 Press Release
NewsNow and Opera Mini partner to bring quicker news updates
1 December 2008
NewsNow integrated with award-winning Opera Mini mobile Web
browser
NewsNow today announces its integration into the Opera Mini mobile Web
browser published by Opera Software. Under the terms of the partnership
agreement, Opera Software will pre-install NewsNow as an opening-screen
bookmark on the latest British release of its free Opera Mini mobile Web
browser, launched on Tuesday, 24 November 2008.
The deal brings NewsNow to the user-base of the award-winning mobile Web
browser, and it brings Opera Mini to the user-base of the UK's leading
independent news portal and aggregation website.
Struan Bartlett, founder and chairman, NewsNow Publishing Limited,
said:
“Sadly, the Web browsers that come built in to mobile devices are too
often slow and cumbersome and rarely cut the mustard. In our testing,
however, Opera Mini — thanks to its unique compression
technology —
provided the fastest and best experience of NewsNow currently
available on
a mobile phone.
“We believe NewsNow really could be a new 'killer app' for mobile phones
and we are delighted to have formed this association with Opera
Software,
which will give their users instant access to a new news-surfing
experience on their phone.”
Nuno Sitima, VP of Consumer Marketing and Business Development, Opera
Software, said:
“Opera Mini aims to bring the best Internet experience. By including
NewsNow.net in our award-winning browser, we are bringing more speedier
and quicker access to content on the go.”
NewsNow Mobile
Tomorrow, Tuesday 2 December 2008, NewsNow will officially launch
NewsNow
Mobile, a new version of its Web site designed specifically for mobile
devices.
NewsNow Background
NewsNow is a rolling news service. In real time, it files the headlines
linking to 200,000 articles daily into over 2,500 'feeds' covering a
wide
array of current affairs, business & finance, technology, life & style,
arts & entertainment, and sports topics.
A household name among football fans, NewsNow is a regular winner of the
Website of the Year awards (http://www.websiteoftheyear.co.uk/).
Hitwise
Intelligence recently rated NewsNow no. 12 in the UK's Top 15 news sites
above FT.com and independent.co.uk (see http://xrl.us/NewsNow1) and the
2nd most visited UK news aggregator, after Google News UK, with 23% of
the
market (see http://xrl.us/NewsNow2).
As a company, NewsNow derives revenue from ad sales, from delivering its
feeds to third-party websites, as well as from its highly-acclaimed
subscription news monitoring service.
The chairman of NewsNow, polymath number theorist, computer scientist
and
ex-journalist Struan Bartlett, prototyped the first NewsNow engine in
1997.
An independently-owned British success story, NewsNow was launched in
February 1998, first turned profitable in 1999, received investment in
2000, saw off the .com crash and considers itself well placed to survive
the latest economic downturn.
About Opera Software ASA
Opera Software ASA has redefined Web browsing for PCs, mobile phones and
other networked devices. Opera's cross-platform Web browser technology
is
renowned for its performance, standards compliance and small size, while
giving users a faster, safer and more dynamic online experience. Opera
Software is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, with offices around the
world.
The company is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol
OPERA. Learn more about Opera at http://www.opera.com/.
Contact
NewsNow Press Contact
Struan Bartlett
Opera Software ASA Press Contact
Julie Sajnani
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