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Rovio turns to apps billing after Angry Birds hit
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Rovio Chief Executive Mikael Hed stands in front of an Angry Birds poster at his company's offices in Helsinki August 16, 2010.
Credit: Reuters/Georgina ProdhanBy Tarmo Virki, European Technology CorrespondentHELSINKI | Fri Dec 10, 2010 4:20pm EST
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's Rovio Mobile, known for its Angry Birds puzzle video game, unveiled on Friday payment software that gives mobile telecom operators a chance to win a share of booming app store business.
Mobile operators have struggled to grab a piece of the mobile applications market -- worth $4.1 billion last year, according to research firm Chetan Sharma -- as consumers pay with credit cards directly to Apple Inc or Google Inc.
Rovio said it would start to roll out its payment solution in early 2011 for Android phones sold by Finland's top mobile carrier, Elisa, for purchasing additional features in Angry Birds. "This gives operators some revenue, compared to none. We are going to open it up to all other developers," said Peter Vesterbacka, head of Rovio's business development in North America.
Vesterbacka said the company had seen strong interest toward payment software, which enables simple purchasing charged on a user's phone bill.
Angry Birds has topped the charts of paid-for Apple apps for months in about 60 countries including the United States and Britain.
Vesterbacka said Angry Birds reached 50 million downloads on Friday, 12 months after the game was launched. It aims to reach 100 million downloads by mid-2011.
It took Tetris 20 years to reach the 100 million milestone, he said.
Angry Birds -- in which players have to help the birds destroy pigs who stole their eggs, with the help of a slingshot -- has broken new ground in mobile gaming by staying at the top of the charts, unlike most hit mobile games whose popularity diminishes over time.
(Reporting by Tarmo Virki, editing by Matthew Lewis)
12/5/10
Tumblr Down Fans Angry
It appears that the microblog service Tumblr is currently down as of 6pm Eastern Time. From what we can tell, the service has been down for about an hour now. The Tumblr homepage is up and running although signing up for a new account pushes you to the error page displayed below.
A search on Twitter for Tumblr shows some very upset users (some comments NSFW) about the outage. Loading different Tumblr blogs and/or loading the same Tumblr blog provides either an the “Error” message displayed below or an overloaded servers message. Patrick on Twitter notes, “Is it just me or is Tumblr down like a solid 15% of the time?”
Interestingly, Tumblr appears to host their status blog on the Tumblr platform – so it too is down. No mention of the outage on the Tumblr Twitter account as of the time of this post.
Updated 7pm Eastern – Tumblr has replied noting, “We’re working quickly to recover from a major issue in one of our database clusters. We’re incredibly sorry for the inconvenience.”
As always please report in if Tumblr is down where you are – either the main Tumblr site or your personal Tumblog.
Related: Our Tumblr coverage including overview video from Tumblr founder David Karp.
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