Opera is one of the leading browsers that has lived a few days before the advent of Google Chrome and the continued evolution of Mozilla Firefox, which ended with the introduction of Quantum. The browser is characterized by the invention of many new features on the world of browsers, which contributed to the so-called war browsers later, after the other companies to quote these properties and developed to improve the level of the browser, no one can deny the virtue and impact of the Opera browser concrete to this day.
The news of the Opera browser has disappeared and is no longer on the pages of technical sites recently and after the end of the Golden Age clinically after the proliferation of other browsers as mentioned in the previous paragraph, until it came back again last year, when it was announced in July 2016 Golden Group Brick Capital, which includes a group of Chinese investors and has the famous Chinese anti-virus and anti-virus applications Qihoo 360, has acquired Opera Software AS, a subsidiary of Opera Software ASA, in a deal worth $ 600 million.
The Chinese group announced that it would keep the name and brand of the Opera browser unchanged, so Opera Software AS was supposed to keep the browser developer on its behalf, and the former parent company Opera Software ASA would also retain its name. It's confusing, is not it? ... From here the name of Oprah appeared in the news again.
According to Reuters news agency, Norwegian company Opera Software ASA has officially changed its brand name to Otello Corporation, inspired by Verdi's opera of the Othello play by English writer Shakespeare. The company also announced that it will change its name in the stock market of the Oslo Stock Exchange and the new company will launch its brand and new logo within several days.
Opera Software ASA has completely and completely separated from its past development of the browser of the same name. In a private statement to TNW, the Norwegian company's CEO, Lars Boilessen, said the change of name was legal. The Chinese group that bought the browser and its developer also acquired the right to use his trademark, so it was necessary to change the name of the parent company.
Boilesen, who works as an advisor to the Chinese group and his chairmanship of Otello, confirmed that Opera's performance continues to rise after the Chinese group bought it, and that its users and market share are constantly increasing.
The company, which currently changes its name from Opera to Otello, currently owns Adcolony and the smart phone application Bemobi, and the developer of the browser, which is currently owned by the Chinese group, will retain its name and brand.