Opera receives $1.2B takeover proposal; deal likely to happen
10 February, 2016
Popular Web browser company Opera has received a buyout offer from a Chinese consortium. The offer values the Norwegian company at NOK 10.5 billion ($1.2 billion), which is reportedly 53% more than its market value before the acquisition rumors broke.
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- RejZoR
- 3pt
- 10 Feb 2016
AnonD-234961, 10 Feb 2016They should do the deal ASAP. In a 1-2 years or so no one w... moreIt's just a reskinned Chrome so who really cares. Old Opera with Presto engine was light years ahead of the rest, this now is just a dumbed down reskinned Chrome. Pointless. Android version however is very good. I'm just not sure about the Chinese part. It's still China in the end and the way how Opera does data compression by routing all data through their proxy if you use Opera Turbo, I frankly trust Norwegian devs more than Chinese in that regard...
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- 95j
- 10 Feb 2016
They should do the deal ASAP. In a 1-2 years or so no one will be using Opera.
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- Anonymous
- tue
- 10 Feb 2016
Using Opera and love it.