Norwegian software company Opera may be heading to China… sort of. A consortium of Chinese companies wants to buy Opera for $1.2 billion, which is a lot of money for a company whose web browsers for ...

Opera Software ASA agreed to exclude its video-compression and virtual private network business from the sale of the Oslo-based company’s internet browser to a Chinese consortium after earlier failing ...

Opera is a free Internet browser created by the Norwegian company Opera Software. It can run on Windows, Macintosh and Linux computers. Among its features are Opera video downloader extensions that ...

It’s hard to believe that Opera, in many ways a precursor to the modern internet browser, is nearing its 21st anniversary. The freeware program began in 1994 as a research program at Norwegian ...

The Norwegian browser maker completes the first step of its transition to the browser engine used by Google's Chrome. Sync, tabs, and themes are due in the next version. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

A consortium of Chinese investors that includes billionaire Zhou Hongyi and his cyber security and search company Qihoo 360, has offered to buy Opera Software for $1.2 billion, the Norwegian software ...

Opera Software had a very busy 2013. During the year, it completed what's thought to be the largest ever acquisition by a Norwegian IT company; killed off some of its core technology, the web page ...