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The Path From Madison Avenue to Corporate CEO How Eric Hirshberg and others made the transition

Since 2010, Eric Hirshberg has been CEO of one of the giants of the video game industry, Santa Monica, Calif.-based Activision Publishing. But everything he needed to know about how…

June 10, 2013, 10:44 PM EDT

Brands Are Flocking to the Star Wars Nerd Procession The Course of the Force attracts big sponsors

If you’re driving down the Pacific Coast Highway this summer, and you see a cadre of Sand People or a lightsaber-wielding Boba Fett, don’t be alarmed. The Course of the…

June 2, 2013, 11:14 PM EDT

House of Cards Star Corey Stoll Doesn't Bother With Cable Are you surprised?

Specs Who Corey Stoll  Age 37 Accomplishments Starred as Rep. Peter Russo (D-Pa.) on Netflix’s House of Cards; played Ernest Hemingway in Midnight in Paris; appearing in the films Glass Chin and Non-Stop, out…

May 2, 2013, 11:57 PM EDT

Angry Birds Video Series Launching This Week on TVs, in Apps Rovio has nabbed ads from Activision, Paramount, Sony, BlackBerry

For those considering Rovio to be simply that Finnish company behind the Angry Birds mobile games, stop that right now. Rovio has been positioning itself as an entertainment company on…

March 11, 2013, 10:00 AM EDT

People Don't Use TV Apps, and Mobile Gaming Is Set to Implode Bold rhetoric from top executives and analysts at CES

If you spent any time walking around the various small cities that the major electronics companies erected last week at CES, you probably noticed how confident their executives were that…

January 11, 2013, 7:33 AM EST

Angry Birds Developer Rovio Buys Finnish Game Studio Futuremark 'Space' edition of popular bird-launching game hits 10 million downloads in 3 days

Angry Birds developer Rovio has a lot to be happy about. It has purchased Futuremark Games Studio, the gaming side of the Futuremark software company—and just three days after the release…

March 27, 2012, 10:16 AM EDT

Information Diet: David Wain The 'Wanderlust' director enjoys curating news and notes on his iPhone but draws a line when it comes to games like Angry Birds

Specs Who David Wain Age 42 Accomplishments Writer/director of Wet Hot American Summer, Role Models and the upcoming Wanderlust (Feb. 24): creator/star of Web series Wainy Days, Hosted by My Damn Channel (available…

January 19, 2012, 11:40 PM EST

Information Diet: John Cho The co-star of Harold & Kumar comes clean about his addiction to Angry Birds and his epiphany after reading The New York Times in print.

What’s the first information you consume in the morning? I try to hit the Los Angeles Times and New York Times sites. I just bought The New York Times–the real paper–the…

November 4, 2011, 6:41 AM EDT

Angry Birds: Coming to a Stadium Near You The crowd game will debut this weekend

So you’ve already conquered every level in the Angry Birds game, bought a few Angry Birds stuffed animals, have plans to see the Angry Birds movie, and can’t wait to…

September 22, 2011, 11:57 AM EDT

Eyeing Asia, Angry Birds to Take Flight . . . for Real Hard-core fans will try to kill pigs during Finnair trip

In an ambitious branding blitz, the popular mobile game Angry Birds has already flown from the digital world to the analog arena of board games, T-shirts, and toys. Now, Rovio,…

September 1, 2011, 12:36 PM EDT

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