Producers Angry Birds Want to Go Public

Entertainment Rovio game creators 'Angry Birds' is in talks to receive an injection of funds comes from investors about U.S. $ 1.2 billion. Allegedly Electronic Arts, Zynga,News Corp.. and Disney is the investor.

Excerpted from The Telegraph, August 20, 2011, Michael Pachter, Managing Director of Wedbush Securities Research presented his views if these investors hadinvested their funds in the game 'Angry Birds'.

"I see how Disney would pick up the 'Angry Birds' and turn it into a playground andmovies, and Zynga can take 'Angry Birds' and makes it like Farmville," said Pachter.

For information, in March, Rovio received an injection of funds amounting to U.S. $ 42billion from Atomico, Niklas Zennstrom's, the founders of Skype as well as fromcorporate sponsorship Facebook, Accel Partners.

Mikael Hed, Rovio leadership said it wanted the company to go public within the next few years. "We might want to be in stock, which would probably mean the Nasdaqstock market will be us," he said.

Angry Birds is a game of precision shooting a variety of birds. This game has beendownloaded more than 300 billion times since its launch in 2009, and is one of the most successful smartphone applications of all time.

Originally released for the iPhone, Rovio has added a version for Android and Nokia,as well as PCs and Macs. The birds are very famous angry and has been converted into a variety of permainanan, refrigerator magnets and even clothing.