Opera sells browser business to Chinese consortium for $600m

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Deal comes days after $1.2bn takeover fell through

Web browser pioneer Opera has agreed a deal to sell its core consumer technology to a Chinese consortium for $600m - half the price of the deal it agree earlier this year with the same group, which...

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