Rumor: Facebook To Acquire Opera Browser
A source speaking to Pocket-lint has apparently said that Facebook will be buying out Opera Software. The company is responsible for the Opera web browser which boasts 200 million users across all available platforms. Facebook’s plan seems to be a repurposing of the Opera browser into a Facebook browser. With the desire to expand further into the mobile sector, alongside Opera’s continued growth on the mobile front, the pairing would give Facebook a browser they can mold instead of having to build one from scratch. More importantly, having a browser of their own with which to track their users would give Facebook the ability to market user data not just on Facebook but everywhere on the net. Will Facebook build a browser and take on the likes of Google, Microsoft and Mozilla for your mobile and desktop web browsing? It’s to soon to know, however it doesn’t seem to far off the mark considering the $16 billion the company earned with its IPO.
Since the Facebook IPO, which netted the company over $16 billion, Mark Zuckerberg’s organisation has plenty of cash to expand. It has also left us in no doubt that it wants to get into the mobile sector more and more. Owning its own browser to market data from users regardless of whether or not they are actually on the Facebook website would be one such way of doing that.
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