Identity, Security, Payments, Biometrics, Smart Cards and Authentication News

Logica officially changes name following Dolphin acquisition

Monday, August 18, 2008

Logica Holdings, a developer of biometric access controlled social networking sites, has announced the official change of their company name to Dolphin Digital Media following its recent acquisition of the company of the same name. The name change was put into action to reflect the company’s goal of creating social networking sites that contain the same quality of Dolphin’s television programming, including many Nickelodeon shows.

Dolphin is hopeful that the combination of the biometric security technology, now called Dolphin Secure, along with Dolphin’s assets will lead to further social networking sites that are popular with tweens and young adults while being secure enough to keep parents at ease in regards to their child’s safety online. [end] 

VeriFone Systems has completed its acquisition of Point, Northern Europe’s largest provider of payment and gateway services and solutions for retailers.

According to VeriFone, Stockholm-based Point has operations in 11 European countries and serves a network encompassing nearly 475,000 merchant contracts. Through this network, Point offers retailers a range of multi-channel services and solutions, including point-of-sale technology and support, gateway services, card encryption services, and e-commerce processing.

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Global private equity firm Advent International completed the acquisition of the Card Systems and Identity divisions of Oberthur Technologies, after workers’ council consultation and market authorities’ approval of the transaction.

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AuthenTec announced the acquisition of all the assets of Proxure, which includes intellectual property and software products relating to their syncing and cloud-based storage services.

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A new Morpho company under the Safran group has been launched called MorphoTrust USA.

The new company, which was formed after the acquisition of three divisions and the headquarters of former biometrics developer L-1 Identity Solutions, will serve as an identity solutions provider dedicated to the U.S. market only.

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AuthenTec announced it has acquired Seattle-based network security solutions developer PeerSec Networks. Among the segments of PeerSec that is included in the acquisition are the Matrix line of device-embedded security solutions, which consists of the MatrixSSL, MatrixSSH and MatrixDTLS, and the team behind those solutions.

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SMARTRAC announced that the company recently signed an agreement to acquireNeology Inc., a provider of integrated solutions for the tolling, electronic vehicle registration (EVR) and public safety markets.

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