Opera extends strategic review

Nieuws Breedband Wereld 30 DEC 2015
Opera extends strategic review

Opera Software said it will be extending its company-wide strategic review, started in August. The company expects to conclude the review by the time it releases its full year results on 09 February 2016. Opera said it will update shareholders and other stakeholders about the outcome of the review in due course.

In August, Opera announced that the company had attracted "strategic interest from a number of parties". As a result, the software company's board started a process to evaluate strategic alternatives. ABG Sundal Collier and Morgan Stanley International were hired as advisers, and Opera said it expected to complete the review in the second half of this year. 

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