Dimoco Announces Acquisition of Mpulse France

BRUNN AM GERBIRGE, Vienna/LEUDALANGE, Luxembourg—Dimoco, a leading carrier billing and mobile messaging provider, announced today the acquisition of Mpulse E.U.R.L. and its expansion into the French market. Following the share deal transaction, Mpulse France will be renamed to Dimoco France E.U.R.L. and will move its company seat from Metz to Paris. Charles Baudin has been appointed president of Dimoco France. Gerald Tauchner, Dimoco co-founder and CEO, said, “Aiming to lead carrier billing and mobile messaging in Europe and after our recent establishment of Dimoco Greece, we are happy to make the next strategic move into France.” “Goods and services can be easily purchased with mobile technology. Dimoco offers the No. 1 payment method in reach and conversion rate on this huge market,” added Baudin, anticipating an increasing acceptance of Dimoco carrier billing. Based on a share deal transaction, Dimoco acquired 100 percent of the shareholding of Mpulse France E.U.R.L.. “With all these great partnerships and our company in France we are able to get customers connected to their services much faster,” Tauchner said, elaborating on the reasons for and advantages of the company acquisition. In his new role as president of Dimoco France, Baudin is in charge of the carrier billing and mobile messaging provider’s expansion into the French market and the coordination of Dimoco’s new office in Paris. Prior to joining Dimoco, Baudin held sales management roles in the payment and the IT industries, developing business for PayPal, SAP and Secunia. He has a significant track record of delivering global sales results as well as proven experience in project, customer relationship and communication management. Born in Rouen France, Baudin speaks English and French fluently and has a good knowledge of German and Spanish. Mpulse was established in 2006 as a spin-off of Nvision, a Luxembourg-based Web agency focusing on web development and design services. Today, the company focuses on messaging and micropayments and has a significant market share in Luxembourg. In November 2009 Mpulse S.A. established the subsidiary Mpulse France E.U.R.L., the entity which has now been acquired by Dimoco. Founded in 2000, Dimoco paved the way for mobile payment and text messaging services and is a leading European carrier billing and mobile messaging provider today. The company offers merchants the payment technology to bill goods and services to customers’ cell phone bills. Its infrastructure covers a carrier billing market potential of 1 billion cell phone subscribers in 32 countries and mobile messaging consumers worldwide. Pictured above left: Charles Baudin, Dimoco France president. At right, Gerald Tauchner, Dimoco co-founder and CEO.