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Is Facebook Going To Buy Opera?

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Nice one by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The opera mobile browser works by offloading a lot of work to a server run by opera. This would give facebook access to everything which goes through every mobile opera browser.

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  2. Warning to Fastmail users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Opera owns Fastmail. Do you want Facebook to own your email?