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...Like a fox. Opera Software is not only surviving but thriving. For the past five years the company has been producing a small but fast and nimble browser to rival Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator. Opera's eponymous product has received rave reviews, and the Norwegians haven't spent a dollar on marketing.?"Opera's awesome stability and speed make it a worthwhile download," wrote the computer and technology website cnet. The latest version, Opera 5.0 was downloaded 2 million times in the first month after its release in December. Not bad for a young Norwegian...
...Opera thrived thanks to word of mouth on the Web. After all, on the Internet no one knows you're a tiny firm based in faraway Norway. Opera gained a reputation for being smaller and faster than products offered by Microsoft and Netscape. Opera suffered a setback earlier this year when Finnish phone giant Nokia signed an agreement with Netscape. "We work hard to get these deals but recognize that sometimes we'll get them and sometimes we won't," Von Tetzchner says.?For many telecommunications firms, size matters: potential partners wonder whether a company as small as Opera...
...Opera is still racing against its U.S. competitors to offer features like encryption that are crucial to Web users but can hog disc-drive space. The company's latest innovation allows the Opera browser to function like rival Microsoft's ubiquitous?PowerPoint software to make presentations on the Web. It's an open question when the company can expect a market listing now that high-tech stocks are out of favor in both Europe and the U.S. Having succeeded so far with its unorthodox business model, though, Opera's executives are confident they can continue to offer everything their bigger rivals...
...government and culture where real responsibility generally arrives at around 60. Zhou's years of studies in the U.S. were what qualified him for his last job, as the guy in Shanghai responsible for playing host to foreign big shots, such as Microsoft's Bill Gates and GE's Jack Welch. Zhou picked up their style. But his politics are old China...
Federal appellate arguments are often snoozeathons, arcane debates over obscure procedural questions. But last week's hearing on Microsoft's antitrust appeal had all the malevolent energy of a public flogging. "I don't think we'll see anything like it again," says George Washington University law professor William Kovacic. "You just don't see seven members of an appeals court throwing stones at a colleague and basically asking for more stones...