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The office in Seoul has moved

Wednesday, 14. January 2009, 10:31:14

The office in Seoul has moved to a new location.

The Korean team is growing and needs more space.

Halloween celebration at Opera

Friday, 31. October 2008, 10:01:51

A ghoulish Halloween to all of you from us at Opera Software. The reception at Opera in Oslo is decorated with all sorts of ghastly bats, spiders, witches and pumpkins. Trick or treat...

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Friday October 10 was the anniversary for the founding of HERN Labs. HERN Labs was founded in 1998, and two years later, HERN Labs became Opera Software. HERN is short for Henrik, Erik, Rikard and Nicklas, and on Friday, all four joined us for a big party in Linköping on Friday. (Erik is no longer working at Opera)

We met at the office in Linköping, where we first played a nationality bingo with the 15 nationalities represented at the Opera Sweden office. We had a buffet with food from all the different nations, sung lots of songs, told jokes, and all the four HERN founders held a speech.
After dinner, all guests were divided into groups that were to write a song for HERN and Opera Software based on certain words. Later, each group performed their song, and it was amazing what the groups had made! Throughout the whole night, we also had individual competitions, where the goal was to collect pins with pictures of the HERN guys.

Pins were awarded for correct answers during dinner and other fun stuff. The winners were Jenni and Markus. Congratulations!

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Opera Backstage Wrocław

Thursday, 25. September 2008, 09:27:54

It was hard to get past the bouncers at the Opera Backstage event in Wrocław Thursday October 9. We were more than 120 people gathered to hear Håkon Wium Lie's talk "How long will the Web last?" at the bar 7 Kotów in Wrocław.

It was a pleasure for me and my colleagues at Opera in Wrocław to host an Opera Backstage event in the city where we now have the second largest Opera office. Oslo is the biggest, Wrocław number two, before Linköping in Sweden.

Håkon's talk was very interesting and it spurred many interesting conversations among the attendees. In addition, we managed to drink lots of beer and soft drinks, not to mention all the pizzas, chips and other snacks we consumed.

Thanks to all of you who took part in the Opera Mini quiz. The winner received a Nintendo Wii, and 20 people won Opera T-shirts.

Thank you all for joining us at this event!

BackstagePolandinPolish.pdf

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Opera @ CTIA IT & ENT

Tuesday, 23. September 2008, 07:15:28

Opera hosted a meeting room at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for CTIA IT & ENT this month.

The Opera CTIA IT & ENT team hosted a customer party at San Francisco's "supperclub" and greeted more than 130 guests.

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Recruitment Day Göteborg - Jajamennsann

Monday, 22. September 2008, 16:23:28

We spent one day recruiting in Göteborg at the Barken Viking Hotel. It will be exciting to see how many of the excellent candidates we met, might start working for Opera.

Here you can see Tove Selnes, EVP HR at Opera, at our recruitment venue in Göteborg. If you would like to apply for a job at Opera, or find out more about our open job positions, please check out www.opera.com/jobs for more information.

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Opera at Italian Perl Workshop 2008

Friday, 19. September 2008, 19:47:17

Representatives from Opera attended the Italian Perl Workshop in Pisa Sept. 18-19. Krip, Chiara, Cosimo, Edoardo and Kristin talked to Perl developers about what it is like to work at Opera.

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Junior high school students visiting Opera

Thursday, 4. September 2008, 19:48:34

Seventy-five junior high school students came visiting Opera one day. They were taking a walk along Akerselva (the river that runs next to Opera). One of the mothers of this group of students happens to be working at Opera, and she had asked them to stop by the office. They were on a trip to look at the types of businesses that were in the area, and maybe think of what types of businesses have been along Akerselva historically.

We gave them one cap each, and this is the jubilant expressions they gave us in return.

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