{"id":118015,"date":"2017-09-15T05:40:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T09:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=118015"},"modified":"2017-09-15T05:40:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T09:40:56","slug":"angry-birds-maker-rovio-valued-at-1-billion-in-planned-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/09\/15\/angry-birds-maker-rovio-valued-at-1-billion-in-planned-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Birds maker Rovio valued at $1 billion in planned IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_118017\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-118017\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/eUf4Ydgf_400x400.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-118017\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/eUf4Ydgf_400x400.jpg\" alt=\"Rovio has become \u201ca global games-first entertainment company.\u201d (Photo: Angry Birds\/Twitter)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/eUf4Ydgf_400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/eUf4Ydgf_400x400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/eUf4Ydgf_400x400-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-118017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rovio has become \u201ca global games-first entertainment company.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngryBirds?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngryBirds\">Angry Birds\/Twitter<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>COPENHAGEN\u2014 Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish maker of \u201cAngry Birds\u201d and other popular mobile games, says that its initial public share offering will value it at about $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The company based in Espoo, Finland said Friday that the shares will be priced in the range of 10.25 euros to 11.50 euros each, for a market capitalization of between 802 million euros and 896 million euros ($953 million to $1 billion).<\/p>\n<p>CEO Kati Levoranta said the listing on the Helsinki exchange \u201cwill offer new shareholders an opportunity to become part of Rovio&#8217;s success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said Rovio has become \u201ca global games-first entertainment company.\u201d Best known for its Angry Birds mobile game that was launched in 2009, the company has expanded with other games, a movie and had licensed the Angry Birds brand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPENHAGEN\u2014 Rovio Entertainment, the Finnish maker of \u201cAngry Birds\u201d and other popular mobile games, says that its initial public share &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":118017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4052,10916,24015],"class_list":["post-118015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-1-billion","tag-angry-birds","tag-rovio","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}