Opera acquires SurfEasy, a North American VPN company

Opera, the makers of the highly popular Opera Mini, mobile and desktop browsers, today announced the acquisition of a North American VPN company called SurfEasy. SurfEasy is based out of Toronto and worked to provide VPN services to customers to protect their privacy.

Opera has been known to make web browsing a whole lot easier and faster on mobiles and desktops. Much before the big, extremely powerful smartphones today were a commonplace, browsing the web on tiny 2.4 inch screens on dumb phones using a navigation D-pad was an extremely painful task. Opera Mini made that easier to a great extent, not just by making the web content adapt to the small screens of mobiles, but also by using a proxy to compress the data before delivering it to the users’ phones. In most cases, Opera saves users nearly 80% of the data with its compression algorithms. Together with SurfEasy, Opera says it will make web browsing even more secure for its users.

Further details about the acquisition were not announced.