Exercise of employee share options in Opera Software ASA

Reference is made to the statement dated March 13th, 2013.
The payment has been determined based on a selling price of NOK 38.37 per share.

Lars Aarhus purchased 626 shares at a price of NOK 38.37.

After exercising options, Lars Aarhus holds 11 000 unexercised options
in the Company, corresponding to 1 000 shares at the strike price of NOK
16.06 and 10 000 shares at the strike price of NOK 21.42. As of today
the primary insider holds 32 743 shares in the Company.



Petter Lade, Investor Relations
Tel: +47 23692400


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