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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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    1. Re:Nice one by hairyfeet · · Score: 5, Informative

      You got it back asswards friend, Opera MINI does the whole "go through Opera servers" thing whereas opera MOBILE only does so if you activate turbo.

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    2. Re:Nice one by Lennie · · Score: 5, Informative

      Actually you can't turn it off, because Opera Mini isn't a real browser, that is the whole point of Opera Mini. It is just a client which displays what the Opera server prerendered.

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  2. Re:Rockmelt by sammyF70 · · Score: 5, Funny

    wtf is rockmelt?

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  3. And in other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Facebook to buy Western Digital. Because they're going to need all those drives to store EVERY. FUCKING. KEYSTROKE.

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

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

  5. Re:Rockmelt by inasity_rules · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hope not. I actually like Opera.

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  6. Re:No! by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    My, the spammers have mod points as well.

    Best to just reset the password on those accounts.

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