{"id":172400,"date":"2016-07-18T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=172400"},"modified":"2016-07-18T16:31:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:31:47","slug":"opera-browser-sold-for-600-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/172400-opera-browser-sold-for-600-million.html","title":{"rendered":"Opera browser sold for $600 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweb.no\/newsweb\/search.do?messageId=406030\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Opera has sold<\/strong><\/a> its\u00a0browser business, privacy and performance apps, its tech licensing, and its name to a\u00a0Chinese consortium.<\/p>\n<p>Security firm Qihoo 360 are purchasing the assets for\u00a0$600 million (R8.6 billion), while Opera will keep its\u00a0consumer division, including Opera Apps &amp; Games and Opera TV.<\/p>\n<p>The company has not stated what will happen to its employees,\u00a01,109 of whom may be affected by the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Opera has 18 months to find a new name, according to\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/160550-the-most-popular-internet-browsers-in-the-world.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>March 2016 data<\/strong><\/a> from NetMarketShares showed that Opera was the fifth most popular Internet browser in the world.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on\u00a0Opera<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/163835-opera-mini-gets-built-in-ad-blocker.html\">Opera Mini gets built-in ad blocker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/162726-unlimited-free-vpn-built-into-the-opera-browser.html\">Unlimited free VPN built into the Opera browser<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera has sold its browser business, privacy and performance apps, its tech licensing, and its name to a Chinese consortium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":163994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,16],"tags":[36,207],"class_list":["post-172400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-software","tag-active","tag-opera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172402,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172400\/revisions\/172402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}