[charlesju]

Here is the deal:

Rovio is still independent.

They used Chillingo as a publisher and thus they are obligated to pay Chillingo 50% of the profits for Angry Birds.

EA has purchased Chillingo and thus rights to 50% of Angry Birds's future profits.

[Sindrome]

50% seems like an obscene amount to give someone just to promote an IPhone app. Especially when having the app featured on iTunes is the best promo you can get and that's Apple's call.

[gte910h]

I've read it is much more like 10%