Opera's app store clears 100 million monthly users

About 105 million people
used the Opera Mobile Store
from Opera Software in
December, a statistic big
enough to rank it as the fifth
largest app store, the
Norwegian browser maker
said Tuesday.
The company's app store
offers 200,000 mobile apps
for a variety of device types
with a variety of operating
systems -- Android, Symbian,
BlackBerry, iOS, and Java.
The top type is a Java app,
but in 2013, Android apps
nearly matched it, accounting
for with 42.7 percent of
downloads, Opera said.
New users grew by a factor of
1.7 compared to 2012, Opera
said.
Opera's app store has its
roots in the company's 2011
acquisition of Handster . The
top app stores, however,
remain Google Play and the
Apple App Store.