State of the Opera: Q1 2008
Monday, 2. June 2008, 11:13:48
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)
WIDGETIZE
Kyle Baker # 2. June 2008, 22:19
Steve Darken # 3. June 2008, 03:40
Tamil # 3. June 2008, 04:50
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Aleksander # 4. June 2008, 11:38