future of television
Rovio’s Angry Birds Toons may very well be the first-ever mobile video show that reaches an audience of millions – but that doesn’t mean that startups are having it any easier. Read more »
Rovio announces Angry Birds book app: Live from Frankfurt Book Fair
Rovio, whose “Angry Birds” app has been downloaded over 1 billion times, announced its first book app, a $0.99 iPad cookbook called “Bad Piggies’ Best Egg Recipes,” at the Frankfurt Book Fair Thursday. “We’re looking for millions of downloads,” CMO Peter Vesterbacka said. Read more »
Amazing Alex: Rovio tries to prove it’s a hit factory
Rovio has finally released its next title after the smash hit Angry Birds — a physics puzzler called Amazing Alex that reworks an existing iPhone game with a few little extra touches. Will the Finnish company prove it’s not a one hit wonder? Read more »
How to make reading more like Angry Birds
photo: Angry Birds Rio Trailer
Book publishers have to make reading books as addictive and habit-forming as playing Angry Birds, Charles Duhigg, author of “The Power of Habit” (also known as “that book about how Target knew a teenager was pregnant before her dad did”) argues. Read more »
Should Apple Pay For The Bad Deeds Of Its App Makers?
A sprawling lawsuit filed in Texas this week targets Path, Instagram, Facebook and others for instructing their apps to suck up user address… Read more »
@CES: Samsung Hat-Tips Kinect On Smart TV Gesture Controls, Content Bonanza
photo: Microsoft Xbox Kinect
Samsung, on a high after releasing some strong mobile numbers last week, today became the latest consumer electronics brand to hang its name… Read more »
Squawk! Angry Birds/Fruit Ninja ‘Rip-Off’ Reaches Number-One In App Store
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but this may be stretching the expression a bit too far. Cut the Birds, a game release… Read more »
Key Case Involving Apple, Google And App Developers Gets New Judge
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) are trying to aid app developers in an important case that will decide whether the developers are… Read more »
Angry Birds Aside, Think Globally, Act Locally When It Comes To Mobile Apps
photo: Barnes & Noble
There’s no question that apps have become a global phenomenon in the mobile world — and who doesn’t want to catapult a cute red bird onto s… Read more »
Angry Birds Watch Out: Club Penguin Puffles Launching On An iPhone Near You
Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, and games like ‘Angry Birds’ are some of the most popular applications on smartphones today, b… Read more »
Fox Mobile Vet Stalbow Joins Rovio As GM, North America
At our paidContent Mobile conference in May, Andrew Stalbow and Peter Vesterbacka paired up to tout the value of a major studio partnering w… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 8-12-11: Apple; BBM; Android; Huawei; AT&T; Angry Birds
photo: Tricia Duryee
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
Apple: Looks like there could be a media event scheduled for September 7 or 8; some are… Read more »
Lodsys Flips Bird At Rovio, EA With New Patent Lawsuits
photo: bfishadow
You can almost see the lawyers for Rovio debating whether or not they’d like to use the exploding black bird or the dive-bombing white bird… Read more »
Barnes & Noble: Buy A Nook, We’ll Give You Some Lame E-Books
photo: Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which is struggling with lower in-store sales, has a new promotional offer: Bring an old e-reader into a store,… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-29-11: Amazon, Rovio boost WP7; Square; Google+ Mobile
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
– Windows Phone 7: Couple of good-news boosts for the Windows Phone 7 apps platform. A… Read more »
B&N Hopes Angry Birds ‘Mighty Eagle’ Will Lure App Users Into Stores
photo: Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble’s website sales are surging, but in-store sales are down. The retailer’s secret weapon to lure shoppers back into stores? Ang… Read more »
Outfit7 Pulls A Rovio, Signs William Morris Deal For Films, TV And More
Looks like Rovio is not the only mobile content company that wants to catapult itself into being the next Disney of the entertainment world.… Read more »
Angry Birds Is Prepping Its First Book: A Cookbook About Eggs
photo: bfishadow
Rovio, which has made a small fortune spinning out products from the wild success of its “Angry Birds” mobile games, is now moving into book… Read more »
What’s In An App Name? The Most Popular Words And A Meteoric Rise For Birds
photo: Angry Birds Rio Trailer
With half a million apps and counting out there, and problems discovering the good ones, it’s likely that we are going to start to see some… Read more »
@ pcMobile: Angry Birds Hits 200 Million Downloads With Help From Fox
One of the greatest mobile gaming hits ever just keeps on rolling: Angry Birds has hit the 200 million-downloads milestone, Rovio’s Mighty E… Read more »
Google I/O: 160 Million Chrome Users, Angry Birds, Chromebooks
The second day of Google (NSDQ: GOOG) I/O was all about Google’s Chrome Web browser and its budding Chrome OS project. Google’s Chrome leade… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 05-09-11: Skype; Rovio IPO; Apple Nuance; US Cellular 4G
photo: Corbis
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: more Skype partnering and merger speculation, this time with Microsoft; (NSDQ: MSFT) An… Read more »
paidContent Mobile, May 18, NYC: Register Now
paidContent Mobile: Platform Power in New York is less than two weeks away. On May 18, join us as we discuss the dominating mobile platforms… Read more »
paidContent Mobile, May 18, NYC: Angry Birds Swooping In
photo: Angry Birds Rio Trailer
While Rio the movie rakes it in at the box office, Angry Birds Rio catapulted to the top of the app charts with 10 million downloads in the… Read more »
Rovio And Angry Birds Shoot For IPO Market In Five Years
photo: Rovio
Luckily for Rovio, raising cash from the public markets might be easier than trying to make the bird with the long beak spin back onto the p… Read more »
Angry Birds’ Rovio Raises $42 Million From Accel And Skype Founders
photo: bfishadow
Big news today from Rovio, the Finland-based developers behind the hugely successful Angry Birds mobile game: the company has picked up $42… Read more »
Mobile Content Bits: Angry Birds Fly To Windows; HP/Palm Event; ESPN/Sprint
– Angry Birds: Rovio’s hugely successful mobile game may not yet be available on Windows Phone 7 handsets, but it is now making the move to… Read more »
Will Angry Birds Make Mobile Operators Happy?
photo: Rovio
Angry Birds, the quirky mobile game that’s become a flyaway success in all app stores where it has built a nest, is on course for a new dire… Read more »
