PocketLint: Opera intends to buy Facebook?
On the Internet, with the submission of the PocketLint resource, rumors spread, accompanied by the duty phrase “it became known from trusted sources,” that Mark Zuckerberg intends to acquire the Norwegian browser producer Opera Software. The main purpose of the purchase is to create a competing product that is designed to make a worthy rival Google Chrome and would be fully integrated with the capabilities of the social network.
Considering the well-known Facebook purchase of the fashionable Instagram service - a company with a staff of 13 people and virtually no profit, albeit with a solid audience base - for an astounding amount of one billion dollars, the rumors or thoughts of PocketLint editors to buy Opera do not look so incredible. Moreover, the recent IPO Facebook, despite the fact that it caused investors' complaints, is a very successful event - the capitalization of the social network, even taking into account the cheaper shares, is about $ 100 billion: in other words, Mark Zuckerberg has more than enough financial resources.
According to various sources, Opera Software’s market capitalization is about $ 700 million; The Norwegian company is the undisputed leader among mobile browsers - Opera Mini is used by 170 million people, and, taking into account the desktop version of Opera, the audience of products is about 270 million people.
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Observers resource TheNextWeb conducted their own investigation on this issue and found that, firstly, at the moment the top management of Opera Software is negotiating the purchase of a company by an unnamed buyer and, secondly, new employees in the company have not been accepted for some time. All this in aggregate may indicate that some future changes in Opera are still possible.
[ PocketLint , TheNextWeb ]
Considering the well-known Facebook purchase of the fashionable Instagram service - a company with a staff of 13 people and virtually no profit, albeit with a solid audience base - for an astounding amount of one billion dollars, the rumors or thoughts of PocketLint editors to buy Opera do not look so incredible. Moreover, the recent IPO Facebook, despite the fact that it caused investors' complaints, is a very successful event - the capitalization of the social network, even taking into account the cheaper shares, is about $ 100 billion: in other words, Mark Zuckerberg has more than enough financial resources.
According to various sources, Opera Software’s market capitalization is about $ 700 million; The Norwegian company is the undisputed leader among mobile browsers - Opera Mini is used by 170 million people, and, taking into account the desktop version of Opera, the audience of products is about 270 million people.
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Observers resource TheNextWeb conducted their own investigation on this issue and found that, firstly, at the moment the top management of Opera Software is negotiating the purchase of a company by an unnamed buyer and, secondly, new employees in the company have not been accepted for some time. All this in aggregate may indicate that some future changes in Opera are still possible.
[ PocketLint , TheNextWeb ]
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/144587/
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