In June, Rovio acquired Kombo, the Finnish animation studio, to expand its in-house animation capabilities and it recently secured a grant from the Finnish Film Foundation to start planning its first full length animation film.
Partly in response to the resulting interest in online privacy and campaigns by groups like Access Now and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to universalize Web encryption, companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter have all added SSL capabilities.
This could be scary because it disrupts the safe, insular environment that have been the foundation of academia for many years, but at the same time it is transformational and will unleash new ideas and capabilities that we can only dream about today.