Liz Gannes in Mobile on May 16 at 5:00 am PT
With 50 percent of the mobile browser market in its home market of China, UCWeb is now looking across the Pacific.
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Ina Fried in Mobile on February 15 at 10:20 pm PT
Browser maker Opera said late Wednesday that it has acquired two mobile advertising networks: London-based 4th Screen Advertising and San Francisco-based Mobile Theory. Opera said the moves should help the company “better monetize the traffic” from its Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers.
Ina Fried in Mobile on September 19, 2011 at 11:04 am PT
Opera scoops up a mobile app store vendor in a move that will eventually lead the company to using more of its own technology.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 27, 2011 at 5:20 am PT
The independent app store is hoping that connecting with Facebook will help users find interesting apps more easily and allow GetJar to stand out from Amazon, the Android Market and other rivals.
Ina Fried in Mobile on April 1, 2011 at 3:30 am PT
GetJar is once again offering the Opera Mini browser, albeit with one big modification.
GetJar pulled Opera’s browsers last month after Opera began offering a rival app store from within its mobile browsers. Now Opera is back on GetJar’s virtual shelves, but without the app store.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 9, 2011 at 11:18 am PT
The independent app store says it doesn’t mind a little competition, but won’t go so far as to make life easier for a company seeking to take away its business. The move comes just hours after the formal launch of Opera’s mobile app store and highlights the increasing competition in the space.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 7, 2011 at 5:30 pm PT
The Norwegian browser maker is the latest company hoping to strike app store gold; it announced Monday it has signed a three-year deal with Appia, which will power an App Store that Opera will deliver directly to phones via its Opera Mobile and Opera Mini browsers.
Kara Swisher in News on February 24, 2011 at 11:12 am PT
Yesterday, BoomTown paid a long overdue visit on the Mountain View, Calif., HQ of Mozilla, the unusual public-private company that makes the Firefox browser, to chat with its (relatively) new CEO Gary Kovacs (pictured here).
There is a lot to talk about with the new exec, especially the near-to-official launch of Firefox 4, the increasing competition with Google and its Chrome efforts and where Mozilla goes next (mobile).
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Voices in News on November 1, 2010 at 9:54 am PT
The latest
month-to-month changes in Web browser share, as calculated by analytics outfit Net Applications, are measured in tenths of a percentage point, but they’re consistent with the year-to-date trends–namely significant gains for Google’s Chrome, modest gains for Apple’s Safari and slight slippage for everyone else. In October, Microsoft IE held 59.26 percent (off about three points since January), Mozilla’s Firefox edged down to 22.82 percent (down from 24.43 percent in January), Chrome rose to 8.47 percent (up more than three points for the year), Safari crept up to 5.33 percent (eight-tenths of a point better than January) and Opera trailed with a steady 2.28 percent.
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Beth Callaghan in News on September 30, 2010 at 8:11 am PT
Opera Software ASA, maker of Opera Mini, the dominant mobile Web browser,
reports that as of August 2010, global usage grew 108.3 percent since August 2009, and 6.8 percent since July 2010 alone. Pageviews increased 143.2 percent since 2009, and 14.3 percent since July 2010.
Opera Mini commands 24.8 percent of the mobile browser market–BlackBerry, iPhone and Nokia, its closest rivals, each have 17 to 18 percent market share.
