Company’s SIX Swiss Exchange symbol has changed to MYRN (Formerly ESMN for Esmertec AG)
DUEBENDORF-ZURICH, Switzerland – April 20, 2009 – Myriad Group AG (formerly Esmertec AG) announced today that it has successfully completed its purchase of mobile phone software provider Purple Labs SA.
Based in Chambéry, France, Purple Labs is the industry leader in mobile browsers [...]

Combined business will be called Myriad Group AG, and retain listing on SIX Swiss Exchange
Myriad is industry leader in Android platforms and four of the most important mobile applications – Java, browsers, messaging and USSD-based data services
Consolidated worldwide customer base includes all major phone manufacturers and 30 mobile network operators
Myriad will operate [...]

Mobile Software Vendor Also Announces Closing of 22 Million Euro Series ‘B’ Funding Round
Chambéry, France – February 4, 2009 – Purple Labs, the leading software provider for mass-market mobile phones, today reported that its revenue in the second half of 2008 reached 11 million euros, more than four times its revenue in the first half [...]

Also names ex-Motorola executive as new VP Software Engineering
Chambéry, France – January 16 2009 – Purple Labs, the leading software provider for mass-market mobile phones, announced today that it has successfully completed the acquisition of the mobile applications suite and software engineering team of Sagem Wireless, a French manufacturer that develops mobile phones branded by [...]

Deal Follows Last Month’s $32 Million Acquisition of Openwave Browser Business
Chambéry, France – July 31, 2008 – Purple Labs, the leading software provider for mass-market mobile phones, announced today that it has signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire the mobile applications suite and software engineering team of Sagem Mobiles, a French manufacturer that develops [...]

French software vendor created world’s first sub-$100 3G Linux mobile phone
Chambéry, France – March 28, 2008 – Red Herring announced this week that mobile Linux software company, Purple Labs, was named a Finalist of Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East [...]

Massive interest in world’s first sub-$100 3G Linux mobile phone
Chambéry, FRANCE – March 3rd, 2008 – Purple Labs, the leading supplier of mobile Linux solutions for mass-market 3G phones, announced today the addition of Arnaud Dammert to its executive team. As vice president of sales for EMEA, Dammert will oversee the expansion of the Purple [...]