Opera reaches 200M active users; Facebook tops Africa sites. The combined number of mobile users around the world using the Opera Mini mobile Web browser has hit 200 million users per month for the first time, the Norway-based company said today.
At the same time, users in Africa are leading the uptake in mobile browsing thanks to Facebook, despite the social network's monthly active users remaining mostly flat month-on-month in the past quarter at 955 million . The makers of the Opera browser have released their monthly State of the Mobile Web report, which looks at its product usage across more than 50 countries.
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