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Facebook May be Eyeing Opera Web Browser, Reports Say

pcworld.com (11 months and 27 days ago)

May 26, 2012

Whether any such purchase of Opera by Facebook is imminent is pure speculation, but if it happens Google and Apple could be in for more competition. full story

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