Vivaldi Technologies
| Vivaldi Technologies AS | |
|---|---|
| legal form | small joint stock company |
| founding | December 2013 |
| Seat | Oslo , Norway |
| management | Jon Stephenson from Tetzchner |
| Number of employees | 33 (June 2016) |
| Branch | software |
| Website | vivaldi.com |
The Vivaldi Technologies AS is a company based in the Norwegian capital Oslo and developer of the web browser -Programms Vivaldi . It operates the online community platform vivaldi.net including the email - Service Vivaldi mail and has subsidiaries in Iceland and the United States .
The company was founded in December 2013 by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner in his home country Iceland after he left the Norwegian Opera Software, which he co-founded and led for many years . The company's aim is to develop a new web browser for more technically experienced “power users”, like Opera up to version 12.18 based on the Presto HTML rendering engine , before its functionality was greatly reduced when it switched to Blink .
For reasons of capacity, Vivaldi Technologies also uses the Blink rendering engine for its browser , which is already used in Chrome and the newly developed Opera (from version 15). At the beginning of 2015, the company consisted of a comparatively small number of 25 employees, around half of whom had previously worked for Opera Software . In June 2016, the company showed 33 employees, including seven women, at its locations in Oslo (16), Reykjavík (10), Gloucester (Massachusetts) (3 including von Tetzchner) and California ( COO and co-founder Tatsuki Tomita), on its website , Helsinki , Prague and Saint Petersburg (1 each).
Shortly after it was founded, the company launched the online platform vivaldi.net in January 2014 after the similar portal My Opera was closed by Opera software.
After more than a year of development, in January 2015 the company presented its new main product to the public as a “Technical Preview” (TP), the eponymous Vivaldi web browser . At the beginning of March and the end of April, a second and third preliminary version (TP2 and TP3) were made available to the public as a download; TP4 followed in July 2015 and, on November 3, the first preliminary version , which the company itself referred to as a beta version. After another five months, on April 6, 2016, the official "Release 1.0" was presented personally by von Tetzchner, which was followed by other versions at short intervals. Version 1.5 was then presented in November 2016, which features, among other things, an integrated function for the Internet of Things .
All versions are available in two Windows versions for 32-bit computers and 64-bit computers as well as for Mac OS X (from version 10.9 Mavericks ) and in four Linux versions ( Debian package and RPM package , each for 32-bit computers and 64-bit computers).
In an inquiry from the Bild newspaper about its test report on the beta version dated November 8, 2015, Vivaldi founder Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner explained that the company was financed by bookmark entries paid for by other companies that the browser contained in its basic version , and that the “small team” can “make a living” with “enough” installations. On May 26, 2016, “currently around one million active users per month” were mentioned in another interview, for von Tetztchner “a really good start [... you need] a few million users to get out of the red and from from then on we will see further. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Meet the team. Company website, accessed November 9, 2015.
- ↑ a b Eike Betsch, Sven Schäfer: download.de interviewed Vivaldi founder Jon von Tetzchner. english . (No longer available online.) May 26, 2016, archived from the original on June 14, 2016 ; accessed on June 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Eike Betsch, Sven Schäfer: Downloaden.de in conversation with Vivaldi founder Jon von Tetzchner. German . (No longer available online.) June 10, 2016, archived from the original on June 13, 2016 ; accessed on June 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://vivaldi.com/contact
- ↑ a b c d Vivaldi: Former Opera boss shows new web browser. heise.de, January 27, 2015, accessed on February 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Sara Weber: Is the browser dying out? In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 16, 2015, accessed August 23, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c Ingo Pakalski: The real Opera successor. golem.de, February 5, 2015, accessed on February 8, 2015 .
- ↑ Ingo Pakalski: Vivaldi as the natural successor to Opera 12. golem.de, February 5, 2015, accessed on August 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Message in the Vivaldi blog ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 23, 2015.
- ↑ a b Download page with the current versions , accessed on August 23, 2015.
- ^ Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner : Minor update to Vivaldi 1.0. (No longer available online.) April 7, 2016, archived from the original on April 7, 2016 ; Retrieved April 7, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Vivaldi 1.0 Launches: A New Browser for the Web's Most Demanding Users. Press release. vivaldi.com, April 6, 2016, accessed April 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Herbert Braun: Browser Vivaldi controls Hue lamps. In: heise.de. Heise Online, November 22, 2016, accessed on November 22, 2016 .
- ↑ Martin Eisenlauer: What is a “professional browser”, please? In: Bild (newspaper) . November 8, 2015, accessed November 9, 2015 .
