Japanese holding Sega Sammy wants to buy the company Rovio Entertainment, which created the popular game Angry Birds.
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According to The Wall Street Journal,Citing sources familiar with the situation, the deal is worth about $1 billion. Bloomberg's sources confirm this information and add that the deal will be announced on April 17.
By the way, after this news, shares of the Angry Birds developer increased in price by 1.1% to €7.78, and the market value amounted to $709 million.
The Angry Birds game, released in 2009, becamethe first mobile game in history to reach a billion downloads. Rovio Entertainment subsequently released sequels to the game, but they did not become as popular. Now Angry Birds brings the company more than 80% of purchases.