[tagawa]

An increasing proportion of Opera's (growing) revenue comes from advertising (they bought a few agencies recently) and their share price continues to climb. I don't think they have many problems moving forward, it's just less visible than their traditional consumer-facing domain.

Still a shame they dropped Presto, though.

[muyuu]

Doesn't make much sense to ditch webmail anyway. There are many ways in which webmail can help and promote their other products.

[benologist]

Is that separate from their browser stuff?

[mrweasel]

More or less I think, they bought AdMarvel.

[frabcus]

Interesting - perhaps it has the same market as Opera's browsers used to (e.g. carriers)?

As a geek, I often forget that a shared market can indicate why a company is doing something new, as well as a shared product.