Opera Software is branching out to Silicon Valley
Published June 25th, 2007 4:53 PM EDT By Daniel GoldmanAs Reuters is reporting, we’re setting up an Opera office in Silicon Valley. The Silicon Valley office will initially have about 10 employees working there.
The valley move is aimed at both increasing Opera’s presence in the US among web users as well as managing the partnership and relationships with companies like Google and Yahoo, who are also in the area.
It goes without saying how important the US market is for Opera. Having a presence in the valley will help us set up distribution deals with mobile phone carriers/operators and local handset manufacturers. We want to make Opera Mini even more popular than it already is.
Another area of focus in the US is marketing, in particular of the desktop browser. With the upcoming Opera 9.5 upgrade, Opera will be doing more serious marketing to help promote the browser with more aggressive outreach campaigns.
This isn’t the first Opera office in the US. Our main office here is in San Diego, California, where we do marketing and mobile and devices sales. The other office is located in Austin, Texas.
P.S. Interested in working at Opera? Check out the job listings.
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How many employees work at the San Diego and Austin offices?
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i hope this move will not affect Opera’s personality, being a global company from Norway (one of the very few countries have full respect from almost all the earth people) give it credit and more respect.
beside Oslo’s headquarters and main office, opera has many offices located world wide, like : Seoul of South Korea, Chandigarh of India, Tokyo of Japan, Linköping of Sweden, Beijing of China, Alexandria of Egypt (not yet ?); that makes Opera a global company dedicated to all humanity :), but making their main public relations office (will it be the only one ?) located in silicon valley will means that opera will focus on american market, and yes i think even web development have separated markets/design schools like japaneese sites usually use flash, most russians are simple with little javascript, arabic are bloated with all possible noise etc. , but i admit most popular web manufacturers are american or have their offices at silicon valley.
though, i have lake of complete insight, may be this would be a good step toward unifying our human civilization!
P.S. i am not very serious
BTW, what P.S. stand for ?
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Too bad Opera Software isn’t opening offices in Indianapolis. If they did that, then I would be there in person with my resume in hand…
Anyway, good to hear that Opera Software is expanding in the US. Too bad they have to do it all out west though. Granted the companies that Opera Software would be dealing with the most are in US are out west, but there’s no way I’m going that far west just to work for a company as excellent as Opera Software.
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khaled khalil, P.S. stands for postscript (or “post scriptum” if you speak Latin). It was originally used to add an afterthought to the end of a letter, since inserting it into the main body of a letter would require rewriting it.
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thanks GT500
the only postscript i knew is a file type :), not knowing about its name
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GT500, you should apply for the job anyway!
Good to heat that Opera is moving forward for their marketing campain and all the publicity around the desktop browser.
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khaled khalil, the text says “increasing Opera’s presence in the US”, not “decreasing Opera’s presence everywhere else”.
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I don’t know. I have heard of Opera trying out new things to promote the company in America - and I do not know how successful they have been in the past. With each major release they start something new - first the Times Square bit, then the funny looking people in the ads that they have been running in magazines and on the web (which was on the sidebar of this blog for a while) trying to look more ‘hip’ - I just don’t think they understand the American populace as well as they should.
Good luck to Opera…
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Maulkin, I did apply for a job at Opera Software about 6 months ago, and they turned me down. I don’t think they want me working from home. Of course, I was thrilled when I checked my e-mail, and they had actually bothered telling me that they couldn’t hire me. I don’t think any other employer has ever notified me of their intention not to hire me. Normally I just assume that a company doesn’t want me when it’s been more than a week, and I start applying for more jobs…
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@IceArdor: I don’t have the exact number of employees in each office, but the San Diego one is our main office in the US (until the Silicon Valley office opens). I work on the east coast in New Jersey (from home).
@khaled: Opera’s marketing and PR efforts in the Silicon Valley office will primarily focus on the US market. We will still have marketing and PR people in most of the regions with Opera offices.
@Maulkin: The revenue from the desktop browser makes up a nice portion of Opera’s total revenue. Making the desktop browser more popular and increasing our marketshare is a top priority for the company.
@EC: Now that we’ll have marketing people from the US, hopefully we won’t go down that road again.
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That’s all good..but i won’t recommend Opera to a single person unless & until it comes with an auto update feature. A browser without an auto update feature is just asking for trouble, even if it has the best security track record.