Although, the sum at which Norwegian corporation has bought Melbourne-based email provider is not disclosed, but it what is known is that, Opera's acquisition has been done, in order to expand its existing messaging product portfolio and offer cross platform messaging service to a broader range of gadgets, which would comprise of PCs, cell phones, TVS and gaming consoles.

Melbourne based email provider, which operates by the name of FastMail. fm, has now been merged under Opera, which is going to offer messaging to any gadget, enhancing the value of Opera.

Opera Chief Strategy Officer, Rolf Assev said that the latest generation of Web users is going to discover the Web, via a mobile appliance. Having first-class messaging potential, together with an affluent and compelling Web experience is necessary.

Opera has some big and lucrative plans for the corporation and is determined that it will be capable of providing better resources to build a bigger and enhanced infrastructure, as well as add more features in its services.

Opera takes pride in itself since it has no less than 50 million users of its desktop browser and no less than 55 million users of Opera Mini, which is a mobile Web browser that works on approximately all mobiles.