Opera software announced today the official launch of opera news, a new aipowered app which enables people to access their favorite news articles and hottest trending videos. Serving as incountry head of the south african news operations, i have. Hundreds of positions at opera news, career custodians and opera software including receptionist, hotel receptionist, duty manager related to opera. Opera software, has announced on tuesday 09 january 2018 the official launch of opera news, a new aipowered app which enables people to access news articles and. The company recently launched data centres in kenya and nigeria, which are now part of operas global it infrastructure. Opera was founded in 1995 in norway on the idea that everyone would browse the web on any device. This graph shows the market share of browsers in south africa from apr 2019. Oracle also understands independent hotel needs, notably powering small hotels like the ampersand hotel in londons. Oracle hospitality opera property provides a fullfeatured, property management system that enables you to deliver worldclass guest service and increase operational efficiency across the hotel property. Opera is a norwegian company thats been in the business of making web browsers and applications since 1994. Based on opera, the leading enterprise solution suite for the hospitality industry, opera cloud offers an intuitive user interface, comprehensive functionality for all areas. Top 9 most used browsers in africa it news africa up. Opera software as earlier this month rolled out the final stable build of the latest opera desktop browser for windows, macos, and linux platforms that came with numerous new. Graphic design to all event hanging and ground based signage.
Opera africa is a joburg based opera company who has established a core of fulltime choristers and soloists to ensure sustained. The release of the new app follows operas recent announcement that its aipowered news service inside opera mini grew to more than 100 million active users in less than a year, showing an incredible interest in news. Nine of the top 20 opera mini user countries are from africa, said richard monday, vice president of africa, opera software. Opera, one of the worlds major browser developers, and leader in ai driven digital content delivery and discovery, has released its state of mobile web 2019 report, revealing that nine out of ten people in south africa use their mobile browser every day. Five central repertoire masterpieces and one new commission, showcasing a wide range of south african operatic stars many of whom are enjoying major international careers, and who will be making overdue returns to the opera stages in cape town. I am not surprised since antiwhite populism seems to be at its peak. Why do so many people in africa use opera the web browser.
The company already has offices in south africa, from where it has headed its operations but in an effort to localize itself with the region, it is spreading its wings. Cape town opera job vacancy in south africa jan 2019. Cape town opera job opportunity in south africa jan 2019 cape town opera cto is a nonprofit organisation that inspires, entertains and develops audiences through its acclaimed stage productions, educational outreach, community development programmes and unsurpassed training and skills development initiatives. It is also available as opera mobile, opera mini and opera coast on devices. We continued to make our browsers smaller and faster and pioneered innovations such as tabs or speed dial. Opera, which develops browsers for a range of mobile handsets and for desktop computers, has enjoyed exponential growth of its products on cellular phones, especially on lowercost devices. Opera launches news app in africa it news africa up to. Producing 2 custom stands for opera software and shoto china. Speaking at the time, richard monday, vp of africa, opera software said africa is a very important market for opera as nine of the top 20 opera mini user countries are from the region. We aim to invest heavily in africa, to build a local platform and grow with the local business partners. Opera and airtel have partnered up to bring three special data plans to opera mini and opera news users on the airtel network. Responsible for the operation and planning of opera news news and video products. Data saving, video boost, ad blocker, smarter downloads, night mode and other great stuff. Opera software snags 1,5m sa mobile web users norways opera software estimates that it has as about 1,5m active users of its web browser software for.
This inclusive list of opera companies in africa and the middle east contains opera companies with entries in the wikipedia plus other particularly noted companies based in these regions. Opera s free vpn, ad blocker, integrated messengers and private mode help you browse securely and smoothly. J brooks spector attended the performance of three short south african operas at the soweto theatre, and he loved what he saw and heard and learned some history along with the music. Chrome safari samsung internet opera ie firefox edge legacy uc browser. For more than 20 years our browsers have been helping millions of people access the internet to read, create, laugh, and play. Statcounter ranks opera mini as the fourth global browser with a 9. It has since been downloaded over 10 million times, with. These were areas where opera had made no marketing or pr efforts interview with operas cto. Opera is leading the digital revolution in africa with nearly 120. The voices of south africa trust has been running for six years. Now, south africa is pinning its hopes on another rising opera star 25yearold noluvuyiso mpofu. Just after its early launch in africa in 2018, opera news quickly became the most downloaded app in countries like nigeria, kenya, and south africa.
