Vivaldi Technologies

Last updated

Vivaldi Technologies AS
IndustrySoftware development
Founded2013;10 years ago (2013)
Founders
HeadquartersMølleparken 6,
Oslo
,
Norway
Key people
 Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner (CEO and Co-Founder) and Tatsuki Tomita (COO and Co-Founder)
ProductsVivaldi.net, Vivaldi Browser, Vivaldi Mail
Number of employees
54 (2021)
Website vivaldi.com

Vivaldi Technologies AS is a Norwegian software development company, most known for its creation of the Vivaldi Browser. Headquartered in Oslo, Norway, [1] it was founded in 2013 by Jon von Tetzchner and Tatsuki Tomita. Tetzchner was one of the founders, [2] and formerly the CEO, of Opera Software, a software company which developed the web browser Opera. [3] About 20 former Opera employees joined him at Vivaldi Technologies. [3] In January 2017, the company had 35 employees. [4] As of September 2021, the company has listed 54 employees. [5]

Contents

Workspaces

The company is headquartered in Oslo, Norway, has the Innovation House in Reykjavík, Iceland, [6] and a workspace in the Innovation House in Gloucester, Massachusetts, US. [7] They also have developers in Helsinki, Finland; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Prague, Czech Republic, and other locations. [8]

Products

Vivaldi.net

Vivaldi.net is a community-based platform that was originally launched in January 2014, [3] [9] which was created as a replacement to My Opera, due to the latter's planned closure in May 2014. [10] The platform though has since been expanded to offer additional services that were not offered by My Opera - some designed particularly to work in tandem with the Vivaldi browser:

Vivaldi Browser

Vivaldi Technologies' main product is the Vivaldi Browser. The browser was created in part to cater to power users after Opera Software opted to abandon its own browser engine Presto in favor of WebKit (and later Blink), thereby dropping support of many of its features. [12] [9]

In January 2015, the first technical preview of the browser was released. [13] In November 2015, the first beta version of the browser was released. [14]

In April 2016, Vivaldi Technologies released Vivaldi 1.0, the first stable version of the browser. [15] [16]

In September 2019, Vivaldi Technologies released the first beta version of Vivaldi for Android. [17]

In April 2020, Vivaldi Technologies released Vivaldi 3.0, the first stable version of Vivaldi for Android. [18]

Vivaldi Mail

In addition to the browser, Vivaldi Technologies also develops an email client, calendar, and a feed reader that are directly integrated as a component of the browser. Prior to the release of the browser, the company made the promise to integrate an email client, as a means to build "Opera as it should have been", [4] which also integrated an email client into the Opera browser before becoming a separate product.

In November 2020, the first technical preview of the email client, calendar, and feed reader were released. [19] In June 2021, beta versions of these components were released. [20]

In June 2022, Vivaldi Technologies released Vivaldi Mail 1.0, the first stable version of the email client, calendar, and feed reader components. [21]

Related Research Articles

Gecko is a browser engine developed by Mozilla. It is used in the Firefox browser, the Thunderbird email client, and many other projects.

HCL Notes and HCL Domino are the client and server, respectively, of a collaborative client-server software platform formerly sold by IBM, now by HCL Technologies.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mozilla Thunderbird</span> Free and open-source email client by Mozilla

Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client, personal information manager, news client, RSS and chat client that is operated by the Mozilla Foundation's subsidiary MZLA Technologies Corporation. Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird Community. The project strategy was originally modeled after that of Mozilla's Firefox web browser and is an interface built on top of that web browser.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Opera (company)</span> Norwegian software company

Opera is a Norwegian multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Oslo, Norway with additional offices in Europe, China, and Africa. The company's total user base, including users of its desktop browsers, mobile browsers and other services exceeds 380 million monthly active users.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Opera Mail</span>

Opera Mail is the email and news client developed by Opera Software. It was an integrated component within the Opera web browser from version 2 through 12. With the release of Opera 15 in 2013, Opera Mail became a separate product and is no longer bundled with Opera. Opera Mail version 1.0 is available for OS X and Windows. It features rich text support and inline spell checking, spam filtering, a contact manager, and supports POP3 and IMAP, newsgroups, and Atom and RSS feeds.

MHTML, an initialism of "MIME encapsulation of aggregate HTML documents", is a Web archive file format used to combine, in a single computer file, the HTML code and its companion resources that are represented by external hyperlinks in the web page's HTML code. The content of an MHTML file is encoded using the same techniques that were first developed for HTML email messages, using the MIME content type multipart/related. MHTML files use an .mhtml or .mht filename extension.

The following tables compare general and technical features of notable email client programs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner</span> Icelandic businessman

Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner is an Icelandic-Norwegian programmer and businessman. He is the co-founder and CEO of Vivaldi Technologies. Before starting the Vivaldi Web browser, he launched a community site called Vivaldi.net. Tetzchner is also a co-founder and the former CEO of Opera Software.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Opera Mini</span> Mobile browser developed by Opera Software

Opera Mini is a mobile web browser made by Opera. It was primarily designed for the Java ME platform, as a low-end sibling for Opera Mobile, but as of 2022 only the Android build was still under active development. It had previously been developed for iOS, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone 8.1, BlackBerry, Symbian, and Bada.

