Facebook is still continuing to grab the headlines left, right and center with the giant Social Media company to buy the semi-popular Web browser, Opera.
The Browser which is mainly used on Apple and Android based mobile devices and is also available on desktops, which will help Facebook in the future to further monetise the mobile market.
The company has been long reported to be interested in developing its own OS and may even be releasing its 'Social Smartphone' in 2013, in response to research showing its users are increasingly accessing the social network site from portable devices.
A Facebook browser would allow the company to build in plug-ins and menu bar features so that the social networking site will become fully integrated into a web browser and enabling data marketing at all times regardless of whether the actual site was being accessed.
The acquisition of a quality mobile browser would seem a smart move as it would avoid Mark Zuckerberg and co having to develop the software from scratch.
Opera Software - which claim to have around 200 million users in total - has confirmed it is presently taking approaches from potential buyers. Facebook so far has decline to comment on what would be the latest storyline in the acquisition.
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