Can a company with just 190 workers and four products be worth $10.2bn?
That is the question being asked of Supercell, the Finnish mobile gaming company that became the highest valued European technology start-up on Tuesday, when China’s Tencent bought a majority stake in it from Japan’s SoftBank.
For many, it seemed an all too familiar story. Mobile gaming is a young industry and is littered with once dominant companies — such as Zynga, maker of FarmVille, and Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds — only to slip as gamers moved on to the next big thing.
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