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Rovio Lays Off 110 People as Angry Birds Hype Fades

posted by janrinok on Saturday December 06 2014, @06:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the from-angry-birds-to-angry-people dept.

joshuajon writes:

From Wired:

Rovio has confirmed that 110 people will lose their jobs as the Angry Birds maker also shuts down its game-development studio in Tampere. The layoffs, first announced in October, amount to about 14 percent of the company's workforce.

It had been expected that Rovio would make 130 people redundant but after a round of consultations this number has now been reduced. Rovio said that as a result of the redundancies "several positions" have been opened for internal applications. The actual number of employees out of work will depend on how many new internal positions are filled.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 06 2014, @11:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 06 2014, @11:11AM (#123176)
    about 3 of the employees wrote the cash cow. the other 1000 are in marketting, spending all day working out new products they can stick their stupid images on. I can't go shopping without seeing a dozen stupid angry birds foodstuffs now. nothing creative was required to come up with "angry birds cola", you're giving these jerks too much respect.

  • (Score: 1) by EETech1 on Sunday December 07 2014, @01:50AM

    by EETech1 (957) on Sunday December 07 2014, @01:50AM (#123357)

    My son and I count angry birds crap as counting practice when we go to Target. We always find over 100 things. Last week when I asked him what he wanted to do, he said "I bet we could find 200 angry birds things at Target with Christmas coming"

    Took us a little over an hour (including looking at every other toy too)

    They sold out in every possible way

    Then got candy crushed