Well that certainly didn't take long! Hot on the heels of yesterday's speculation that mobile giant Rovio was looking to purchase the rights to indie physics-puzzler Casey's Contraptions, the transaction was confirmed by the big bird itself. Goodbye, slingshots and pigs, hello scissors and balloons!
1 billion is a might large number. So large, in fact, that I actually had to stop to think about how many zeros were in it. It's nine. I think. Rovio doesn't have to guess, though - because today they announced that the Angry Birds franchise has seen 1 billion downloads. That's one download for every 7 people walking the Earth.