History
In June 2006, smart card providers Axalto and Gemplus merged to become Gemalto. Axalto was a Schlumberger IPO spin-off in 2004. Between the merger and 2012, Gemalto completed a series of acquisitions: the Leigh Mardon’s personalization center (Taiwan), Multos International, NamITech in South Africa, NXP mobile services business, the mobile software solution provider O3SIS, Trusted Logic (the secure software platform provider), Serverside (personalization of bank cards with digital images generated by end users), XIRING’s banking activity, Netsize (a mobile communications service and commerce enabler), Valimo Wireless, a provider in mobile authentication, the internet banking security specialist Todos AB in Sweden, Cinterion the German specialist of Machine-to-Machine (M2M), SensorLogic (an M2M service delivery platform provider), Plastkart in Turkey and Ericsson’s mobile payment platform IPX.
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