Word: tetzchner
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...With technologies increasingly mashing up, Microsoft is also apparently starting to accept the fact that its fortunes are improved when rivals build software and services that fit with its own. "This is a victory for the future of the Web," says Jon von Tetzchner, CEO of Opera, the tiny Norwegian browser company that brought the case against Microsoft to the European Commission. "It is a celebration of open Web standards, as these shared guidelines are the necessary ingredients for innovation...
...render Web pages so that a complete page can be viewed vertically on mobile screens and look the same as it does on a PC. "With our technology, mobile users can visit any page on the World Wide Web, not just special pages," says Opera CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner. Opera's break-through, the latest salvo in the mobile browser wars, is part of a broader fight to dominate the wireless Web, which is heating up now that third-generation mobile phones are finally hitting the market. For now, the focus is on browser technology; the next stage, programmable...
...Opera began in 1994 as a research project at Telenor, Norway's phone company, where Von Tetzchner and colleague Geir Ivarsoey were trying to develop software for the newly popular Internet. They wrote the first browser software while still at Telenor, but the company wasn't interested in pursuing the project. So the duo formed Opera and rented space from the phone company's research labs...
...profitable in 1998, because of its expansion it ran a $450,000 loss last year on turnover of $2.2 million. Remarkably, Opera didn't receive any venture capital funding until last year. "Potential investors would come to us, but we're happy we didn't go with them," Von Tetzchner says. "For a small company with five employees they would have taken over, dug a grave and we'd be dead...
...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 can handle a client as big as Nokia. "Companies like Ericsson were naturally concerned about the size of the company and whether we would be able to handle problems," he says...