Opera Software is announcing Sponsored Web Pass, a breakthrough in bringing easy-to-understand, zero-risk mobile internet packages to consumers around the world. Sponsored Web Pass enables operators to easily team up with advertisers to sponsor the cost of customers’ mobile internet access, providing users with free mobile data. Sponsored Web Pass enables consumers to access the […]
RCN brings the Opera TV Store to TiVo® set-top boxes The Opera TV Store is set to bring hundreds of entertaining apps to all TiVo set-top boxes for U.S. cable operator RCN. It is the first pay-TV cable operator to launch Opera Software’s app platform on its TiVo devices, and the first TiVo operator deployment […]
In the CIS region, smartphones are storming the market, and Russia is leading the pack. As trends from the latest State of the Mobile Web report show, Russian users of Opera mobile browsers are converting to smartphones faster than the global average. Looking at numbers from the Opera servers, more than 47% of Russian users […]
More content and more relevance hit Smart TV this year TV has gotten a whole lot smarter, as Smart TVs take over living rooms across the globe. Plugging your TV into the internet seeks to meet all your home entertainment needs on one screen, whether it’s apps, surfing the web, or checking out new videos […]
Opera’s cloud-based mobile-video-optimization unit, Skyfire, has found that 37% of all videos that play on Russia’s 3G networks suffer from stalling and rebuffering, resulting in frustrated users and high video abandonment rates. The survey also finds that 28% of videos played on 3G networks in the country encounter significant stalling, defined as stalling or buffering […]
Cross-platform mobile app store now offers 200,000 apps The Opera Mobile Store, the fifth-largest mobile app store in the world, today announced that it has reached a new milestone of 105 million monthly visitors at the end of Q4 2013. As the world’s largest cross-platform app store, the Opera Mobile Store saw exponential growth in […]
Opera Software and IAMAI to organize Surf Safe seminars in schools. Through its Surf Safe campaign, Opera Software has been working to increase understanding about the importance of healthy internet-browsing habits among young adults in India since 2011. Opera, along with experts from the internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), conducts seminars in schools and […]
As the New Year takes hold, Opera Mediaworks today released insights about mobile advertising in the last quarter of 2013 that point to yet another growth year for the industry. To start, the company found that in the three days around Christmas (December 24, 25 and 26), the number of smartphones and tablets, increased by […]
Skyworth strengthens its Smart TV offerings with full suite of Opera TV solutions Skyworth, a leading global TV manufacturer based in China, today announced that it has selected the full suite of Opera TV solutions to provide a complete, immersive Smart TV experience. After achieving No.1 domestic TV market share in China, Skyworth now has […]
Following the success of the Opera Mini co-branded browser across VimpelCom markets, the two companies are further strengthening their partnership through a complete mobile internet engagement and monetization framework, spanning from basic phones to smartphones. Through an extension of the existing Global Framework Agreement (GFA), VimpelCom subsidiaries can opt into the entire Opera portfolio of […]
