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Is Facebook Going To Buy Opera?

Posted by timothy on Friday May 25, 2012 @10:50PM from the browser-wars-the-sequel dept.

New submitter x0d writes with this excerpt from the L.A. Times: "The Facebook spending spree may be continuing as a new report says the social networking giant might be looking to buy Norwegian company Opera Software. Now fully under the microscope of Wall Street as well as Main Street investors, Facebook is trying to solve its mobile monetizing problems and has been gobbling up various companies in recent months to increase its presence in the world of smartphones."

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Re:Rockmelt by sammyF70 · 2012-05-25 22:55 · Score: 5, Funny

wtf is rockmelt?

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Bad decision by Centurix · 2012-05-25 22:56 · Score: 4, Funny

I'm sure they could have picked up Internet Explorer for a steal. Imagine the positive effect on the stock price!

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And in other news... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-25 22:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Facebook to buy Western Digital. Because they're going to need all those drives to store EVERY. FUCKING. KEYSTROKE.
Re:Rockmelt by Anonymous Coward · 2012-05-26 02:05 · Score: 3, Funny

Don't worry, if Opera does get acquired by a huge corporation with a strong interest in gathering as much information as possible about you, you can always just switch to Chrome!
Re:Rockmelt by kyrio · 2012-05-26 02:58 · Score: 4, Funny

I'll go back to IE.