written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . june 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message myriad group is a swiss software company in the mobile communications 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 . the company was established in 2009 by the merge of the companies purple labs and esmertec . the two companies had mostly common owners and the deal was executed so that esmertec a publicly listed company acquired purple labs 1 in exchange of shares of the company . the merged company has around 500 employees . the original purple labs was french headquartered in chamb ry and developed and marketed linux based software to mobile oems and odms . 2 with its 2008 purchase of openwave s mobile software suite it owns the openwave mobile browser one of the most widely used mobile internet browsers . over its history the browser has been shipped in over 2.24 billion 3 devices as of the end of 2010 . esmertec was a provider of java in device engines and mobile services platforms headquartered in zurich switzerland . as part of the new company structure myriad now also offers products and services for mobile operators including ussd self service capabilities sophisticated graphical user interfaces guis on java enabled devices including android based phones . contents 1 history of purple labs 2 products 9 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history of purple labs edit the company was founded in 2001 by jean luc botto dennis o donovan sebastien soyer and jean marie andre . 4 simon wilkinson was appointed as chief executive officer in october 2007 shortly after the firm raised 14.5 million in venture capital funding . 5 on june 30 2008 purple labs acquired openwave s mobile phone client software division which develops browser and messaging client technologies for 32 million . 6 on july 31 2008 the company agreed to acquire sagem communication s mobile phone software and associated engineering teams . 7 on 16 april 2012 the company expanded further with the acquisition of synchronica plc. in september 2012 james bodha mike grant and gary bunney were appointed as co ceo until a new full time ceo had been found . 8 stephen dunford was appointed as myriad s new chief executive officer on 4 december 2012 . products 9 edit 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 see also edit sailfish alliance where alien dalvik is used to run android software on the jolla company smartphones references edit esmertec acquires purple labs to form myriad group . telecompaper . retrieved 2009 02 23 . about purple labs . purple labs . archived from the original on 2008 04 23 . retrieved 2008 08 06 . 100 million club 2h10 . vision mobile . retrieved 2013 11 23 . management . purple labs . archived from the original on 2008 04 23 . retrieved 2008 08 06 . purple labs names simon wilkinson ceo press release . purple labs . october 10 2007 . retrieved 2008 08 06 . mayer david 7 july 2008 . limo gets openwave browser and messaging . cnet networks . retrieved 2008 08 06 . barker colin 1 august 2008 . purple labs snaps up sagem mobile team . zdnet . retrieved 2008 08 06 . myriad s cfo bodha steps in as co ceo . cfo insight . 1 october 2012 . retrieved 10 october 2012 . myriad product datasheets . myriad group . 2009 . retrieved february 26 2009 . external links edit wikibooks has a book on the topic of j2me programming esmertec jbed http www.myriadgroup.com v t e open handset alliance mobile operators bouygues telecom china mobile china telecom china unicom kddi nepal telecom ntt docomo softbank mobile sprint corporation t mobile telecom italia telef nica telus vodafone software companies access ascender corporation ebay google myriad group nuance communications nxp software omron 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