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...◼ Thales (Buy, TP €82) – Some 60% of group sales are exposed to defence and Gemalto’s business should also prove to be robust....
...In December it unveiled a bid for Gemalto, the struggling smart-card maker and digital security company, but later lost out to Thales, the French aerospace and defence group....
...Gemalto has rejected a €4.3bn takeover proposal by larger rival Atos, raising the prospect of a hostile battle for the Amsterdam-based Sim card manufacturer....
...GCHQ has been accused of “cyberstalking” Gemalto employees in countries ranging from France to Brazil and China in order to gain access to Gemalto’s systems....
...The case against Apple centred on a meeting in 2000 with Augustin Farrugia, formerly of Gemalto and now a senior director at Apple, but Smartflash did not begin to assert its patents had been violated until...
...The announcement had an impact on conventional chipmakers such as Gemalto, the Franco-Dutch smartphone technology maker, whose shares fell almost 10 per cent on Friday....
...Gemalto provides security software for Barclays’ mobile and online banking services in the UK....
...Gemalto , the French smart card maker, reported that sales in the third quarter increased 11 per cent to €575m and confirmed an outlook for full-year operating profit to come in at €300m....
...By joining forces with Gemalto and Giesecke & Devrient, which will provide security software, the company hopes to accelerate uptake....
...The shortfall is not a devastating one for Gemalto....
...A recent survey by Gemalto, the smartcard company, showed that nearly half of UK consumers feared that if an NFC-equipped phone was lost or stolen a thief could quickly rack up a fortune in transactions....
...In Taiwan, meanwhile, those participating in a trial set up by digital security specialist Gemalto and mobile operator Far EasTone Telecommunications are able to download money-off coupons from posters hung...
...The deal will need approval from the EU’s Competition Commission, as the new company, Gemalto, will have more than 50 per cent of the SIM card market....
...However, analysts said European competition authorities would look closely at the deal since the new company, Gemalto, would control about half the world market for mobile phone cards....
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