Subj : Another Chrome challenger bites the dust - Atlassian is buying Th
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Fri Sep 05 2025 10:45:09

Another Chrome challenger bites the dust - Atlassian is buying The Browser 
Company for $610m

Date:
Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:32:17 +0000

Description:
Atlassian wants to combine its deep expertise with The Browser Companys 
passion.

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n will buy The Browser Company for $610 million It wants to support the 
development of Dia, a new AI-powered browser The way we interact with the web 
will change, and legacy browsers arent fit 

Atlassian is set to buy The Browser Company, responsible for Arc and Dia, for 
$610 million in cash. 

The company says its first focus will be on improving the Dia browser by 
optimizing it for SaaS apps, but it will also integrate AI via browser-based 
context to help users connect the dots between apps, tabs and tasks. 

Your current browser isnt designed to help you move any of that work 
forward," noted Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes. "It was 
designed before the explosion of SaaS apps, and well before the current AI 
revolution. Atlassian snaps up Arc and Dia for $610m 

Despite the backing of a much larger software company, The Browser Company is 
set to continue operating independently. 

The deal stemmed from discussions surrounding the enterprise readiness of 
Arc, used by Atlassian workers. Enhanced data privacy, security and 
management were missing in The Browser Companys tools, thus Atlassian is 
stepping in to ramp these up, it says. 

Cannon-Brookes also cited separate Gartner research which claims although 85% 
of the average employees day is spent in the browser, fewer than 10% have 
adopted a secure enterprise browser. 

Gartner noted with a secure enterprise browser, IT admins can enforce 
security policies, reduce reliance on VPNs and VDIs and enhance visibility 
and reporting. 

Speaking about Dia, The Browser Company claimed that webpages wont be the 
primary interface anymore. 

Instead, users will be interacting more with AI chat interfaces. However, new 
interfaces start from families ones, which is why Dia still resembles legacy 
browsers, thus requiring a smaller learning curve and supporting a 
longer-term transition. 

Cannon-Brookes expects the combination of a passion[ate] browser builder and 
a software company that has a deep expertise on how the worlds best teams 
operate will result in a truly powerful next-generation browser. You might 
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