Rovio, probably the hottest company in mobile gaming right now, has no worries about Angry Birds running out of steam. Indeed it sees the franchise as having the long-term potential to match Mario or Sonic the Hedgehog. A big part of developing the game’s audience? Entering the social gaming space. At a presentation by Finnish technology companies in Barcelona this morning, Rovio’s head of communications (calling himself “The Bird Whisperer”) said that while Angry Birds already claims 75 million downloads, it’s aiming to boost that to 100 million this spring....

AllFacebookis reporting that the Angry Birds franchise is to crash onto Facebook next month, giving the 600 million users registered on the social network the chance to play the world’s most popular game. Rovio, creators of Angry Birds, took to itsofficial Facebook pageto announce that the game would be coming to the social network in a month, keeping users updated on the games progress as long as they “Liked” the page....

A few days ago, wetoldyou that there would be a little easter egg in today’s Super Bowl that would let you unlock a hidden stage in Angry Birds. Well, if you weren’t able to catch the Super Bowl, we’ve got you covered with a simple walk-through. If you don’t want spoilers, we’re giving you one last chance to figure it out for yourselves. Here’s the RIO commercial that aired during the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl:...

When we pick speakers for our conferences we look at several qualities: ability to inspire, brand name impact, is the speaker evocative, funny and able to get a discussion going? Then we try to have a nice collection of speakers that cover wide range of topics and experiences. We combine older more experienced entrepreneurs with younger and creative thinkers. And we invite a wildcard. We always try to have at least one ‘wildcard’....

Each year we give startups a platform to launch new services duringThe Next Web Conference(8 days left, some tickets left). Eighteen companies will get the chance to show their company on the main stage to a worldwide audience consisting of the Jury of Experts, industry journalists, VC’s, bloggers, potential users, potential exit partners and the thousands of people who watch the on-demand videos afterwards.You can imagine that this is an important moment for the selected startups....