Opera purchases Skyfire for $155m to improve mobile browser

0. phoneArena posted on 15 Feb 2013, 00:20

Opera has been having a pretty impressive week. First, it announced that it would be transitioning all of its browsers to WebKit, and that its browsers have amassed 300 million users, and now the company has announced that it will purchase Skyfire Labs, maker of the SKyfire browser, for $155 million, likely in an effort to improve Opera's mobile browsers...

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1. rnk.khch posted on 15 Feb 2013, 01:03 4

Quite impressive for Opera!!! Keep up the good work!!! Opera Mobile is an excellent browser!!!

2. mew7946510 posted on 15 Feb 2013, 03:47 0

I'm hoping for a far better browsing experience! Looking forward for the "Ice" browser!

3. christumaini posted on 15 Feb 2013, 04:01 1

nice move.. we are looking forward for opera mobile os in the near future like your fellow mozilla

4. -box- posted on 15 Feb 2013, 14:05 0

Great. When I was an Android and Symbian user Skyfire was my browser of choice, with Opera being for when I needed to use less data or Skyfire wasn't cooperative

5. DSmithee (unregistered) posted on 17 Feb 2013, 23:11 0

Never expected this--since Opera's offerings are leaps and bounds better than what Skyfire Labs offers. Hell, Skyfire for Android hasn't been updated in nearly 2 years.

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