| Nokia/CCHub Growth Academy launched to grow Nigerian mobile software firms WorldStage The head, ecosystem and developer experience, Nokia West Africa, Mr. Teemu Kiijarvi, disclosed at the launch in Lagos that Nigeria has a thriving and growing mobile software start-up scene with a lot of potential for growth, saying that the company ... See all stories on this topic » |  WorldStage |
PCWorld
Opera says that more than 168 million people -- many of them "young and innovative," according to market research -- used the Opera Mini mobile web browser in March. With Mini in hand, Facebook could vastly expand its reach into mobile.
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Digitaltrends.com
According to PocketLint, an insider says Facebook is interested in buying Opera Software (which runs the Opera browser, obviously) and creating its own such application. The idea that Facebook would take on the likes of Bing and Google Search isn't ...
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Los Angeles Times
By Salvador Rodriguez The Facebook spending spree may be continuing as a new report says the social networking giant might be looking to buy Norwegian company Opera Software. Now fully under the microscope of Wall Street as well as Main Street ...
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| Is Facebook Wearing Its Opera Glasses? AllFacebook Here's one way for Facebook to address its mobile issues: In what it coining a “juicy rumor,” The Next Web reports that the social network may be examining a smartphone browser software company as a possible acquisition. Norway-based Opera Softwareis ... See all stories on this topic » |  AllFacebook |
GMA News
Pocket-lint.com said one of its trusted sources indicated the social networking giant is looking to buy Opera Software, the company behind the Opera web browser. "Opera already has a very goodmobile browser, which has seen strong growth in the two ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Yahoo, which over the past year made a push to release software “apps” like Livestand to mobiledevices, gets significant traffic to its mobile websites from mobile-device users. So the company plans to spend more resources beefing up those sites, ...
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IntoMobile
Let's preface this with the disclaimer that this is a super-duper rumor but the folks over at Pocket-Lint are saying that Facebook is looking to buy Opera Software and we'd bet mobile would be a big motivator. Opera has been in an interesting ...
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InformationWeek
But even if Facebook's IPO woes owe more to problems with stock trading software and skepticism among financial industry insiders than to GM's claim that Facebook advertising doesn't work, the automaker's dissatisfaction with Facebook ads bears further ...
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