RegardingID Archive | CPI acquires PCC

Thursday, August 28, 2008

CPI Card Group has acquired UK-based PCC, a plastic card manufacturing, personalization, and fulfillment company serving Western Europe. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

CPI, a commercial card producer, made the acquisition to meet its growing international needs. “Adding PCC’s two facilities in the UK will provide increased flexibility for our customers’ international plastic card requests,” says Ted Fick, CPI’s president and CEO.

SafeNet acquires Cryptocard

SafeNet announced that it has acquired Cryptocard, a privately held provider of cloud based authentication solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed.

With the acquisition of Cryptocard, SafeNet adds to its authentication portfolio. Cryptocard’s platform will provide an opportunity for mobile and telecom service providers, as well as IT system integrators and service providers, to introduce Auth-as-a-Service to their end users.

VoiceTrust acquires Perceive Solutions

VoiceTrust announced it has acquired Montreal-based voice technology developer Perceive Solutions. The acquisition means VoiceTrust is able to extend its product portfolio to include Perceive’s free-form speech products as well as gain a significant foothold in the Canadian market.

Blackbird International acquires authentication service

Canadian company Blackbird International Corp. has announced its acquisition of Insight ID, a real-time authentication service that verifies a person through a Web browser and Internet connection.

STARCHIP acquires contactless technology through partnership with CEA-Leti

StarChip and CEA-Leti have inked a partnership agreement to develop a contactless front end for smart card applications.

The partnership includes technology and know-how transfer to StarChip. With this combined experience in secure integrated circuit development and contactless technology, StarChip will roll out state-of-the-art smart card products to enable applications in transport, banking and identity.

Google acquires payments processor TxVia

Google has acquired payments technology company TxVia, Google Wallet chief Osama Bedier announced on the company’s blog.

According to Bedier, the acquisition will improve Google Wallet’s payments capabilities and help to “accelerate innovation towards our full Google Wallet vision.”

AuthenTec acquires Proxure

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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