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The recently released Coast for iPad is interesting - coastbyopera.com/ I am thinking Opera want to be acquired?

• nly 13y ago
  > I am thinking Opera want to be acquired? Possibly. They were uncannily quick in adopting Blink. The series of events seemed to be Opera->WebKit, Google->Blink, Opera->Blink... so perhaps they want to get cosy with Google? Although, I can't see what G would want with them. I think it's also known that, sometime around IE7, Microsoft tried to acquire them. Microsoft have long since made their bed though... unless they want a better mobile browser. Either way, it'd make total sense for Opera to ditch their email operation if they were looking to be acquired by a business with an established email product already. Especially when many Fastmail customers are there because of their particular niche in service. Perhaps it's the new Blackberry group? Dark horse! :P
  • Indyan 13y ago
    Two clarifications: - Opera never switched to Webkit. Opera had switched to Chromium, which initially used Webkit. So, it's no surprise that Opera adopted Blink. - Opera has publicly commented it was aware of Google's plans for Blink, and that information was a factor in the decision to switch to the Chromium engine.
• kijin 13y ago
  There were rumors last year that Facebook might acquire Opera. They didn't. But maybe someone else will. As a FastMail user I was very concerned with last year's rumors. Now I don't care because FastMail doesn't have anything to do with Opera anymore.
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