Rumors of Opera Acquisition By Facebook Are Still Flying
Opera has successfully released the Opera Mini 7 which is meant for ‘basic’ phones specifically, i.e. Java ME, Nokia s60 and Blackberry instead of Apple and Android, based smart phones.
The smart page of Opera Mini 7 contains new features that are related to social user’s Twitter and Facebook feeds; these feeds are captured directly from the home page of the browser. Besides that, browsing history, suggestions to follow news sites are also present on the page.
The CEO of Opera, Lars Boilesen gave a statement that, “I’ve spent hours typing web addresses on my mobile phone, but now there’s a super smart way to get most of your content at a glance.”
Since February this new version of Opera was on trial session, which is now the most popular product of the company. With the support of approximately 3,000 phone models and 168 million users per month Opera Mini 7 is escalating its value. This is heating up another news about Facebook’s plans for buying Opera, as Mark Zuckerberg has already set up for Facebook’s own mobile!
Aside the rumors of Opera’s acquisition by Facebook, a huge amount of criticism concerning the deal has also come across. People like Mr. Trip Chowdhry the managing director of equity research at GER (Global Equities Research), thinks that like Instagram this acquisition is also useless.
Mr. Trip Chowdhry has a point, but the Chief Executive Officer of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has an authentic reason for such a decision; in the year 2012 mobile phones will become a top priority for Facebook.
By keeping in account statcounter.com, statistics of a site giving global browsing trend and the usage of cell-phones for internet browsing is 5.21 percent to 9.58 percent, from April 2011 till April 2012. On the other hand Opera manages to grant mobile browser category’s market share of 21 percent, in the similar time frame.
Yes, Facebook can take benefits from the mobile platform of Android or iOS instead of taking help from a browser to enter the mobile market, but if Facebook has its own browser then the social network will freely integrate the features along with richer browsing experience.
If there was a shred of truth to the rumor of Opera’s acquisition by Facebook then the launch of this product would have been played in Facebook’s hands; no comment or report has come across yet.
, thinks that like Instagram this acquisition is also useless.
Mr. Trip Chowdhry has a point, but the Chief Executive Officer of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg has an authentic reason for such a decision; in the year 2012 mobile phones will become a top priority for Facebook.
By keeping in account statcounter.com, statistics of a site giving global browsing trend and the usage of cell-phones for internet browsing is 5.21 percent to 9.58 percent, from April 2011 till April 2012. On the other hand Opera manages to grant mobile browser category’s market share of 21 percent, in the similar time frame.
Yes, Facebook can take benefits from the mobile platform of Android or iOS instead of taking help from a browser to enter the mobile market, but if Facebook has its own browser then the social network will freely integrate the features along with richer browsing experience.
If there was a shred of truth to the rumor of Opera’s acquisition by Facebook then the launch of this product would have been played in Facebook’s hands; no comment or report has come across yet.Next%20stop%3A%20Pinterest "Pin It")