Lagos job content responsible for opera news africas content editorial team management. Opera most downloaded news app in major african markets. Oracle hospitality opera room reservations provides a central database for your room inventory, easing. Opera will open a data centre in south africa this year, the company told mybroadband. Charlie fripp editor in chief for opera news south. When you think of oracle, you probably think of bigtime enterprises, meaning bigtime budgets for software. Learn more about the premium version of opera property in this data sheet. The investment will be used to develop artificial intelligence that delivers africans customized and localized content, while continued efforts will be made to reduce data costs by around 90 percent. Tied to the opera news app ios and android, the news hub allows anybody to pursue a career in writing and the ability to. Voices of south africa or, as is widely known in zulu, amazwi omzansi africa, was started by the international south african opera singer njabulo madlala. Production and rigging of all aerial based signage. Oracle hospitality opera cloud services are a cloudbased, mobileenabled platform for nextgeneration hotel management. Opera news, norwegian web browser developer opera softwares mobile application, is the most downloaded news app in several major african markets, having reached 10 million downloads only six months after its launch the news app launched in january this year, and was downloaded one million times in africa during that first month. Opera and the firm shortselling its stock alleging.
Opera is planning to launch a data centre in south africa, opera confirmed. Its popularity increased during the 2018 football world cup with millions of users demanding more content and online videos. In july 2017 micros south africa was acquired by adapt it, adapt it is a leader in the ict market through the provision of software solutions to the education, manufacturing, energy, financial services, communications and hospitality sectors, employing over 1 000 technology professionals and servicing more than 10 000 customers in 53 countries. On the new browser for android, you will find the ad blocking toggle switch under the data saving summary menu.
Share files instantly between your desktop and mobile browsers and experience web 3. Name of opera company principal theatre principal location operabuja. Installation of ground based signage to allow for ease of flow for all delegates. Opera software has announced its partnership with, south africas leading digital news brand. Ctos special birthday in 2020 promises to be much more than a comingofage event. Opera mediaworks, the norwegian browser makers usbased advertising subsidiary, has acquired south african mobile ad network advine. Charlie fripp editor in chief for opera news south africa opera. Initially as an informal project and, since 20, as a registered nonprofit organisation. Oracles scorecard and strategy management dashboard. At the same time, the company has three different mobile browser products, opera mini, opera for android. Based on opera property on premise, the leading enterprise solution suite for the hospitality industry, opera cloud offers an intuitive user interface, comprehensive functionality for all areas of hotel management, secure data storage, and hundreds of key partner interfaces to meet the needs of hotels of all types and sizes. Nine of the top 20 opera mini user countries are from africa, says richard monday, vice president of africa, opera software.
Opera software officially launch their news app in africa. Opera software snags 1,5m sa mobile web users techcentral. In its first year on the market, opera news became the most downloaded news app in nigeria, kenya and south africa. I meet up with mpofu at the south african college of.
For opera companies from other continents, see list of important opera companies. For the millions of people in africa who already use the opera mini browser, this makes reading on a mobile phone as easy as making a call, says richard monday, vp africa, opera software. Opera news south africa opera software launched the south african version of their opera news hub in the country late last month and actively seeking to work with freelance contributors to strengthen its local offering. Opera software, the company behind the muchloved opera mini browser, is working towards opening offices in kenya and nigeria. Opera news uses a mix of editorial teams and ai to deliver a wide variety of the most relevant world and local news at a glance to any person with an android or apple phone. Hospitality for hotels opera cloud services oracle. I would try to answer this question by comparing the map of top browsers with a map of percapita gdp ppp map of top browsers shared in the question map of percapita gdp in terms of purchasing power source. The company will use the investment to speed up internet adoption in africa and strengthen the internet ecosystem with local partners. Business, international computer software industry internet software software industry wireless internet access. Browser market share south africa statcounter global stats. The new data plans allow you to browse more with opera mini and opera news while saving money on mobile data on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. The opera team leader mentioned in the interview that in the expensive africa region, the modified opera browser only solves the pain of saving traffic data. Opera is leading the digital revolution in africa with.
I hope opera news can stop referring to white people as one organism without personal differences. Download opera browser with builtin free vpn, ad blocker, social messengers, units converter, cryptojacking blocker, battery saver, vr player and much more. Opera software set to open offices in kenya and nigeria. Operas fintech products in africa as well as operas cashbean in india are at the core of hindenburg researchs brief and shortsell position the crux of the hindenburg report is that. This is important because in some african countries mobile data remains very expensive. Opera is a freeware web browser for microsoft windows, android, ios, macos and linux operating systems, developed by opera software.
South africa is the first of 14 countries that opera software will tour with community meetups and university seminars as part of the new opera. Moving forward, users of opera mini in south africa will have oneclick access to the news24 site, m. Norways opera software estimates that it has as about 1,5m active users of its web browser software for mobile phones in sa. In what the company calls its africa first strategy, opera news is available in 23 african countries including nigeria, tanzania, zambia and south.
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