The first quarter was very much continuation of our solid execution and the trends we have communicated in the past. Adjusted EBITDA was 21.7 million, 25% margin. Our first quarter revenue reached 87.1 million and increase of 22% over the previous year. We maintain healthy momentum as we embark on the remainder of the year and feel great to also raise our 2023 guidance today. We are very pleased to announce a very strong first quarter, which extended our previously issued guidance for both revenue and profitability. And thank you everyone for joining us today. With that, let me turn the call over to our Co-CEO, Song Lin, who will cover our operational highlights and strategy, and then Frode will discuss our financials and expectations going forward. We will be live tweeting highlights from the call so please follow along there during the call and in the future. We have also posted unaudited quarterly historic financial results of Opera on our Investor Relations website. These measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for financial information prepared in accordance with IFRS. We believe that the use of our non-IFRS financial measures provides an additional tool for investors to use in evaluating ongoing operating results and trends. Our commentary today will also include non-IFRS financial measures, including adjusted EBITDA, which is different from our consolidated financial statements that are prepared and presented based on IFRS. You may refer to the Safe Harbor statement in the company’s earnings release for details. You should be cautioned that, these statements are not guarantees of future performance. Such statements are based on current expectations and how we perceive the current economic environment and are inherently subject to economic, competitive and other uncertainties and contingencies beyond the control of management. Before I hand over the call to Song Lin, I would like to remind everyone that, in the conference call today, the company will be making statements about its future results and expectations, which constitute Forward-Looking Statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act. As usual, I have with me today our Co-CEO, Song Lin, and our CFO, Frode Jacobsen. Matthew Wolfson: Thank you for joining us. I would now like to turn the call over to your speaker today, Matt Wolfson, Head of Investor Relations. After the speakers’ presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Opera is headquartered in Oslo, Norway and listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange (OPRA).Operator: Welcome to the Opera Limited First Quarter 2023 Earnings Call. Opera’s browsers, news products and fintech solutions are the trusted choice of more than 380 million people worldwide. Opera GX has grown 183% year-to-date and now reaches over 4 million monthly active gamers. The browser distinguishes itself with unique features tailored to the tastes of gamers including CPU, RAM and Network Bandwidth limiters. Opera GX launched in June 2019 during the E3 Gaming Expo in Los Angeles. This set of integrated messengers has now been extended with built-in Twitter in the sidebar. With native integration of Twitch, Discord, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Instagram in the sidebar, Opera GX makes it easy to stay on top of conversations with friends and streams. Twitter now built into the Opera GX sidebar Opera GX has also partnered with the international Game Music Festival and sponsored its annual GMF 2020 High Score Competition, where music score composers can compete to have their music featured in Opera GX. GX Composer Award at Game Music Festival 2020 It intensifies whenever users are actively browsing the web, clicking on links or typing, and becomes less dramatic and calmer whenever they become less active. The dynamic background music in Opera GX is an ambient downtempo that boosts the users’ focus. “ We wanted to give our browser the immersive sound experience known from games, where a perfectly-composed soundtrack boosts your overall experience by adapting to the task at hand,” said Maciej Kocemba, product Director of Opera GX.
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