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Angry Birds craze doesn’t seem to stop. The Finnish company Rovio has built an empire around the popular bird-tossing game, selling t-shirts, lunch boxes, speakers and other goodies. There are three Angry Birds titles available — the original Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Rio — which combined have surpassed 350 million downloads. That’s an impressive figure, but that’s not all – according to Rovio’s general manager Andrew Stalbow, mobile device users play the game for more than 300 million minutes each day collectively.
Obviously with these figures it shouldn’t be a problem for Rovio to get more money to further expand its operations and reach, and who knows – one day they could actually license its characters for the official Angry Birds theme park, unlike the one currently operating in China.
Speaking of money, the company is currently in a round of funding that may value the company at more than $1.2 billion.
[Via: jostiq]
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Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
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