Myriad Group AG is a Swiss

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company in the

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sector. Myriad delivers consumer applications, social media and messaging solutions, and embedded software to OEM's, mobile operators and pay TV providers. Myriad operates through three product divisions Versy, Myriad Connect and Device Solutions.

History

The company was established in 2009 by the merger of Purple Labs and Esmertec. As part of the new company structure, Myriad began offering products and services for Mobile Operators, including

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self-service capabilities and

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s (GUIs) on

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-enabled devices. Stephen Dunford was appointed as Myriad's Chief Executive Officer on 4 December 2012. He stepped down in January 2017. The current CEO, Philipp Bolliger was appointed in June 2018.

Purple Labs

The company was founded in 2001 by Jean-Luc Botto, Dennis O'Donovan, Sebastien Soyer and Jean-Marie Andre. Purple Labs was French, headquartered in

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, and developed and marketed

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-based software to mobile

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and ODMs. Simon Wilkinson was appointed as

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in October 2007, shortly after the firm raised $14.5 million in

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funding. On June 30, 2008, Purple Labs acquired

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's mobile phone client software division, which develops browser and messaging client technologies, for $32 million. On July 31, 2008 the company agreed to acquire Sagem Communication's mobile phone software and associated engineering teams. On 16 April 2012 the company expanded further with the acquisition of

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. In September 2012, James Bodha, Mike Grant and Gary Bunney were appointed as co-CEOs until a new full-time CEO had been found.

Products

*Versy *Myriad Connect products: **USSD+: Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) platform that integrates a gateway and a portal available for both cloud-based and in-network environments. **VAS+: connects users to online services such as social media, Wikipedia, Google translate/search and Yahoo news without mobile internet access. **Campaign+: enables Mobile Network Operators to promote and monetise their VAS. **MFS+: addresses the challenge of low bank subscription rates in emerging markets with m-Payments, m-Money transfers and m-Banking. *Device Solutions products: **Myriad Alien Embedded: Android Runtime Environment enabling the execution of Android applications on non-Android platforms. **Myriad Jbed Advanced: Java ME platform that enables consumer electronic device manufacturers to build, deploy and run Java applications seamlessly on any kind of communication device. **Dalvik Turbo: is a seamless replacement for Android’s standard Dalvik Virtual Machine.

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External links

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