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State of the Opera: Q1 2008
The financial result for the first quarter of 2008 were announced today. To summarize: Opera is profitable, has lots of cash, and revenues are growing rapidly in all business segments.
Some highlights:
- Opera is profitable; revenues growing faster than expenses
- Record quarter with an overall revenue growth of 57%
- Expenses 25% up
- Desktop revenue up 56% due to more users and higher Average Revenue Per User (ARPU)
- More than 20 million monthly Desktop users
- 10% growth in Desktop user base since Q4 2007
- 11.9 million people used Opera Mini in March
- 20 billion pages viewed through Opera Mini so far
- Monthly page views through Opera Mini going through the roof
- Large increase in Opera Mini revenue streams
- Major new mobile/device customers announced (and more to be announced)
- Opera has now passed the 500 employees mark (yes, there was cake)
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About this article
| Published in | A Journal from Behind the Trenches |
|---|---|
| Date | June 2, 2008 |
| Author | Haavard |
| Tags | opera, financials |
| Original | Internet Archive |
kyleabaker2. June 2008, 22:19:42
Darken3. June 2008, 03:40:37
Tamil3. June 2008, 04:50:40
Originally posted by haavard:
aaas4. June 2008, 11:38:29