Recent News, 2012

Opera and Naranya ease mobile payments in Latin America

San Mateo, USA – October 30, 2012 Opera Software and Naranya today announced a partnership that will bring mobile payment freedom to users of Naranya’s content offerings and the Opera Mini mobile browser. As part of this agreement, Naranya, the leading mobile marketing & commerce company in Latin America, will be integrated into the Opera […]

iOS dominates Q3 mobile ads with high eCPMs

Opera report unveils unique insights into the mobile advertising economy San Mateo, USA and Oslo, Norway – October 25, 2012 Opera Software today published its third-quarter State of Mobile Advertising report, which shares key data and trends in mobile advertising worldwide. The Opera advertising platform, based on Opera’s subsidiaries AdMarvel, Mobile Theory and 4th Screen […]

Opera taps C-Movil for better reach in Latin America

Partnership gives brands and advertisers stronger ways to reach Mexico’s mobile-first generation Mexico City, Mexico and Oslo, Norway – October 9, 2012 Millions of people throughout Latin America use the Opera Mini mobile browser to connect to the web. Today, C-Movil, the top mobile marketing firm in Latin America, and Opera Software announced a partnership […]

New Opera Mobile: Slimmer, safer surfing on the go

Opera launches Opera Mobile 12.1 for Android Oslo, Norway – October 9, 2012 After a strict diet, the new Opera Mobile 12.1 for Android is ready to show off its sleek new binary in the Google Play store. Despite being tailor made for four different chipsets, ARM v5 and v7, MIPS and X86, the Opera […]

Opera joins the W3C web platform

Oslo, Norway – October 8, 2012 Opera Software has joined forces with a number of other major technology companies – Adobe, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Nokia – to create a new, authoritative open web standards documentation site called Web Platform Docs, available at webplatform.org. The Web Platform Docs addresses the problem of finding a […]

Opera Mobile Store offers developers powerful new promotional options

San Mateo, USA – October 4, 2012 Opera Mobile Store, the world’s fifth largest mobile store, today announced a broad portfolio of promotional options for developers to take advantage of its distribution power to 40 million unique monthly users. The Opera Mobile Store is available through Opera Software’s flagship Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers […]

Oh, hai, API!

Opera introduces Opera 12.10 beta for desktop, now available for download Opera 12.10 supports new OS features, such as built-in sharing of content to social network on MacOS X Mountain Lion shown above. Click image for high-res version. You may know the press releases from Opera Software as the funny, quirky ones that stand out […]

LatAm embraces the mobile web

Oslo, Norway – September 28, 2012 Latin America has been an area of economic growth in recent years, and this shows in the uptake of mobile web usage. The State of the Mobile Web report this month takes a closer look at the Latin American countries and their surfing habits. The “big three”, Facebook, Google […]

Custom-made Opera Mini for Dialog will transform your phones’ experience to smartphone-like

Oslo, Norway and Colombo, Sri Lanka – September 27, 2012 Streaming TV on the mobile phone, receiving live cricket updates, surfing websites and downloading games and wallpaper has received a speed-boost in Sri Lanka, thanks to Dialog and Opera Software joining forces to create a co-branded Opera Mini browser for millions of Dialog subscribers. Opera […]

Hisense and Opera bring personalized TV-viewing experience

Beijing, China – September 27, 2012 Opera Software today announced its cooperation with Hisense, the fifth largest LED TV provider in the world. Opera will deliver its Opera Devices Software Development Kit (SDK) for Linux-based devices to the company’s TV model 55XT770/50K360/K300 series, and Hisense will use Opera’s leading HTML5 engine to bring an enhanced […]