The first stable version of Opera for Android with Chromium 26 rendering engine is now available for download from the Play store.

Opera’s latest State of the Mobile Web report analyzes the habits of Android smartphone users in India, which constitutes Opera Mini for Android’s largest market.

Opera is suing its ex-employee for damages worth about $3.4 million for allegedly leaking trade secrets to Mozilla.

Google informed Opera about it’s plans to fork WebKit, and the Norwegian browser maker is enthusiastic about the new rendering engine.

Google Chrome for Android will soon feature a data compression proxy option, which will work in a manner similar to Opera Turbo (now Off-road mode).

Opera Software has released the first beta of Opera for Android powered by the Webkit rendering engine.

Opera’s co-founder and ex-CEO finally broke his silence and reacted to the recent string of developments at Opera Software.

Opera Software has tied up with Airtel to introduce Web Pass in India, which enables instant activation of pay-as-you-go data plans.

Opera Software gained 8 million new active users in January, including a sizable chunk of smartphone users, for their mobile web browsers.

Opera might have forced out close to a hundred employees in the run up to its engine switch from Presto to Webkit.

Opera Software has announced that it will be dropping Presto and transitioning to the Chromium rendering engine and V8 JavaScript engine used by Google Chrome.

Opera Software, the browser firm behind Opera Mini and Opera Mobile, is working on a new mobile browser called Opera Ice. Ice is being billed as the future of web browsing, and will be shaking things up in more ways than one.

While usual suspects like Facebook, Google, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Yahoo continued to be favorites among Indian users, news and ecommerce websites experienced strong increase in popularity.

Opera Software has updated Opera Mini for Apple devices keeping in mind the recently launched iOS 6. It features a bunch of iOS 6 related fixes and integration with the iOS 6 Facebook framework.

Opera Software has released its financials for the third quarter of 2012, and they look pretty good. Strong showing in the mobile segment helped mask a weak desktop performance and increase revenue on the whole.