My Opera was the virtual community for Opera web browser users. It belonged to Opera Software ASA. In addition to being a support site for the Opera browser, My Opera worked like a social networking site. It offered services such as blogs, photo albums, the free email service My Opera Mail and more. My Opera was closed down on March 3, 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">History of the Opera web browser</span> Aspect of history

The history of the Opera web browser began in 1994 when it was started as a research project at Telenor, the largest Norwegian telecommunications company. In 1995, the project branched out into a separate company named Opera Software ASA, with the first publicly available version released in 1996. Opera has undergone extensive changes and improvements, and introduced notable features such as Speed Dial.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Opera (web browser)</span> Freeware web browser

Opera is a multi-platform web browser developed by its namesake company Opera. The browser is based on Chromium. Opera is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS. There are also mobile versions called Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Opera users also have access to Opera News, a news app based on an AI platform.

The following is a comparison of RSS feed aggregators. Often e-mail programs and web browsers have the ability to display RSS feeds. They are listed here, too.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Chromium (web browser)</span> Open-source web browser project

Chromium is a free and open-source web browser project, mainly developed and maintained by Google. This codebase provides the vast majority of code for the Google Chrome browser, which is proprietary software and has some additional features. Chromium's logo is identical in shape to that of Google Chrome, but with blue colors instead of being multicolor.

Flipboard is a news aggregator and social network aggregation company based in Palo Alto, California, with offices in New York, Vancouver, and Bejiing. Its software, also known as Flipboard, was first released in July 2010. It aggregates content from social media, news feeds, photo sharing sites, and other websites, presents it in magazine format, and allows users to "flip" through the articles, images, and videos being shared. Readers can also save stories into Flipboard magazines. As of March 2016 the company claims there have been 28 million magazines created by users on Flipboard. The service can be accessed via web browser, or by a Flipboard application for Microsoft Windows and macOS, and via mobile apps for iOS and Android. The client software is available at no charge and is localized in 21 languages.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mozilla</span> Free and open-source software community, developer of Firefox and Thunderbird

Mozilla is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, publishes and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, with only minor exceptions. The community is supported institutionally by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation and its tax-paying subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation.

Mailbird is a desktop email client for Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11 for sending and receiving emails, managing calendar events and contacts from different email providers, including Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. Social media, task management, file share, and video-conferencing integrations are also included.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vivaldi (web browser)</span> Web browser with built-in email client

Vivaldi ( ) is a freeware, cross-platform web browser with a built-in email client developed by Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by Tatsuki Tomita and Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, who was the co-founder and CEO of Opera Software. Vivaldi was officially launched on 6 April 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Otter Browser</span> Cross-platform, free and open-source web browser

Otter Browser is a cross-platform web browser that aims to recreate aspects of Opera 12.x using Qt framework while keeping seamless integration with users' desktop environments. Otter Browser is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later. It works on Linux-based operating systems, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, and Windows platforms.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bitwarden</span> Open-source password manager

Bitwarden is a freemium open-source password management service that stores sensitive information such as website credentials in an encrypted vault. The platform offers a variety of client applications including a web interface, desktop applications, browser extensions, mobile apps, and a command-line interface. Bitwarden offers a free US or European cloud-hosted service as well as the ability to self-host.

References

  1. ↑ "Interview with Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner - Downloaden.de". Downloaded.de. 26 May 2016. Archived from the original on 14 June 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2022.
  2. ↑ Sharma, Rajat (7 April 2014). "Vivaldi.net: Free Email Service Based Out of Iceland From Founders of Opera". ilovefreesoftware.com. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Lardinois, Frederic (23 January 2014). "Opera's Former CEO Launches Vivaldi, A New Community Site And Email Service". TechCrunch. Retrieved 30 September 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Vivaldi is building 'Opera as it should've been'". Ars Technica. 16 January 2017.
  5. ↑ "Our team | Vivaldi Browser". Vivaldi Technologies. 2 May 2018. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
  6. ↑ "Innovation House | Iceland - Products". innovationhouse.is. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Convey, Eric (1 July 2015). "Opera browser creator Jon von Tetzchner on innovation in Gloucester". Boston Business Journal . Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "Team – Vivaldi". Vivaldi Technologies. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  9. 1 2 Shankland, Stephen (27 January 2015). "Ex-Opera CEO composes Vivaldi, a new Web browser". CNET. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  10. ↑ André Øverdahl, Espen (31 October 2013). "Important announcement about your My Opera account". My Opera. Archived from the original on 30 January 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  11. ↑ "Vivaldi Social, our Mastodon instance, is your gateway to reliable, big-tech-free social networking". Vivaldi Technologies. 15 November 2022. Retrieved 18 November 2022.
  12. ↑ "Our Story – Vivaldi". Vivaldi Technologies. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  13. ↑ Paul, Ian (27 January 2015). "New Vivaldi browser aims to win over power users". PCWorld. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  14. ↑ Brinkmann, Martin (3 November 2015). "Finally: Vivaldi Beta is now available". gHacks Technology News. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  15. ↑ "Vivaldi Web Browser Community - Welcome". vivaldi.net. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  16. ↑ Degeler, Andrii (6 April 2016). "Vivaldi 1.0 tries to reverse web browser simplification trend". Ars Technica. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  17. ↑ Brinkmann, Martin (9 September 2019). "Vivaldi releases Vivaldi mobile browser for Android". gHacks Technology News. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  18. ↑ Brinkmann, Martin (22 April 2020). "Vivaldi 3.0 with adblocker and tracker blocker released". gHacks Technology News. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  19. ↑ Brinkmann, Martin (24 November 2020). "Vivaldi Mail, Feed Reader and Calendar can now be tested". gHacks Technology News. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  20. ↑ Clark, Mitchell (9 June 2021). "The Vivaldi browser now has mail, calendar, and an RSS reader built-in". The Verge. Vox Media. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  21. ↑ Vasani, Sheena (9 June 2022). "The Vivaldi browser launches a free built-in email client that integrates its Calendar and Feed Reader". The Verge. Vox Media. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.