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It’s more than just smart cards for Gemalto

Wednesday, July 9, 2008 in Library


It’s not all about smart cards for Gemalto anymore. At one point, it was considered the largest smart card producer in the world. It still is, but that’s not what the French-based company wants to be known as. It’s now all about “digital security.”

Of course it became known as No. 1 because numbers one and two merged. Previously, there was Axalto and Gemplus, both companies located in France but with both hands stretched throughout the globe. When the two became Gemalto, the focus wasn’t so much on re-imaging the company as it was with concentrating on its strengths as well as keeping up with a rapidly changing market.

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