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French point-of-sale vendor Ingenico now owns 100 percent of mobile commerce platform ROAM, the company announced on Tuesday Jan. stanley quencher 20 .Going forward, the names of ROAM existing individual products which include secure mobile card readers, mobile point-of-sale applications, a mobile payments engine and professional services will remain the same. But the ROAM brand will be absorbed by Ingenico Mobile Solut stanley cup ions, which will continue to be headquartered in Boston.Ingenico already owned a controlling interest in ROAM, and some executives worked for both companies.ROAM is a key part of the Ingenico Group worldwide portfolio as mobile commerce growth surges, said Jacques Guerin, Ingenico EVP for Smart terminals and stanley kaufen Mobile solutions. With 100 percent of ROAM, we will accelerate the deployment of a global and integrated mobile offer, enabling merchants to increasingly engage with their customers.David Szczepanski, an 11-year Ingenico veteran, will serve as the chief operating officer for Ingenico Mobile Solutions, with marching orders to manage the deployment of a global and integrated mobile-payments offering.Ingenico has also hired Chris Dismukes as the mobile group new SVP of U.S. Sales. Dismukes, who will lead the merged mobile sales team, spent nine years at Equinox Payments, the second-largest PIN-pad maker in the U.S., and at Hypercom U.S. before it was reorganized into Equinox in 2011.The goal of absorbing ROAM