Sega offers $776 million for Angry Birds maker Rovio

Sega to buy Angry Birds maker Rovio

Japanese gaming group Sega has offered to buy the creator of the popular Angry Birds franchise, Finland's Rovio, in a deal worth more than 700 million euros ($770 million), the companies said Monday. The deal would mark the end the independence of Finnish mobile game makers, which burst into the…

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Sega offers 706m euros for maker of ‘Angry Birds’

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Sega buys Rovio, the company that created Angry Birds for $776 million

Sega will be the new owner of Angry Birds after acquiring Rovio, one of the most important mobile video game companies on the market

Sonic the Hedgehog, meet Angry Birds. Sega is buying Rovio

By Hanna Ziady, CNN Japan’s Sega, the company behind Sonic the Hedgehog, is buying Rovio Entertainment in a cash deal that values the creator of Angry Birds at €706 million ($774 million). The Finnish video game developer’s board has unanimously backed the takeover offer, which is also already supported by shareholders owning 49.1% of the company’s stock, Rovio said in a statement Monday. The company’s shares surged 18% to €9.16 ($10.05) per sha…

Se vendieron los Angry Birds: Sega compró a su desarrollador, Rovio, por 776 millones de dólares

El desarrollador japonés de videojuegos Sega comprará Rovio, la compañía finlandesa detrás de Angry Birds, por 776 millones de dólares, según anunciaron ambas compañías hoy. La compra le pone punto final a una carrera en la que con una sucesión de juegos muy exitosos, Rovio pasó de ser una ignota compañía escandinava a transformarse, a partir del éxito del primer Angry Birds en 2009, en un gigante de los videojuegos. Peter Vesterbacka y Jere Erk…