Chinese group buys Opera for US$600m
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A Chinese group has bought the Opera Internet browser for US$600 million, its Norwegian developer said yesterday, after a public share offer for the firm failed.
The consortium led by Golden Brick Silk Road will purchase the mobile and desktop versions of the Internet browser, plus performance and privacy apps and a stake in a Chinese joint venture, but not the advertising, games and television units, said Opera Software in a statement to the Oslo stock exchange.
The transaction was announced simultaneously with the failure of the US$1.2 billion public offer to take over the entire company.
It gave no reason for the failure, but in a statement to the stock exchange last week Opera Software said the outcome of the offer was uncertain as it had not yet received regulatory approvals by the deadline of July 15.
“It wasn’t that the approvals weren’t given, just that it didn’t happen before the deadline,” CEO Lars Boilesen was quoted as saying in the daily Dagens Naeringsliv.
Golden Brick Silk Road fund is a Chinese consortium which includes Beijing Kunlun Tech, which specializes in mobile games, and cyber security specialist Qihoo 360.
Opera’s management had backed the proposed takeover as it would give the browsers access to the extensive Internet user bases of Kunlun and Qihoo in China.
Opera says its browser is used by over 350 million consumers worldwide.
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