Stockholm - King , the company behind the success of mobile games ' Candy Crush Saga ' , intends to sell some of its shares on the stock exchange . Funds can be scooped estimated at U.S. $ 5 billion ( Rp 50 trillion ) .
King intends trailed success tech stocks such as Facebook and Twitter at the end of last year . Other technology companies that will follow , among others, Spotify , Airbnb , and Square
Critics began to emerge over the King plan . King pessimistic analysts could sustain growth well . The reason , many manufacturers of mobile games do not last long , for example Zynga .
Shares pembesut game ' Farmville ' , it continued to decline since its initial public offering aliases initial public offering ( IPO ) in late 2011. Rovio pembesut the ' Angry Bird ' also until now still have not found a new game that could be as famous as that angry birds .
" The number of requests in the IPO will be quite a lot , " said Benchmark analyst Mike Hickey , as quoted by Reuters on Wednesday ( 02/19/2014 ) .
' Candy Crush Saga ' last year became the most downloaded applications and generates the highest turnover among other applications .
This game has been downloaded 500 million times since its launch in 2012. The game is free , but there are several features that can be obtained with pay , such as extra lives and additional game time .
King reap a turnover of U.S. $ 1.9 billion ( Rp 20 trillion ) in 2013, or an average of U.S. $ 50 billion a day . While profits reached U.S. $ 825 million , soaring higher than previous year profit of U.S. $ 28.5 million .
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