Blink: Google forks Webkit to give the Chrome browser its own rendering engine (insert dongle joke here)

Google is taking its ball and going home, forking the open-source WebKit browser rendering engine that Chrome and Safari currently use and that Opera recently said it would start using.

Opera buys Skyfire for $155M to trim carriers’ mobile video burden

Opera is spending $155 million to help bring Skyfire's video-optimization software to network operators around the world.

Opera hits a big milestone — 300M monthly users — and decides to swap out its core browser engine for WebKit

Which essentially means that everyone is using WebKit except for Microsoft and Firefox. And that the fat lady is not singing for the end of Opera's improbable browser journey.

Opera Ice may finally help Opera make a dent on iOS, Android

Next up from the web browser maker Opera: A new browser that aims to take full advantage of mobile and give the company a significant foothold on iOS and Android.

Opera Mini for Android 7.5 gets a social, location-based reboot

Opera Mini for Android 7.5 brings a few new touches, including a socially focused Smart Page. But how will it compete with Firefox and Chrome for Android, Yahoo Axis, or Baidu's new mobile browser?

Opera 12: new version, new features, new competitive challenges

Opera is releasing version 12 of the Opera browser today, with new features for theming, controlling your computer’s hardware from the browser without using a plugin, speed, and security.

VentureBeat talked with Opera’s Jan Standal, vice-president of desktop products to …

The Facebook effect: Opera shares jump to record highs on Facebook rumors

Nothing gets a company’s stock price moving quite like rumors of a Facebook acquisition.

The latest beneficiary is browser maker Opera, whose shares jumped 26 percent Tuesday on the speculation that it’s in Facebook’s acquisition crosshairs, Bloomberg notes. The move …

Facebook’s next big buy could be browser maker Opera

Facebook may be looking to buy browser maker Opera Software, according to a new report.

A source told Pocket-lint that the social network wants to expand into the browser space and is looking to acquire Opera to do so. VentureBeat …

Google adding Skype-like abilities to Chrome

Google plans to add real-time communications abilities into the Chrome browser, according to an announcement on Google’s Chromium-dev group. Using its own WebRTC project at its base, the company will attempt to enable real-time communications through Chrome and then, potentially, …