Rovio’s Angry Birds games were downloaded 30m times over Christmas, 8m on Christmas Day alone http://tnw.to/e0Tde

Current TV becomes Al Jazeera America following acquisition, Al Gore joins ‘advisory board’ http://tnw.to/h0aCa

Social news site BuzzFeed lands $19.3m from NEA, Buddy Media co-founders and prior backers http://tnw.to/k0Z1t

Google’s Eric Schmidt is heading to cloistered, technologically-backward North Korea on a private trip http://tnw.to/m0ZKQ