{"id":5970,"date":"2013-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/component\/content\/article\/844-opera-optimises-with-skyfire-purchase.html"},"modified":"2013-02-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T00:00:00","slug":"opera-optimises-with-skyfire-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/opera-optimises-with-skyfire-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Opera optimises with Skyfire purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"firstChild\">Norwegian software firm Opera has acquired Silicon  Valley based Skyfire Labs, a specialist in mobile video optimisation  and cloud. The firm is known for its Rocket Optimizer software which  allows mobile operators to use cloud computing to optimise video and  multimedia on crowded cell towers, in 3G and 4G LTE networks.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition price includes $50m cash upfront and performance  based earn-out payments over three years, including $26m in cash held  that can bring the total deal size to $155m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BusinessCloudNews\/~4\/HAVnlq900xo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian software firm Opera has acquired Silicon  Valley based Skyfire Labs, a specialist in mobile video optimisation  and cloud. The firm is known for its Rocket Optimizer software which  allows mobile operators to use cloud computing to optimise v&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}