Opera Software
Owners:
Qihoo 360 Technology
for July, 2016
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History
2017: Renaming of Opera into Otello Corporation
On December 18, 2017 it was announced renaming of the Norwegian company Opera Software into Otello Corporation. Rebranding happened after the mass sale of assets, including browser business. Otello Corporation focused on development of advertizing and mobile solutions, and the new company Opera Software belonging to the Chinese consortium began to develop the Opera browsers. Read more here.
2016: Opera sold browser business to Chinese
In July, 2019 Opera sold the browser business to consortium led by the Chinese investment fund Golden Brick Silk Road (the group also included the developer of the games Beijing Kunlun Tech, the producer of the antivirus software Qihoo 360 Technology and Yonglian Investment investment firm).
The assets connected with release of web observers for phones and tablets, applications for fall forward and safety of work on the Internet and also share in the Chinese developer of the nHorizon browsers and business in the field of licensing of technologies are sold for $600 million.