Rumor: Google to Buy Opera?
So the rumor is that Google is acquiring Opera.
The string of people on this one is a bit long Gary Price points at Dirson who points at Pierre Chappaz.
Opera recently dropped licensing fees after striking compensation deals with search providers.
Anyone know French? Is this rumor true, or just a brilliant linkbait?
- Y! MyWeb
Maybe it's PAYBACK
For Firefox letting Yahoo! get the action in Asia.
The post was:
Firefox NOT Loyal to Google ...Yahoo! Fights for Asia
Chappaz says to treat it with caution
I read that post of Gary's a couple of hours ago, checked his sources and check the current news sources. At the moment IMO its a lightweight rumour, and only one unverified source.
Gary does say he has asked G for a comment, but none has so far arrived back to him!
They want the mobile unit.
They want the mobile unit.
Good Call Nick
I forgot about that mobile Opera stuff
An Opera official outright
from Opera Watch
But have you all noticed the
But have you all noticed the tendency? Google is constantly rumoured to be buying this or that browser - definitely we see movement in the direction of a Google browser and i suspect some time next year we might get to see one, even if in beta.
P.S. Aaron - I love it how you're dispersing your own rumours ;-)
Like Microsoft?
Isn't this somewhat like what Microsoft did to smaller companies back in the day? Stop in and show interest in buying the company, figure out how everything is done, then never buy it and build it themselves.
I kind of hope this isn't
I kind of hope this isn't true, I wouldn't want them to get rid of the M2 mail client in Opera and use Gmail instead!
And that Opera Watch post said they have turned down large figure offers in the past.
Would instantely make it a much more popular browser though.Then I wouldn't be one of the odd minority crowd who use it all the time :D