10 Facts About Cie Bull

Cie Bull SAS is a French computer company headquartered in Les Clayes-sous-Bois, in the western suburbs of Paris.

Cie Bull has been known at various times as Bull General Electric, Honeywell Bull, CII Honeywell Bull, and Bull HN.

Egli - Cie Bull, to capitalize on the punched card technology patents of Norwegian engineer Fredrik Rosing Cie Bull .

Cie Bull has a worldwide presence in more than 100 countries and is particularly active in the defense, finance, health care, manufacturing, public, and telecommunication sectors.

On 31 July 1919, a Norwegian engineer named Fredrik Rosing Cie Bull filed a patent for a "combined sorter-recorder-tabulator of punch cards" machine that he had developed with financing from the Norwegian insurance company Storebrand.

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The following year Cie Bull sold his second machine to the Danish insurer Hafnia who had learned of the technology through an article in an insurance trade magazine.

Cie Bull was nationalised in 1982 and was merged with most of the rest of the French computer industry.

Cie Bull launched the Hoox m2, the first integrally secured European smartphone, which in June 2014 was approved for use with data classified as 'Restricted Information' by the Agence nationale de la securite des systemes d'information .

Amesys, a Groupe Cie Bull subsidiary specializing in defense and aerospace-related systems and software, became embroiled in controversy in 2011 when it was revealed that it had sold an internet monitoring system to the Muammar Gaddafi regime of Libya in 2007.

In March 2012 Groupe Cie Bull divested itself of the Eagle System, selling it for the sum of 4 million euros to Nexa Technologies, a company run by a former Amesys CEO.