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The
deal was thrown into doubt on Tuesday when the online browser
and advertising company said it had yet to receive regulatory
approval. The offer's final deadline is today, Friday.
"I still can't give any details, but I can say that the deadline
expires at closing time on the Oslo Bourse today and that we
definitely will send out a statement before the market opens
Monday morning," Opera's head of investor relations, Petter
Lade, told Reuters.
The offer from a group of internet companies including search
and security business Qihoo 360 Technology Co and Beijing Kunlun
Tech Co, a distributor of online and mobile games, had received
approval from Opera shareholders in May and was just awaiting
approval from Chinese and U.S. authorities.
It is unclear whether approval from China, the United States, or
both, is lacking. The deadline for approval by the Committee on
Foreign Investment in the United States is Friday.
Shares in Opera were down 1.64 percent at 1037 GMT, lagging an
Oslo benchmark index down 0.15 percent.
(The story is refiled to change headline to read "by Monday.")
(Reporting by Joachim Dagenborg; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)
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