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Angry Birds maker plans $2bn initial public offering next month

­­­­­­­­­­­Bloomberg The angry birds at Rovio Entertainment Oy are set to lay a golden egg for the company’s founders. The firm is planning an initial public offering as early as next month that could value the maker of the Angry Birds mobile games and movie at about $2 billion, said people familiar with the matter. The company could raise about ...

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Fintech Deposit Solutions acquires rival startup, Savedo

Bloomberg In a sign that dealmaking in the financial-technology sector may be heating up, a German fintech firm has made the rare move of acquiring a startup to beef up its customer base. Deposit Solutions GmbH, a Hamburg-based company that enables consumers to move their savings around a network of 15 European banks to find the best interest rate, on ...

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Securitas names new CEO ahead of digital change

Bloomberg Securitas AB is replacing its chief executive officer with an insider who’s almost two decades his junior to steer Sweden’s biggest security company through a paradigm shift from manned guarding to big data and artificial intelligence. Magnus Ahlqvist will take over as CEO in March next year after Alf Goransson asked to step down after more than a decade ...

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