The popular Opera browser we all know is about to be acquired by a Chinese company. The company share holders voted in favor of the deal.

According to Techcrunch, The opera browser will be sold for nothing less than $1.2 Billion but for the deal to be completed they will have to wait for the approval from the authorities in China and Norway. According to Opera CEO Lars Boilesen and CTO Håkon Wium claims the decision isn't from them. Below is his exact words:

“I have been working for Opera since ’99, Håkon ’98,” Boilesen said. “He’s No. 8; I’m No. 16. We’ve been with Opera for many years. We got listed on the Stockholm stock exchange in 2004. So basically, the shareholders — they decided to initiate this process. It was kind of their decision. It wasn’t our decision.”

Opera Senior staff disclosed that this decision is made by the entire shareholders, from about 90.6 percent of the outstanding share capital and 90.9 percent of the votes in the company have approved the acquisition and this will not stop the company from improving and adding new feature to the Opera mobile and PC version for now.

Source: http://www.techpill.net/2016/05/opera-is-about-to-be-bought-by-chinese.html

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make dem no try nonsense ooh

E remain Nairaland

If ordinary opera mini can sell for 1.2 billion dollars, only God knows how much chrome and Mozilla Firefox will sell

Ehn ehn

What ever they do they shouldn't temper with the data saving feature and don't mess it up with their Chinese site on it home page. One thing am sure of is that they will remove support for some phones like BB OS ( OS 7 and below) and java phones.

its time for me to learn how to build an app

lofty900:
If ordinary opera mini can sell for 1.2 billion dollars, only God knows how much chrome and Mozilla Firefox will sell

why the much hype about this Mozilla Firefox?

lofty900:
If ordinary opera mini can sell for 1.2 billion dollars, only God knows how much chrome and Mozilla Firefox will sell

what makes u think opera is ordinary?

krattoss:
why the much hype about this Mozilla Firefox?

Mozilla Firefox is the best browser in the world for now. How come nobody ever use the desktop version of Opera only the mobile version? But people always use chrome and Mozilla Firefox both on phone and computers

Collinz2:
what makes u think opera is ordinary?

it doesn't have much features like others

okay

Upgrade it

buying a browser that has lost the battle to chrome.

Like this if you use Opera. OPERA IS THE BEST BROWSER FOR MULTITASKING....INCREDIBLY FAST! FIREFOX AND CHROME ARE SHITTY BROWSERS!

Who cares
Stupıd overhyped browser.
You can't see or transfer saved pages

The poster above needs... Oh! my dear opera!

Chinese will buy everythng including sme countries soon

lofty900:
Mozilla Firefox is the best browser in the world for now

LEARNERS...DOWNLOAD OPERA AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. REMEMBER...I USE TO THINK LIKE YOU UNTIL I TRIED IT.

make them handle am well oh because na my best browser.

Ok

What?

slightlyMad:
buying a browser that has lost the battle to chrome.

says by who, with their heavy data consumption?

Nice

opera..lol

China ti take over

after dere CEO promised to sell to me in 5yrs tym....wicked somebody

Chrome my foot.
That browser is bad news on Mobile. its doesn't actually close, consumes RAM like no mans business and lemme not get started on the data it consumes...even while browsing Facebook. Data Savings mode my foot.

I've got 31 tabs on OperaMini and RAM usage doesn't pass 35MB. You can quit the browser and it shuts down fully.

With Chrome, just 6 tabs is 39MB gone. No option to close the browser so its either you relegate it to background or u force close. Restart phone and its one of the first things to boot up.