A talk with Opera CEO Jon Von Tetzchner

Ask me which web browser I use the most and I won't even pause before telling you that Opera is one of the web browsers of my choice. I have always had a soft corner for Opera web browser going even way back when it was an ad supported one. There was this thin non-intrusive bar on the top of the browser which showed a couple of ads when you were browsing the net. But now it is a totally ad-free free web browser which is famed for its innovative features and relatively small memory footprint.

And Jon Von Tetzchner is the CEO of Opera which is a Norwegean web pioneer. The main income for Opera comes from operator deals with search engines such as Google, Yahoo and telephony providers T-Mobile, Vodafone, Telfonica and so on. This means that the end users get to use the world class products of Opera such as the desktop web browser and Opera mini - the web browser for mobile phones, for free while still making money for the company.

Read this exciting interview with Opera CEO Jon Von Tetzchner by Andrew Orlowski.